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by trowawee 4y ago
> Is the Tucker Carlson story [...] true? No
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by trowawee 4y ago
At least here in the US, it absolutely is. Kids get hit by cars and die on a semi-regular basis and basically no one is ever held accountable for it. From Chicago, just a few weeks ago: "Driver issued no citations after fatally strikin
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by trowawee 4y ago
Feedbin as a backend/web interface, Reeder on iOS.
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by trowawee 4y ago
Completely outsourcing your process for surfacing interesting information to someone else's algorithm feels like awful idea (and I actually mostly like Twitter).
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by trowawee 4y ago
I also had this come across my feed. Always funny to see articles about the death of RSS in my RSS reader. Honestly, the idea of using the web _without_ RSS is entirely alien to me at this point; I don't understand how people keep tra
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by trowawee 4y ago
Readdle's Spark[1] has been my Inbox replacement since Google killed it. It has pin/snooze functionality and a similar concept of grouping emails by category and letting you easily mass mark-as-read. Plus, you can connect multiple
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by trowawee 4y ago
Seriously, just say "I like money and interesting technical problems and don't really care about the bad stuff FB has done/is doing/will do." At least people who work at Exxon and Raytheon and Altria (the artist for
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by trowawee 4y ago
I understand the thought, but a weird reality about book writing is that, since the author bears the cost for fact-checking books, they're often less extensively fact-checked than longer reported pieces for newspapers or magazines.
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by trowawee 4y ago
"grrrr, I sure hate how the people providing free recipes for me make me scroll twice to view the recipe" Super gross framing, especially when you're yanking the content those other people actually created to siphon off their
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by trowawee 5y ago
...do you seriously believe that software is more complex or has more moving parts than the human body?
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by trowawee 5y ago
I've done this for my current job and the job I'm about to move to. It works pretty well - my recruiter sources gigs for me, starts with a decent idea of what the TC will be from the outset, gets feedback from the companies and po
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by trowawee 5y ago
People here frequently seem to interpret the law like it's a videogame that always executes in a reliable way and can therefore be gamed through obvious loopholes, rather than being a series of guidelines that give the people enforcing
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by trowawee 5y ago
Just shy of 200k in TC, heading higher after accepting my next offer. 36ish hours a week, without any real oversight on actual time (I'm currently interviewing and I'm not sure anyone has noticed that I've been dipping out fo
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by trowawee 5y ago
I think there's a bit of a false dichotomy here (in your comment, and in a number of other comments here). The choice in tech isn't between "good life, low pay" and "bad life, good pay". I can almost guarantee,
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by trowawee 5y ago
Some combination of market pressure and regulatory pressure. Market pressure: it'll be harder to attract people to a position without a listed salary band once they get used to listed salary bands. Regulatory pressure: the law in Color
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by trowawee 5y ago
Your first point is really the most important part for me. I've been in tech now for around a decade; finding new work isn't that hard and I know roughly what I'm going to get paid wherever I go. But "does this company t
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by trowawee 5y ago
https://www.monicahq.com/
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by trowawee 5y ago
Or gossip! Gossip gets a bad rap, and it can certainly be toxic, but it was the only semi-reliable way to get info about some of this stuff back in the day. I know everyone moans about social media and the mediated self and whatnot, but I k
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by trowawee 5y ago
The thing about parsing your social network down to just a tiny group of close friends is A) it makes it harder to develop more close friends, since friendship tends to work like a funnel where you start out shallow and become better friend
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by trowawee 5y ago
I mean, I have a lot of friends who I don't live near who will periodically post pictures on Instagram or updates about their lives on FB. Scanning their feed for a few minutes if they're active on social media is a good way to ma
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by trowawee 5y ago
I sorta feel like you answered the question in this comment, despite saying that you don't have the answer. The answer is because you want to stay in touch, because humans (mostly) crave contact with other humans. Loneliness is endemic
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by trowawee 5y ago
Is the issue, possibly, that virtually every company has decided that hiring people and training them up in the requisite skillsets is an unreasonable ask? Despite that being the pattern for employment for most of the history of employment
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by trowawee 5y ago
I dropped out of law school before ending up in tech, but my parents are lawyers, my sibling is a lawyer, a large chunk of my social circle are lawyers, and I act as a go-between connecting my lawyer friends and family with non-lawyer frien
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by trowawee 5y ago
I think that was the least-accurate part of a mostly decent answer. VCs, like most people, are trend chasers who live in a fairly constrained bubble, no matter how much they want to portray themselves as enlightened Renaissance thinkers who
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by trowawee 5y ago
So, a few answers. A) most of the dependencies that Faker has are common with lots of JS projects that I work/have worked on in the last few years. Looking at that dep list[0], I'm familiar with most of them. They're mostly c
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by trowawee 5y ago
> I’ve built mini APIs to do this in several previous jobs [...] Each time it’s taken maybe two days of effort So...just you, in your career, have spent between 1 and 2 total weeks of developer time building the exact same functionality,
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by trowawee 5y ago
You're assuming that a company has to interview all candidates the same way regardless of what job they're actually interviewing for. A frequent complaint, voiced all over this thread, is that interviewing like that makes no sense
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by trowawee 5y ago
I don't think that FizzBuzz/similar gotcha-type questions like that are useful, especially since most of them are all over interview prep sites, so I don't use them. But I've definitely interviewed people with impressive
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by trowawee 6y ago
My PM doesn’t tip me when I complete a ticket quickly; I don’t tip QA when they catch a bug in my code; the on-call engineer doesn’t tip me when some docs I wrote save them a few hours of time fixing an issue I saw during my last on-call ro
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by trowawee 6y ago
My wife and I spent most of 2019 traveling through Europe on a mix of backpacking and remote work, and while there was an adaptation period - American servers interact more with the customer, altho after Europe, it frequently feels pushy an

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