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What struck me most about this essay is the privilege required to make it all possible. From educational institution to educational institution changing focus and whimsically studying other fields without much care for how to make a living or how it all would be paid for. Perhaps just omitted from the story because it wasn't relevant or doesn't need explaining.

Kids these days sure don't have it so lucky, and if they do, well then they probably already hit the jackpot at birth.

How many fewer pgs will we have tomorrow because of the financial burdens and inefficiencies of higher education today?

I wonder if there is a correlation between commenters here who are critical of the article and also consider themselves talented?

It’s backbone but with jsx

I've had good success with AnyCable

I was ghosted by a recruiter at Stripe. As in, they didn't show up to a call they scheduled with me.

I emailed patio11 about it. He brought their head of recruiting into the conversation to remedy the situation. Their head of recruitment suggested we hop on a call to discuss.

I can't make this shit up, but guess what the head of recruitment did? Didn't show up to the call.

It's hard to imagine why recruiters get a bad shake /s

I wonder how many, if any, great software engineers simply let their careers stall out because they don't want to deal with the ceremony around tech hiring.

You're optimizing for the wrong thing there.

Given 10 positions you need to fill anticipating these hires will stick around for 3-5 years each.

Pick one:

- [ ] 10 "less experienced" developers for 3-5 years

- [ ] 9 "very experienced" developers for 3-5 years + 1 "no experience" developer for a few months which you'll then have a 90% chance of replacing with a "very experienced" developer

This used to be accurate in the days of auto initializing jquery plugins, but probably isn’t the case today if you’re actually using stimulus.

I’ve been using mailcatcher for a long time. https://mailcatcher.me/

Major balls dropped, multiple times. Ouch, sorry Ryan.

I’ve been kicking around the idea of moving my stuff off DO. This might be the push that does it.

Good.

I've stopped contributing to SO.

SO is simply going the same route as Experts Exchange (if you're old enough to remember it). It has amassed a significant amount of knowledge (for free!) that they'll some day hide behind a paywall and sell to desperate seekers of that information.

A company owned always on video and listening device in my home? How about not.

I just went through a job search and this is what I landed on.

Every CRUD webapp startup thinks they need FAANG-like hiring processes and fucking suck at it.

I ended up taking a job that was mostly a no-interview process. Two calls to talk about the fit.

They looked at my job history (gasp!) talked to some references (double gasp!) verified my ability to code with my github contributes (omfg I can't breathe!) and offered me a position.

Less money, but definitely less bullshit. It was a good choice for me.

I just went through an job hunt. I've been in tech for nearly two decades, and tech hiring has gotten definitively worse. It was never good to begin with, but it has become more painful from a candidate's perspective.

Employers are so focused on the well shared "the worst hire is a bad hire!" that they implement obtuse and ineffective hoops candidates must jump through in attempt to weed out "bad" candidates. This results in hiring those who survive the process, not those that will do the best work.

> Execute order 66.

I really like Crystal and have had good success using it for web stuffs. I still reach for ruby first, because the dev feedback loop is a lot faster and the ecosystem is more vibrant.

The biggest gain I've found in using Crystal vs Ruby is reduced memory usage.

Most often my code isn't slow because of the language, but the data access behind it, so counting CPU cycles is less of a priority for me.

Sissy is pretty great, and has been around for a while https://sizzy.co/

I doubt it. Distributed work forces being successful is more of a top-down way of management than anything.

Also, COVID-19 remote work is not normal remote work. Lots of other stressors and distractions. So the taste might not be a good one.

When you’re swinging a hammer, everything looks like a nail

And here we have the product of today's VC backed tech.

There is a whole other world of bootstrapped/profitable businesses out there where these things aren't a focus or problem. You might not even have to take much of a pay cut.

There are two camps here that strongly correlate to their opinions: those who have been through a job hunt in the last 5 years, and those who haven’t.

> Discuss your concerns with HR if you can.

Be wary of this. HR exists to protect the company and void litigation, not necessarily to protect the employee or the employee's work environment.

When was the last time an Apple product launch wasn't leaked? I feel like we've known what was coming ever since the infamous lost iPhone prototype (iPhone 6 maybe?). It has been a while.

Yes, you're correct, but have you ever used an app that worked offline or performed well with a poor network connection? Or a website maybe provided wicked fast data access despite only having a 2G connection?

These technologies can be leveraged to improve usability. Unfortunately, advertisers and 3rd party trackers make it so we can't have nice things.

> SOC2 is about documentation, not reality

Yup. If you’re a fixer, knowing this beforehand is going to save you a lot of pain.

Very cool.

There is a general fear in the backcountry Skiing community that any RF devices might impede or negatively impact the use of search and recovery beacons to locate buried partners in the event of an avalanche. Any documentation/speculation on any potential interference?

I'm an experienced developer with over a decade of professional experience in tech. Last few roles have been hybrid manager/IC. Happy to be just an IC or manager or hybrid. Looking for a smart distributed team who moves fast (or wants to).

  Location: US, Mountain Time
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: ruby, rails, modern javascript, and many other languages/frameworks
  Résumé/CV: Email me
  Github: https://github.com/danielwestendorf
  Email: daniel@prowestech.com

Thanks! If we lose interest in Front, I'll take a look.