weakfortress

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by weakfortress 4y ago
Because after a successful, productive, 5-10 years at a company you tend to forget the algorithms you don't use. I can remember enough about the knapsack problem to talk intelligently about it. I can't remember how to do the dynam
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Lots of people are saying this is due to Elons behavior which I think misses the underlying actual reason. Tesla was extremely overvalued. Elon leveraged this value to purchase Twitter and is now funding that dumpster fire with Tesla&#x27
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Indeed. In every company developers have a very thick glass ceiling. The only way up is to make it to VP/CTO/etc. If you're not in sales (marketing...maybe) you aren't going to ever make the big bucks. Your pay will neve
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by weakfortress 4y ago
> SV, such as free speech, fraud, AI's impact on society, disinformation and misinformation, labor rights, the concentration of wealth and power, the role of government, mob rule online, narcissism and megalomania in leaders, the co
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Work sucks. Unless you're a shot caller you're destined to be ground down to the bone via attrition. Work politics, non-sense meetings, code you have no passion for. Developers are still cost centers to be minimized. Professional
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by weakfortress 4y ago
It would appear the author is expressing concern that the board is not focusing sufficiently on removing the actual blight on academia. Scraping the woke off the top is not enough. In this context, it likely means just getting rid of the us
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by weakfortress 4y ago
It would be nice to see theoretical computer science pushed forward again. I'm certainly tired of every other paper being some spin on the same old ML nonsense. Make Computer Science Computer Science again.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I found Al Gore's HN account everyone. Climate alarmists have predicted 200 of the last 0 extinction events. I won't hold my breath. The greatest threat to developers is outsourcing not ice ages.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
(6) is already solved. Unfortunately, I believe you are correct. It will take another 100 years for the industry to fire 99% of PMs, dumb agile and "professional agile consultants", put biz dev in an anechoic chamber, and use the
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I can't wait for the next round of space-MBAs to suggest that COBOL 2122 will solve all no-code problems and finally allow them to reduce developer salaries to blue collar levels.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I spent the holidays moving to a different provider (1password). 1password's security posture is superior in almost every way and it allows me to avoid having to worry about syncing keepass, etc to my phone and 10 different computers.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
The problem is these scams are cheap to run and the risk is very low for the people running them. The police rarely do anything except a token show to arrest a few call centers full of low-level scammers. Rarely are the kingpins ever arrest
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by weakfortress 4y ago
"Anti-Indian rhetoric"? The scams literally originate in India, and are masterminded by Indians. Further, the police are often paid off and rarely do anything about it. When enough fuss is caused about one or two they stop them
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by weakfortress 4y ago
The police in India are paid off to allow this. Indeed, the best solution would be economic sanctions on India until it is resolved.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I live in one of those states. I have watched my state go from an alright place with affordable housing, good liberal laws, etc to a complete shit show in the last decade. Where I am is beginning to feel more like California every single da
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by weakfortress 4y ago
School is boring. The skill to learn is how to deal with that and still survive. At such a young age you're learning the rules which is why it's hard to engage students. A classic example, using algebra to balance a checkbook, wou
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by weakfortress 4y ago
California is a great state? I guess the mass exodus over the last several years is just simply people leaving in excitement. California is not great. It hasnt been great for a long time. It's hostile to anyone who is not the elite whi
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Tell me you've never tried to teach children without telling me you've never tried to teach children.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
A child determined to do this (I also did it) is not the target of such a program. If you're smart enough to do that, you're probably smart enough to pass classes without much effort. Especially given the innate drive to not only
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by weakfortress 4y ago
This is certainly harmful. Advertisers et al. have taken over the internet. There are easy dopamine hits everywhere. For example, one my relatives has a 10 year old who is glued to their phone all day watching tiktok or youtube. In this par
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by weakfortress 4y ago
It sounds like your on-call should be structured so that people aren't allowed to be with their family on important holidays. My company does this as well. I find it distasteful and exploitative. Of course, the response is always &quot
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by weakfortress 4y ago
I used to think like this but as I've gotten older I've seen the value of transitioning into management. I had aspirations of going beyond staff but I don't think it'll happen in my lifetime. I've peaked, and the cy
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Don't forget the other reason: a homogenous society.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
Even simpler solution: Require cryptographic signatures of the developers of projects along with hash-verified downloads via pip. The problem is a failure to understand security.
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by weakfortress 4y ago
This analogy is really more like dogmatic Rustacean-ism than actual truth. Rust has it's merits. However, it's a tired language. It doesn't maintain very good stability due to it's ever-evolving compiler which makes it a