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Cheeze_It
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Study/education, exercise, develop another skill, start a business, volunteer, gaming, traveling, outdoor sports. If someone is always bored then they're idiots with no ambition and drive.
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ecw0ply
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chirag9696
t2_3pn31n
It doesn't matter :|
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ecw0qqg
t3_aayj7p
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/r/programming/comments/aayj7p/2018_my_year_end_programming_retrospective_my/ecw0qqg/
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Sage2050
t2_4pdql
The thing about EE is that it's pretty close to a "solved" science. Not a lot of new tech is coming out unless it's truly cutting edge. CS on the other hand evolves every six months, so it's perceived that the new grads are always pushing the envelope, whether it's true or not .
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ecw0r64
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wakandawanda
t2_16v0ta0c
Because it’s hugely exaggerated. Not a single person in this front page thread has even posted an article that addresses ageism in the workplace in a scholarly manner. Obviously ageism along with many other isms exist. But unlike other isms, age is not a class that is protected by labor laws unless we’re talking about child labor. And for a very good reason. I think we should view this with some perspective. From a manager pov, you want to build a strong team. If you look at sports managers, many great teams will keep players up until their retirement age even if their physical performance is deteriorating. Experienced players can bring more to the team than just pure physical performance. But what is the point of keeping someone who can’t make it past being on the bench year after year? And from a team member perspective it’s clear why you wouldn’t want people on your team that’s sole purpose is to show up to sit on the bench and collect a paycheck. I think people are more vocal about this in America because we have a very skewed view of what entitlements should be. Instead of accepting the fact that not everyone can be winners, we perpetuate the American lie. This idea that if you work hard, you can live a comfortable life. The fact is that we have a social and economic system where you can do honest hard work and still not be able to afford basic necessities. Hence why people tend to complain when they can’t hit their career expectations at a certain age. Blame it on ageism all you want but it’s more likely a performance issue.
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ecw0six
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monilloman
t2_b3udm
great, shitpost threads on /r/programming, just what we needed
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ecw0sqc
t3_aaqyit
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/r/programming/comments/aaqyit/github_jonatasbaldinawesomeawesomeawesome_awesome/ecw0sqc/
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t5_2fwo
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Drisku11
t2_bg6v5
Most algorithms that are part of the standard undergraduate curriculum did not take any significant amount of time to discover. Dijkstra's algorithm, for example, is basically just "explore the cheapest node until you reach the goal", and according to Dijkstra: > It is the algorithm for the shortest path, which I designed in about twenty minutes. One morning I was shopping in Amsterdam with my young fiancée, and tired, we sat down on the café terrace to drink a cup of coffee and I was just thinking about whether I could do this, and I then designed the algorithm for the shortest path. As I said, it was a twenty-minute invention... Eventually that algorithm became, to my great amazement, one of the cornerstones of my fame.
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ecw0tjs
t3_aaco1d
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t1_ecsrd6l
/r/programming/comments/aaco1d/things_i_dont_know_as_of_2018/ecw0tjs/
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
> Even the old folks who had nothing to show for their years of grinding are still getting paid a comfortable salary. It's not that "comfortable" for them. At some point, some new age-discrimination framework (e.g. Agile nonsense) will be rolled out, even though they worked productively without it. Or their doctor will tell them that 30 years of open-plan stress have fucked up their heart and they need to cool it. Then, they have no income and hope to die before they run out of money. However, by that time, they're usually too old for fighting in the streets. Which is exactly what I'm getting at. The system is designed to delude people, so they work for the corporate system in earnest, until they're too old for rioting.
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ecw0va5
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw0va5/
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ecw10ci
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw10ci/
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t5_2fwo
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
.....yes. jfc. Why are you people so obsessed with houses at 22? Nobody fucking has a house at 22. The folks I know at shitty companies have more roommates than the people I know at top companies!
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ecw13lw
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw13lw/
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t5_2fwo
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driusan
t2_bvkul
How about an awesome list of literal usages of the word literally?
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ecw13xo
t3_aaqyit
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t1_ecvci80
/r/programming/comments/aaqyit/github_jonatasbaldinawesomeawesomeawesome_awesome/ecw13xo/
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
> Jira et al is how people communicate complicated priorities with 10s-100s of people. Write your tickets. Do your job. You must be fun at parties. I picture you as the guy everyone avoids around Columbus Day because they've already heard the rant about how Columbus wasn't *that* bad by the standard of his time.
