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Worked for a much lesser international company and it was exactly the same minus the politeness. I had to find a quiet corner to get some work done.
Posted by
solididiot on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @09:51AM
from the self-post dept.
I mean, seriously?
Is that still a thing in 2022?I bumped into such an online test by a marketing firm and I just couldn't bring myself to go through it. Dunno, felt a bit like monkey and a bit like "do I really want to work in such a place?".What do you think about this?
<cynic>Yeah React is already so last year.</cynic>
Posted by
solididiot on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:16AM
from the self-post dept.
Wife is talking with a FAANG that has presence in pretty much all large EU countries plus UK and Switzerland.Where she relocates to is pretty much open but we most often gravitate towards Germany, UK and Switzerland. We are pretty mixed up though due to mixed signals from all of them (UK: Brexit, Germany: difficult language, Switzerland: cost of living).One thing we know is that we don't want...
Only read the transcript but I'm not getting most of it. I mean it starts with a bunch of aphorisms we all agree with but when it should be getting more concrete it goes on with statements that are kind of vague.
E.g. what exactly does it mean to:
>> Don’t use an object to handle information. That’s not what objects were meant for. We need to create generic constructs that manipulate information. You build them once and reuse them. Objects raise complexity in that area.
What kind of generic constructs?
Posted by
solididiot on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:42AM
from the infoq.com dept.
How do I know whether this thing isn't already here "commending" in this very thread?
Posted by
solididiot on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:13AM
from the mdsafetech.org dept.
I wouldn't be so sure. Programmers (and drivers and cashiers) can "survive" in poverty like millions others already do. This transformation is coming in waves that keep the proverbial frog in the pan.
Does it need to solve original problems? Most of the code we write is dealing with the same problems in a slightly different context each time.
As others say in commends it might be the case where we meet in the middle. Us writing some form of tests for AI-produced code to pass.
>> There’ll be several new career paths made possible by this technology as greater worker productivity makes possible greater specialization.
Can you list a few?
The same Ginni who walked away with a huge bonus?
I think this is the new normal. Either open/close as soon as a more dangerous variant comes along (can happen with most of the Earth population unvaccinated). Or just let it be and get used to health system being on its knees on peak seasons and more vulnerable/unvaccinated dying of.
Posted by
solididiot on Saturday January 22, 2022 @08:35AM
from the theatlantic.com dept.
If it where sterile then we wouldn't test it in medical tests.
>> Keeping an eye on the weather, studying charts carefully, picking good anchorages, and having a good rode and anchor was our best possible insurance, but there are dangers that are beyond anyone's control, dangers that even the most skilled sailor cannot avoid, e.g., a shipping container adrift, dead heads at night, whales, etc.
dead heads at night. What is that?
Yeah we only do that metaphorically in the modern world.
Couldn't agree more. I was working in a company that didn't allow local checkouts. You'd have to work in a remote VM. Next step was going to fully remote desktops (i.e. dumb terminals). For security reasons (whatever). I hated every moment of it as it made feedback times longer and for doing anything at all you needed to beg the IT people. But the weirdest part is that other devs didn't seem to mind. (Not to mention all the spyware crap installed on our machines and the whole mentality of security over productivity. All of it -security- sold to us by third parties as a service (nvm how absurd it is to trust N other companies to keep you secure). Anyhow this place was surreal but I'm afraid it's not the only one).
So to answer the question of how we came here: The same way anything in the commons sphere rots and dies. Not enough people care enough about it. They're OK giving away control one way or another and companies are more than happy to sell it as a service. What user gets in return is diminishing but once the process starts it's kind of runaway I'm afraid.
It's fascinating how much the ageing West is fascinated by feats accomplished by as young as possible people.
Posted by
solididiot on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:20AM
from the self-post dept.
Sorry for the foul language but I had one too many of this.Having worked with a good few Open Source tooling/libraries/frameworks etc and with a lot of similar internal ones I have come to the conclusion that almost invariably the quality of the later is far below the quality of the former. Being documentation, ergonomics, bugs, you name it.Open source alternatives are much better than...
More like "throwing the towel" than "accepting"...
Posted by
solididiot on Thursday January 20, 2022 @03:43AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.
Posted by
solididiot on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:30AM
from the marshallbrain.com dept.
There's something much worse than Leetcode.
Take home unpaid long projects that end up in rejection or lowball offers.
Regardless of the specifics here, I'm pleased and envious of being reminded that some people have meaningful jobs that actually make a difference.
Posted by
solididiot on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:38AM
from the youtube.com dept.
Posted by
solididiot on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @06:02AM
from the news.mit.edu dept.