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by random32840 6y ago
> take it easy and do whatever makes you happy Great advice if what makes you happy also happens to be lucrative. I did this, and it was a huge mistake I'm still paying for 7+ years later.
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by random32840 6y ago
1. A large (and growing) chunk of the industry considers object oriented programming to be absolutely terrible, but that's what they'll teach you in college. Learn functional programming and data-oriented programming in your spare
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by random32840 6y ago
According to this chart[1], less women than Amazon, Facebook and Apple, more than Microsoft. When you normalise for tech workers only, it climbs to 77% men, which is about average for the industry. [1] https://cdn.statcdn.com&#x2
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by random32840 6y ago
Companies in general try to seem like they care about more than money. "Grey Goo Ltd. We care." Diversity rhetoric is an easy, pre-constructed set of Things to Say (TM) that you can use to project empathy - notably, without doin
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by random32840 6y ago
It could just be that the kind of people who knit are unlikely to enjoy writing dry, factual encyclopedias.
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by random32840 6y ago
I'm really not convinced he's ideologically driven. I imagine he makes a lot of money for doing what he does, given his track record.
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by random32840 6y ago
C has much more of an excuse to be difficult & fragile. It's surgical. Web tech is designed to be abstract. If your abstraction introduces too much fragility or complexity or cost or overhead then it isn't worth it. Abstractio
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by random32840 6y ago
My reading is that people who are planning to move anyway put in remote work requests just in case. You need more context to evaluate something like this.
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by random32840 6y ago
That's why I specified flu.
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by random32840 6y ago
Not always. Common flu has been evolving to become more & more deadly over the past few years.
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by random32840 6y ago
The 1918 flu never mutated enough to become endemic and it dissapeared. Endemic mutation is not an inevitability.
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by random32840 6y ago
Cambridge recently released a study estimating that 9% or so of the UK population already have antibodies. You only need to get to ~60% and (assuming it doesn't become endemic) you have herd immunity, it doesn't matter that the
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by random32840 6y ago
Right - but you have the same value either way, you just have to apply leverage, right? The gig's up if you don't have to say yes to the lowball offer. What force prevents you just pitting two+ SF companies against each other in a
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by random32840 6y ago
Can anyone explain why companies do this, but still hire from the expensive areas? If they pay less for the same level of skill in Texas, why don't they stop hiring in SF full stop and only hire in Texas? Is it just a bluff and they&#x
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by random32840 6y ago
Lists like this strike me as somewhat meaningless. Those companies probably also use bash scripts, hardly represents a significant chunk of the product. How much of their codebase is in Clojure?
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by random32840 6y ago
Is there an example of something like this, but trained on the actual abstract syntax tree manipulations that are going on behind the scenes? That seems like it would be considerably more effective, because you're removing the noise&#x
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by random32840 6y ago
An AI like this can hold a hell of a lot more information in its head at one point than a human. Each decision it makes is based on way more context, it can manipulate the problem using much more information, much faster. The problem is t
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by random32840 6y ago
That's not what I meant. I mean, it's unlikely that someone high up in the company decided to snipe this app. It's probably a low-level employee following the formal rulebook a little too much to the letter.
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by random32840 6y ago
It may be automated based on frequency of reports, but either way this is unlikely to be company policy. The people who make these decisions are relatively low-level employees following a company guidebook. The guidebook says it has to go?
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by random32840 6y ago
More like: > What Google is asking of Podcast Addict would be comparable to Google asking Google to remove all references to the websites and social media posts that reference the coronavirus unless the reference comes from an official g
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by random32840 6y ago
Thanks for the answer. What I'm really trying to fish out is: if a developer is significantly better than the competition relative to his years of experience, how is he supposed to communicate that? How does he actually get paid commen
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by random32840 6y ago
I don't think the problem is who they polled. The problem is that they're fishing out two-sentence platitudes that are not useful.
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by random32840 6y ago
You're right, I misread. I apologise.
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by random32840 6y ago
Both are problems. Our brains have a tremendous amount of compute and use complex, nuanced, adaptive strategies. The clearest example is how much energy we spend modelling other humans' thought processes. We spend so much because a s
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by random32840 6y ago
This is naive. If it's a bad library full of bugs, it's going to be garbage code. I'm not going to spend inordinate amounts of time & effort wrestling with shitty code to earn the right to say the library is bad. IMO that
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by random32840 6y ago
Text is ambiguous, overtly communicating that you aren't trying to be mean is a good idea IMO.
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by random32840 6y ago
How do you differentiate between "reasonable developer, can deal with complexity" and "extremely good developer, will dramatically improve the codebase and produce less technical debt"? Does the distinction matter at you
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by random32840 6y ago
Forgiving tit-for-tat rectifies that flaw.
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by random32840 6y ago
Should be: "Iterated Prisoners Dilemma Contains Strategies That Dominate Any Evolutionary Opponent at a Game as Simple as the Prisoner's Dilemma " You can write a perfect tic-tac-toe program with relatively simple rules, but
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by random32840 6y ago
That's not a great example of what's possible. Research-land has some wild demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KWiq3guRU

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