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Expect it to happen, a lot. It’s normal. Power gets consolidated too much, and eventually the slaves and peasants revolt. And not by voting for the political party that didn’t win the time before. By making consequences visceral. History is littered with this cycle.
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Then you’re doing it wrong. Don’t know why younger generations like to brag about how their mass resume spamming approach didn’t work, as if that was somehow unexpected. Must be an attention thing.
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@notlekrut It might die but not for a long time. Too much existing infrastructure that orgs are loathe to update, even if it’s a seamless and easy swap. Then you also have a lot of orgs that like the idea that they can pay another org for official support for this, even if it buys them little to nothing. Half of what these middle and upper middle management do is just box checking and ass covering.
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@VelvetSage Most bubbles don’t burst, they deflate
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Is that the new “military grade” meaningless label for things now. The “milspec” of tech?
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These people lie and exaggerate so idiots will watch their videos. And even if they did spam their resume to 600 companies, who cares, that’s not how you job hunt. You need to tailor your resume and cover letter for each job and only after realistically determining if you’d be someone they’d want to hire. It also means not applying for listings that say they’ve already had hundreds of applicants, unless you’ve got an absolutely amazing resume and interviewing skills, because these HR departments and hiring managers aren’t going to waste time interviewing 500 people for a simple tech job. If you go the lazy route and spam out the same, usually badly made resume, you deserve to get mass rejected.
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@juanjosefarina Then it’s not easy. Easy requires really good design, really well thought out everything, that’s what makes things intuitive and difficult to misuse. Git was slapped together by the type of devs who think making things intuitive, straight forward, and easy is a threat to their ego which is built around knowing obscurity and thinking that makes them smart. That or they just didn’t care.
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This article is basically: “I somehow don’t realize everything has quirks, limits, and use cases so I’m pretending only htmx does.”
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And nothing is intuitive, they couldn’t even name things intuitively. Using synonyms for two different commands that do tangibly different things is just lazy.
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@freeottis Popular opinions? If they were popular you wouldn’t need censorship. The same way legitimately popular anything doesn’t need paid bots and shills.
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@auxiliaryboxes With your reading comprehension, no wonder it’s hard for you. I’d guess most things are hard for you lol.
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⁠ @ZM-dm3jg Yeah once you’ve been a developer for like 15 years, you’ve been around long enough to understand how much of this stuff is overhyped, trend-chasing, and recycling old tech/patterns and pretending they’re new. Programming has a lot more in common with fashion than most realize. But if you haven’t been doing this long enough, you’re unlikely to see the pattern repeat enough to see what’s really going on and instead, you latch onto things for the wrong reasons.
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Dumb. “The problem” they claim doesn’t even mention a problem. It just says they think it will be free (nothing is free) to have per user database, therefore, per user databases. It’s is a pseudo-intellectual version of “I made it because I can, now let me scramble to rationalize it.”
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People to manage cloud services, people to manage the dev pipelines, people to audit and optimize. And it’s all changing faster than most DIY solutions. I’ve had Azure consultants, who work for MS, and whose job it is to listen to your needs/questions then recommend what services they have to best compose your infrastructure and even they didn’t know about lots of things because MS is churning through changes so fast.
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Git is the JavaScript of source control. It mostly sucks, pretends to be easy while hiding unnecessary complexity, but got so widely adopted that we’re all stuck with it,
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@zuck9090 Lol, what? I lived in a completely different era? So you’re saying I’m dead and somehow typing this from the afterlife? No wonder you guys can’t find jobs lol
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Like most coding content creators with over half a million subs, he wants to just make low effort content all day and sell ads and courses. Does he even really code anymore?
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⁠ @thewiirocks Mercurial is so much better than Git but unfortunately tooling and platform support for it is really lacking and that alone makes it not feasible for a lot of orgs. It’s one thing to convince them to change for the better but if their tools and cloud dev ops pipeline doesn’t support it, game over.
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Of course. It’s not a charity donation. Investments are done for ROI.
