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by seneca 2y ago
It should be, agreed, but you'd be shocked at how many CS degree holders can't do it. That's the thing with a lot of the nightmares in interviews. They're there because there is a huge number of people who apply, lie abo
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by seneca 2y ago
Smart TVs really do seem to be the worst of the worst when it comes to vendor abuse. I'm not surprised that's where Google is piloting this nightmare. Closed systems with generally low tech users, I suppose it should be expected.
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by seneca 2y ago
Yes, I would prefer the investors, because I believe in property rights.
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by seneca 2y ago
> invalidating other people's individual experiences It's called "disagreeing". It doesn't "invalidate" anything.
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by seneca 3y ago
Education is important, not school. So long as school is a means to receive education it is important. A lot of people don't think it is anymore.
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by seneca 3y ago
I have heard this from so many people, all over the country. I've heard many parents saying they're getting repeatedly sick as their kids bring diseases home. Has anyone seen any actual research into why this is? It seems pretty s
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by seneca 3y ago
> And, a surprising number of my wife's friends from church have opted for homeschooling, so they can teach their kids from the Bible and skip all that science and math "liberal indoctrination". I can assure you, the peopl
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by seneca 3y ago
What's in it is positive association between AI and Google. Google is sort of a seen as a joke in the latest wave of consumer facing AI tools, and they desperately want to change that.
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by seneca 3y ago
Got a laugh out of that. Too late to edit the typo, unfortunately.
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by seneca 3y ago
> The libertarian dream: no employees, no equipment, no liability. Not a single one of those things are librarian values.
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by seneca 3y ago
> The go to excuse of every apologist ever, which will be applied to anyone that takes a stand in an effective manner. Nothing about screaming in the middle of a meeting is effective. It's just a selfish tantrum. It doesn't cha
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by seneca 3y ago
Google did this to themselves by spending years encouraging radical politics at work. They harmed themselves, maybe irrevocably, and the entire industry by normalizing this behavior. Now it's politics they don't like and they want
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by seneca 3y ago
Yes, from his perspective it's likely morally right, but he was very likely aware it is illegal in the US. This nicely highlights a difficulty with globalism.
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by seneca 3y ago
> When we went for SOX compliance our auditors were pretty firm that having developers being the ones pushing to prod and not a separate team was a security issue. That's surprising to hear. That's a very out of date take on SO
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by seneca 3y ago
> I know US infrastructure is worse, but this is to quite a ridiculous level - the amount of damage everyone is paying for, for their cars is insane. It's not this bad everywhere. Atlanta is a notoriously corrupt and poorly run city
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by seneca 3y ago
It's the internet. Radical ideologies of all stripes are able to spread much more rapidly. Previously they were secluded the the fringes, and shunned. Now people can find communities dedicated to their views and form echo chambers.
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by seneca 3y ago
> A non-trivial percentage of women are physically larger and stronger than a non-trivial percentage of men, yet those smaller men are not scared to walk alone at night for fear of running across a large woman. This is just not true. Lar
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by seneca 3y ago
I think any man born before about 1990 could tell you that. The lack of understanding comes from the attempts to teach children that men and women are exactly the same. That well intentioned approach has left a couple of generations very co
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by seneca 3y ago
Go contexts are something that I found confusing for a while. I had assumed they were much more complicated than they actually are. I read the context section in Jon Bodner's Learning Go and realized they are actually pretty simple and
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by seneca 3y ago
Absolutely. And that's the right choice IF you can make it. Switching to CP or AP is something you should do because you're forced to. That's something lost on a lot of modern engineers, I think. Distributed Systems are somet
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by seneca 3y ago
This is sad "outrage porn". Regardless of how you feel about Cloudflare or their HR, this was really unprofessional of her and I suspect she'll come to regret posting this publicly. Posting an emotional attack on HR may feel
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by seneca 3y ago
> An assistant professor is higher class than an upp quartile software engineer That isn't even remotely true in the US, in the general case.
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by seneca 3y ago
That's called "lip service".
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by seneca 3y ago
Largely the same class of over credentialed idle rich. It's a very insular group, and they really only care about each other's opinions. Values like these vary hugely group to group. For instance, journalists and academics think o
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by seneca 3y ago
Maybe in other sectors, but not on Cloud. I've been an involuntary GCP customer on two accounts that were mid single digits millions a year and one that is among GCPs larger customers. In all cases, Google was a nightmare to work with.
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by seneca 3y ago
Absolutely it does. The number of new companies launching on Oracle rounds to near zero though.
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by seneca 3y ago
Sorry, I was unclear. I mean Oracle specifically.
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by seneca 3y ago
You need to look objectively at her skill set and desires. She has a legacy skillset on an unpopular technology, and doesn't want to grow away from it. That's fine, but it's not very marketable. Ask yourself, who would find e
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by seneca 3y ago
Is there a major service that has a worse uptime than Github? I can't think of one that feels less reliable.
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by seneca 3y ago
> I think these processes are also driven by the fact that more and more people are living at or below the poverty level Not true in the US: https://www.statista.com/statistics/200463/us-poverty-rate-s... At 11

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