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ecw148a
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw148a/
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NotSoButFarOtherwise
t2_1ha8wt1w
When I finished college I said to myself I would never want to live in LA because everyone and everything there was so superficial. Increasingly, though, SF/Oakland and the South Bay are starting to actually feel like what the stereotype of LA is supposed to be, while the admittedly short time I've managed to spend in downtown LA has actually been really cool.
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ecw16m5
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jestzisguy
t2_zod7t
Just depends what part of CA you’re in at the time! Coming from a former resident of both of those valleys 😸
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ecw180t
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw180t/
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Semi-Hemi-Demigod
t2_179a4t
Because I'm not 22.
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ecw185i
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
The thing I hate about rachel (by the bay) is her insistence that her situation is so normal even though she's obviously a top 1% SWE/SRE/ProdEng. Most of us don't have the privilege of working at FB.
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ecw185y
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
> Not because the work is interesting and the computer stuff is fun, nor to create technology that changes or improves the world in some way, but because the money is good. > > This is so silly. If I'm going to have fun, I'm going to be paid the best while having fun goddamnit. Nobody's going to make a sucker out of me.
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ecw1bxi
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
I know bunches of people in their 50's and 60's doing tech in the Valley at low-tier companies like Cisco and Intel. This isn't that big of a deal.
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ecw1fjj
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jftitan
t2_27xbs
From reading Store Operations Manuals, to Military Field Manuals, to working at a Fast Food joint's Employee Handbook. You must write it based on the intelligence of your audience. Tomorrow I start writing up documentation for "On-Boarding" processes for Chiropractic Office IT Infrastructure... with a new help desk technician.
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ecw1j1o
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/r/programming/comments/aavv6v/the_art_of_writing_documentation/ecw1j1o/
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
> Also, not everyone has such antagonistic relationships with coworkers. Where do you get that from? From "[t]hey're trying to climb the ladder"? I'm a realist. Corporate capitalism creates organizations not worth caring about: piles of money that don't stand for anything but the desire to become a bigger pile of money. In such a world, it's hard to blame individuals for playing it as designed. What I said, I didn't say with any contempt. (To put it more bluntly: hate the game, not the player.) There is literally nothing to do within the corporate system but try to increase one's personal take... unless you're going to tear it down (which is the more noble goal, but obviously most people can't afford to take that path). There's no purpose in "Sprint 137". It literally means nothing.
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ecw1k27
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1k27/
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t5_2fwo
r/programming
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jandetlefsen
t2_6vcib
Maybe the issue is that more mature guys are not working for equity for an idea that is never going to get traction while eating mama noodles?
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ecw1ky4
t3_aav9js
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1ky4/
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t5_2fwo
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
She's probably smarter than you, just saying.
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1546196927
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ecw1mo5
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t1_ecvu6sf
/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1mo5/
1548276329
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t5_2fwo
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wakandawanda
t2_16v0ta0c
Again talking purely startups that make up only a portion of tech jobs out there. If the environment you described is so toxic and you have so much experience why not pivot to another industry? Young people are navigating the same job markets now without the connections and the experience. We are looking for your generation to guide us but instead all we get are a bunch of “experienced” geezers who got their positions purely through tenure. Now complaining that we’re taking their jobs which obviously weren’t that difficult to begin with. Tech requires constant learning. Experience is as crucial as the ability to adapt and learn new ways. Obviously this makes it more difficult for the aging workforce. But the answer can’t be to just give you guys positions based purely on your tenure.
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ecw1nqc
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1nqc/
1548276342
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r/programming
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joonazan
t2_kh84p
The built-in sort is really bad though. Without some random access data structure Haskell is too slow for some programming puzzles that can be solved in Python. Most of the Prelude is outdated, though. I haven't tried an alternative prelude but they exist.
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ecw1q4t
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/r/programming/comments/aavxpp/advent_of_haskell_thoughts_and_lessons_learned/ecw1q4t/
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t5_2fwo
r/programming
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dudefromgondor
t2_2j3c3rjy
They aren’t doing anything special there, other than fucking with people’s private lives. Not really anything to be proud of, unless you like being a piece of shit.