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No, we like complexity. Makes is feel smart to know something most people won’t bother to learn. Not because it’s useful, but because we can feel smug about it.
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Nearly everything new is just old/boring with a new name and a different coat of paint on it. There’s too much desperation to reinvent the wheel for attention or because people don’t study their history and think they’ve discovered something new that’s not.
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Programming content creators should stop clickbaiting
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He/Him Gay
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GraphQL is just another one of those poorly thought out things that got popular because so many devs love to crawl up into the butt cheeks of big tech companies and assume if they’re doing it, it must be the best, and also they’ll seem smart if they do it too.
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@someman7 Flexibility is always a trade off, it’s not free. If you don’t know for a fact that you need that level of flexibility, and it’s worth the cost, don’t do it. Way too many devs love to choose stack and design for hypothetical future requirements that 98% of the time never become needed, and they carry that technical baggage around for nothing.
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@jhoughjr1 Oh I’d be wiling to bet I’ve gone further than you
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Asian Indians are taking A LOT of jobs, because they work for cheap. So yes, AI is taking jobs
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@auxiliaryboxes Your reply reeks of arrogance. Sure, let me just write up an in depth guide on effective resume writing, job hunting, and how to interview. Because you all asked so nicely and there aren’t already countless resources that cover these things on the web and YT. Hey, maybe I can write all your resumes for free too, then give you all individualized tips on finding jobs, the best ways to apply, and how to do well in interviews. I’ll even toss in doing mock interviews for practice. I mean, I sure wouldn’t want some rude randos in a YT video comment thread to think I’m lying, how could I live with myself?!
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Managing 3 devs is not a full time job, unless you seriously hired the wrong people. Unless you’re a small startup, you probably have an existing manger or even the CTO who can handle an extra couple of meetings per week plus whatever review process and admin busywork for 3 more staff. It would be unlikely you’d hire a new manager for such a small team. Usually they farm those duties out to a team lead which is an awful role but getting popular due to the cost cutting of making a senior dev pull triple duty as a dev, manager, and usually a PM as well.
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Imagine beating so sad that the master/slave naming convention bothers you, or worse, you pretend it does to virtue signal. As if naming things that is actually causing people to be enslaved somewhere. If one iota of that wasted effort was put into stopping actual slavery, out less people would be free of a life of misery. But I guess showing off for attention is just as worthy a cause.
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@ Writing code for video content is contrived if not scripted. Every full time coding content creator does that
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Funny how all these orgs run by woke, anti-capitalist types sure want to profit off you. And before you say Mozilla is a non-profit, go look up the countless ways people directly profit off non-profits
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@TAP7a It’s a financial investment, why else do they do it? Of you don’t expect a return, that’s just called charity.
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@sutirk Yeah, you don’t know what capitalism is. It’s fine, just don’t use words you don’t understand. You’ll embarrass yourself less.
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Why are people trying so hard to make “cooked” a thing. Just stop with taking old slang and acting like it’s new. That’s what hipsters do and everyone hates hipsters.
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What actual coding are you doing anyhow. Seems like all you do is make videos
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Cloudflare is an evil, fascistic company. But they push trendy wokeisms, so that makes up for it, right? You always know it’s a shit person or company when they feel the need to virtue signal. They’re hoping it distracts and protects from how bad they are.
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Thinking not using cloud services is “thinking different”. Translation: I’ve been doing for less than 10 years and think IT didn’t exist before I learned about it.
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@jhoughjr1 You won’t go very far in life with the reading comprehension of a 4 year old. “Look at me, I think writing code for a long time means I’m right and the code I wrote made millions for someone else. Not me, but someone, you know, like every programmer who has ever worked for an employer who has any real revenue!” Would hate to have been your employers, they missed out on making billions if you made them millions.
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@KevinJDildonik Lol, yeah, it’s the fault of a chat bot. And violent video games and movies were the cause of all killings before LLMs.
