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by mkl95 4y ago
Some guy at Google decided it was the way to go almost 20 years ago, and it was cargoculted into oblivion
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by mkl95 4y ago
It's a conservative market. Many companies are hiring defensively rather than trying to accelerate their growth. Hiring high profile engineers may not make sense for those companies since many projects are in maintenance mode.
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Middle managers are regular employees too.
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What I can't believe: Facebook shipped a feature to drain users' batteries. What I can believe: Engineers at Facebook were micromanaged into dismissing issues such as users' batteries being drained.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I was an absolute workaholic at my previous gig. Now I'm making the same money adjusted to inflation + ~10%, which puts me in the 96th percentile or so. However I'm working way less these days, something like 10 hours less a week.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Noncompetes are mostly bullshit in the EU. Startup lawyers know the CEO has read too much SV literature so they write down that clause to make them happy. "Everything belongs to your employer" clauses seem scarier to me although I
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by mkl95 4y ago
TIL Stripe have lowered their internal valuation from $95bn to $63bn since mid 2022.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I went from virtually no exercise to moderate exercise for 15min, 4 to 6 times a week. Mostly 2 to 3 minute rounds on a heavy punching bag. I wouldn't call it life changing from a physical point of view, at least not yet. But the menta
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Vegas ('Gasp') Throat (1978)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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I can see it being used to imply that these are full time Spotify employees, since they hire some contractors.
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Worth noting that Spotify has less than 7000 employees so that 6% will be ~400 employees. Terrible news for those affected, but it would take many more to affect the industry the way FAANG layoffs do.
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by mkl95 4y ago
I don't think it's a bad or good idea, it depends. In that case they were harmless. For comparison, some people shared passwords on Slack and email in plain text.
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by mkl95 4y ago
A manager once asked me to rewrite a bunch of tests written by some former employee, because a security tool was complaining about hardcoded credentials. My guess is that he wanted to satisfy some OKR about how many security issues reported
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by mkl95 4y ago
I donated 1% of my salary to a charity for a while, which I got back via tax deductions. Some guy transferring some of his wealth to some organization has nothing to do with a corporation trying to cut expenses during a downturn, though. It
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by mkl95 4y ago
> The median salary at Alphabet in 2021 amounted to nearly $300000 Let's say the average salary of the 12k people they just fired was $300000. That's 3.6bn a year. Last time I checked Alphabet were burning ~180bn a year. I&#x27
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Go! (Programming Language)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mkl95 4y ago|0 comments
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16GB is the bare minimum for me these days. I recommend 32GB, but your mileage may vary.
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At some EU countries mass layoffs at large companies follow their own process, usually with some union involved, etc.
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> In the US: > We’ll pay employees during the full notification period (minimum 60 days). Weird flex. Would it be legal not to?
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by mkl95 4y ago
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew > In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The ch
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by mkl95 4y ago
I loathed my time as a junior developer. Being a senior dev is like working in a different industry. Leverage beats jerks like rock beats scissors.
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> After an unsatisfactory attempt at using Bullet, Godot 4.0 returns to its own physics engine which, despite not being a high end physics engine like PhysX, aims to offer a lot more flexibility and “just works” capabilities to users. Th
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by mkl95 4y ago
Layman question here, why can't airplane collisions be predicted automatically? Something like an axis aligned bounding box around each airplane and some basic velocity equations. You don't want airplanes to be too close so an app
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'm way worse than when I wasn't considered "good enough". I just worked on a bunch of projects with cool-sounding tech for a few years and was consistent at delivering them. > what kind of mental model helped in achi
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To Defend Democracy, Is Brazil’s Top Court Going Too Far?(nytimes.com)
2 points by mkl95 4y ago|1 comments
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One of the reasons I like Go.
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None of the companies I have worked for encouraged secure coding. At most places you won't get any recognition for going the extra mile to write secure code, and in fact you will usually be encouraged to cut corners at the expense of s
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The use of scientific principles to design and build software.
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Software engineering != feature factories, bodyshops, most big tech and mid tech projects, etc. There are not so many people consistently doing software engineering .
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> This pattern of eating aligns with our circadian rhythms, the innate 24-hour clock that governs many aspects of our health, from our daily hormonal fluctuations and body temperatures to our sleep-wake cycles. I thought this had been de

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