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False
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ecw1rxr
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1rxr/
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t5_2fwo
r/programming
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
Seriously? I work on a product that listens to people all day and people fucking love it and it's *still doesn't have the pedigree of Google or Facebook*.
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1546197073
False
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ecw1ubk
t3_aav9js
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1ubk/
1548276423
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t5_2fwo
r/programming
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schveiguy
t2_5ag4m
I wrote a range `loop` that allows composing nested loops, works pretty well (it also can be betterC if you redefine `tuple` as a simpler version): [https://run.dlang.io/is/hkqhvZ](https://run.dlang.io/is/hkqhvZ)
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ecw1ugv
t3_aac4hg
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/r/programming/comments/aac4hg/modern_c_lamentations/ecw1ugv/
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t5_2fwo
r/programming
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zackline
t2_mysu8
What the hell are you even on about? I'm in my early twenties and I work 3 9-to-6 days a week. Who the heck works for 80 hours a week.
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1546197098
False
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ecw1vll
t3_aav9js
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1vll/
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t5_2fwo
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foxh8er
t2_60e80
Well I am, and given how many 22 year olds make $200k a year or more now its pretty clear doing less than that is considered a failure now
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False
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ecw1xdw
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1xdw/
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t5_2fwo
r/programming
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sunzoo
t2_75n9y
I’m not paid to go to parties. If I was a DJ I wouldn’t show up and play Bach all night when they really want some Kanye. Do your job or make your own.
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1546197154
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ecw1yl1
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1yl1/
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t5_2fwo
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
I look forward to reading your posts after you get your first real job. The fact that you got a $20 gift card for selling the most potato chips does not meritocracy prove.
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1546197177
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ecw1zrn
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw1zrn/
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trancefate
t2_e86fe
This is very reassuring tghank you! At 32, third year of CS down, cant wait any longer starting code bootcamp next week.
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ecw20lj
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw20lj/
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2coolfordigg
t2_3o1w8
Coding has been outsourced for a long time now. ​ Better to train for a service job in a hotel.
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1546197221
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ecw2233
t3_aaxmml
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t3_aaxmml
/r/programming/comments/aaxmml/the_next_big_bluecollar_job_is_coding/ecw2233/
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Calavar
t2_gm1q8
I spent my spare time studying and went to medical school and switched careers.
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ecw226z
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw226z/
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akerro
t2_w33c3
2018 newsworthy: MS does sensible thing once.
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1546197366
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ecw29it
t3_aaxsey
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t3_aaxsey
/r/programming/comments/aaxsey/microsoft_totally_changed_how_it_interviews/ecw29it/
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beginner_
t2_cnvyz
Actually I would question the sanity of someone being able to endure google of fb for longer than a couple months. So it would actually be a downside if I'm hiring especially if you managed to put up with the diversity BS for several years.
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1546197426
False
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ecw2ckw
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw2ckw/
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Matthew94
t2_6jzsd
In what way is CS pushing boundaries compared to EE? How do you define "evolving"?
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ecw2egj
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw2egj/
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KnowsAboutMath
t2_8jb6k
I maintain that the San Fernando Valley [has a stronger claim on the term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_girl)!
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False
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ecw2fia
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw2fia/
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beginner_
t2_cnvyz
I rather watch Netflix than work for free for someone else to make millions from my work and not see a peny.
