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by mkl95 4y ago
> Make undebuggable programs. Plaster layers of abstraction over everything. Write spaghetti code. Make everything sensitive to initial conditions. Avoid pure functions. Use dependencies liberally. Say “it works on my machine” whenever p
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Bullshido is probably the term you are looking for
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> Avoidance of movement directly toward the opponent > Use of an initial distance that is as close as possible, while remaining out of reach > Extension of the sword arm in a straight line from the shoulder to obtain maximum reach
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It's typical startup behaviour, but burning orders of magnitude more cash
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I agree with all your points. I was trying to highlight how dysfunctional it feels from my point of view (backend engineer).
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I've gone through a milder version of this since the pandemic. I was laid off overnight and I moved back to my hometown, and have ever since worked remotely. Property is extremely expensive in the area, so I'm forced to live with
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The browser world is a political, uncoordinated mess. For example WebTransport (an HTTP3 API) has been available on Chromium-based browsers for months, but it's still on "Safari Technology Preview", and Firefox does not suppo
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by mkl95 4y ago
Agree. You are set for a decade with a M1. Not much of a point in upgrading for 99%+ of users.
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Django 4.2 Released(djangoproject.com)
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Iridium (2004)(smithsonianmag.com)
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I've lived in a couple of large cities where scooters and bikes shared the same space. I see little to no advantage over bikes, and scooters are way more dangerous.
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Ironically, Italy's remote work visa has some of the most lax requirements in the world, and speaking Italian isn't one of them. > While the legislation encompasses all foreign languages, it is particularly geared at “Anglomani
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It was a combination of factors such as very specific problems being solved in an industry I was clueless about, a tech stack I had never worked with, etc. In that kind of situation I would rather take an IC role initially and step up later
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I was a mid level - seniorish engineer at the time. We initially discussed that 6 figure role, but I did not feel ready at all. They said it was fine and that the range for the level below was £75-85k, which I thought was pretty good. It wa
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This aligns with my experience. I used to work at a department that had a "Head". She never talked to anybody or delivered any tangible work. I still wonder what her real job was.
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I haven't dabbled too much in the UK market, but I recall interviewing for a low 6 figure position a while ago. Is the gap between public and private jobs that big?
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Cheaper, plus these days it will be watchable on a decent monitor
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I couldn't care less about Twitter's high level abstractions. They were never renowned for those. Their database schemas and infrastructure on the other hand...
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You could say they have left the bargaining stage
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It started dying in the early 2010s / late 2000s. Kids stopped buying fat monthly magazines to learn about new games and started consuming all that information online, for free.
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I usually followed E3 for the Nintendo content. With Nintendo Direct events being so frequent and production values being so good, E3 makes no sense anymore.
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Freshly translated (no affiliation whatsoever) https://postgrespro.com/community/books/internals
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Company culture can be incredibly complex and fluid. You may be a good fit for some teams and suck for others depending on their current projects, the people involved, etc. Different teams can perceive you as a completely different person.
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> somehow I am part of this, and have to work extra weekends Most engineers are not expected to work weekends unless they are on call. You don't have to put up with it.
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> Next time you find yourself rushing to use state, try spending some more time at the whiteboard It's mostly a tradeoff and a dubious one. I would rather have some "dumb stateful architecture" that can be debugged trivial
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PayPal sucks. I was scammed out of $130 because of their horrible UX. I can't believe no competitor has killed them yet.
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> patients were not being warned by many GPs prescribing the drug, and mental health teams were failing to monitor whether people were developing addictions. Why are GPs prescribing antipsychotics? It sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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I have found engineers' estimates to be accurate and straightforward when the team owned all the resources needed to complete their tasks. Whenever it depends on some unreliable factor (often some unavailable expert) estimates are usel
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> All theory aside, the feeling that you’d be left behind your peers is very real. A millionaire lawyer in front of her boss still feels that she has a lot to catch up on. It's not always a feeling though. Criteria for promotion can
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> The Open Location Code characters exclude easily confused character pairs. There is a risk that "VV" will be confused for "W" in handwritten messages but we consider this to be unlikely, since that would change the

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