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@ege8240 You here to cry too about not being able to find a good job
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How gullible are you, this has nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with cost cutting and share price bolstering in an anticipation of a continued downturn in the industry. When blatantly they say it’s not because of something, that’s what it’s because of.
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Oh no, what will people do instead of wasting their time and money playing boring games to try and distract themselves from their growing IRL problems
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@somjrgebn Well the American Revolution for one. The French Revolution would have worked if they hadn’t set up a garbage democratic structure. The Americans learned from that. Same with the Russians and their first revolution against the Tsar. Things would have worked out if the government they set up wasn’t so fragile. So it’s not that the revolts don’t work, they just don’t result in better circumstances if what follows is garbage. But the American Revolution did just fine and the French did ok after the whole Napoleon thing.
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@ The merchant class isn’t far peasantry, them American Revolution certainly wasn’t fought by nobility and some standing army. The French would have been fine if they hadn’t implemented an ineffective Directory that easily led to corruption. That had nothing to do with the fact the revolution was started in the lower classes and everything to do with poor implementation of a post monarch governance. And as I mentioned ironed, the first Russian revolution was on fairly solid footing but didn’t have the resources to fend off a strong collation of socialist factions, If America had some large faction willing to start a second revolution shortly after it won its independence, things could have been very different. Another example is the Taiping Rebellion which wasn’t directly successful but weakened the Qing enough for the Manchu overthrow of the dynasty. You also have the Mexican revolution which did lead to better quality of life and equality with the resulting constitution. Point is, regardless of outcome, the plebs will revolt at some point p, regardless of whether or not it directly leads to a better outcome. Often it requires a successive chain of events for things to improve. Various labor reforms in Europe and the US were a direct result of slave and worker revolts. Many examples of that. The 8 hour work day becoming common was a result of one in Chicago
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@pxolqopt3597 Interviews should always be a two way evaluation
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Nah, the decades of lying about a tech worker shortage got them where they went to be. They imported countless devs from the 3rd world, they pushed everyone towards thinking learning how to code was easy money, they pushed women into the field as much as possible under the lie of equality and representation. The whole thing was about making a labor glut so they could drive down wages and fire for any little thing and have an instant pool of replacements ready to go.
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@ Overpopulation sucks. Automation will take a lot of jobs and there will be 5-20 people competing for the ones that are left. Why do you think you keep seeing all this propaganda saying population decline is so bad to justify mass immigration from the 3rd world while they tell Westerners not to have kids because they’re annoying and expensive, not to get married, and to just focus all your money on buying a house when prices are at their peak.
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@flyingsquirrel3271 It’s effectively the same though in terms of doing parallel work using multiple threads. It’s just with multiple processes those additional threads are wrapped in the overhead of processes which yeah, incurs more overhead for them to communicate. But it’s still multi threading.
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Apps really aren’t more complex now than they were in 2005. 99% of the time it’s just the same basic CRUD front and back end. We’ve added a lot more ways to do the same thing and a desire to support them all adds complexity. Why not let people log into your app with every imaginable 3rd party account in existence? Why not create a bunch of ML models to figure out what to show people, which totally isn’t worse than a basic search and sort? Why not spend 300% more on cloud services and training everyone on them, then complicating all our apps to support the, just to get a couples of tenths of a percent uptime, in theory of course, than being down that extra time would ever cost the business. Learning over complicated things makes us feel smart and gives us the hope of more job security. Implementing over complicated things lets us pretend our employer needs us because otherwise they could get by with half the team or less. We also have a thousand ways to complicate simple things because every dev just has to have a bunch of repos on GitHub, because a resume alone means nothing, but rehashing some else’s code to make a library that does almost nothing, or already exists in 100 other flavors, that, that’s what an employer should look for.
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@ You clearly didn’t need to make a comment to show you have no point to make
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@ Seems to spend all his time making videos and live streaming
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@rusi6219 Creators of content about programming, is that more clear?
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@Asto508 You should, because companies mass import them under the lie that they can’t find qualified Americans, when the real motive is getting dirt cheap labor they can exploit.