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ecw2fxa
t3_aav9js
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw2fxa/
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Detallado
t2_6pja6
It's pretty common to see companies only looking for "young" people or "students", and this is not only when it comes to the software industry, this is pretty much the norm for ANY job, once you get past 30 good luck, the general mindset is, work your ass off before you reach 30 and settle down with a small business (a bakery, a clothe store, a jewelry, a cellphone shop, a fast food place, any type of small business) or be the eternal slave worker for a misery of salary The general mindset is that young people who are capable of programming will refuse to work for local companies, or they will acquire experience and will be actively looking for a new job while working, for example, my mom had a really difficult time getting a job when she was in her 30s and she had been working since she was 18 non-stop, it's just a fucked up thing they have Also, the general discrimination against people with: dark skin colors children any disability and people who cannot speak English (wtf?) There's a reason why private businesses in this country collapsed along with the political class, but that's for another dedicated thread This is the ideal target for most companies and I'm not kidding because I've personally seen this in different companies, small and even big financial companies where I've worked, the ideal target: Young women ranging from 19 to 21 years old who went to college/university (If they dropped because they couldn't pay the university is even better because they'll promise to pay half of the uni if you continue to work with them), they'll promise you all the experience in the world during this work, you should take this as an opportunity to have a good job record, once you reach 25 years old they are already thinking about the new young dumb kid to replace you, hence and repeat I've witnessed this in different jobs
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ecw2hkf
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw2hkf/
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ElvishJerricco
t2_5a5e9
The built in sort is O(n log(n))? It's just a merge sort and it performs fine. The problem is that linked lists are the built in list data structure. This is actually fine a lot of the time, and many algorithms benefit greatly from its ability to use constant space with laziness. But there are *many* alternative data structures that provide better performance characteristics for other use cases. The `vector` package provides constant time random access arrays, both mutable and immutable. `Data.Sequence` provides a purely functional data structure with O(log(n)) access, O(1) cons/snoc, and O(log(min(n1,n2))) concatenation, and is shipped with the compiler. So TL;DR, you have to be aware that the builtin list syntax is for linked lists, but that's often ok, and when it's not there are plenty of other data structures to suit your needs. Haskell is much faster than Python typically. I have never seen them come particularly close unless the python code was just shimming out to C code for 90% of the work.
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ecw2puj
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/r/programming/comments/aavxpp/advent_of_haskell_thoughts_and_lessons_learned/ecw2puj/
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KantorQuantor
t2_1kt0eh5s
I think you are making very accurate observations about the young naive belief in meritocracy and the reality of nepotism. The situation with regards to nepotism might be more or less extreme depending on place and corporate culture. However I also feel that perhaps this meritocratic "fairy tail" is not as much a malicious conspiring , but a leveraging of a youthful self importance sentiment. Why wouldn't you make the 20ish year old make work that bit harder when you have 2 kids at home and have done so yourself ? I guess some would rationalize it as a rite of passage. We are all but gears in a machine, even "managers".
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ecw2ssq
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vdek
t2_4o0ag
Are you sure it’s not just a natural byproduct of human nature in a competitive society? Seems pretty natural in the animal kingdom.
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ecw2uu8
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vdek
t2_4o0ag
That’s a bunch of nonsense.
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ecw2xxw
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
> I spent about 18 months working for various tech startups doing an investor outreach and communications role. The real game in Silicon Valley isn't about building bleeding edge technology, it's about your startup's strategy to get funding and then get bought out by a bigger company so your investors become even more obscenely wealthy. This. This is absolutely how it works. Most of these companies are not innovative; the innovative stuff (if it is tried) ends up not working– because genuine innovation requires an open timeframe, not bullshit two-week deadlines– so they "pivot" to getting ready to be some bigger company's back office. > They're basically as fucking cynical as the suit-wearing douchebags working for Wall Street investment banks, but they get to pretend they're saving the world through technology. Worse. So much worse. You really get a sense of someone's character when he doesn't need you. In a bank, getting fired looks like this: when the business contracts, there's a layoff, and you get a few months of severance and a great reference. You bounce back quickly. In a tech firm, layoffs are disguised as firings for performance, to avoid the press of a layoff. No severance, and there's a good chance your boss will trash you as soon as you're gone in order to test other's loyalty. The techies think that, because they promised God to give half their wealth to Africa once they're billionaires (Africa has a Bitcoin address, right?), and because they are "changing the world", they can do anything. They're the absolute worst. The bankers admit that they're working for money and treat it as somewhat of a game. Even if you get fired, your MD will make sure you land well. Techies? They're pretty much the worst people ever. Fuck techies.
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ecw30ef
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mrcrassic
t2_8joh9
> In those five words, the manager managed to say so many things. First, the worker is deemed "old". Then, following from that, why can't they afford to quit? Why haven't they gone off to sail the world? What is their major malfunction which makes them unable to hit the jackpot? With all of the years they have put into this career of theirs, how have they managed to suck? More context required. If that engineer was working at a company that grew dramatically throughout their tenure (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, for example), and that employee was "there from the beginning," then, theoretically, that employee should have made a ton of cash (from the options) and retired early, if they wanted to, thus making this a perfectly valid question.
