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by rjbwork 2y ago
You can call yourself whatever you can get away with. There are a whole lot of people out there that have never slung anything but React-flavored JS being called developers and being paid to do it. The industry needs these technicians too
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by rjbwork 2y ago
During an evaluation I found a bug in their library. I went to their Slack, posted about it, and they gave a workaround in 15 minutes, created an issue in 30, and had a bugfix PR ready the next day. Pretty impressed with their team. Excit
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by rjbwork 2y ago
>It's sort of a shame because we end up with these tools that are designed to inhibit and take away user agency rather than extend and advance it. People have asked for this. Let me explain. Incentives are important. They are what
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Reminds me of Vigil. https://github.com/munificent/vigil
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by rjbwork 2y ago
The primitive sadism underpinning the carceral system in this country is shameful.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Not only is it not dead, it has been intentionally and painstakingly reconstructed over the past ~150 years.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Have also seen them. They all have the same name with numbers at the end. Also getting a lot of "sorry we can't service your request responses" this past half hour or so.
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by rjbwork 2y ago
You neglected to tell us what exactly it is you're talking about...
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by rjbwork 2y ago
You people are actually going to turn me into a ludditic hermit with this shit. I do not want to install random corpo spyware to do literally everything in my life!
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by rjbwork 2y ago
Unfortunately what you've said is just not true. We do have some power, but the system is absolutely intended to suppress the power of the masses. The senate as an institution, the cap on the number of reps in the house, the electoral
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by rjbwork 3y ago
I've done some stuff in Node, Python, Java, Scala, R, TypeScript and some other stuff I'm sure, as well. But every time I'm on a project like that I just slog through, constantly reminded of what I'm missing. At this p
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Probably should have paid him triple the salary to be the best engineer you ever worked with then.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Yup. These kinds of tangentially related ad-posts on HN make me actively hostile to whatever it is they're selling.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
https://use.expensify.com/blog/ceo-friday-why-we-dont-hire-n... this article again, but in HN comment form this time. yawn
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by rjbwork 3y ago
It's way ahead has been for some time. I saw it nearly 13 years ago in my internship and have done primarily .NET stuff in the interim. It's only gotten better with age, dotnet core and new features. There are gaps - data ecosys
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Also recommend checking out Azure Logic Apps' Google Sheets integration. It's been a few years since I've used it but I built some pretty nifty quick and dirty tools on top of Sheets, Logic Apps, and Azure Functions for back
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Personally I love the AI tools. The summary tool is what got me converted from the trial to a paying user. Quality is there for the most part, IME, but I definitely agree that their local features need a LOT of work.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
FWIW I'm a customer and had never read about it on HN until this post. I learned about it from a private Discord programmer community.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Because then insurance companies wouldn't be able to skim ~20% off the top of the system. A lot of people who own stock in those insurance companies would be very upset.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Would almost certainly be better. Incentives drive almost all economic behavior. The way in which our institutions repeatedly fail to align incentives with the well being of society is tragic and astounding.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Expanding legal immigration is a political impossibility at the moment. We'll have a lot of near slave-wage bodies for the worst jobs around though.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
I understand, I just don't care. It's the economic elites who don't seem to understand that they need a next generation to exploit and that the proletariat cannot be squeezed indefinitely. Eventually we look around and say
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by rjbwork 3y ago
In the industrialized world, the fertility rate is almost universally below replacement rate, and has been for a long time. So, as boomers are retiring, there are not as many people replacing them.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Unfortunately this is the answer. The bean counters do not give a shit about your experience or value. They just need warm bodies. They know the friction of leaving a company is high so they'll intentionally make you feel like a suck
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by rjbwork 3y ago
>of some sort of rotten problem Agree. Out of control neo-feudal lords taking up all the slack out of every system they can get their tendrils into in the name of efficiency, thus endangering us all in order to extract as much profit as
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by rjbwork 3y ago
He's always been fundamentally a salesman. Hopping on the hype trains lets him sell more.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Great idea but how will the bean counters and schmoozers get their multi-million dollar bonuses if they can't force engineers to do 5 jobs while paying them for 1? Will never work.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Definitely too on the nose. 402 probably sits in the same boat lol.
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by rjbwork 3y ago
>Then keep a hard copy in a safe. Been contemplating sending my parents a safe (who live several states away) with keys on a sheet of paper without context that only I have the combination too. But not sure yet. A friend of mine who was
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by rjbwork 3y ago
Convergent evolution would be the general term I think. Not sure if there's a pithy technological or software -ism.

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