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901.
by whstl 1y ago
That's also my perspective. Debugging can be extremely hard when there are multiple complex frameworks/libraries doing magic stuff, plus extensions by the current team. In practice this is all very convenient when you're writ
902.
by whstl 1y ago
I’d argue that you can still have an accurate model of the world without the depression part. I can’t back it up but recovering from depression by simply putting “rose colored glasses” is a recipe for bouncing back later. Happened to me. I
903.
by whstl 1y ago
I have zero patience for watching the tricks by themselves. Watching the explanations on the other hand is fun. To me it's like watching a trailer vs watching the full film.
904.
by whstl 1y ago
You wouldn't remember the party anyway
905.
by whstl 1y ago
In Germany I never had someone go to those lengths, but I've once made someone visible irritated when I used "du" instead of the more formal "Sie" . Of course I didn't notice but a friend just clued me into
906.
by whstl 1y ago
Same. The only situation where I call people by their last name in my language is when it's their nickname. Like there were two "Johns" so we call the second one "Smith".
907.
by whstl 1y ago
Not necessarily. What can I say, I enjoy programming and making stuff with a group.
908.
by whstl 1y ago
You are 200% correct.
909.
by whstl 1y ago
Yes. It was judged illegal a few years ago in several countries, and German courts recently ratified the decision. I'm pretty sure if the debt itself ever goes to court, the debtor can argue that they can't even enter the website.
910.
by whstl 1y ago
As an old-school leftist that feels politically orphaned, I feel like there's a huge group that is hating all the current bullshit. Even terminally online people. I don't see a way out, though. I just hope we can leave a planet fo
911.
by whstl 1y ago
For music I blame poptimism. An entire generation of critics tried to appeal to a new market and money suddenly became synonymous with quality. Naturally artists stopped caring about authenticity, sharing their beliefs. And also about the c
912.
by whstl 1y ago
Not Meta but I once got yelled at not by a real manager, but by a PM because I said I wouldn't let the team do something shady without legal signing off. I'm in Europe so it was GDPR related. The PM tried shopping the task to othe
913.
by whstl 1y ago
As a 90s teen growing up with Grunge and in a DYI punk scene, I remember my youth being a lot about authenticity, and it felt weird reading about how the 80s were all about money and fame and how selling out was ok. To me that sounded absol
914.
by whstl 1y ago
Meta or not, people don't like being fired or being threatened to. Period. They like the comfy job. But don't ask me why. I'm a troublemaker. I bring up this stuff, I talk to CEOs, I refuse to do stuff that breaks the GDPR or
915.
by whstl 1y ago
The sad reality is that this behavior gets normalized in the name of making money. For employees it gets normalized at the first signal that your livelihood might be affected if you don't comply. As someone who's privacy conscious
916.
by whstl 1y ago
Depending on the framework stacks aren't be bad, they are just downright horrifying.
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by whstl 1y ago
From your own link: > In the 1910s and 1920s, many ad men believed that human instincts could be targeted and harnessed – "sublimated" into the desire to purchase commodities.[44] Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, pro
918.
by whstl 1y ago
That's why we can't have good things.
919.
by whstl 1y ago
There’s more to work than getting a salary.
920.
by whstl 1y ago
I used to hate the repetitive nature of Go’s error handling until I was burned by bad/mysterious error messages in production. Now my error handling is not repetitive anymore. I am in peace with Golang. However I 100% get the complaint
921.
by whstl 1y ago
Understood. I don't disagree. However: even joining companies with amazing engineering departments, salaries and even great executive departments is not a guarantee that the software making process is at the same level. I say this with
922.
by whstl 1y ago
Any boost of productivity in the coding part is quickly absorbed by other inefficiencies in the software-making process, unfortunately. AI also helps immensely in creating those other inefficiencies.
923.
by whstl 1y ago
> You will have to prove yourself a bit more to get hired there, of course. What you're implying here is extremely disrespectful and uncalled for. This phrase alone says much more about you than it does about me. The point of my s
924.
by whstl 1y ago
Yeah, that's also an option.
925.
by whstl 1y ago
I don’t think you’re grasping where I’m getting at. It’s not just about time or budget, at all. Some things are downright impossible without the appropriate data. I mention this above but: I was recently in a situation where a PM wanted two
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by whstl 1y ago
The cause might not be a leader (cross functional teams are rife with such problems), but the leader has the responsibility to deal with it, so I guess it is…
927.
by whstl 1y ago
Yep. The only reward in a place that doesn’t care is time. I am in a proper place now, but I regret not getting a second job in my previous fintech job.
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by whstl 1y ago
I believe dustingetz is suggesting making a monorepo for the code itself, but copying the subdirectories of the main repo into subrepos to solve your CI issues. This means that developers have a monorepo for day to day work, but the CI&#x
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by whstl 1y ago
"11 repos with 4-5 merge requests" doesn't sound like Google-level, so I don't see why a monorepo wouldn't work without much work.
930.
by whstl 1y ago
OP here. That's the answer I was gonna give... most of the freelancing work I did was via personal relationships. Often personal relationships with companies that employed me in the past, or companies where ex-colleagues worked. The on

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