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ecw30g9
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IWGPJapon
t2_mwf6cua
Here, have a downvote on me :)
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ecw335j
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/r/programming/comments/aaxlm1/because_im_dumb_i_write_better_code/ecw335j/
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Semi-Hemi-Demigod
t2_179a4t
I’d rather be a “failure” than work at a big company.
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0
ecw3724
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rad_badders
t2_tpz4q
Maybe some hobbies, or dating, or not burning out from 60+ hour weeks ..
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ecw37i2
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw37i2/
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Darksonn
t2_9daiq
Yeah this is true. I work for a 18-person software company in Denmark which has been around since 1998 and it's great.
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ecw37na
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw37na/
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mrcrassic
t2_8joh9
*Michael Church alert*
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ecw3844
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw3844/
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Analemma_
t2_aviju
> A binary file consists of complex structured data meant primarily to be read by applications that translate those structures into something useful by humans I’m not sure I agree with this definition. XML, JSON, HTML, etc. files all meet this standard but they are all text files. You’re overthinking this. A text file is a file with a text encoding, otherwise it is a binary file.
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ecw38mg
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/r/programming/comments/aawt2w/what_is_a_binary_file/ecw38mg/
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
> I’m not paid to go to parties. Thanks for the clarification.
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ecw390k
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jmblock2
t2_58wpl
Congrats, and are you going to introduce yourself as Bobby or Booby?
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ecw39dt
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw39dt/
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LordoftheSynth
t2_4clv4
> Tech requires constant learning. And no one over 30 or 40 can learn anymore, amirite? You talk about "old" people being entitled but your comment here reeks of entitlement. "I'm twenty-something, so I understand tech better than you. That means I should have your job because you're not twenty-something and therefore you're past it!"
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ecw39em
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mrcrassic
t2_8joh9
it's pretty easy to set up these days, especially in the world of Let's Encrypt...
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ecw3bnd
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Ameisen
t2_5qad2
Most people do. The problem is that in the past, the compilers/linkers (particularly the latter) weren't quite as good at ICF. There were dramatic improvements in that area in the latter part of the 2000s, but the public opinion damage was already done. Once you factor in LTO as well, templates can have *very* small footprints, often smaller than alternatives. The problem is that ICF and especially LTO do increase build times. However, in a debug build, size isn't usually a big concern (and debug builds, or development builds, are where you usually want very rapid build times), so ICF/LTO aren't *as* important. Some linkers let you specify the optimization level, so you can usually do 'light' ICF in a development build at least to improve it a bit.
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ecw3bt9
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/r/programming/comments/aac4hg/modern_c_lamentations/ecw3bt9/
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Sage2050
t2_4pdql
I wasn't completely clear, but It's a perception of evolution with new frameworks and platforms being released all the time. Going from early 2000s to late (for an extremely narrow example) , hiring managers wanted "HTML coders" then "ios coders" then "android coders". Younger people just coming out of college would be more likely to have stuff like that on their resume, even if older, more experienced people would have been completely capable.
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ecw3czf
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw3czf/
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-w1n5t0n
t2_npzds
Wow, as an audio programmer and avid Gen I fan this is a goldmine!
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ecw3hn7
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/r/programming/comments/aaxvf8/generation_i_pokémon_cries_explained/ecw3hn7/
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Mithren
t2_bf5od
Ah yes, I disagree with you so must be a student. I’ve had multiple jobs across several “corporate US” companies and have always found it pretty damn meritocratic, or at least a good attempt at being. But then again I’m not in my late 30s feeling like I’m failing at life, so what do I know?
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ecw3iuq
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw3iuq/
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puffery for insecure coders who couldn't hack real mathematics
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ecw3m4i
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/r/programming/comments/aavxpp/advent_of_haskell_thoughts_and_lessons_learned/ecw3m4i/
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applicativefunctor
t2_d0b1d
putStrLn returns an IO () how is that not using a monad?
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ecw3p2c
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/r/programming/comments/aavxpp/advent_of_haskell_thoughts_and_lessons_learned/ecw3p2c/
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the_gnarts
t2_9ya05
> YouTube is only a one-language mirror. For all talks they uploaded one video per language. Pedestrian, but it works: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VWb7Crzcc8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP3l__KN-8M But I agree media.ccc.de is much more convenient as it includes direct links to the video files.
