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by suzzer99 2y ago
> Another reason I really don't trust that to be true is that I've never seen a good way to measure who is a top performer and who is not. I can work at a new place for a week and know who the top performers are. Their names ar
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by suzzer99 2y ago
From my experience it's manager and not close. Good devs are hard to find, especially devs who have built some stuff and can make fixes in 5 minutes that might take another dev a week to get up to speed.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
The best of all worlds is when you can work with real friends with on cool new stuff. I had a job like that for seven years. I also had enough experience by that point to know I was in a rare situation, and to cherish it while it lasted.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
There's also a risk going to into management that you don't have as a much more indispensable developer. My friend is great developer who transitioned to management, then got laid off 2 years later when the company hired a bunch o
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by suzzer99 2y ago
That's batshit insane.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I'd bet 95% of fintech startups are just walking moral hazards to begin with.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Whenever I've got a chance to make half the going interest rate on my money, I want it to be with some disruptive fintech bro startup with a silly name. That's just how I roll.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Infinitely dense, which is a math term for "some other realm of existence that makes no sense in our physical world".
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by suzzer99 2y ago
'Singularity' is just a placeholder for 'we have no idea what's going on here'.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
And a book on trees that doesn't have the larch in it.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I'm 55 and still using my Onkyo receiver and Polk speakers from college.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I found most of my twitter sports follows pretty easily.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Chiefsplanet.com, unstuckpolitics.com, my buddies on group text :)
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by suzzer99 2y ago
On a few forum sites I'm on, people are just giving up. Looking forward to the post-mortem on how they weren't ready for this (with just a tiny bit of schadenfreude because they've interviewed and rejected me twice).
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by suzzer99 2y ago
It was even more ludicrous in this case because a ton of the app logic was inside stored procedures.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I got really 'lucky' in that the first major project I ever worked on was future-proofed to high heaven, and I became the one to maintain that thing for a few years as none of the expected needs for multiple layers of future-proof
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by suzzer99 2y ago
What's worse is when you have to actually interview the candidate, even though you know the job is going to someone internal. I've had to do this at large companies and at public institutions.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I've been coding since 1998. Wherever I've worked, 'senior' has always just meant 'doesn't need to be supervised'. The standard pattern is to work 2 years as a junior developer, then jump ship for a senior
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I guess these only go back so far? I was hoping to see the graph on my post, which dropped like a stone after a few hours. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992654 )
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by suzzer99 2y ago
> How are stories ranked? > The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments in threads are ranked the same way. > Other factors affecting rank include user flags, anti-abuse software,
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Porch Pirates Are Stealing AT&T iPhones Delivered by FedEx(wsj.com)
16 points by suzzer99 2y ago|16 comments
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by suzzer99 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Mwf7e It seems likely that this is someone on the inside at AT&T is selling tracking numbers to rings of thieves.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Which actually look like the people who still live in the area. https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/1c5tumx/olmec_hea...
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by suzzer99 2y ago
Peter Attia had a guest on his podcast who said something along these lines. He was really into training people to do Olympic lifting because of the cognitive component that goes along with the exercise. He also said hiking is good because
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by suzzer99 2y ago
We had a Salesforce consultant who was like this. I'd send him a list of five things he needed to do to make his jitterbit connection work with our internal API. He'd do one thing, report that it still didn't work. I'd a
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by suzzer99 2y ago
They're extrapolating from their PowerPoint slides, the single source of truth from which all else is manifested.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
I've always suspected the marshmallow test measures desire to please the researcher more than anything else. I'm supposed to sit here and stare at this marshmallow for some indeterminate amount of time, just to get one more mars
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by suzzer99 2y ago
There was a lot more light shone on the US elections. Over 60 cases were brought by Trump supporters, many before Republican judges, some of whome were even Trump appointees. All fraud cases were dismissed out of hand for lack of evidence.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
The Carter Foundation stood up to the US govt in 2004, when they validated Chavez's win. Maybe they became un-impartial since then. But you're assuming a lot.
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by suzzer99 2y ago
More on this. The Carter Foundation, the only impartial observers who were in Venezuela for the election, and who previously defended Venezuela's election system following Chavez's 2004 win, has called on Maduro's government

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