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by weq 4y ago
ha you sound as jaded as i do. ive come to learn that we will work with google (search) programmers as long as buisnesses fool themselves that outsourcing saves money.
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by weq 4y ago
Whats painfully obvious is how people and profit and interchanged so seemlessly by the vultures who pray on the "ordinary people" and how desensitised we have become as a collective to the notion. What HN shows is that a non-trivi
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by weq 4y ago
TDLR; You need more then money and status to feel forfilled inside. Whats your price? Whats your goal?
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by weq 4y ago
The worst thing about earning money is the stage where no you longer spend based on reason, but instead based on capital potential. The housing bubble has been building and building and building flames fumed by apparent risk-free-Xing your
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by weq 4y ago
Down the stack + down the corperate ladder. The higher you are, sure you get more money, but you get MUCH the less time MUCH more pressure. If your talented in your field, u dont need a ladder to up your earning potential.
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by weq 4y ago
I have so many hobbies, programming is definately one of my longest but as a creative person its not my only one. If you are a career person, be that person. If you arnt, dont pretend. I never felt like a career was for me, my parents being
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by weq 4y ago
You are free to move jobs and find a company that values you, not just what money you can make for them. Ive been RemoteOnly for 5yrs, i escaped to a company who is still corperate but pays less and gives you back more. i can easily alt-tab
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by weq 4y ago
I stopped watching the news PRE-covid! Actually, TV, i turned it all off... because? the power the media has in influencing dumb people. I got sick of it after the last eelection. Turning off is the only way. Never felt happier. I recommend
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by weq 4y ago
Capitalism DOESNT fail! This IS the system. In the presence no rules, people will converge on the lowest common denonomiter. The problem with Estsy happens to any platform that gets popular. Its been happening in the real world since the 19
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by weq 5y ago
I hear the only thing that makes the US a super-power is that commodities are priced in USD. If the main supplier starts selling in some other currency, then you no long have a super-power. Im sure im not the only one who has seen this talk
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by weq 5y ago
You dont know how many doctors feel trapped by their profession. My ex didnt get mental help because it would stop her getting residencies. Doctors, like DoD/contractors, Bankers, anything hi paying really; give their lives to their jo
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by weq 5y ago
Tow truck drivers are making a killing on youtube right now. Humans cant drive cars/trucks/properly; robots have no chance. Not with the current tech promoted as "AI".
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by weq 5y ago
Unlike the rhetoric of "Just Say No", this is what black markets are. They are not run by idiots, but generally desperate people with no other means. Once you are over the line in that world, the good doesnt matter. You are workin
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by weq 5y ago
Hold up - prohibition WAS the experiment, not the other way around! This article misses the historical use of these substances since humanity began. We know the effects, because they created the modern human. Many other organisms use substa
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by weq 5y ago
Talents been bought and sold to the highest bidder. its sickens me how dumb smart people can be because money. study hard, work on your talent all your life, so a large corperation can have you micro-optimise its addiction-tech to extract e
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by weq 5y ago
FAANG workers are SHEEP. I live on a lakefront at 35, havnt gone into an office in 5years, had FAANG recruiters at my door since i was 21 . They like to get you young because they can then set your expectations of what work culture is. And
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by weq 5y ago
me when i look back at the code i pumped at as a 15yr old writing a java servlet web app that could admin a quake1 tf server game
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by weq 5y ago
Im a non-FAANG developer so i cant comment on what all the sheep/ad devs are doing; but I can comment on what a polygot cross-platform cross-cloud software engineer who supports a plethora of native portable devices integrations requir
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by weq 5y ago
thank you to the poster because i had this issue the other day with junk rebranded hubs that couldnt even power 3 devices at once on a 6 port hub! spent hours chasing my tail on things caused by the dodgy insides. my experience here is buy
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by weq 5y ago
I worked in defence on systems that did similiar and i remmember the one my company inherited and wow and wow it was the most complex, nested peice of SQL stored procs i have ever witnessed. It did the job, but it took HOURS to run. We had
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by weq 5y ago
Id call that stigma constructed by Conservative Right Wing ideaology! They call them bludgers in my country and parade them around in everyones face and use it to justify tax cuts, subsidies, or grants, for their mates. its the cicle of lif
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by weq 5y ago
I bought a book on Amazon in 2005, it came (weeks) late, i complained, got sent another, ended up receiving 2 books. It was my last purchase from Amazon. Since then, the only time i see Amazon is on the backend of a scammer. Amazon in my op
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by weq 5y ago
Towys in my country are usually connected to some kind of mafia. Never met an altruistic one like like matts offroad recovery in my travels.
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by weq 5y ago
Pair programming for me works best on complex issues I, or others, have already failed at. Usually its a short term endevour (minutes), ive only done (hours) of pairing in extreme circumstances either during PoCs or prod issues. My opnion i
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by weq 5y ago
Sounds like you are still searching for meaning in your life. follow your dreams, dont follow others.
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by weq 5y ago
In the zone, that slurp becomes worse then fingers across a chalkboard. Great way to put subtle bugs in your code.
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by weq 5y ago
That is literly a description of programming hell for me (20+yrs also here). My fingers are so much better at streaming my thoughts them my mouth which often struggles to keep up.
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by weq 5y ago
I love pair programming !!!for specific tasks!!! Just like TDD, i think its pragmatic and should be based on your needs. But all or nothing, naaa, thats just coolaid or micromanagement.
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by weq 5y ago
Ive often attempted to convince said frontline workers who i am friends with/know to pursue IT jobs because (if u understand IT) they are low effort, high reward.
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by weq 5y ago
thanks for sharing this. birds in general are some of the most amazing aniamls man can befriend. So much intelligence, its really next level. That said, ants friggen farm. Size does not determin intelligence. Nore does brain size. https:&#

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