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Re:The case for how and why AI might kill us all
on Thursday April 27, 2023 @02:54AM (#35724229)
I personally think that this leans on sensationalism but I'm curious as to what other ppl might think of it.
Re:Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon
on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:32AM (#35465794)
Remove downvote.
Ask HN: Is remote going away? Why?
I hear stories around me and it seems like the remote is ebbing atm.More and more companies are cutting down on it increasing the needed presence. At the same time they just don't have the real estate capacity to do it decently which means (at least in my personal experience) that you land in a noisy subpar open space (worst invention ever) for n days a week where you can hardly do any work.Not...
Re:Honestly, It's Probably the Phones
on Thursday March 02, 2023 @05:41AM (#34994239)
Pedantic but it means smartphones. Not phones in general.
Also if we are to see the negative impact of them someone should measure how many road accidents are due to smartphones. My hunch just by observing around is that the numbers are going to be bad.
Re:The GitHub 1000 year archive may be the last code dataset uncontami...
on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @04:12AM (#34967276)
This. And I'm wondering whether this was the end of human forums on the net as well. I mean, who can tell whether the comments he reads are coming from a human or a tuned AI. And then the implications of this in politics...
Re:Ask HN: Jobs with Meaning?
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:56AM (#34845584)
I'm on the same boat albeit for a fraction of your compensation.
What can I say. At least I moved from net-bad jobs (lotteries) to net-neutral ones (networking). That's the best I managed.
Is yours a bullshit job as per the definition in the famous article? Can't tell. Maybe it's more a case of alienation from the end product.
Ask HN: What are the most important challenges?
Say you had no need to make a living - imagine you win the lottery or something like that. You don't get to have millions but you don't _need_ to work.Now imagine that you still _want_ to work but now you can select to work on whatever you want.Lastly, say that you would want to maximize your impact on helping solving most pressing problems for humanity now.What would it be? What would you work...
Re:Ask HN: Remote Working and Cameras-On
on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:18AM (#34184723)
If I'm on a meeting with you I can see where you're looking at and what you're doing with your hands. Also I know that you are not recording me and can replay me again and again. Also you are not peeking in my house.
Camera-on is simply very close to a black-mirror cringe-zone where I don't want to be.
Ask HN: Would you change job in this climate?
Given the looming crisis imagine you having a decent role in a rock-solid company/product. Now, would you take on the opportunity to a scale-up for double the salary? There will be no fall back to your previous role if things go bad.I know this is a personal question depending much on the specifics of each but I just want to see different angles on it.TIA
Ask HN: Remote Working and Cameras-On
I work remotely so a lot of interaction is done via online meetings.In some cases though I just don't feel like sharing my camera and I have to fend off such requests. And that does not always go very well.Am I weird or overprotective with this? How do you feel about the whole camera-on issue?PS: In the past I've quit an interview right after I was told that there's an always-camera-on policy...
Ask HN: Will AI put programmers our of work?
There's a lot of news regarding copilot and openAI and what have you. I'm not familiar with AI so I cannot really tell hype from substance here.Should I worry? Do you think that some form of AI will be able to do the job of an average programmer any time soon? If yes what is your estimate? And how would you try to AI-proof your career?
Re:Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad
on Friday November 11, 2022 @06:54AM (#33559623)
>> Amazon’s ad revenue surpassed the money it makes from Prime, Prime Video, and its other audio and e-book subscriptions combined
Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad
Beyond the Short Films
Re:Ask HN: What are the downsides of working for a consultancy?
on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:31AM (#33482408)
No worries. Thanks a mil for taking the time to answer.
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Ask HN: What are the downsides of working for a consultancy?
I have an offer from a consultancy for projects in EU public sector. The salary increase is not bad and the title is a move up (I think). I'm getting to an architect role up from Senior Dev. WLB will be a bit worse though. I'm currently in a known product company in Telecoms sector.I'm in my 40s and have worked mostly as a SW dev up to now. The new role won't be hands-on as the roles I had so...
Re:I'm a phony. Are you? (2011)
on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @03:13AM (#33417982)
I get a strong "pretend-humility" vibration from this.
e.g.
>> I've got 30 domains and I've only done something awesome with 3 of them. Sometimes when I log into my DNS manager I just see 27 failures
So, I'm sorry but yes you do seem phony after all.
Re:Ask HN: What Ever Happened to Agile?
on Saturday October 22, 2022 @06:54AM (#33297174)
I'm not talking block diagrams here. I'm talking about fully fleshing out issues down to the level of functions inputs and outputs(1). So that managers will be pleased with the "planning" and "sizing" and some other buzzwords...
(1) Which (outputs) are another bitter story since we are building on top of legacy code that is working with side effects from head to toes. But let's not touch this can of worms.
Ask HN: What Ever Happened to Agile?
Second workplace in 2 years that advertises itself as agile.Yet here's how they do it. Minimum CI. No CD. Features that are designed through a long waterfall stage in the beginning of a quarter (how the heck can you design something to its entirety bfr even touching code I really don't know). Long QA stage with lots of manual testing in it.In short, that's as far from agile in my mind as it...
Re:Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year?
on Saturday October 22, 2022 @05:14AM (#33296703)
This. Being remote actually amplifies toxicity. At least that's my experience in 3 different workplaces over 5 years.
Re:Celebrating 5 Years of Pop _OS
on Saturday October 22, 2022 @02:56AM (#33296138)
I'm curious. With all these debian-based distros, why people don't just use debian? I mean it has to be sturdier than the downstream distros.
Re:Tell HN: Getting Ready for Unemployment
on Saturday October 22, 2022 @02:51AM (#33296117)
>> Shitty pay,shitty shifts, but with good people mostly
I've come to the conclusion that good people is the rarest asset in any office job.
Re:Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year?
on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:29PM (#33290699)
I don't think they ever got out of this stage TBH. Workplaces are getting more toxic as years go by IME.
Ask HN: Consultants/contractors. What kind of equipment?
Just curious. Is there specific brands/models laptops that are more consultant/contractor-friendly? What is your preference?Thanks
Re:Ask HN: How to overcome job search exhaustion?
on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:22PM (#33278637)
Job market is weird and gets weirder and more hostile as you grow more senior and older.
Yet, it is a numbers game. Just keep at it and maybe change your focus a bit. E.g. if you target startups leave them aside and focus on banks or health sector. Pivot around.
Re:Ask HN: How to overcome job search exhaustion?
on Thursday October 20, 2022 @02:19PM (#33278602)
This. Very few people would welcome someone more competent than themselves, let alone open the door for them.
A lesser coworker who does not rock the boat and pulls some amount of work (specially the rote kind of it) is seen as the best option.
Re:How to Build Software Like an SRE
on Monday October 17, 2022 @02:53PM (#33237982)
I understand but it is a slippery slope.
Re:Test smarter, not harder (2020)
on Monday October 17, 2022 @10:50AM (#33234270)
"Don't listen to Uncle Bob! "
+1
In general, I've learned to listen to people who actually do something rather than people writing books and giving shows about that something.
Re:How to Build Software Like an SRE
on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:09AM (#33232948)
Agree 100%. Plus Helm runs against a basic tenet of microservices (the usual architecture for the deployed apps in k8s these days). People use to bundle services together when using Helm and the like which, in time, couples services together.