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by nyarlathotep_ 3y ago
Thanks!
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> Anyway, if you don't want to use vehicles which communicate with a server then good for you. Really. But if you’re taking such a stance I hope it’s based on informed data and consistent principles and not cringy FUD. Why can'
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Can't even avoid spyware web services at the hardware level now. This is really gross. Edit: I've long since sink-holed `izatcloud.net`, and have seen countless look up to this subdomain for the duration of ownership of a Pixel 4a
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> perfecting my .vimrc instead of actually working on projects. Messing around with static site blog generators when I should actually just be writing content. I feel attacked.
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> This is 70% of software development Which is why I refuse to use the term "Software Engineer." Sorry, Java CRUD and copy-pasted React snippets from SO are the furthest thing from an engineering discipline. MOST jobs are web
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Does anyone know what the author is using here to view call stack/assembly? Is this a feature that Instruments has?
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Window server pegs CPU on older hardware doing any sort of trackpad gesture etc. Wasn't the case in Mojave and adjacent releases. Big Sur on are noticeably worse than the earlier releases. Disabling animations/transparency saves a
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> Customization is super fun but it's just another layer of complexity at the end of the day. Feel like this often is a recipe for fragility too. I used to be big into customizing a linux environment and editors/IDEs for person
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> This is how you burnout people - have people do boring yet frustrating work, make them do it the hard way, then put them on a deadline with other competing priorities. The last two years of my life.
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
How broad are we considering? Isn't that like 90% of the software market? Every role I've had and damn near every listing I've seen in the past few years is some CRUD "backend" gig, or some JS-of-the-week "fron
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> which are (for some reason) the default cursor movement commands in most command line environments like the Postgres CLI. AFAIK/IIRC these bindings are something to do with readline being widely used for CLI interfaces? Additiona
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Yeah tailoring your resume is an exercise in futility when the most common outcome is either no response or an auto reject email. Changing a few keywords or whatever is one thing, but trying to go bullet-point accuracy for the listing is a
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> requires explicit memory management (if you restrict yourself to using only Arrays) Did you mean C++?
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
I don't disagree--drive-by comment just to say that's unfortunate as there's often really brilliant, unique, esoteric and useful content scattered about individual blogs (as my bookmarks can attest), that is very difficult to
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> It seems to me that the basic problem in SF is wealth disparity. Indeed, I hate when wealth disparity breaks into my car.
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
What are you using to accomplish this? iptables?
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
I impulsively purchased an HP Dev One laptop a few months back, and expected I'd try Pop for a minute and end up with Ubuntu. I've found Pop to be mostly similar but preferable (seems more Desktop oriented). I've also had ver
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
IME the ML world with Python is a whole mess on top of the existing dependency issues. I've been very _careful_ too (using pyenv/virtualenvs etc) for dependency management, but with Nvidia driver dependencies and "missing &#x
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> "and coast-ability of large tech companies" Is this really broadly true? I worked for a FAANG for a ~year and half and was constantly over-burdened (rarely with enjoyable or challenging technical work). I assumed outside of t
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
> "I have been involved with software development for nearly 30 years now" Apparently not. You'd think the author would clearly recall the scenario you described.
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Did you use something like Unreal or Unity for this, or start at a more foundational level and deal directly with graphics APIs etc.? I ask as a matter of curiosity and personal interest--it's something I'd like to learn as a hobb
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
I was a mess most of my 20s. Got the cheapest, fastest BS CS degree I could from an affordable State school while working menial jobs from ~28-32 (mid-late 30s now), had a few crap internships and have been mostly employed (at times well co
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
I think more folks that are "average" (myself at the top of this list--mediocre education and "average" skillset) should carefully review finances if they find themselves in a FAANG role. The average tenure at these comp
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
It's perhaps not a terrible idea to host a simple "blog-type" site that goes through your journey and documents some things about your experience expertise, maybe a blurb/portfolio and things of that nature. Many develop
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Where are you finding one at this price? That's fantastic.
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Yes to both. Changed careers to do this when I discovered I had both the aptitude and interest. I've only had the marginal success doing it that I've had a result of substantial time invested studying independently. With that said
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
Worked for AWS for just under a year and a half; this mirrors my experience exactly. Poorly designed, failure-prone, brittle internal tooling was a time and energy sink to the point where even the most trivial deployment change was a nail-b
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by nyarlathotep_ 4y ago
It's also pretty frequent at larger companies that new hires (even those at a level lower) will get higher comp than tenured employees. Many of these same companies also have very difficult promo processes, requiring you to effectively