MiscCompFacts

22 days agodiscuss

Yea, this is a serious problem but honestly it was present before LLMs. Actually knowing, deeply, how to do something was always very difficult and very time consuming. People would substitute it with “edutainment”: youtube videos, Ted Talks, blogs, etc. The thing is nobody was really learning deeply. We were training our brains for recognition, but mastery requires training for generation which was always the harder of the 2 cognitive processes.

MiscCompFacts

23 days agodiscuss

Listening to NPR yesterday, they mentioned it’s a renters’ market in the Sunbelt [1]. Lots of new supply here in Texas and I just signed a lease recently with 2 months free in DFW. Bringing me down to ~$1550/month. Lots of places are offering 2-3 months for free.

[1] https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/tx/

MiscCompFacts

3 months agodiscuss

It’s all cycles within cycles, hopefully. If you study dynamic systems then you realize it’s cycles of good and bad, and within those cycles more smaller cycles of ephemeral good and bad.

MiscCompFacts

5 months agodiscuss

Also vercel dashboard is down rn, idk if that is coincidence or a larger issue. https://www.vercel-status.com

MiscCompFacts

9 months agodiscuss

I’m native speaker and I thought they were the same. Still unsure of the difference. I guess I need to study this.

MiscCompFacts

9 months agodiscuss

I think they reversed the 2 expressions. You should use “WHERE UPPER(name) = ‘ABC’” if you want to use the index.

MiscCompFacts

9 months agodiscuss

I do think this could be true. Your productivity is way more visible in a small company, execs actually know what you’re working on maybe from day-to-day and most definitely week-to-week. Slackers don’t last long and mediocre developers standout, now why they might be perceived as mediocre is another discussion. My first job was at a big corporation (~150,000 employees) and honestly I saw so much politics and fiefdoms and just generally low quality developers not doing much but they could sneak under the radar because they’re a small cog in the apparatus. My next company (~50-60 employees) the devs were definitely better and way more productive, but it also felt very performative/showy environment of what devs did every what and if you were perceived as not doing enough you definitely stood out. It was a very public, perhaps stressful, work environment with demos every 2 weeks.

MiscCompFacts

9 months agodiscuss

That seems like a fantastic salary, I’ve never gotten close to that.

MiscCompFacts

10 months agodiscuss

I was laid off at a small tech company mid July and found another job with a friend at another small company in mid September. I thought maybe I wouldn’t find another job for a while, but it took me about 2 months with a very significant (40%) pay cut. I like the company pretty well, but I’m still hoping for something more. We’ll see.

MiscCompFacts

10 months agodiscuss

Won’t people be willing when the cost of living goes up so much and all the tech jobs are gone to foreign labor that they have to work factory jobs?

MiscCompFacts

11 months agodiscuss

This essay was shared 8 months ago and had significant discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42489645 (721 comments)