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by shados 7y ago
Webdev isn't complicated. Its actually pretty simple. Because its simple, you can use the extra time you saved to solve complicated problems. Which then brings it back up. When the platform makes THOSE problems simple, you just move on
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by shados 7y ago
Thats so cool! Learning about this made it worth being wrong.
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by shados 7y ago
Doesn't NYC have a Times Warner monopoly for internet? If so, that's why.
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by shados 7y ago
I said even at company friendly companies. Basically you'll see this happen even at companies where you CANT just switch job to get a raise (eg: companies that give out RSUs and had huge stock value bumps, making it unlikely you can ge
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by shados 7y ago
> Given all my friends that worked for them, almost all have quit within 5 years. 5 years is pretty darn high by tech company standard, as people already mentioned. Partly because of the culture of "you have to jump ship to make mor
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by shados 7y ago
Software engineering is a field that evolves and you need to stay up to date. It's far from the only field like that. When you get out of school (or whatever path you took), you are knowledgeable about the current state of things. If y
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by shados 7y ago
My neighbor is from France and always complain about people ruinning A/C because they hate the noise from hvacs. They basically never run theirs, even when its 100F+ outside. So story checks out.
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by shados 7y ago
> because of colder and longer winters than in most of the US On that one the US is just a bit silly. Even in place where it's reasonably cold, houses are frequently built out of cardboard. I'm looking at you, Boston.
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by shados 7y ago
Fine, so is it highest demand since "ever" with 2017 being the last record, or is it just that 2016 had even higher?
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by shados 7y ago
Foodler had some nice features such as not being completely horrible. I miss Foodler so damn much.
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by shados 7y ago
Going from 15 to 3 is definitely a different discussion from going from 7000 to < 5. At 15, it feels like it's kind of just a toss up. We have several thousand repos, and sometimes we see 5-10 of them that really should be grouped,
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by shados 7y ago
These are examples. If its not board games its going to be knitting. If its not knitting its going to be skydiving, and if its not that it will be something else. At the end of the day, to thrive in the current world on a social, cultural,
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by shados 7y ago
While there's an issue, I kind of feel its a temporary gap as society changes. A generation or two ago, family was everything. Today, less so. My grandparent's entire social circle was their family, children and grandchildren. My
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by shados 7y ago
I wish. I don't even remember the last time I opened my windows. I have a white noise machine, I live with headphones, I sleep with earplugs. NOTHING stops the sound of kids screaming. Nevermind the jack hammers starting at 6:30 am (be
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by shados 7y ago
I'd argue that when we're talking about people's livelihood and where they sleep, it's quite expected that that definition won't be enough.
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by shados 7y ago
An issue we hit recently was our place, while near-ish an airport (well, a couple of miles away), didn't have much issues. Then several years after we bought, they changed their software I guess (thats the story anyway) which decided a
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by shados 7y ago
A big issue IMO is that cities insist on having one size fit all noise ordinances, and then use "guts feeling" to enforce it, or have "ambient noise" clauses to justify where they are enforced. That means without a LOT o
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by shados 7y ago
> if it doesn't really hurt anyone And you should! The problem is as long as you have neighbors (even distant ones), it's very hard to do ANYTHING that doesn't impact them -somehow-. It might be indirect, but it does. Hec
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by shados 7y ago
Code reviews have 2 purpose. Help the person whom's code is being reviewed improve quality/catch issues, BUT ALSO the reviewer gets familiar with the code being pushed and learn stuff. It's super important for new engineers t
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by shados 7y ago
> In the case of restaurants at least, in the US servers are often paid below minimum wage As mentioned in a lot of industries outside of restaurants people behave the same way even though it's not true. A lot of restaurants pay a
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by shados 7y ago
> unless people in the USA just don't understand fully how tipping works. Every "outrage" in the US consists mostly of shit people don't understand. That doesn't mean they're wrong about the cause, but you c
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by shados 7y ago
usage has shifted less from "posting baby pictures omg omg omg" to more facebook groups and business pages and stuff. Which is likely better for Facebook and exactly what they want (well, they'd probably rather have both, but
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by shados 7y ago
> I think tipping is ingrained in American culture Tipping is ingrained in American culture because there's an insane disparity between rich and poor and it makes the rich feel better about themselves (and those who do it but wish t
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by shados 7y ago
Wasn't what they were doing exactly the same mechanics as how typical tipped employee salary work, just at a different threshold? Eg, in Mass, it looks like tipped employee minimum wage is 4.35, and tipped wage plus tip must be $12&#x2
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by shados 7y ago
They don't? Demand is increasing. However as the sources for software developer expand (and the barrier for entry goes down, along with more people going into the field), the availability is drastically going to outpace it. We had a ve
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by shados 7y ago
> I detest this sense of entitlement that programmers have I don't agree with all of your post (but do some of it). However at the pace companies are expanding their hiring net, the supply and demand ratios are going to flip sooner
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by shados 7y ago
My own experience as well as discussing with various leads at other local businesses tell me about 50% of candidate will hard pass take home projects.
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> but a university degree is becoming more and more impractical In the US* All that means is that either alternate methods (eg: trade school) will become much more sophisticated, or that the US will fall behind countries that have solid,
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by shados 7y ago
A lot of people IN the industry (especially, but absolutely not exclusively folks who come from alternate backgrounds). Ive been a consultant at several companies where other software engineers REFUSED to learn anything unless: A) it was du
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by shados 7y ago
All good enough to be hired AND that if they were, that the job they eventually did get paid substantially less. That is very possible, but it's still a loaded assumption indeed.

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