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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
{ "statusCode": 200, "error" : "internal server error" } Nice.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
There was an excellent thread(s? I think) about Nokia around these parts a few months back that covered this in detail by various commentators (perhaps you were one of them). Wish I'd bookmarked them; some great reading in those
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
How did you find work? Something like contract-to-hire gigs from Dice or something? Did you create your own LLC or similar?
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> read a whole paragraph of text without a computer generated voice + RSVP [0] + Subway Surfers gameplay in the background Quite literally laughed out loud at this. I still cannot believe this is a thing people actually do; I thought it
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> It blows my mind that overemployed people have become folk heroes. They're obviously not putting full effort into two jobs. What about people that put full effort and then some into jobs with long hours and loads of stress just to
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> he's a really talented engineer, crushed our interviews. Think it says a lot about this industry if "really talented 'engineer'" means passing loads of gamified interviews and not delivering things on time.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Yeah, it's really something to read this.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Considering the scale and frequency of layoffs across the board and the difficulty of finding a new job for many, you could just...run out the clock and wait for the inevitable?
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> The problem is that only a fraction of software developer have the ability/skills to work on the hard problems. A much larger percentage will only be able to work on things like CRUD apps and grunt work. It's also availabilit
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
For sure, I think your projection is a worse case scenario, one that's totally in the realm of possibility. In "non-growth" times (i.e the era we're in now (post ZIRP) and probably for the foreseeable future, LLMs being
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
You've described my experience exactly. The amount of money that "enterprises" will spend in order to avoid hiring actual competent people is staggering. They quite literally spend orders of magnitude more than just hiring pe
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
This is also how the contracting firms maintain business. Accenture, Deloitte, et al are some of the only businesses that are "trusted partners" for the big F500s* or the only firms that are sufficiently capitalized/insured e
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I don't think it'll get that bad. My mostly uninformed worse case estimate is a large portion of these companies become something like the "body shops" (I believe MS has some association with Accenture, so that'd fi
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I do wonder if these trends continue (paired with the offshoring and H1B replacements they're all in on (otherwise mentioned in this thread), how this effects the local housing markets in places like, in this case, Seattle. If every th
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
I think Brave has this too, IIRC.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> while they might replace the copy-pasters at Big Tech companies, Are there really 'copy-pasters' at 'BIg Tech' companies?
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
In Google's case, outside of LLMs I've always wondered how much code was generated by the protocol buffer compiler.
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Bonus: the customer was the Department of Energy, and the program managed nuclear material inventory. Sleep tight. These are my favorite (in a sense) programmer stories--that there's these incomprehensible piles of rubbish that so
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
What are you using for displays in this range? I've been using 4K displays at home exclusively for ~5 years and it's rare to even see 4K display over 60hz. I assume they're quite pricy still?
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> What do you mean, you don't want "software"? Where do you draw the line? A basic digital wristwatch has "software". I think this nomenclature is a result of the post-Jobs software as "app" paradigm +
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Appreciate the clarity here; I always wondered which "came first"
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
The most pressing issue to me currently regarding LLMs is the blatant, flagrant change in tone of the "leadership/ownership" class towards employees. It comes off as little other than thinly veiled contempt for the people tha
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
Thanks for making me feel less alone in this perspective--it's always been kind of verboten to say such a thing in those kinds of workplaces, but all my software type friends agree completely. The "entire generation of developers&
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
It's 100% this; you're right on the money (pun intended). Don't forget various pipelines, IaC, pipelines for deploying IaC, test/dev/staging/whatever environments, organization permissions strategies etc etc...
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> It's all they've seen. They don't get why they're doing it, because they're junior devs masquerading as architects. There's so many 'senior' or 'architect' level devs in our industry wh
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> and I’m usually the only one on my team using a debugger. Almost everyone in the real world (at least in web tech) seems to do print statement debugging. One of the first things I do in a codebase is get some working IDE/editor up
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Does anybody have stats on how many people are O.K. paying for their core services, i.e. how many people pay for paid personal e-mail services? Probably not many. OTOH, I pay for Fastmail and NextDNS (both for at least 5 years at this
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> Major corporations are almost by definition have massive amounts of bloat and inefficiency to one degree or another and are carried (especially tech companies) by certain products/teams/departments the rest are often there on
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
This is really cool, thanks for the info. I've always wondered about how this was done, especially for games. > so the executable statically links with pretty much everything, including stuff that would count as part of the OS on a
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by nyarlathotep_ 1y ago
> It's only considered a bad idea because git handles it poorly. You're already putting all your code in version control - why would you not include the compiler binaries and system libraries too? Now everybody that gets the co

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