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"over 50% of the country i live in are irredeemably terrible people" is obviously hyperbole -- if it were true, the onus would be on you to start taking action against those terrible people. but my guess is you don't…
> But if the person in front of you has done or advocated for things that cause harm or is themself a horrible person then I disagree. the current conflict in the middle east shows why this doesn't work in the long run.…
it's not really a questionable decision though. in the absence of morals, which is what we have in a capitalist society, the way to maximize the success of a corporation is to remove low performers and replace them with…
> Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people. corporations exist to make money, or maximize shareholder returns, depending on how you look at it. corporations don't exist to…
morale is also adversely affected by people having obvious underperformers on their team that they have to work around, so pick your poison
bad hire doesn't necessarily mean bad/stupid/incompetent person, it just means bad hire. might not be a fit for the role, might not be a fit for the company. for example, i freely admit i was a bad hire at Google…
> Is your hiring process so flawed that you just accept that you screwed up hiring 5 percent of your people? if you only messed up 5% of your hires you'd be a goddamn genius and every company in the world would want to…
last quote is the key point and tracks with the other Vibe Shift press releases Mark has been on about. i read this as, there was a fear that laying off underperformers without very long PIP processes would be dangerous…
very true. love him or hate him, Trudeau deserves credit for surviving not just sexual assault allegations, but also the infamous blackface/brownface pictures[0], all during the height of #MeToo and leftist focus on…
> a desire to not centralize the Internet > If I didn't already self-host email this really says all that needs to be said about your perspective. you have an engineer and OSS advocate's mindset. which is fine, but most…
i heard the same shit when people were talking about outsourcing to India after the dotcom bubble burst. programmer salaries would cap out at $60k because of international competition. if you're afraid of salaries…
430 million people currently work in textiles[0]; how big was the industry before mechanical looms? [0] https://www.uniformmarket.com/statistics/global-apparel-indu...
yes, this. the backlog of software that needs to be built is fucking enormous. you know what i'd do if AI made it so i could replace 10 devs with 8? use the 2 newly-freed up developers to work on some of the other…
it means it took Frieren 1000 years to fully understand Rust's borrow checker.
> Explaining code, reviewing code, writing code, writing test, writing tech docs. people using GPT to write tech docs at real software companies get fired, full stop lol. good companies understand the value of concise &…
> bust most engineers are writing code most of the time. the physical act of writing code is different than the process of developing software. 80%+ of the time working on a feature is designing, reading existing code,…
this is the correct answer i can only assume software developers afraid of LLMs taking their jobs have not been doing this for long. being a software developer is about writing code in the same way that being a CEO is…
you're confusing "speaking English" with "knowing the English alphabet." these things are orthogonal. 95%+ of people in those countries know the english alphabet. i just threw down google maps street view at a random…
it's certainly hard to localize everything but billions of people use ios/android in India, China, SEA, MENA, etc... i think it's fair to say that at the end user level, computers are in fact usable by non-English…
> A good chunk of the world does not speak english or latin character based languages. nearly everyone in a first world country knows the English alphabet though. a vast majority of the developing world as well. just…
> and the companies trying to turn 5 positions into 2 aren’t paying enough to reliably get and keep two people who are good at it. it's turning 5 positions into 7: 5 people to do what currently needs to get done, 2 to…
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"over 50% of the country i live in are irredeemably terrible people" is obviously hyperbole -- if it were true, the onus would be on you to start taking action against those terrible people. but my guess is you don't…
> But if the person in front of you has done or advocated for things that cause harm or is themself a horrible person then I disagree. the current conflict in the middle east shows why this doesn't work in the long run.…
it's not really a questionable decision though. in the absence of morals, which is what we have in a capitalist society, the way to maximize the success of a corporation is to remove low performers and replace them with…
> Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people. corporations exist to make money, or maximize shareholder returns, depending on how you look at it. corporations don't exist to…
morale is also adversely affected by people having obvious underperformers on their team that they have to work around, so pick your poison
bad hire doesn't necessarily mean bad/stupid/incompetent person, it just means bad hire. might not be a fit for the role, might not be a fit for the company. for example, i freely admit i was a bad hire at Google…
> Is your hiring process so flawed that you just accept that you screwed up hiring 5 percent of your people? if you only messed up 5% of your hires you'd be a goddamn genius and every company in the world would want to…
last quote is the key point and tracks with the other Vibe Shift press releases Mark has been on about. i read this as, there was a fear that laying off underperformers without very long PIP processes would be dangerous…
very true. love him or hate him, Trudeau deserves credit for surviving not just sexual assault allegations, but also the infamous blackface/brownface pictures[0], all during the height of #MeToo and leftist focus on…
> a desire to not centralize the Internet > If I didn't already self-host email this really says all that needs to be said about your perspective. you have an engineer and OSS advocate's mindset. which is fine, but most…
i heard the same shit when people were talking about outsourcing to India after the dotcom bubble burst. programmer salaries would cap out at $60k because of international competition. if you're afraid of salaries…
430 million people currently work in textiles[0]; how big was the industry before mechanical looms? [0] https://www.uniformmarket.com/statistics/global-apparel-indu...
yes, this. the backlog of software that needs to be built is fucking enormous. you know what i'd do if AI made it so i could replace 10 devs with 8? use the 2 newly-freed up developers to work on some of the other…
it means it took Frieren 1000 years to fully understand Rust's borrow checker.
> Explaining code, reviewing code, writing code, writing test, writing tech docs. people using GPT to write tech docs at real software companies get fired, full stop lol. good companies understand the value of concise &…
> bust most engineers are writing code most of the time. the physical act of writing code is different than the process of developing software. 80%+ of the time working on a feature is designing, reading existing code,…
this is the correct answer i can only assume software developers afraid of LLMs taking their jobs have not been doing this for long. being a software developer is about writing code in the same way that being a CEO is…
you're confusing "speaking English" with "knowing the English alphabet." these things are orthogonal. 95%+ of people in those countries know the english alphabet. i just threw down google maps street view at a random…
it's certainly hard to localize everything but billions of people use ios/android in India, China, SEA, MENA, etc... i think it's fair to say that at the end user level, computers are in fact usable by non-English…
> A good chunk of the world does not speak english or latin character based languages. nearly everyone in a first world country knows the English alphabet though. a vast majority of the developing world as well. just…
> and the companies trying to turn 5 positions into 2 aren’t paying enough to reliably get and keep two people who are good at it. it's turning 5 positions into 7: 5 people to do what currently needs to get done, 2 to…