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The lesson here is to be overemployed, do at least one interview process a quarter, and understand that companies don't give AF about you.

I wanted to get out of my office basement and into something that was close by, I went to a WeWork in my locality and while it was a nice space overall, I was astounded by both how expensive, and how empty, it was. For less I was able to find an office space that was closer to my house, owned and operated by a local company, and was larger.

grpcurl and httpie are so good it's ridiculous.

I'd love to move to NY but yeah, I have kids now and moving them from the acreage and amazing school district we have now is just not really an option.

Yeah, same. If you're a specialist and happen to have an in-demand skillset (backend, dist sys, GoLang), the volume of offers has been lower but still getting plenty of interest.

they were literally trying to recruit me last week

"Companies have been pumping and dumping for years, buoyed by cheap labor, and have not been intelligent enough to invest long term. And now, they're sad."

FTFY

Okay, George Washington. You sure showed me the error of my ways.

I feel exactly zero sympathy for companies at this point. Y'all have spent years suppressing wages, making candidates jump through all kinds of hoops, and encourage a "fake it 'til you make it" culture among founders.

Now someone pulls some dirty, saucy tricks on you and you're crying about? Cry me a fucking river. Boo hoo.

That seems like a pretty whacky theory to me because it assumes that companies only increase prices when forced to do so, and not just because they can.

It comes across especially wacky to me as price hikes have outstripped wage hikes. Considering wages and purchasing power has flatlined for workers, but productivity has greatly increased, seems like there's a lot of people getting fleeced.

The truth is a significant portion of managers, in my experience, are not particularly well suited to the task or are incompetent on some level.

Competent managers are few and far between, Steve Jobs said/did a lot of stupid crap but one cogent point he made was that the best managers are the ones who never wanted to be a manager, they just went and did it because they were sick of dealing with incompetent managers.

This is biggest crock of shit I've ever read.

So basically every software engineer interview... ever.

Woah get out of here with your nuanced approach, this is the Hackernews comment section.

It's nice to hear someone admit that Google hires a lot of mediocre people. I'm also not shocked, their interview process invites people to gamify.

Yeah true, but this coming from the likes of Facebook and Google, two companies well known for warehousing talent... it mostly just comes across as tone deaf and naive.

For years they've literally hired very smart and capable people, and then shoehorned them into working on some ad-tech engine that an intern could do, just so they didn't work for a competitor. And now they're angry that their employees "don't work hard?"

Holy fuck, for being Google, they sure have some idiots in leadership.

Can definitely speak to these cases - especially where you do great work and have a narrative that it was unappreciated - and clearly see lesser performing or less impressive colleagues getting ahead.

I did great work for a company and got fired... because I took a freelance w2 contract in my spare time. The company didn't even know that I'd taken on the role, and the role had actually finished, when they somehow did find out and I got my marching papers.

FUCK working hard and FUCK doing "good" work.

I turned down my offers from Google at Amazon because I value WLB and being able to continue with my freelance work and content creation. I figured working at a bank would be congruent with this sentiment.

You do cool work, btw. Just be careful, Shopify seems to be real layoff happy. I've even had some of your staff engineers hmu on Linkedin for a position and I've been having to say thanks but no thanks.

Given Monzo's hiring practices, I'm not sanguine about the future of this company.

I myself went through their interview process not long ago and to say it lived up to the sentiment of the glassdoor reviews is putting it mildly. Several rounds, silly armchair-psychologist behavioral questions, and the interviewers made it blatant that they didn't want to be there. Did my last interview at 4pm one day, got rejected by 8am next business day. I've gotten offers from Google, Amazon, etc so I know I interview well, not sure what happened there but really got the vibe that their employees are never quite sure if they're doing well, and management likes it that way.

They're a bank struggling to market themselves as a tech company.

This is why I started my own contracting/consulting company, I hate on call and it always gets abused.

I mean, really, what's going to happen if you can't see the score of a baseball game until tomorrow?

This is the main reason that I use Go as my main language, and why many orgs are starting to adopt it: it's easy to read and jump into. I would argue, however, that it's very easy to create antipatterns and just general spaghetti code with Go. A language that's easy to be productive with != one that's also easy to maintain. Design and philosophy becomes very important with large codebases in the language.

source: consultant, seen some truly heinous Go monoliths.

I remain unconvinced of a major recession, I think there are a lot of elites out there who are just angry that they now just can't borrow money for free, so they throw a tantrum.

The fed was consistently raising interest rates from 2016 up to the pandemic, and the u-6 rate was consistently falling, and median weekly earnings rising, all in the same time frame.

The narrative is the elite are angry that it now actually costs something to borrow money.

Yeah I agree. There's no reason why a front end using TypeScript + React can't use WASM for it's backend connections, but building the entire thing in rust with Yew just seems like a hammer in search of a nail. GopherJS exists but nobody uses it for a reason.

The issue is the complete lack of integrity.

Crypto is a fucking scam in the first place, so obviously I don't expect the CEO to have any sort of integrity at all, but deliberately overhiring people when they KNEW what their burn rate was... it's a whole new level of scum. Armstrong went from just another crypto dipshit to actively ruining people's livelihoods while taking a massive golden parachute.

Non of this is okay, it's not acceptable, and Coinbase (and the crypto industry as a whole) should be ashamed.

TL;DR - I tried it when the first m1's came out and it was a huge pain, ended up going back to x86 for my primary machine.

I got an m1 right when they came out because I started a new gig right around that time, literally happened the same week. Trying to get all my dev tools installed became a rat's nest of issues. I work as a backend / dist sys / systems engineer for my day job and so I have to write and use things that are fairly close to bare-metal. Brew hadn't been forked yet, so that added a whole new layer of issues.

Docker still doesn't work, Rust libs compile in weird ways... just all kinds of stuff that I'm not smart enough or paid well enough to figure out. My title is "Developer", not "M1 developer advocate" so after about a month of running into issue after issue, I went back and found a used MBP with an intel chip. I'm excited about the future of Apple silicon, and ARM as a whole, but it needs another couple years of refinement.

I will say that I've been using an m1 mac mini for general office work as apart of my side business and it's quite good.

I've had 8 recruiters reach out just this morning on LinkedIn. Granted, most of them are crap gigs but they were mostly crap gigs 6 months ago too. Plenty are interesting though. I'm really glad I specialized early on and found a niche.

Seriously, who actually uses Atom anymore? Before VSCode was a thing, I used it but then I got into Vim, Neovim, and now VSCode with the Vim plugin.

The irony is there's use cases for that waste heat.

- Utilities could use the extra boost of heat in winter

- producing potable water

The coin produced from these processes could then be used as tradable units. "Heat Coin" or "Fresh Water Coin" would ease the transaction of these resources.

Hence, we get to the root of the problem of any "Coin": it is inherently worthless without any real asset or unit of production to back it's value.

Exactly zero, because I don't gamble.