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@Graahk-r8u You need some understanding of hardware to know how to architect the software unless it’s a trivial job. Maybe with cloud trash that’s only understanding what kind of compute, memory, fast/warm/cold storage, network speeds, may be GPU specs you’ll need. If you’re working with on-prem or co-lo your hardware, you might need to know more about the hardware if getting max performance and scaling is a priority.
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@hooflung128 This whole push to rearchitect everything for these cloud services was sold as a way to minimize costs and increase scalability and uptime but really, it was dome so cloud providers can pack as many customers onto as little hardware as possible and NOT pass the savings on to them. Azure p, while it has gotten more price competitive lately, was horrible about charging the same price for the same specs year after year even though their costs for everything went way down. No wonder why Azure is a thin of their revenue now and growing.
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@danlowe You don’t know what capitalism is
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@GoalOrientedLifting Free market capitalism was never about some concept of a no rules level of freedom. That’s the sort of take you get from people who don’t understand economics. Free market capitalism requires a modicum of effective, targeted, and fairly enforced regulation to operate. That’s what is meant by, free, that it’s free from undue restriction and interference by both the government AND private sector.
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@inmosh No, there not what free market capitalism has ever meant. Capitalism requires a level of regulation, legal enforcement, dispute resolution, and protection of property rights. The issue is when this regulation becomes corrupt and becomes the enemy of the market instead of its guardian. A market or economy in general, free from any rules, can’t work and would work. Eventually it would be taken over by one or multiple factions and then you end up with socialism or an oligarchy.
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@neildutoit5177 It was never easier, all marketing. Just like how offshoring jobs is so easy, seamless, and guaranteed to save you tons of cash whip not making you totally regret it later. People got sold on the idea that you only pay for what you use. True, except you’re paying 10x more for it. But you don’t have to manage the hardware yourself! Yeah that already existed with countless full service colo data centers if that’s what you wanted. I’ve seen a company abandon a nearly $1b data center that was only a couple of years old, spend hundreds of millions moving to Amazon, only to spend hundreds of millions a year there AND had to pay out over $100m in fines for a data breach that happened because they didn’t know how to secure their S3.
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@FirstYokai Part of tailoring it is optimizing the keywords, this is basic stuff, and if it takes you 2 hours, you’re doing it wrong. You make a handful of variations depending on the exact job role and/or stack, customizing a cover letter takes no time. The less work experience you have the easier it is to tailor the resume too so most of you who can’t even fill out a full page without fluff, how can you be spending 2 hours on it. You spend the time up front learning how to craft a good resume, how to make sure it’s optimized and formatted so that resume parsers don’t have any issue and don’t reject you. These are skills that pay off for a lifetime. I’ve lost count of how many resumes I’ve seen and none were done well. Learn how to do it right and you can massively increase your visibility and call backs for an interview. And that’s all a resume is supposed to do, get you an interview. People saying they had to submit X resumes before they got a job don’t understand that resumes get you interviews, not jobs, you get the job by knowing what you need to know and having good interviewing skills.
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@cunny1307 Not a boomer but we def found the idiot here. I’m glad fools like you think how you do your resume doesn’t matter at all, less competition for me, not that you’d be competition anyhow but I’m glad you get rejected at the ATS level. By the way, that’s what those systems are called, only a simp calls every piece of software a “bot” lol. Back to your internship noob.
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@ege8240 No, there very much is a censorship conspiracy. On the surface the excuse is being “advertiser friendly” but behind those ad dollars are a lot of armchair activists who are doing the bidding of elitists, whether they know it or not. Most don’t care either way as it’s lining their pockets and making them feel like they matter, either because they’ve rationalized it’s “the right thing” or because they get a power trip from it.
