I agree, a free market would work that way... Yet 'fail upwards' and zombie companies seem to be the default. Personally I don't believe that what we have in the west is a free market. I think these days, it's probably…
In most of the west, technically talented people are fully subjugated to suits so I'm not surprised. Sometimes, there are brief moments when technical people are given the control they need to deliver... But after a few…
Why do you assume I have access to such opportunities? This whole argument rests on the idea that everyone has equal access to opportunities. Which is incorrect. Firstly, it's trivial to prove that the hiring process is…
This is beyond retarded. It's not a loophole, it's too f stupid to count as a loophole. This interpretation is a violation of the law. They should jail every EU parliamentarian who claims that this is a valid…
Maybe. Probably. It's hard for me to perceive sarcasm these days. I'm becoming just like the neoliberals I used to criticize who gets triggered at the slightest thing haha. It's like if someone made a joke about…
On the end screen, it shows "Shareholder value created" with some huge number. I find this terrifying because it suggests that the people who built this game are more naive than I am... And this is a game about a…
In 5 years, every car will need to include a pack of adult diapers.
Absence of problems is definitely a major factor but I like to think of 'maintainability' as being the main marker of quality. Maintainable code has fewer problems because it makes problems easier to solve.
My car would start beeping randomly and one day it wouldn't stop beeping. Turns out it was because we have a baby seat in the back on a window seat but it would slightly touch the edge of the middle seat. The solution…
It's a matter of time before someone invents sunglasses with eyes painted on the lenses.
The term is not very useful since most humans are stochastic parrots... At least most of the time. Not suggesting that I don't say stuff on autopilot sometimes but for many people, it's their only mode of operation.…
As a developer, when Facebook says that WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, you know that it means "the default client provides encryption, by default" but you know very well that they could selectively turn it off for…
It sounds shocking because it's one sentence which delivers two surprises; Oxford is older than expected and the Aztec empire is more recent than expected.
I've come to dislike hacker culture. Worst part is that when the hackers succeed with their objectives and take over systems; they become the authority coordinating others and they are often 10x worse than the…
Yes and I feel like GDPR has harmed EU startups and helped US companies.
This is where I disagree as a software engineer who has seen EU products built and not adopted... I've also built products myself which were fully functioning and scalable but not widely adopted. Building is not the…
Yes. A lot of people have a very loose definition. Which is strange to me. Some people think of the postman who brings them letters as "helping" but I don't consider it that way as they're being paid. The people who…
The thing is, the pie feels as though it is fixed in tech sector due to monopolization. It's fixed in terms of who can have a slice at all. So while the size of the pie and people's slice can grow, who can sit at the…
It feels like they've been paid to sell out the users themselves, not just the data. It's weird that EU is so dependant on US tech when it comes to media platforms... While there are alternatives out there. In a lot of…
It's incredibly difficult for me to ask for help because I was raised to always pull myself up by the bootstraps. This attitude has seeped into my moral framework. If I get help, it's special treatment; it's an unfair…
Quitting is for losers. You should just quiet quit and start acting and don't take anything too seriously. Probably all your colleagues feel the same way anyway. Everyone is just hustling and bullshitting at this point.…
You just shouldn't take anything too seriously. I used to resent being paid by the hour instead of based on deliverables. But nowadays I am extremely glad that I bill hourly. It's a different skillset. There's a lot of…
It's a systemic issue unfortunately. When some of these unethical CEOs say that they feel like they have no control and that if they didn't do it, someone else would, I believe them and it makes sense. That's why they…
I'm not an antivaxxer but a vax-minimalist. Whether I get a vaccine or not depends on the vibes it gives off... I didn't get COVID shot because I felt pressured into it and I was like; "You calling me a super-spreader?…
Great article. I think the problem though is that people changed, fundamentally. In the day of the crappy forum, people actually cared about interesting ideas, thoughts, experiments, community. You could join a forum…
I agree, a free market would work that way... Yet 'fail upwards' and zombie companies seem to be the default. Personally I don't believe that what we have in the west is a free market. I think these days, it's probably…
In most of the west, technically talented people are fully subjugated to suits so I'm not surprised. Sometimes, there are brief moments when technical people are given the control they need to deliver... But after a few…
Why do you assume I have access to such opportunities? This whole argument rests on the idea that everyone has equal access to opportunities. Which is incorrect. Firstly, it's trivial to prove that the hiring process is…
This is beyond retarded. It's not a loophole, it's too f stupid to count as a loophole. This interpretation is a violation of the law. They should jail every EU parliamentarian who claims that this is a valid…
Maybe. Probably. It's hard for me to perceive sarcasm these days. I'm becoming just like the neoliberals I used to criticize who gets triggered at the slightest thing haha. It's like if someone made a joke about…
On the end screen, it shows "Shareholder value created" with some huge number. I find this terrifying because it suggests that the people who built this game are more naive than I am... And this is a game about a…
In 5 years, every car will need to include a pack of adult diapers.
