corsicanguppy @ corsicanguppy @lemmy.ca

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This wasn't "creativity over code" so much as it was the tail end of y2k and all the greybeards were canned so none could teach the shiny whiz kid how to code like an adult.

Without the linus-like code review sessions, they never learned why and how to improve.

Now their kludge-bro mentality has raised a whole new generation.

And that's why people don't know not to flatpak or npm themselves into a solarwinds sploit.

"Having hired over 500 engineers personally in my career, if your resume came across my list, I would definitely pass."

Heh.A job seeker with three FANG companies on their resume does not give a shit if this random person would bin their resume.

You'd be surprised. Anecdotes what they are, I know a stunningly-capable dev with an ROTC accelerated BEng degree and a BSc+MSc chaser, an international resume including Snap, FB, Apple, A-I shops, instruction, leading teams; it's heroic.

Been out of work for months after a start-up imploded and ghosted the dev and didn't send the RoE nor apparently also tax withholdings and all manner of retroactively-shady stuff. Start-ups are risky, kids, even if the idea is amazeballs-great.

It happens in this job and this market. It's happened before, and it will happen again if we live or have lived long enough.

Also, I'm trying to imagine a scenario where having needed to hire 500 people, personally, in a single career isn't embarrassing.

Consider a career that spans more than a year.

At my last dotcom, a vPBX 10 years ago, they were hiring 2 people a day for a year. Every damned day. The niche was huge and they were gutting the local market of sound and kernel and Kafka and mqtt people. Very minimal ditching, all new nerds.

So that's 700+ in just a year. And people work at their jobs for often far more than that: sometimes they make a career out of it, my dude.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

This proof fails when n>2.

I'm just glad I have a name for what I'd also agree was the single most lonely time of my own life, hunkered-down in a North Seattle apartment for 18 months before bailing on my green card and h1 and going back to Vancouver.

Because the weather wasn't the issue; but I'd suggest improving the rail transit and rolling the shitty moldy wet-wood lowboy apartments into something more dense to allow for beneficial green-space. This emerald city needs a little more greenery!

But transit and greenery may be a little avant-garde for a country still undecided on the issue of felons as kings :-\

I wasn't expecting the "everything older than me is wrong and bad" trend to attack a provincial name.

Have you met the rich?

I hear about this Donald guy on my TV all the time. He doesn't seem to be in our control yet.

Oh jeez. He is from Flint, Michigan.

The sad thing is, in this timeline it isn't out of place among the whackadoo things they've said.

The hillbillies think Taylor Swift is part of a conspiracy to prevent electing their chosen dictator of all things. That's where they are now. It isn't like what you wrote is too far ahead on the road of crazy; more like it's barely visible on the rearview.

The farther you get from America, the more woefully absurd it sounds. But, right in the middle of America, it's a very different place.

And at this point in time, gun fetishism has gone meta-static and is afflicting many different states.

And it's not the possession of guns alone: I've seen the exposé where Switzerland's gun culture is compared, and questions are asked about how they can have one gun per adult and still suffer an almost non-existent rate of accidents and murders. A lot of it resembles the 1950s where kids would be part of a school .22 target rifle team, store their guns and ammo on the premises and still no one got hurt.

I really think it's the worship of guns, where Meal Team 6 tries to emulate cowboys of old, and fails on every level.

... A metaphoric one, you mean? Because ... um ... nevermind.

Slip-on shoes at the door seem to be an alien concept.

Did you not have mothers who'd throw things at your head if you wore your shoes in the house? Were you not better than 'shoes in the house' people?

Nice try; but as we see in Canada, the half-wits have also borrowed 'thru' from America too. But it doesn't stop there; I blame your comma splice indirectly on bad American schooling, for instance.

I'd like to see this broken down by sector. This is consumer-shaming enough, when a good portion of it is probably industrial non-consumer use.

1. comma splices are neat; but have you heard of other punctuation?
2. credit scores are a neat way to make a game out of blaming regular people for the continued collapse and bail-out of wall street and banks.

Can it just be an effort to lay off the idiots who can't wear a mask? Consulting the photo, I see someone who after THREE YEARs still doesn't understand YOUR NOSE GOES IN THE MASK.

I think it's been well-understood from the outset that the project would only be a tool for Albertan oil companies to sell bitumen internationally and not be a tool to help alberta, the environment, canada .. or, really, anyone other than oil company CEOs. Getting the Conservatives to pressure Justin into buying this ridiculous climate disaster waiting to happen regularly was a massive coup; and maybe it'll mean bigger campaign donations for Conservatives, but maybe not. The nature of fairweather friends is they tend to attract their own fairweather friends.

Would papyrus sealed in clay jars in a cave high in the mountains above a dead sea be okay?

Future archaeologists will wonder at how 'literally' became defined as its own antonym, and why there were no other adverbs for a decade.

Two jobs, both 100% remote (one of them for 22 years).

Try not to trip over the cat.

I've used chagpt and google's new one, whose name eludes me.

In cases where I absolutely have to write in a language or structure I hate, I prototype in an A-I to speed up the experience so I can stop sooner. It saves me so much time doing something I hate.