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by rhelz 3y ago
> I mean.. thats the whole job for the manager? Sure, that's in management's wheelhouse....but really, have you never felt like your contributions to the team were undervalued? Or whether somebody else's contributions wer
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> do people really believe the unemployment rates.... When the government measures what it calls the unemployment rate, you might wish that it were measuring what you call the unemployment rate, vs. what it calls the unemployment rate. B
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You hit the nail right on the thumb. About 10 years ago, I was looking for jobs, and wasn't getting any bites. My wife said "Cut your resume in half. Only show the last 7 years of your employment history." It worked--when i
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by rhelz 3y ago
Understood, but I'm asking how the hiring manager should be able to tell that. Here's where I'm coming from: at every company I've worked at (besides start-ups) managers spend 2-3 months on rank-and-yank evaluations. T
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by rhelz 3y ago
> With experience comes pattern recognition. How do you put a dollar value on that though? If I can hire either 2 junior programmers for $100k, or 1 senior programmer for $200k.....how the heck am I supposed to know that this guy can p
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by rhelz 3y ago
> So many resumes are fake Its a classic vicious circle: if your resume gets auto-dinged if it doesn't have the right keywords, applicants are highly motivated do lard up their resumes with keywords. And then the companies observe
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Is there any evidence that would be worse than the way we're doing it now??
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4 months is actually really good, relatively speaking. Just wait until you have 20 years experience, and you are trying to explain to your interviewer (who has 5 years experience) something which took you 15 years of hard experience to lea
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by rhelz 3y ago
> The economy is doomed. chuckle the economy is not doomed. Of course there's green badges on linked in, its not tik-tok, if you are on LinkedIn, you are probably there to look for a job. It seems like the sky is falling, but i
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> unless management is totally incompetent Sooo...how do you measure how good a programmer is? You've got to cut $200,000 from your budget. You can lay off 2 junior programmers, or 1 senior programmer. How, exactly should manageme
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In a free market, there's no such thing as a shortage. This isn't a 1980's soviet grocery store. The market for programmers is not centrally planned. Its one of the least-regulated markets extant today. So anybody complain
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but...out of a thousand applicants--who presumably had college degrees/and or years of experience programming for other companies--there just has to be some who would have been successful at your co
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I don't think any analogy is needed: if I can go to chatGPT, and have it start printing out pages of a book, that is in itself, ipso facto, indeed tautologically IP theft.
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> who has done copying? OpenAI or the user? What situations is it one, the other, or both? You are way overthinking it. Take my example of "Sam I Am" by Dr. Suess. I can buy access to chatGPT, and With the right prompts I can
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IKR? I only have to make 100 apps and I'll have $30k a month income....
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"Dying" is the correct word, because living people are being replaced by bots, both on social networks, and as content creators. Live people are being replaced by dead computers. Last presidential election, I'm convinced I w
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This is a very interesting observation....I never would have thought of the parallels between OpenAI and Youtube, during this startup/rapid growth phase. You are exactly right; YouTube also bent IP laws to the point of breaking while i
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For text data, it would work fine, but you'd have to do some finagling with binary data; $1F is a perfectly valid byte to have in, say, a 4-byte integer.
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> Intellectual property has no reason to exist Intellectual property is a very weird construct. Imagine if we had Star Trek-style replicators, and in principle there was no scarcity of, say, diamond rings, but we passed a bunch of la
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Imagine no possessions....its easy if you try....
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by rhelz 3y ago
> AI training doesn't constitute copyright infringement. It's not the same thing. Why not? E.g., chagGpt 3.5, if you ask what the first paragraph of "Moby Dick" is, it prints it out verbatim. How is that not reselli
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by rhelz 3y ago
I suppose I shouldn't kick up dust here, because I left EDA programming... But man, EDA programing is not one of those things you can just take a 6-week bootcamp and start hacking away on. Typically, you eat raman for 5-7 years to get
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For real? That is a very interesting observation.
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The more we are getting ourselves all worked up about how dangerous AI is, the less we are thinking about the fact that LLMs are sucking up all the intellectual property we created in the information age, and then selling it back to us. Ast
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by rhelz 3y ago
Glad you haven't faced it--or at least, it was subtle enough not to rankle or tank your job search. > ageism isn't inevitable It's not inevitable, but it is something outside of your control. Whether or not you experienc
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Really happy about 2 things: 1) we agree that (as you put it) you have to love it to do it for a lifetime and 2) You haven't had to put up with what most of us do. > in fact have productive colleges who are nearing 70 Yeah, its no
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The God's honest truth is nobody knows what the demand for software engineers will be, especially over a timeframe of a 40-year career. But in all likelihood there will be robust demand for software engineers going forward. Here'
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Wouldn't be easy, but the EU has integrated very poor countries, like East Germany and Greece. > Many parts Mexico are still controlled by drug cartels Alas, many parts of the U.S. are controlled by people who think that vaccines ar
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What we really need is an EU-style common market for North America. Free trade, free movement of people, single currency, single regulatory environment. Such an entity could compete with any country on earth, from competing for cheap manuf
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Canada has a better national anthem too.

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