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by vbtemp 6y ago
It sounds like you work in an industry that doesn't strictly require frequently delving into foundational theory in CS. I do believe it would be a mistake to conclude its useless, however, as there are many other industries that do nee
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I'll also say you won't just come across a problem that requires it, but rather you will apply that knowledge to a problem that never seemed to have needed it in the first place, and then you'll come up with a very powerful,
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by vbtemp 6y ago
People can go on all day about this. The most major one for me is protocol engineering - there's a whole world out there on this. Others would be model based design and its formal verification. Also several problems in state synchroniz
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Your comment reflects a common meme that can often be summarized as: "Real World" work doesn't involve the academic nonsense you learn in school. Many of the people who say this kind of stuff never really mastered the theory,
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is because words lose all meaning with "Agile". Functional teams and companies will make good products and set up their staff for success, with or without agile. Dysfunctional teams will have all sorts of perverse incentives
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Approximately 13 years in the field. At least four to five different organizations. Worked on everything from embedded aerospace systems to web apps and everything in between. Start-ups, mega-government labs, and again everything in between
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is actually brilliant. Fantastic way to put it. Especially the part that people who don't do it must be some kind of outcast: ignorant, evil, pathological...
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I love the document and will distribute to my co-workers. The short story, however, is not really that there's a checklist to determine BS Agile, but rather that all/most Agile is BS. In my career I've seen "Agile"
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Would a more correct version of a minor, true fact be a _factino_? Kind of like a Plutino or Neutrino?
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I don't think anyone knows the right answer. Try it. Maybe they'll stick around. Maybe they'll stick around and be disgruntled. Maybe they'll leave and find another job that isn't trying to cut their pay Just let it
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by vbtemp 6y ago
It goes a little farther south and then hangs a right turn to fly toward BKK from due East. So this was more from the south-central portion of the region. The "shocking" part was just the astounding number of vessels, stretching b
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I know this article is about the waters off Korea, but I noticed a similar thing flying over the South China Sea, in particular the Tokyo-Bangkok route. Flying late at night over the SCS, and then peering out the window from 40k ft, you see
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is a much more pithy and compressed way of saying what I tried to say above, thanks
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by vbtemp 6y ago
A lot of people give theory a lot of crap. But that's normally because they are not comfortable with the material. If you are comfortable with the material, you see applications for it all over the place, and use it all the time. Sure,
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is not a correct reading of what I wrote. Investing in local (or at least domestic) employment pipelines at all is not philanthropy. Seeing it as philanthropy is patronizing. Let's just have a thought experiment (maybe we'l
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I was on a low-carb diet for a while. Loved it. Felt great. Was totally fit. All my digestive problems cleared up. I would never get "hangry". By every single subjective measure my quality of life and sense of well-being improved.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Couple important points: 1. SV/FAANGs, like elite colleges, only hire some very small percentage of people who apply. Many people who are perfectly well qualified and have successful careers otherwise get denied employment. 2. The mark
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This is actually a really good point. At two recent jobs where each time i got approx 40% raise, I was the right person at the right time to fill that specific niche they really needed.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Yeah, for a side project I want to try to model this in an agent based sim and to see if it can recreate some of these dynamics.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Thank you for this thoughtful response
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> It’s also strange to me that companies aren’t willing to give a nice raise to an engineer, say from 150k to 180k but are completely fine with hiring a replacement at 180k. This is literally the story of my professional life.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Excellent point
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I've noticed this exactly. At my original company I was performing Senior-level work (like, literally according to the staff level formalism from HR). But I was told by my manager that to be classified as a Senior-level staff, you have
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I just want a straight answer from someone who knows more than me. How come every time I switch jobs I get a 30-40% raise, but at any one company I never get more than a 1-3% raise each year, no matter the growth of productivity and respons
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> Interesting times, but at least we can now tell investors we are a keen company with an AI play up our sleeve! To be fair, this is absolutely not unique to you but literally every (software) company in america right now.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I think you're absolutely correct. The whole model of contracting in general is entirely based around perverse incentives. And all the more so when going offshore for it.
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by vbtemp 6y ago
> why is programming difficult to offshore" Lack of professionalism and absence of a professional engineering culture in many of the places you'd seek to outsource to save money. Doesn't mean that professionalism doesn&#x2
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by vbtemp 6y ago
This type of design also deeply repulses me. At a prior start up where I worked I fought against it with all my might. I call it "infantile simulacra" design -- rather than simply making a design to convey information in a clear a
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by vbtemp 6y ago
I would have a lot fewer distractions and get much more done if we could just drop the pretext of "working" full time. The "wasted" part of my day is simply being extremely inefficient and dicking around simply because i
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by vbtemp 6y ago
Well, not to strip naked on the internet. There was a great paper that came out recently demonstrating the value of men's sexuality is negative (vs that of women). Men don't possess anything intrinsically valuable or desirable. Th

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