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ecw3p5w
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/r/programming/comments/aalo6l/35c3_what_the_fax/ecw3p5w/
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MrPigeon
t2_3wpjq
> Well I am I'm not saying this to be a dick, but: it shows. This is _exactly_ how all the 22 year old new grads sounded in my graduating class, and it was insufferable even then. A decade+ on, that fervent need to have the shinest set of logos attached to one's name (and frankly, be a bit of a prick about it by insinuating that older, more experienced devs with other priorities are failures) has worn off considerably.
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ecw3ppf
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jestzisguy
t2_zod7t
Zappa endorsed, after all...
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ecw3quo
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DirtyBristolBoi
t2_a6jma5o
I feel like the Windows approach *might* be better if it were well-implemented, but is is well-implemented? Seems like those locks tend to linger much longer than they should. Windows ought to be able to determine that the process that opened a file isn't running anymore, for example, but in my observation that very basic expectation hasn't been met.
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ecw3sli
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/r/programming/comments/aalc4n/windows_file_access_performance_compared_to_linux/ecw3sli/
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kevin9er
t2_3ksva
Alexa play Despacito
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ecw3t5i
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw3t5i/
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___alexa___
t2_1s4mkesd
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AlexaPlayBot
t2_1reoxq3y
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welkam
t2_o4k0x
I have observed many threads about GC on reddit and found that most people who comment dont know what they talking about when it come to GC technologies. I even found some people saying that reddit needs to be garbage collected after they read those comments about GC. Second thing I found is that people have irrational distaste towards GC. One of the most popular criticism is that due to GC pauses it cant be used for interactive programs such as games, ui or latency sensitive servers. What they usually dont know is that some games, most ui or servers are using GC and doesnt have pauses, because they are not stuck in 80s and have modern GC implementations. The fact that he didnt knew about it means he knows almost nothing about GCs. Also he was talking in general with UE4 and chromium as examples. I am eager to discourse merits of various GC\`s implementations and their trade-offs but when I see comments like "GC is bad because pauses bla bla bla" then I cant help myself but correct people
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ecw3uof
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/r/programming/comments/aac4hg/modern_c_lamentations/ecw3uof/
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pikhq
t2_3k9r7
> But unlike other isms, age is not a class that is protected by labor laws unless we’re talking about child labor. The Department of Labor's [page](https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/discrimination/agedisc) on age discrimination disagrees: being over the age of 40 is itself a protected class in employment.
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ecw3x6q
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw3x6q/
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applicativefunctor
t2_d0b1d
There's an entire section on parser combinators. It was more that there wasn't a built in combinator (supposedly) to parse maybe negative integers
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ecw3y4r
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/r/programming/comments/aavxpp/advent_of_haskell_thoughts_and_lessons_learned/ecw3y4r/
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erwan
t2_18j45
I know the Bay Area has a lot of nice things, I've lived there for 3 years. It's just that I think housing prices pretty much negates it if you want to raise a family. Either you bank as a successful founder or VC (good for you!), or you live in a place too small for you, or you have a long commute to SF or the Peninsula. Just as an employee, I think you can get a better standard of life elsewhere. Then there is the tech monoculture that I found kind of boring after 3 years, but that's something else. I find it more refreshing to be surrounded (neighbors, friends) by people with various occupations and working in various industries.
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw414b/
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Canadian_Infidel
t2_39fir
Presumably well raised kids on the right path were what he has to show for the effort.
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ecw48by
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/r/programming/comments/aav9js/how_the_valley_treats_its_experienced_people/ecw48by/
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michaelochurch
t2_4ocdf
> Ah yes, I disagree with you so must be a student. No, I was expressing philosophical charity. That is, I was attributing your misconceptions about the corporate system to ordinary inexperience rather than crushing stupidity. I'm happy to be corrected, though. > I’m not in my late 30s feeling like I’m failing at life Wait, what? Who said anything about "failing at life"? We are *all* failing. The corporate system persists; the 0.1% gain wealth and power, while the planet gets hotter and workplaces get stupider and the 99.9% gets poorer. We're all losing together. Some of us are aware of this in the present; others haven't grown enough to see it that way.
