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Some candidates don't use linkedIn, which you are requiring it to submit applications. Just some feedback.

US-only per the Job Description.

OP expected a symmetric outlay of effort & focus from the company's side

And you don't? Do you enjoy being walked all over?

“If you're not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it?”

This is true for any self-host OSS project. You are pointing at the grass and warning people that it is green.

Accusing "what-about-ism" is itself a "what-about-ism".... You are using it to short-circuit valid thought-provoking criticism.

is this https://pola.rs/ ?

Hello! It would be helpful to applicants if you include the name of your company. Cheers.

Headsup: Seems like this one has a "take home assignment that shouldn't take more than a day" as part of its interview process.

You can be diagnose with ADHD for any number of circumstances, the ADHD diagnosis is not based on a specific cause, only on specific symptoms, it doesn't matter where the symptoms come from exactly (circumstance? nutrition? neurodivergent in the wrong environment? etc).

I feel the same way you do. Something else to take into account:

A lot of people are just mediocre at explaining themselves. This is fine because sometimes the information they have is good, the medium of communication is shabby, but we can still do an extended effort and look past the medium in order to get to the information. The point being, if someone is really adept at communication then you might find yourself focusing on really complex topics with ease, because it is engaging and nicely laid out. OTOH if I hand you an IKEA manual to build a simple vase but the scribbles are tiny and confusing, you will be like "Woah this is so difficult to pay attention to!".

Some people like to project their problems into the rest of the population. Someone that has never achieved a major capacity to direct their attention will believe that it is not a skill they can attain. If they find someone with such a skill then they are “oh so gifted”, completely dismissing all the training and effort that said person has put into themselves. Timeless dialectic.

Your lack of discipline does not reflect a major truth about the human condition. Sorry you feel that way.

yep, dude literally says "create nudging to increase focus" like he didn't just copy paste some nonsense text from chatGPT. Create.... nudging? Sorry what?

That's the opposite of focus, literally, lol.

yeah, or sometimes it just happens while I am resting, totally thinking about distractions. This is why this article is nonesense to me.

Holy molly, this explains 99% of management behavior out there. Basically this explains why every single manager I have had has the exact same narrative, something along the lines of:

"I hear you because we care about you, your concerns are noted, but please stop thinking for yourself and stay in your lane, because we are a family"

Cushy or not, everyone likes to feel that they can trust the people that they work for. Everyone is equally upset when their job is off-shored, especially if they were sold the idea of pouring themselves on the job. This feels equally harsh for the Personal Assistants with a 60k salary that get off-shored for half the price.

I agree that just shouting "capitalism" is really poor commentary though, now everything that involves money is called "capitalism" for some reason, even though every single place that organizes around money has this basic incentive of cheaper labor. "Capitalism" or "not so capitalism". :shrug:

Look up "protectionism", the USA has historically frowned upon other less-developed countries when they implement protectionist policies, they go as far as censoring them from the international market. So it would be very incongruent if they suddenly did that for their own workforce.

It's still not a lot considering that you get the same benefit from hiring in LCOL in the USA

That's not bigoted or racist. There are two forces when it comes to pricing labor:

1. The forces that dictate the lowest price.

2. The forces that dictate the highest price.

These are completely orthogonal to each other.

Lowest price is based on cost of living, you can hire the cheapest person as long as you pay them enough for them to keep on eating. That's it. Notably this lower-end is going to have a lot of variance based on location.

Highest price is based on how much value a worker creates for a business, the highest price that you can pay that worker is somewhere that leaves the business with a margin profit. Of course it is in the businesses best interest to increase the margin for themselves, but as talent becomes harder to find, fat margins become less of a necessity and more of a nice-to-have. The job needs to get done or their golden-egg machine will die.

So!

You go to the lowest price at a another country, that's what you get in quality. Execs think that people are replaceable so they believe that the average X is the same here as it is anywhere else, the only difference to them is cost.

So yeah. You are not racist for pointing out that quality suffers due to cost cutting through offshoring. The lower cost-of-living countries (such as India) still have top tier talent, but that talent is priced similarly across the world, they are smart and they price themselves according to the value they bring.

Since when can LLM play chess? It can't understand it at all. You would have to filter out all the invalid moves until it spits a valid one.

In my mind it would make sense if there are some laws to which they want to adhere, perhaps something EU-related (GDPR? IDK), and moving to Munich might be a good way of prioritizing. Perhaps something US-related they don't like, see for example that TikTok is an AI company and yeah, or the KYC-related stuff [1]. However, I am talking out of my ass, I don't really keep up with laws, upcoming bills or anything like that. :shrug:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158752

it's not doing me many favours pointing some of this stuff out.

People are so frail and vain to attach their identities to the output of their <checks notes> corporate job that might fire them at any time.

Similar problem here. Basically they ask me to give feedback, they seem super interested in improving. Oh but when I give feedback... They start to get defensive. Apparently they only wanted small feedback, like fixing a broken link, when I started to point at foot-guns in their docs and in their code they started to get mad at me. I was just trying to inform everyone so we all had the same information or to at least be corrected if I was wrong, nope, suddenly I am "asking too many questions" and I should be "spending 1 to 2 hours before posting a question to the slack channel". Yikes. At the same time they would gaslight me about how I didn't communicate enough of what I was doing.

IME this blog post sounds like a fairy tale that someone tells themselves about how good a job they will do, because they haven't actually lived the experience.

As a student that can't focus in loud places and that had to live in a loud place... Gah.

This is my question too. IDGI. If I am a foreigner how do they verify that my ID is real? just because it looks "real enough"?

This discriminates people from other countries from having tech resources, possibly increasing poverty by limiting opportunities, at the same time it exposes people to have their data leaked. I don't see how this is a good idea.

Hello, may I interest you in NixOS? All your config, in one place, build it again and you got a copy. :)

Sounds like something said by a tax collector :)

even regular people should pay their taxes, no?

Taxes aren't an ethical or moral topic, they are a legal topic. If you can avoid a tax through some legal structure, you are within your rights to do so and you can't judge this as some sort of shady business. Taxes are mostly used to create incentives and collect money, if people are allowed a legal structure to avoid a probate tax, then that might be an incentive on purpose. Just because you did something to pay less taxes does not mean that you are some bad actor exploiting a loophole.

For example, taxes are only paid on profit, so companies are incentivized to spend their money and pay less in taxes. No one sees this as a legal loophole that needs to be fixed, it is very much intentional.

Also you are making the false dichotomy here of "regular people" as something different from "somewhat versed in financial entities people". That's weird.

Operation Paperclip et al

For anyone reading this and wondering about other good platforms... Discourse [1] is awesome. Of course, someone has to pay for the hosting. Can't have someone else's cake and eat it too.

[1] https://discourse.org/

Would be good if the account gets modded and removed from this board. It decreases the overall quality of the board, the redflags are everywhere and the cumulative time-wasting over a long period of time...