shados

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by shados 5y ago
They're not lying, there are just significant internal miscommunications. A lot of the big companies right now have a lot of internal disagreements on the policies that pop up at various stage of the process.
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by shados 5y ago
A pretty damn large portion of people claim the standard deduction. They are paid on W2. Their investments are on 1099s. The cost basis are in supplemental documents that could easily be provided to the IRS in a format they can handle. Yeah
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by shados 5y ago
They even lost one of their founders, which doesn't bode super well.
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by shados 5y ago
Or it could be the opposite. I have a high-end gaming PC. I have a Switch. They feel pretty much interchangeable to me when it comes to graphics. The difference is nights and day...and I don't care one bit. Frame rate is another story
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by shados 5y ago
If only the VR division was its own thing (while still having the resources). Their VR stuff is pretty damn awesome.
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by shados 5y ago
to be fair, even within the TypeScript world that can be a problem. If typescript versions don't line up, or if your various strict options are too strict, you can get into really weird situations. It -generally- works, but when it doe
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by shados 5y ago
> you are hearing them all the time. You become used to them and even start to ignore them, and that is why people still get crushed I don't even work in construction, but I hear these so often every day, day after day, that if ther
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by shados 5y ago
The smoke coming out of a coal powerplant exists for a good reason. Its still pollution. The fire alarm example is a bad one. They don't go off hundreds of times a day for hours on end. If they did, yes, we'd need a different solu
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by shados 5y ago
There's more effective methods that create less disturbances. Noise pollution is proven time and time again to be both a physical and mental health hazard. People are subjected to this crap while trying to live their lives in their own
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by shados 5y ago
Whiteboarding in general? Absolutely. Writing a java sort function on a white board? Much less so.
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by shados 5y ago
There's more and more companies that don't give you coding exercises at all. They'll have code reviews, or a debugging exercise, system design, all the other stuff, but will skip the algo question. I hate algo/whiteboard
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by shados 5y ago
> You think it's unfair for people who have young children to not be expected to also be on call 24/7? That's dicey and depends on if you consider folks having children as them doing something they wanted for themselves, v
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by shados 5y ago
That's mostly because our industry is a bit of a mess. We clearly have different people doing completely different roles that are in the same career ladder with the same title. Forget on call, some folks with the same titles and same s
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by shados 5y ago
> what if I'm out with friends, drunk, high, on the side of a mountain You can plan around it, assuming a reasonable oncall schedule. If its every other week, yeah screw that. If its a week out of 4, you can plan it and still have i
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by shados 5y ago
Staffing folks who can fix these systems 24/7 for the 2-3 times a year something needs to happen doesn't seem like a great idea to me. If the systems are failing left and right continually, or if on-call is used to handle things t
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by shados 5y ago
> Typically the decisions of the boneheaded variety are made much higher up the org chart by higher-level middle management And what's that person role? Someone I feel its not a VP of quality insurance who made that decision.
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by shados 5y ago
Bad product management. You can bet the team is like "WTF are you doing asking for this?!", and they're like "we need to hit or OKRs and I need an impactful $$$ win to get my promotion, deal with it".
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by shados 5y ago
Windows with WSL gives you both a "real" Linux (closer than the bsd stuff on Macs), and the support Windows gets (My mouse is still annoying to use on Macs even though the software is fully supported). I can use the same machine f
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by shados 5y ago
Mermaid is cool. Excalidraw has fantastic obsidian integration too though!
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by shados 5y ago
I get the point, but I was answering the question of "why do people compare this with desktops". Because people compare them with everything. You're totally right that they are impressive in their own right, especially in the
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by shados 5y ago
> Beyond that, it's a little silly to compare a desktop (presumably many times larger, ~500+W power supply, cooling system, etc) with a Mac mini (tiny, laptop chip, no fans, etc). You're totally right, but I see a lot of folks
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by shados 5y ago
My last couple of jobs have involved being on slack almost all the time. Since when its down we couldn't do anything, I just got into the habit of keeping a Google Chat room that everyone knows about. If Slack goes down, we just hop in
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by shados 5y ago
A big issue in this industry is that folks do things like if no one else had done them before, reinventing the wheel continually. It feels like it evolves fast, but really, it's going in slow motion, because we're constantly start
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by shados 5y ago
I think its a step above that. For many workflows, OBS is basically the best option. I bought XSplit a long time ago, when it was in beta or something. OBS came out around that time but it wasn't what it is today. Today though? I still
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by shados 5y ago
> The weakness with this workflow is that OBS only allows saving one video at a time Not anymore thanks to plugins! https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/source-record.1285/ You can still only record one
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by shados 5y ago
Remarkable 1 was pretty similar to the 2 in that respect (most of the wins of the 2 are unrelated.) I don't really agree with the previous poster. Drawing on a Remarkable really feels much better than alternatives (similar to a Wacom t
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by shados 5y ago
The point of a remarkable is to be an e-ink notebook to write in. It has a few extra features, like, it CAN be used as an e-reader, but it's not really its primary focus. So with that in mind, an e-ink reader doesn't make for a g
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by shados 5y ago
You're not wrong. Communism implemented perfectly would also work beautifully. It just can't. The main difference here is that Scrum is not nearly as complicated to implement. Though the issue is the same. There's always some
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by shados 5y ago
I think I'm expressing myself incorrectly. Scrum "by the book" has a lot of material on the edge cases. How you handle almost every case that can happen in a software development team. So you can follow it like a workflow. So
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by shados 5y ago
Scrum is a specific implementation of some vague overarching concepts. Of course it's going to be prescriptive, that's the point. Else you're just doing "agile". When you bring a prescriptive implementation, you can

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