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killerofsix
t2_7zi8w
What a great change to see in Microsoft. Another company that's been doing this kind of interviewing for a while as well is Pivotal: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/how-we-interview-at-pivotal
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ecw4buz
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/r/programming/comments/aaxsey/microsoft_totally_changed_how_it_interviews/ecw4buz/
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sickcodebruh420
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This might be true for a certain kind of Valley startup but I’ve seen none of it here in NYC. At 34, this is one of many reasons why I’m happy I’m out here and not there.
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ecw4kna
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MrPigeon
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Hey, all other parts of this conversation aside, I just wanted to say congratulations. That's no small feat and you should be very proud!
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ecw4rgr
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matthieum
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> Also note that the top companies do not care as much about losing a good candidate as they do about hiring a bad one. Losing a good candidate costs far less than hiring and potentially firing a bad one. Therefore they optimize for reducing the false positives rather than reducing the false negatives. This. It's "unfair", in a way, but companies are not aiming for fair, they're aiming for efficient. --- And interviews are very costly. At my current company, each candidate will go through (1) a home assignment, reviewed by two persons (30min each minimum), (2) a phone interview with two persons (1h) and (3) a 3x1h interviews in a day, with two persons each, before a wrap-up with the hiring team leader, technology lead and HR which lasts another hour. That's a minimum of 11h from "interviewers", often 12h. A day and a half of work. Not counting the work done by HR, the recruiter fee, resume screening, etc... To be fair to the candidate, steps (1) and (2) are indivisible and the wrap-up in step (3) is always done. Even if a candidate does badly, they also spent time on this, so at least we want to give them feedback on what the issues were that they have a better chance next time. The process is designed to cut our losses early, though: - If the resume doesn't look appealing, it's rejected outright. - If the homework+phone interview doesn't pan out, no on-site interview. And yet, despite this, a fair number of on-site interviewees don't get an offer. If we imagine that 1/5 of phoned candidates come on-site, and 1/5 of on-site candidates are extended an offer, that's 28h (3+1/2 days) per on-site candidate, or 140h (17+1/2 days) per offer. I didn't count the cost of filtering resumes, or the transport/hotel cost. I would say upward of $10k per offer extended, plus recruiter fee. So, yes, the process is designed to cut losses early, which means we're probably not giving a chance to good candidates because they don't fit our specific process. It's something we're aware of, but a secondary concern to the cost of extending an offer.
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ecw4smz
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MrPigeon
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Doesn't sound very Disruptive imho
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ecw4sth
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muc26
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I feel like it’s a fair question with fair assumptions. A lot of people are in tech for the money, those that have achieved their goal sum bail and those that haven’t still work towards it. As the question is posed, it gives a fair out to those genuinely interested in developing new tech. That is unless their head is up their ass and take it as an insult because “I’m not like others and people should magically know that and never ask questions about me, ever!”. It’s not ageism if a manager wants to know what motivates the employee. I’m going to preemptively put a disclaimer: I’m not saying older people in tech aren’t perceived differently than younger people. I’m saying that the way the manager posed the question is okay and the offence was perceived but not meant. Being direct =/= being rude.
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ecw4xvl
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kickulus
t2_5qste
Where do my autistic votes go? Also do they count as full votes?
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ecw558j
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BadGoyWithAGun
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> Automated management. But who *owns* it? A fucking toaster isn't a legal person, therefore it can't own a business. At the end of the line, there's either a private company with an owner, a public corporation with a board and shareholders, or a government. I don't trust a government to feed me, and neither do the millions of people whose governments have deliberately failed to do so in *very* recent history, so it has to be one of the latter two. I don't care if you think your government is inherently moral and faultless, I'll never trust a faceless institution like that. Corporations can be trusted to do things that maximize profit - public corporations are even legally required to do so by their shareholders, whereas governments occasionally take on far more sinister objectives.
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ecw584a
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KantorQuantor
t2_1kt0eh5s
Its bragging rights.
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ecw5apj
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Matthew94
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I really think you're setting a very low bar for the cutting edge if you're comparing programming frameworks to what EEs do. CS might be more flashy and cool to the general public but there's still a massive amount of cutting edge electronics being developed. It just doesn't align well with writing medium articles and posting half-baked tutorials online.
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ecw5cpm
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dudefromgondor
t2_2j3c3rjy
Good for you. You’re ruining lives. Your parents must be proud.
