trustfundbaby

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by trustfundbaby 5mo ago
I was the same opinion till Claude code was relased. its a lot closer now.
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by trustfundbaby 5mo ago
how? management in most Tech companies are incentivizing them to do just that, so if you bring it up, they'll happily trot over to your manager to complain and then the uncomfortable conversation is you with management about why you&#x
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by trustfundbaby 5mo ago
Or maybe they just didn't have the time (left it to the last minute and ran out of it), and went with the first thing that AI proposed which was said CLI with documentation.
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by trustfundbaby 5mo ago
SLO timelines are usually over 7d, 30d etc no? and also often don't work that great for backend services in my experience ... they can't give you the level of reactivity that defining alerts about things you care about give you. I
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
I don't think that massive downturn people are thinking is coming ... is going to come. The job market is too strong (because of lower immigration, and how many exited the job market during covid) and so is the housing market. I thinks
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
> Is anyone aware of how hard covid hit the software engineering community via early deaths/retirements? Can you provide some data around that?
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
Carvana, Vroom, Bird, Helbiz, FuboTv, Shift, Wework, 23andMe to name a few, theres many more. Their stocks are either in or dangerously close to penny stock category.
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
>no one is actually held in jail for this right now 6000+ people were.
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
Bird is another big one, they've been trading below the $1 watermark for a week or two now, after 30 days of consecutively trading under $1 companies get delisted from the exchange.
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
> A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others. This is one of the truest things I've ever read.
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
The people who like your new stuff will help you figure out how to fix it and make it good enough so the old system truly becomes obsolete, otherwise the old system will continue to exist and people will continue to use it, so that now, the
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by trustfundbaby 4y ago
"Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket."
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
I had this question as well/
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
>We did waste the 3 yrs before Covid hit by not increasing interest rates and not reducing Fed's money printing. Most of the money printing happened in 2020 and after. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
> You always see 10-15% cuts leading up to an IPO No you don't
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
No Dichotomy there, its one thing to 'charge more' for your services, its another thing to ask for 30% of your client's SaaS subscription revenue, because you built them a website.
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
Thank you for clarifying!
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
I think you get to choose the proportion of cash and stock for the number you're given or did I get that completely wrong?
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
This is a really good post that every engineer should read, especially early on in their career. I spent a lot of mine butting my head against a wall, and getting nowhere because I thought that soft skills and understanding organizational p
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
Oh wow. they still use Ruby at Airbnb? For some Reason I thought they'd moved to Go or the JVM.
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
I think what probably happened here is this ... your bosses boss, has had misgivings about the project and your work on it, that he's been passing on to your boss. I think your boss either disagrees, or agrees but has been trying to so
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
> Is it only me that thinks of it most nights? yes
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
Something good comes out of Omicron. woooo!
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
I started out with PHP, if I'm building an actual app though, Ruby on Rails is still my go to.
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
> Maybe the problem isn't the way the police are operating What is the problem then? :)
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
Lots of people did that in offices too.
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by trustfundbaby 5y ago
Sounds like a business opportunity ...
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by trustfundbaby 6y ago
Old timer here. I actually wound up building something that worked a little better for me (I wouldn't deign to call it a competitor) but the value pinboard has provided me for years makes this a no brainer. I will pay for at least on
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by trustfundbaby 6y ago
"Those in the habit of afternoon napping were also found to have a higher level of triglyceride, a type of fat found in the blood" This seems like a pretty important caveat.
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by trustfundbaby 6y ago
Someone tried to steal my safety inspection sticker once. I thought it was hilarious but also felt immense pity for the thief.

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