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by vsareto 3y ago
>I once under priced a product so heavily the buyer took pity on me and offered more. I once got a "we're going to bump your offer salary to be more in line with the other devs" and that was a pretty similar feeling
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by vsareto 3y ago
>And how many successful CEOs of large companies were successful without demonstrating they could manage a large org before getting promoted. There's something fishy about how developers continue to demonstrate the ability to write&
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by vsareto 3y ago
The incentives often don't line up. And there can sometimes be a sticky status quo that resists change. You may also get politically subverted or just plain lied to. It's hard to predict these during a job interview. The incentive
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by vsareto 3y ago
>I agree with others, something else may be off here. IMO Blind is generally full of shit
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by vsareto 3y ago
These are jobs where you want to be good enough to autopilot through the work quickly then fuck off and do whatever for the remaining 80% of the sprint. It's absolutely a dead end for anyone who wants to experience the 'craft&#x27
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by vsareto 3y ago
IIRC the "initial encounter" refers to the first visit between the patient and doctor about the duck bite, and "subsequent encounter" means a follow-up visit about the issue, not a second maiming by the duck. It makes fo
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by vsareto 3y ago
It’s fine to be passionate but can lead to unwise decisions. Getting taken advantage of is one, accepting lower pay than you should for nebulous benefits is another. If you are passionate, surely you crave the financial freedom to do your o
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by vsareto 3y ago
>This view works except where it doesn't. It only stops working in the worst case scenario though: LOTS of hastily written code (by interns?) that suddenly needs to scale and will take senior-level people years to do it. If given th
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by vsareto 3y ago
If they know the code base well, it shouldn't be that hard to undo intern-level shortcuts. There's another failing here which is that quality wasn't gated well enough.
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by vsareto 3y ago
Ambition has a large dynamic range. Shooting for greatness is closer to the extremes.
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by vsareto 3y ago
It’s hard to not be lazy in today’s corporate environments. You simply don’t get much for putting in the extra effort. Hard work needs incentives. Companies want you to light that fire yourself so they don’t have to pay extra. It’s why I’m
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by vsareto 3y ago
For this conference, I think it would also be great to have a presentation about job requirements at various levels, then continue to cite that presentation often. It's important to have an on-ramp for people interested in this space w
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by vsareto 3y ago
You advertise some qualities that you think is good and see if it passes their bar of good. There's certainly some subjectivity here. A more general indicator is how far down into the details you can dive. Another is how well you can t
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by vsareto 3y ago
My brain groks this by considering it pass-by-reference vs. pass-by-value. The original you is the first instance. It occupies a particular place in space which you move about, and also experiences a particular path and timeline. As long as
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by vsareto 3y ago
>can contribute immediately which unfortunately means tough decisions You probably dodged a stressful position. Companies or teams that can’t allocate time to onboard talent are likely poorly run and can’t afford to invest in people. “Co
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by vsareto 3y ago
Real-world training for the newbies, exercise for the journeymen, and teaching moments for the experts. That alone is worth my tax dollars for keeping a robust search and rescue force. At least some of the CEO's estate should go to pay
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by vsareto 3y ago
Plenty of jobs don’t work like tech meat grinders
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by vsareto 3y ago
We really need to call it Model-View-Controller-Service-Repository and be done with it. That is actually what happens 99% of the time. Logic is done within services and where the complex dependency graphs live. Repositories do the data retr
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by vsareto 3y ago
>And if you’re considering becoming a prompt engineer, don’t count on a long-lasting career. There's like this whole class of technical jobs that only follow trends. If you were an en vogue blockchain developer, this is your next ta
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by vsareto 3y ago
Knowledge degrades unless maintained, so you are often losing principle. You will undoubtedly find more valuable knowledge the more knowledge you expose yourself to though. The only way this isn’t true is for people who are lucky to have re
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by vsareto 3y ago
>And then these people repeat what they have been told are "the best practices". And then they get jobs which serve to validate their learning paths (maybe not at FAANG), which gives them confidence about what they learned bein
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by vsareto 3y ago
Well, they do what's right according to how they learned, which may only be a local 'right' and not a global 'right'. There's so many ways to put things together that you can make it work in a lot of different
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by vsareto 3y ago
Or don't automate it and enjoy the extra slack time
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by vsareto 3y ago
>The outside company ended up with a failed project, missing deadlines and going over budget multiple times. The prototype became the product. Getting paid to fail is a decent second place prize
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by vsareto 3y ago
>the industry may indeed be building the future but contrary to its claims, it is not a future with human needs centered It is usually profit centered. There's exceptions of course, but the people working would themselves need to ma
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by vsareto 3y ago
>because LLMs lack reasoning abilities to determine if a fix is good You will at least need to build a feedback loop where it checks that 1) the code can actually compile 2) all tests pass and 3) other code analyses passes. Ideally it sh
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by vsareto 3y ago
>Average Antarctic sea ice concentration in February 2023, the month when sea ice reaches its summer minimum extent. Compared to median conditions from 1981–2010 (yellow line), the most recent minimum was the lowest on record throughout
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by vsareto 3y ago
I feel like you zoomed right past the point of having an equilibrium between population and what the planet can support
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by vsareto 3y ago
FWIW IC training is also bad. You can have a career just winging it (having done so myself) and any standards of competency are left to individual teams/companies or simply who you chose to imitate
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by vsareto 3y ago
Literally more green since new jobs outpaced raises. That’ll be true in the future too.

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