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@theReal_WKD He made the case for cloud: When you have a small business and aren’t sure what your infrastructure needs will be in a year, or even if you’ll be around in a year. Or if your needs aren’t even at the point of needing a cheap server. For more established companies, maybe if your current infrastructure is close to capacity or isn’t suited for sole new app/service you’re going to launch and you want that to prove itself and iron out its needs before committing to more hardware, setup, and maintenance.
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It scales the bank accounts of Amazon, MS, and Google.
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@kneesnap1041 Most things are poorly and unintuitive named which adds to the learning curve and cognitive overhead, it’s not designed for for what basically everyone uses it for, things like open source OS and kernel development vs corporate/gov development teams, and those extra steps and options create lots of opportunity to mess things up. And while I know that there are the type who think endless flexibility in how you handle your branching strategy is just the best thing ever, it’s not, not when when most people using it will be having debates of which is way of branching is better, none of them are ideal, and there’s no guardrails to ensure people stick to whatever you went with. If you have a highly experienced team, you know from lots of experience a specific branching strategy is the best for your team, and everyone just does everything right, great. But for everyone else, simpler, opinionated, and standardized lets you just get things done and not have to worry. And the complexity leads to difficulty in visualizing the history without GUI tools, and there’s so many of those, the ones built into a lot of IDEs aren’t great so do you stick with that or buy some better commercial app, learn that and your next job probably won’t be using it. Mercurial is a lot better, hell, even MS TFS (while lacking some nice to haves) is just so much easier to use for what most orgs are doing. I don’t work on an open source Linux distro, and I’m guessing most of you, pretty much all of you, aren’t either. Git just wasn’t made for how most teams in orgs operate or the type of projects they work on. Why not use the right tool for the job.
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GraphQL seems cool at first and if your app is low-mid complexity, complex enough you don’t want to just do REST but not really complex, it’s ok. Just ok. Simple apps and it’s overkill. Complex apps and the overhead of it just isn’t worth it. There’s a sweet spot for it like with every solution but just like with every solution, there are reams of devs who think it’s great in every or almost every case simply because they don’t know anything else, or because they’re trend chasers and think knowing/using what’s new or popular makes them seem smart.
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Why? You’re going to use the best option available in a given language. If a language doesn’t have a better way to handle or simulate threads, you want to know that and compare what it does have. The whole point is comparing a given scenario in each language, not show in which languages do something the same way.
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@zuck9090 We get it, your skills are trash or unwanted and your narcissism won’t let you accept the possibility that you’re not the best job candidate to ever exist. Also you hate boomers because that’s trendy with Millennials and Gen Z, or something. Hope you added “Cliche” to your resume. Please, keep spamming your resume and whining about how it’s so hard out there to find a job, because “it’s a different era”. Record unemployment, lots of unfilled job listings, what a horrible era. Nobody’s ever had it as bad as you, poor little guy.
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@frank13621 The last time I applied for a job I accepted was 6 years ago. I applied again last year, out of 3 positions I applied for, I got 3 interviews and one job offer, which I didn’t take because their initial claim of being fully remote was, in the end, revealed to be soon changing to hybrid remote, which I had no interest in. 2 of these 3 positions, HR reps reached out to me about. I also had another job last year offered to me through a personal contact but the salary wasn’t what I wanted, but they did ask for my resume and wanted to hire me, no interview needed. I didn’t really apply for that so I don’t count it, I just wanted to see what they would offer. There was one attempt at applying for a job which I never actually applied for, so I don’t count that. I never submitted a resume, I first wanted some questions answered about the job and pay as the company was outside the US. They never replied over their “careers” email. I tracked down the personal emails of both founders and emailed them directly and also got no response. Given how small this company is and how casual their operating structure is by their own admission, not being able to get some very basic questions answered up front is a big red flag, so moved on. I spent time researching these companies from multiple angles, tailoring my resume for the jobs and the nature of the companies. All in, I’d say I probably spent around 8 hours to get 3 interviews and a job offer, which is nothing really. None of these companies were high profile tech companies but they did range from established startup to Fortune 500. I’d never even bother with high profile tech companies. I do have friends at Amazon NYC who could almost guarantee me a nice paying dev role, with decent stock bonuses and a signing bonus, but they all hate working there and despite still being “remote”, they feel obligated to fly to NYC several times a year to sit in a pointless meeting that could and should be done over a call, if at all.
