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by trentnix 2y ago
If you don’t want to be subject to the whims of whoever is in office, don’t take the poison pill of government money.
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by trentnix 2y ago
> being a better Java for teams of mid-tier engineers. That cuts me right to the bone.
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by trentnix 2y ago
s/I'm/I've
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by trentnix 2y ago
The "number of people you've had under you" does provides insight into what a role entails, but there's still a lot of variance. What does seem to be uniform is that the "number of people you've had under you&q
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by trentnix 2y ago
I’m had all three titles at various points in my career but the reality is that my responsibilities and operational altitude varied widely from company to company. I just completed a job search after being laid off and one of the challenges
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by trentnix 2y ago
Less than a year ago multiple States attempted to remove Trump from the Presidential ballot. That’s the closer analogue to the shenanigans in Turkey, not the attempted equivalence you’re trying to make.
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by trentnix 2y ago
The first half of the first season was absolutely great. It went downhill quickly when his sister showed up. By the end of the season, it was awful. Season 2 is simply forgettable.
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by trentnix 2y ago
If you liked the original, you should absolutely watch Age of Resistance. It’s not a masterpiece but it was clearly made by people that care about the original, its legacy, and its lore.
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by trentnix 2y ago
> Their product marketing is a huge mess, they keep changing the names of everything every few months. Nobody knows which Copilot does what anymore. It really feels like they're scrambling to be first to market. It all feels so inc
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by trentnix 2y ago
It’s not just about acquiring “basic skills” or “marketable skills”. Shop enables practical, skill-appreciating minds to use geometry, physics, and science in concert to solve problems. You learn about symmetry and measurement, force and to
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by trentnix 2y ago
> Reflexive "ugh govt" is a result of decades of Reagan-ite propaganda I (and many others) have worked for, contracted for, interacted with, and/or closely observed government for decades. The only “reflexive” thing here
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by trentnix 2y ago
Every now and then when I’m lugging around a book or lamenting that my bookshelves are full, I wonder if ebooks and a Kindle would be simpler, better. Then Amazon does something like this and I’m reminded the headaches are worth it.
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by trentnix 2y ago
Jason Roberts, the founder (and primary coder) of Math Academy, has been podcasting for over 15 years and has been talking about Math Academy and its inspiration, origins, business fundamentals, financial realities, and ambitions on the pod
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by trentnix 2y ago
Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient. Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.
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by trentnix 2y ago
God bless you and your family. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom.
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by trentnix 2y ago
Well said.
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by trentnix 2y ago
So they’ll have access to everything we should already have access to. What’s the problem, then? Considering the government uses classification far too flippantly as it is, they still won’t have access to much.
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by trentnix 2y ago
> Throwing chairs? That's a parent problem. I don’t care whose problem it is, I’m not subjecting my kids to that kind of nonsense.
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by trentnix 2y ago
"Please don't flood us with auto-resumes" ... "Click here to submit to having your resume processed by a bot that will do all the filtering for us" This might not be you and your company, but it seems to be most
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by trentnix 2y ago
While "Uncle Bob" certainly hasn't uncovered any silver bullets, I find the criticism of him to be generally unfair. It's the same type of criticism that commonly targets anyone that actually sticks their neck out far en
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by trentnix 2y ago
Yep. That frequently trips me up.
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by trentnix 2y ago
That EMs and the C-suite think solving their engineering needs is to add "headcount" is the bigger problem.
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by trentnix 2y ago
Many companies are filtering candidates in favor of mercenaries while pretending they are looking for dependable, committed professionals. If you don’t have specific experience with some CTOs favorite esoteric API or don’t have experience i
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by trentnix 2y ago
I’m not sure the bar has been raised. It’s been weirded, but not raised.
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by trentnix 2y ago
I’m going through a similar experience after being laid off back in July for the first time in my career. The jobs advertised are quite often less-than-inspiring, the hiring processes are weird and opaque, and the hiring team is frequently
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by trentnix 2y ago
I do hate the game. I hate it so very much.
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by trentnix 2y ago
An aside, trying to read the Gizmodo story was like Idiocracy come to life. There was an overlay at the top with an ad. There was an overlay at the bottom with an ad. And the story, confined to 60% of the remaining space, had a giant ad inl
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by trentnix 2y ago
“But our keylogger is a feature!”, they explained.
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by trentnix 2y ago
> Your manager...“I don’t [know how it goes]. I went to business school.” There's the problem. Organizations whose leaders aren't able to discern your actual value are going to be miserable places to work. You play their game
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by trentnix 2y ago
Intuitively I think (and want to believe) there is a big gulf between intelligence and what LLMs are doing. Simply put, I believe I have free will. I know the machine does not. That seems important to me, but it won't be as important

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