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by sbrother 2y ago
That makes total sense, thanks for articulating it so clearly. Sometimes I wish I felt more that way, or at least that I could get myself to hate corporate work less. I do enjoy working for myself and freelancing, and that was all I did bef
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by sbrother 2y ago
It mostly just comes down to having kids, right? I am certain that if I were single and happy staying that way, I would be living in a van in Moab and doing the bare minimum amount of freelancing to keep myself fed.
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by sbrother 2y ago
Thank you for everything!! I've shipped quite a few successful apps to clients on Phoenix ever since the beginning, and am about to launch a startup on it. It's truly changed my career more than maybe any other library.
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by sbrother 2y ago
Yeah that's fair. In terms of "things with good perf" I'd rather be writing C++ or Rust, but there are significant issues with using either of those on a large team. I'm more comparing it against languages like Kotl
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by sbrother 2y ago
Having recently had to work on a Go project for the first time, I think I agree with you here. I'd tried Go a little bit when it came out, had zero interest in what it offered, and then when I was asked to work on this project a couple
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by sbrother 2y ago
Same. I can't imagine much heavier use than what I have done to this thing for the past 3+ years, and it still just literally does everything I ask of it. I've never even kept a laptop this long; up until now I would upgrade every
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by sbrother 2y ago
What does "noncommercial use" mean in this context though? These are tools for work - is the idea that students can use them for free and then will start paying once they finish school?
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by sbrother 2y ago
I don't know, but I always tended to get sick after flying. I started wearing a mask while flying during COVID and it's the one place I still do it. Not scientific but I feel like I have gotten sick after flying less frequently si
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by sbrother 2y ago
That is mind blowing, but it’s not immediately obvious to me that it’s equivalent for n > sqrt(INT_MAX). Is it? And if so, is the compiler somehow smart enough to know that?
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by sbrother 2y ago
Thank you - same here. I hate how “trendy” it’s become to hate on SSRIs. Are they a silver bullet? no. Are they overprescribed? Maybe. But they’re one of the few useful treatments for debilitating depression and anxiety that we currently ha
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by sbrother 2y ago
I’ve been on Lexapro for a few years now, and if I skip it for a couple days I get very unpleasant brain zaps and dizziness. If this is a lack of withdrawal symptoms then I hate to imagine what other SSRIs cause! Still, it’s been a life cha
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by sbrother 2y ago
Do you know the current status of gleam_otp? I’ve been in the erlang (and more recently elixir) world for a long time and am quite excited about gleam, but when I looked at it early on it didn’t seem to have a great solution for OTP. Can I
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by sbrother 2y ago
In the past I've had a lot of issues with Google properties not working properly on Firefox -- either outright broken or using crazy amounts of CPU on Firefox but not Chromium-based browsers. Does anyone know if this is still an issue?
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by sbrother 2y ago
I feel like this is what we are trying to do at Reddit, but needless to say it's going to get harder and harder.
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by sbrother 2y ago
Yep that schedule is pretty familiar for me as well. I’m willing to do it when necessary; I feel like it’s fair given the flexibility and trust I’m given as a fully remote employee. When I’ve worked in the office in the past, the laptop sta
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by sbrother 2y ago
I think the worst part is 9) at night, do more work that requires focus time while no one is bothering you, since expectations got calibrated to when everyone had a private office and more control over their own time.
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by sbrother 2y ago
Amazon's value proposition to potential employees is basically that it's the easiest way to break into big tech. It's an awful place to work but they hire people who can't get into to other FAANGs, pay them more than the
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by sbrother 2y ago
Wildfire would be a huge deal for insurance as well.
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by sbrother 2y ago
How is this different from FLoC? My understanding was that Google came out with FLoC to solve this problem, but then scrapped it when it became clear that no one wanted it except Google.
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by sbrother 2y ago
+1, I've used Doppler for quite a while now at various places, and it works.
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by sbrother 2y ago
I just started using it a few days ago after hearing about it here. So far, it feels transformational for my productivity. I've been using the ChatGPT and Claude webapps a few times a week for specific problems for a year, but this lev
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by sbrother 2y ago
Realistically the actual work got done in the evening after going home.
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by sbrother 2y ago
I almost didn't try langgraph because I had similar experiences with langchain. IMO it is a lot better than langchain; its abstractions are lower level and more appropriate at least for the projects I've taken on. I think it'
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by sbrother 2y ago
I'm in a wealthy suburb of Salt Lake City where I can walk to the nearest grocery store, or take my kids to school in a cargo bike on miles of protected bike paths. It's wonderful, but it's also much more expensive to live he
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by sbrother 2y ago
Another data point from a couple months ago -- I have about 15 years of experience including FAANG, went on the job market (fully remote only; I'm not in SF) and ended up with two offers. Senior SWE at a small but public tech company e
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by sbrother 2y ago
Are they built better now? I've bought a lot of stuff from them in the past and while their support is great and their pre-built desktops are fantastic, their laptops were just rebranded Clevo trash.
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by sbrother 2y ago
Plenty of talented folks will do it as actual contractors taking on projects for a few months at $250-300/hr. I did that for five years and was always open to my clients bringing me on full time for the right price. But the opportunity
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by sbrother 2y ago
Oh man, I am not looking to switch companies right now, but this sounds amazing. I'll be following you guys. Also: I could swear I saw you comment on something Mathematica related a long time ago. Is there a Wolfram connection here?
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by sbrother 2y ago
Nelson, BC?
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by sbrother 2y ago
I think we are technically supposed to use Zoom at my employer, but almost everyone (at least in eng) just uses Meet instead. The UX is so much better, and it's rarer that something isn't working with someone's setup. Also I

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