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ecw5d4a
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rantthroughafar
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I just wanted to put my two cents into this, but I interviewed at Microsoft in September and it didn't seem this way the article is saying. It may be because I didnt make it past the first round, but mine was a phone interview where the interviewer had me literally read line by line of how to solve fibonaaci, no scenario questions, how to code hash tables. And afterwards the email said they will provide no feedback whatsoever.
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ecw5eto
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Koutou
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Depends how you define windows APIs. WSL is a subsystem and talk directly to the kernel, just like win32 does now or OS/2 did back in the '90. More info: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/04/22/windows-subsystem-for-linux-overview/
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ecw5h2a
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pinkiedash417
t2_x8kyq
And this is why referral bonuses for successful hires are so high.
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ecw5hji
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lampreyforthelods
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I just got done with a university course called Advanced Programming Principles that was taught with OCaml. ​ It is very odd at first, but you quickly begin to see the similarities it shares with imperative languages. For instance, I had used std::accumulate and stuff like that as well as iterators and the like before in C++, but I never knew exactly what it was that was happening deep down because I didn't understand what lambdas were very well. Learning about the power of folding and how you can write iter and filter functions with folding alone really changed how I think about processing data structures. Another thing I remember is gaining a better understanding of binary trees. I feel like creating an algebraic data type that does what a BST does was completely trivial, but being able to visualize a simple BST traversal was difficult at first because of how concise and simple the code for it was. It all makes sense, though. We covered modules, functors, higher order functions, pattern matching, and a lot of other stuff. Our final project was to build a lex/parse/evaluator for a language our program 'Calculon' understands. We had to construct something called a recursive descent parser, and it was pretty dang interesting! Oh yeah, pattern matching is pretty wonderful, and it's amazing how easily you can process a data structure once you learn how it works. One of the coolest concept I learned was definitely closures. When we were teaching 'Calculon' how to interpret closures, we first taught it how to handle lambdas, then we had to kind of manually construct a closure in a way that made the explanation on how closures are different on the stack than normal function stack frames. We finished up the semester with streams (stuff like infinite generation and utility) and lazy/eager evaluation. ​ My grade wasn't amazing, but I feel like the class definitely made me a better and more mature programmer. I'd highly recommend it.
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ecw5i4p
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driusan
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For the most part I agree with you that there's nothing wrong with the question in and of itself, but it's entirely possible that based on tone and body language it was asked rudely and/or insultingly. Neither of us were there.
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ecw5ksr
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cyancynic
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I’m mid 50s. The bias is totally real. My last job hunt was filled with ageist fucks treating me like shit. There are companies that value experience and deep expertise but they are not common. I found one and love working there. We sell RnD services to short handed companies. I helped ship four products last year from four different companies and I never know what is coming in the door next. The good jobs for older experienced guys are out there but you won’t find them on monster or dice
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ecw5me9
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Callmebobbyorbooby
t2_f3r86
Probably just Boob.
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ecw5ne2
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Callmebobbyorbooby
t2_f3r86
Yeah absolutely! I’ll offer any help I can.
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ecw5ol4
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Mithren
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> If you disagree with me you must be crushingly stupid. Maybe you just don’t get promoted because you’re so insufferable?
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ecw5scz
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shared_makes_it_real
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The thing I always hated about those questions is when I answered "I would measure the plane..." they would act like I was a moron. I get that's not the way they want you to answer the question but that's how you science. Painstaking measurement after measurement. Conjecture and speculation can certainly save you some time but you still have to double check that it all lines up with reality.
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ecw5uq8
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masklinn
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> I've done binary file IO in C, C++, Python, Perl, and Java. I've no idea what happens in Perl but it probably does some weird-ass itoa-style conversion (rather than sending the integer's binary content in BE), trying to `write` a number in Python is a runtime error, C's `write` takes a buffer or an iovec, C++'s ostream::put writes a char, and despite the `int` overload even Java's FileOutputStream::write only writes a byte. That I know, none of them will readily[0] accept an input of the number `64` and write the bytes `0x00 0x00 0x00 0x40`. At best, 2 of them will write the single byte `0x40`. [0] it is of course possible and often easy to perform that conversion/formatting by hand
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ecw5vx6
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