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by pllbnk 2y ago
I hope people see what that really means. Corporations with historically record profits are laying off people and their largest shareholders now start these oppressing talking points. First, they made people fight for scraps. If I make 50k
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Sometimes I don't know anything (relatively) about the topic and I want to get a foundation so I don't care whether the syntax or the code is valid as long as it points me in the right direction. Other times I know exactly what I
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by pllbnk 2y ago
It's commendable and brave to publicly stand up and show that you have values. I wish more people understood that by watching Zelensky over the past three years.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
It's a matter of luck, connections and your own experience. While 180k in Europe is certainly very high end, 150k is not unheard of while 100k is quite mainstream. I know that official statistics show lower numbers but I speak from my
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Spot on. I guess the reason is that many people working in industry are lazy and it's easy to follow some pattern mindlessly never questioning whether it works for them. That's ironic because engineering folks are supposed to be i
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by pllbnk 2y ago
This calculation does not account for advancements in technology. I guess you have seen those ads from the 90's showing high performance computers costing $10k. Well, current computers have several orders of magnitude higher performanc
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by pllbnk 2y ago
We have a notorious junior LLM addict in the team. All experienced engineers are extremely annoyed reviewing his code due to endless stream of merge requests containing repetitive code which often plainly doesn't work in any other than
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by pllbnk 2y ago
In the name of security of Europe. Russia collapsing won't mean the land disappears with its resources. It means more opportunity and happiness.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
This is a very abused fact. When you are comparing the incomes, you are competing in your region, not globally and then your income goes from top 0.1% to top 10%. And then you realize that you won't be able to buy that house or that
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by pllbnk 2y ago
No, it's not. My statement is exactly as well-sourced as yours.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
My Kindle Keyboard (3rd gen) from 2010 still works fine. After upgrading to a higher-capacity battery, it actually performs better (i.e. lasts longer between charges) than when it was new. The best part is I'll always have the reliable
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by pllbnk 2y ago
At this point I no longer see significant reasons for majority of people to continue using Windows. Previous arguments such as gaming and exclusive Windows-only software have been largely resolved in Linux. Sure, there are some exclusives b
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by pllbnk 2y ago
I think you (your company) and many other commenters here are just trying too hard. I had just recently lead through several interview rounds for software engineering role and we have not had any issue with LLM use. What we do for the techn
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by pllbnk 2y ago
I am European, however I have worked with developers from various parts of Asia and South America. English is usually a second language, however most developers are fairly fluent using it as a spoken or written language. Also, most developm
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by pllbnk 2y ago
We will see by how much. I seriously doubt it improves productivity by a huge margin; if I had to guess, it would be in the ballpark of 10-20%. In the end, it's not the main driver for hiring or lack thereof. Companies that will need t
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by pllbnk 2y ago
It's a baseline which, given the current value of money in mind, in most people's heads defines someone as obscenely/aspirationally wealthy (or even having a multi-generation wealth), yet not someone who could just be endles
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by pllbnk 2y ago
But is it really amazing or is it just a natural outcome of countless hours of intelligent humans working together motivated by high pay to further enrich the oligarchs? Would society be worse off without these technically impressive giants
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by pllbnk 2y ago
There have been multiple instances where I would receive invites or messages from obvious bots - users having no history, generic name, sexualised profile photo. I would always report them to Facebook just to receive a reply an hour or a da
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by pllbnk 2y ago
> Things are much safer now than in the past. I wonder, should arguments like this be used to justify the issue? With technological advancements things should become better (i.e. safer in this case) without raising inflation-adjusted cos
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by pllbnk 2y ago
I get these worries; I have them too when hiring potential future colleagues while being a remote employee. Most people are not fraudsters. Probably you will find them from time to time but it's something that's been disproportion
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by pllbnk 2y ago
You are one comment too far with your analogy. Continuing comparing a browser with a child and a corporation with a family is not helping your case. Analogies work fine for shallow understanding, but like comparing electricity with flow of
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by pllbnk 2y ago
For whatever reason, Fortune articles appear frequently on HN. Although they almost never receive a high number of votes, I am surprised that this critical-thinking community still has them show up. I understand that Fortune articles are wr
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Do you have anything against B2B contracts and hiring freelancers? Employing on contractual basis allows you easily cancel the contract or prevent its extension.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
Not when you put it like that. However, if you know how to communicate with your children properly, you will manage.
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by pllbnk 2y ago
> Just get me a decent home for fair price close to the office <...> Close to which office - the company's that you are working for now or the company's you will work for in a couple years?
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To go to the cinema, you have to find the right time slot, find the right seat position, sit in the chair where thousands other people (with questionable hygiene) have sat, watch 20 minutes of ads (or be intentionally late) and also suffer
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by pllbnk 2y ago
I used to give Linux desktop distros a shot every few years for a long time but would always get fed up with something not working or not being able to run some games. The last time I have switched back to Linux (Mint, not PopOS) was around
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by pllbnk 2y ago
I think engineers tend to overestimate the value they bring. _Most_ companies make money from business deals that are written and signed into contracts, sometimes those deals involve automating stuff, that's where software engineers ar
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Executives are the type of workers that have seen the increased productivity - it helps them write emails faster and summarize and digest long, mostly LLM-written, emails faster than before. Therefore, they think, it translates to everythin
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by pllbnk 2y ago
On the back-end application level programming side: * Look for O(N^X), that is nested loops even when they are not necessarily expressed as loops on the language level. * If possible, get rid of ORMs in favor of raw SQL. Not because ORMs ar

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