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by rcbdev 3y ago
During my time at the company we never once talked about what the customer actually needed or wanted. Your story confirms my suspicion that this type of sales-driven development is just how IBM operates anywhere. The truth is, IBM has been
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This has been IBM's M.O. ever since acquiring PwC Consulting in the early 2000s. Even their downfall feels incredibly sluggish and geriatric.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
The CEO apparently spent his entire working life in New York with a brief stint in Tel Aviv. Only an American could seriously come up with and attempt to execute on this idea.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I think many people don't even realize how inter-device their IM service usage really is due to how seamless the web frontends of WhatsApp/Telegram/etc. are. Some people like to use these when working on their desktop for 8+
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I've tried occasionally hosting XMPP servers for a long time and sadly I didn't have as nice of an experience client-wise as you did. Especially on Windows, where most people live, the biggest clients don't properly support v
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This is anecdata but in my experience the way WebDev (esp. HTML and CSS) is being taught in academia is very crusty. I've seen Juniors enter the workforce with a solid understanding of table-based layouts from the 2000s for some reason
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by rcbdev 3y ago
XMPP could have been something truly great. The ejabberd project alone has been used to build WhatsApp, Nintendo's Push Notification System, Epic Games' Chat, etc. - so it does have a genuine track record of being scalable and pro
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Same. Unsure what confusion OP is referring to specifically.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This comment thread is peak derangement. They chose anime girls because that's where we have the most comprehensive close-to-homogenous visual data available. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
She's a fairly unknown journo who started her career reviewing laptops. I find that this makes her as good as a rando relative to the HN crowd.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In middle school I had pretty bad social anxiety probably born from a lack of confidence in myself. Then I enrolled in a vocational school for CompSci with a bunch of ex-BigTech instructors (MSFT, IBM, ORCL, etc.) close to retirement who me
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by rcbdev 3y ago
They missed the opportunity to make a joke sweater about the OpenAI debacle.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> Buy premium versions of dating apps You're certainly allowed to do this, I am just unsure whether it makes any sense.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Engineers tend to earn a lot more.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Some readers might be surprised to hear that in Austria, sports betting is legally not a form of gambling but a "game of skill". I only know a handful of people who care for it, almost no-one at university did it and the only peop
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I have to work with code written by Data Scientists very often and, coming from a classical SWE background, I would not call what the average Data Scientist does full stack software engineering. The code quality is almost always bad. This i
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I agree with you to some extent, but if you go with this line of thinking consequently then things of no apparent "User Value" (say, a code base not riddled with technical debt) never gets any budget or attention in favor of shoeh
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by rcbdev 3y ago
This is absolutely not true. I lived in the US (midwestern food desert) for half a year and absolutely made do with fresh tomatoes, ground beef from the counter, bell peppers, fresh garlic, onions etc. I didn't even have a car and had
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I was just making a joke about how Silicon Valley, to some people on this planet, seems like an awful place that ignores some awful behavior when convenient. Embracing the "ethos" of such a place seems funny to me. Never accused y
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by rcbdev 3y ago
> Relatedly, it’s unfair and wasteful for the people who could be out there exploring and building the future on their own dime to be either working normal jobs or simply managing their money for profit. This is a key part of what it mea
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by rcbdev 3y ago
If that ethos doesn't involve illegally overstaying student visas like Musk or burning millions of dollars then have you really truly embraced the SV lifestyle?
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by rcbdev 3y ago
In Germany and Austria many gas stations do not have attendants... (Avanti, Turmöl, etc.) I have never once experienced an issue with these in my entire life.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Exactly! Using a pre-made sign language is missing the point entirely...
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by rcbdev 3y ago
If I recall correctly, a certain South African entrepreneur who overstayed his visa pitched a vacuum-based transport system which he provably knew will not work at critical funding stages of high-speed rail projects in California. Correct m
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Experienced people (10+ years) routinely return to universities because they need a degree of some kind to advance into management. Without wanting to be too much of a downer, I doubt that this is a realistic path right now.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
60k is very average for someone with 3-4y experience in Vienna and our salaries are much lower than in Germany. You should find another offer. Unless you're talking about net income, then it is truly god-tier...
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by rcbdev 3y ago
"Same applies to Europe" Austria's entire GDP is 20% just (semi-corrupt) government contracts, we pay 20% VAT on almost everything we buy and more(!) than half of what my company pays for me goes to the government if you take
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by rcbdev 3y ago
Not entirely - Consulting is also doing more and more near-/off-shoring to cut costs
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by rcbdev 3y ago
I remember it being pretty popular in Kosovo as well, in case any European HNer wants to check it out.
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by rcbdev 3y ago
There are ways to anonymously receive mail in my country. Surely such mechanisms must exist in the great US of A.

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