Absence of problems is definitely a major factor but I like to think of 'maintainability' as being the main marker of quality. Maintainable code has fewer problems because it makes problems easier to solve.
My car would start beeping randomly and one day it wouldn't stop beeping. Turns out it was because we have a baby seat in the back on a window seat but it would slightly touch the edge of the middle seat. The solution…
It's a matter of time before someone invents sunglasses with eyes painted on the lenses.
The term is not very useful since most humans are stochastic parrots... At least most of the time. Not suggesting that I don't say stuff on autopilot sometimes but for many people, it's their only mode of operation.…
As a developer, when Facebook says that WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, you know that it means "the default client provides encryption, by default" but you know very well that they could selectively turn it off for…
It sounds shocking because it's one sentence which delivers two surprises; Oxford is older than expected and the Aztec empire is more recent than expected.
I've come to dislike hacker culture. Worst part is that when the hackers succeed with their objectives and take over systems; they become the authority coordinating others and they are often 10x worse than the…
Yes and I feel like GDPR has harmed EU startups and helped US companies.
This is where I disagree as a software engineer who has seen EU products built and not adopted... I've also built products myself which were fully functioning and scalable but not widely adopted. Building is not the…
Yes. A lot of people have a very loose definition. Which is strange to me. Some people think of the postman who brings them letters as "helping" but I don't consider it that way as they're being paid. The people who…
The thing is, the pie feels as though it is fixed in tech sector due to monopolization. It's fixed in terms of who can have a slice at all. So while the size of the pie and people's slice can grow, who can sit at the…
It feels like they've been paid to sell out the users themselves, not just the data. It's weird that EU is so dependant on US tech when it comes to media platforms... While there are alternatives out there. In a lot of…
It's incredibly difficult for me to ask for help because I was raised to always pull myself up by the bootstraps. This attitude has seeped into my moral framework. If I get help, it's special treatment; it's an unfair…
Quitting is for losers. You should just quiet quit and start acting and don't take anything too seriously. Probably all your colleagues feel the same way anyway. Everyone is just hustling and bullshitting at this point.…
You just shouldn't take anything too seriously. I used to resent being paid by the hour instead of based on deliverables. But nowadays I am extremely glad that I bill hourly. It's a different skillset. There's a lot of…
It's a systemic issue unfortunately. When some of these unethical CEOs say that they feel like they have no control and that if they didn't do it, someone else would, I believe them and it makes sense. That's why they…
I'm not an antivaxxer but a vax-minimalist. Whether I get a vaccine or not depends on the vibes it gives off... I didn't get COVID shot because I felt pressured into it and I was like; "You calling me a super-spreader?…
Great article. I think the problem though is that people changed, fundamentally. In the day of the crappy forum, people actually cared about interesting ideas, thoughts, experiments, community. You could join a forum…