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811.
by sidlls 5y ago
I've spent the majority of my career having plenty of my own ideas, thoughts, and opinions ignored only to see them seriously considered when echoed by taller, fitter, and more attractive male peers. Software engineers and computer sci
812.
by sidlls 5y ago
An even better one would be "Einstein's General Relativity model supported by (another) observation". We've had many similar observations already (e.g. Mercury's procession around the Sun) that provide similar confi
813.
by sidlls 5y ago
"A good way to look at this might be some measure of the living standard / quality of life." We have a lower percentage of the populace that is poor--but they still live with little or no access to health care, in poor housin
814.
by sidlls 5y ago
"But all you've done is built a robot. You can't prove it actually has experience - including self-awareness - unless you can measure experience with objective instrumentation." We build things all the time based on the
815.
by sidlls 5y ago
They don't. There's an element of artificial/forced "futurism" in their appearance, generally: rounded bits in the wrong places, weird curves/shapes to trunks and lights, etc. Not to mention the poor and shoddy
816.
by sidlls 5y ago
It's both, as it's a feedback cycle. This industry, like many others, rewards narcissism and loudmouths above all else. It does so in the large (e.g. Fowler or Uncle Bob worship; "ex-FAANG" cache) and in the small (the s
817.
by sidlls 5y ago
It's how modern capitalism works, yes, and at least some of the downvotes are surely from freemarketeers who truly believe all the stuff described in the GP is just a perfectly fine, fair state of affairs.
818.
by sidlls 5y ago
Most, if not all, insiders shouldn't be in a situation where they need that kind of liquidity in their company shares. I'd argue that if they are their incentives aren't aligned with their role as an insider and they should b
819.
by sidlls 5y ago
Civil (and other engineering) got better because there was motivation to improve that came from multiple directions: literal lives at stake, the pride of good craftsmanship, iterative or even grand steps forward in knowledge, etc. Software
820.
by sidlls 5y ago
My current manager is very technical, we work in a FAANG level company, and he was an IC not so long ago. He's a micromanager sort, suggests it's okay if people want to work over holiday days, and tells people regularly they shoul
821.
by sidlls 5y ago
You've set up a fine strawman to burn down: I never even implied what you suggest.
822.
by sidlls 5y ago
What if I disagree with some of the approaches of BLM activists?
823.
by sidlls 5y ago
Because it's the "nerdy" software engineers' version of social media: a way to exercise some ego/narcissism.
824.
by sidlls 5y ago
Not really, no: it isn't even a very high quality act, and in fact can be quite negative: 1. The multiplier is net negative for software engineers: it advances the commoditization of our knowledge skills; 2. It does so while providing
825.
by sidlls 5y ago
Those “Joe Scmoe” landlords are mostly graduates/victims of real estate guru nonsense who over leveraged themselves thinking of how rich they’d be in 5 years. I have no sympathy for them.
826.
by sidlls 5y ago
It would provide a window to swoop in and get perfectly good rentals for pennies on the dollar for persons/investment corporations of means.
827.
by sidlls 5y ago
> The main problem I see over and over with E2E tests is that they keep people from getting good at unit tests. I'd view that as a win then. Unit tests are next to worthless for anything but tightly bound domains, like libraries, in
828.
by sidlls 5y ago
Third-party services should be mocked for integration and end-to-end testing. Error conditions with respect to these services should be something that is monitored and alerted on when appropriate.
829.
by sidlls 5y ago
How do you figure? 100% of in-app advertising goes to the split between the ad provider and the developer. Apple doesn't get 1 cent from that (unless the ad comes from Apple, obviously).
830.
by sidlls 5y ago
MAD is about having sufficient alliance networks with enough power to guarantee mutual destruction, not having everyone with lots of nukes. And usually “alliance networks” meant the old US/Soviet divide.
831.
by sidlls 5y ago
It’s not hypocritical at all, as the whole point is to maintain an imbalance of power and capability in one’s own favor. The public reasoning and ceremony around why we prevent others from getting this capability may be run through with hyp
832.
by sidlls 5y ago
This isn't a piece of film art, it's informational. The audience shouldn't have to sit through a 30 minute video to get 5 minutes worth of content.
833.
by sidlls 5y ago
I'm GenX, so most of my entertainment comes from older video games and movies. And I have an incredibly jaded view of the narcissism of social media. I recently started dating a Gen-Zer. This guy is all about TikTok, Snapchat, Instagra
834.
by sidlls 5y ago
Batman vs. Superman and Justice League were both very much unjustly maligned superhero movies. They suffered from the same "big cgi fx" problem all modern superhero movies do, but the stories themselves were far better than the on
835.
by sidlls 5y ago
That's a rough one. Mine was fixing some physics/flight aerodynamics software that had been generated by a Fortran-to-C compiler (e.g., http://www.netlib.org/f2c/ ). It was in inscrutable mess and couple-years
836.
by sidlls 5y ago
Something every software engineer should learn before their insufferable egos solidify.
837.
by sidlls 5y ago
The problem is that unlimited PTO is a loophole that companies use to avoid paying earned benefits. California’s regulations on this are poor because they don’t account for this, not because they’re a bad idea.
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by sidlls 5y ago
Depends on which union, really. Corruption is a real problem in some of them, and in others the will to fight is weak or state laws make them much less powerful.
839.
by sidlls 5y ago
HR is generally seen as being anti-employee, in the sense that the reason they exist is to protect the company (legally speaking) by managing its relationships, benefits, compensation, etc., with employees, and this often pits the company&#
840.
by sidlls 5y ago
Inclusion efforts for women have nothing to do with exclusion of men. This isn't exactly true. In a laudable attempt to help lift girls up from a young age, we've (likely inadvertently in most cases) neglected, or worse vilified

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