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by mjr00 4y ago
I don't think "the majority of the engineers at Twitter were adding no value to the company" is a fair statement: one because it's not clear that it was the majority, two because it wasn't necessarily "no valu
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> I dunno, maybe if Spotify wasn't spending hundreds of million on podcast deals and actually focusing on what its users want, they wouldn't need to lay people off. One of the people specifically called out is Chief Content Off
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by mjr00 4y ago
I actually strongly disagree -- the amount of business potential for software that isn't trying to becoming a billion-dollar unicorn is massive, and has been extremely underserved during the past decade as most of the money (and tale
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by mjr00 4y ago
I agree. I think the next 5-10 years will see a massive wave of new companies come out of this. There's been so much talent locked up in bigtech for so long. The amount of talent in these companies that have had golden handcuffs foreve
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by mjr00 4y ago
for sure. If I were at Google or Meta right now and not part of something that directly impacts ad sales, I would start looking for a new job.
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I know two people at Google who were slotted for T (transformative) and O (outstanding) GRAD ratings who were laid off, along with their entire teams. There's only so much you can do. There's only so much you can do, but de
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by mjr00 4y ago
> As a normal employee when you are "responsible" for something you are fired if you fuck it up. You face consequences. Is this really true? For software devs specifically I don't think it's common for someone to get
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> It maybe tech debt depending on a lot of context, with old tech you get into a lot of situations like this: Yeah absolutely that's a fair example of tech debt, where a tech stack is so old that it's difficult to impossible to
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by mjr00 4y ago
Also 6: tech debt being another term for "code I personally do not understand," or "software written in a way different than I would write it." The article calls this out; > Turns out some apparent tech debt was actua
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by mjr00 4y ago
> * Type annotations are ignored, so nobody bothers. For any serious Python app worked on by multiple people, you need a CI pipeline that runs type checking. (And while you're there, run a format checker like black, too -- solves
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by mjr00 4y ago
That's not the kind of guess and check I'm talking about. I'm talking about just copy and pasting things, moving variables around, etc. without any real methodology. Just doing arbitrary changes to the code until it appears t
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Hiring is an important management responsibility that most developers should not be involved with unless they are part of the management track Absolutely, this is what it boils down to. After a certain point (like 15-20 engineers or so
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by mjr00 4y ago
> The Idiotic "Most People Cannot Program" Myth Once you do enough interviews, you realize this isn't a myth. Okay, maybe most is too strong of a qualifier. But the reality is that a title of Senior Software Engineer doe
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Stable Diffusion isn't going to destroy art since art is fundamentally a human endeavor. But many of the creative professions commonly called "[something] artist", whose day-to-day work consists of drawing pictures to il
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by mjr00 4y ago
This isn't really surprising. Even the HN comments for ChatGPT/Stable Diffusion related topics completely drank the kool-aid for a bit. I saw absolutely unhinged blanket statements like "ChatGPT is going to replace junior dev
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by mjr00 4y ago
> Heck, if you believe that they've always had 5-10% 'unregretted attrition' targets, which I do, and apply it to the whole company, that's 50-100k employees per year! This came up last time the Amazon layoffs were on
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by mjr00 4y ago
Yeah exactly, two examples that immediately come to mind during my lifetime are My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (the song more than the album) and Green Day - American Idiot. At the time they were released, many people saw
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by mjr00 4y ago
> But I would hazard to say that the quality of well written likable music that will stand the test of time and keeps people interested has nose dived with the progression you outlined. People have felt this way since time immemorial: th
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by mjr00 4y ago
> MLB umpires calling balls/strikes instead of machines. Hah true but this is more of a "spirit of the game" rule than anything. Same idea with football/soccer, there's certainly no technological barrier preventi
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> Recoded music ravaged the ranks of movie organists and other accompanists to the point that providing incidental music has not been an occupation in many decades. In more recent decades, being a session musician for regional or mid-ti
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by mjr00 4y ago
Okay, so assuming you get past this theoretical billionaire's physical security (at a minimum gated fences and an alarm system; if they're actually a billionaire, probably 24/7 armed private security as well) and into their m
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by mjr00 4y ago
"Workflow engines" and their close cousins "DSLs" are the ultimate newbie trap. In theory, it's awesome for everyone: programmers get to work on interesting, abstract problems like distributed systems, syntax parsin
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by mjr00 4y ago
> What was last major innovation at Google.. chrome? 20% of company drives profits while 80% is a decorated R&D lab chock full of benefits, upset about cutbacks in their free oatmilk lattes, even though they’re not coming to office a
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by mjr00 4y ago
Yeah. The skill floor and skill ceiling keeps continually rising as tools get better. AI is just another tool in the toolbox. As an example, even as late as the 00s, you could still get a job as a "web developer" where you only ma
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I just really worry the degree will mostly be worthless by the time I graduate considering the rate at which AI is advancing... The degree would mostly be for personal knowledge/fulfillment, but I don’t want to bother with it if w
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by mjr00 4y ago
For some context: the largest, most valuable North American League of Legends brand (TSM) got sponsored by TSM and became TSM-FTX for the past few years. And FTX paid Riot enough money that gold differences during the game were shown on the
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by mjr00 4y ago
> I feel the same with the "find me on mastodon" twitter bios: people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon, and then move back in a few weeks after giving up on the experiment. Duri
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by mjr00 4y ago
> It is also the domain is limited. I mean a piano only has 88 keys and a few pedals and there are maybe 8 octaves or so in Common Practice. Yeah but MIDI works for so much more than a piano. People use MIDI to program drum VSTs, guitar
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Half is optimistic. Tether destabilizing probably drops all crypto over 90%. Don't think it will happen, necessarily, but it's largely the only thing keeping crypto together at this point, price-wise.
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> Ideally, the activeness of the community would determine what games can support professional play; bottom up, not top down. Yep and this is how it's happened for the most successful esports. Brood War was turned into a competitive

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