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@Digger-Nick Lol, what? Bro, how dumb are you?
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@sethgaston8347 Only real benefits to the org from internships is hopefully finding talent they want and who will come on for a full time, and a little PR from the optics of it. The place I’m at has gone through around 20 interns a year and in the last 7 years they’ve only hired on like 3 interns. And these were pretty well paid internships. The work they got out of them was as best competent but min wage work, at worst totally useless.
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@cewla3348 You get jobs by learning the skills for what’s in demand. Dev work is over saturated. Especially front end dev. You can accept the reality and get the skills for jobs that are in demand and have long term demand potential, or you can insist the universe bend to your will and give you a high paying job and life long job security without you having to change. I can tell you now which one won’t work. Companies lied for decades about an IT worker shortage because they wanted to drive down wages. They lied about how they couldn’t find qualified American workers so they could import dirt cheap foreign labor with indentured servant like sponsored visa schemes. When there was a crackdown on that, they convinced everyone they needed to learn how to code. People who didn’t bother to research this stuff fell for it. It was all just to saturate the market so that these companies with lots of expensive tech workers could cut salaries and make more profits. Not only that but they can be super picky and demand 8 years of experience for a Jr role, or if they don’t call it a Jr role, they pay the salary of one. This is only possible because of labor oversupply. So you need to decide: Do you want to kill yourself trying to endlessly compete with more and more people for less and less pay, fewer jobs, and less job security? Or do you want to bite the bullet and make a career change to one where you’ve got some leverage? Most people change careers at least once in their life. Might as well do it now if it’s going to give you life long benefits rather than later when it’s harder and you’ve lost a decade or two in earning, saving, and investment ROI potential. And by making the change now while all the other deer are still staring at the IT job headlights, you’ll already be set and experienced in a solid field when the rest make a stamped for other fields as IT job demand plummets over the next 20 years.
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@ Lol, what?
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This isn’t about that, it’s about the “feelings over facts” crowd wanting to lower the bar so someone who grew up getting participation trophies doesn’t feel bad for not being treated like a coding god
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“Also we’re totally anti-capitalist, now give us money because we have lots of stuff we want to buy.”
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All of those things sound made up
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Use a non-woke open source fork of FF
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@ I saw that. It’s sad to see these narcissists trying to hijack everything they can and destroy it so they can make a soapbox, as if anyone cared about the politics of rando devs for some OSS project. But hey, if people want to expose themselves as zealots, be grateful they make it easy to avoid them.
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@laffta6727 He’s making $50k a month coding but wastes tons of time making super niche YT videos that don’t make money? Lol
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@ AI isn’t even AI so no need to worry about an uprising. AI is an abused term tossed at anything that produces good results from some semi-passive coding process, AKA machine learning. It’s not intelligent in any tangible sense of the term. Nobody would consider Windows or iOS to be intelligent and yet the only real difference is one is coded by hand and deterministic and the other is coded through an automated process and pseudo-probabilistic
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@Ktulhoved If you’re using microservices, there’s a very good chance you don’t need to be using microservices. If you do legit need them, there’s still probably better ways than GQL to access them. The “I legit need microservices AND GQL is the best interface for them” is much, much smaller than “I used them because [insert big company name here] uses them.”
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@old_gaffer Old is subjective. Calling logical fallacy on you calling logical fallacy.
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@NostraDavid2 SQL was meant to be easy to read, understand, and English-like. And that’s why it won out despite its pitfalls. It’s not like alternatives weren’t proposed and even developed which embrace relational algebra, they just never got popular. Although LINQ is fairly popular and has more relational algebra aspects to it as well as functional programming, but unfortunately it gets transpired to SQL when working with a RDBMS and not always ideal SQL.
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