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One thing I learned from consulting is if you position yourself as the "fix your mess" guy you have to be very defensive. Ask for more up-front, and bail at the first sign of underpayment.

Be pleasantly surprised when a poorly run project is being run by nice, honest people. Prep for the opposite.

Yes but the context of the thread is OCaml being "almost there". Having to build this stuff in-house is pretty good evidence.

Short ETFs are usually leveraged and make for a really good way to lose money.

Realistically, timing is the issue. "This is a bubble" is worth ~nothing. "This is a bubble and it will pop in late December" is worth a lot if you're correct.

I was going to agree with you until the implication that it's learning the nitty-gritty details that's important.

I can teach someone the details on the job. Give me a new grad with strong fundamentals, a love of programming, and an interest in the domain and I'll teach them in sixth months whatever they missed in college that's relevant to the job.

However I've noticed that the fundamentals are so watered down, even at top-tier schools, that young devs like that are harder and harder to find.

Maybe it would be simpler to just impose a nominal tax on the total number of job openings a company creates throughout the year. Maybe as a % of the role's salary. You could even rebate it against employer payroll taxes so they get the money back when they actually hire someone.

Whatever framework you choose will be obsolete in 5 years.

I've been writing React professionally for over a decade at this point. I don't know what this guy's on about.

Apple Invites 1 year ago

I don't know but anecdotally living in a major city every social event I attend has a Partiful attached.

Honestly while Trump is a little slimy he's also kinda funny. Visit some conservative spaces sometimes, they're having fun while liberal ones are all doom-and-gloom.

It really does matter.

and it was often considered a black mark if you went to work for a defense company (even Palantir)

Yeah, this always tickled me. Obviously smart people should just go work somewhere innocuous like Meta or ByteDance.

Also FWIW this is Palantir and Anduril's bread and butter. They get to vacuum up all the wrongthinkers.