passivepinetree

Yeah, this type of thing makes me sad. It's a good idea and the work behind it is interesting, but there's something magic about a human voice. It deadens me a little bit reading this type of writing, which I'm seeing increasingly in both my work and personal life.

I think you're being a bit harsh here.

Yes, the blog is mostly about AI, and yes, he publishes very frequently. But his articles don't read like AI and he claims not to have used it in his writing (https://www.seangoedecke.com/avoid-ai-writing/). And regardless of how you feel about the content, the community has clearly decided it's worthwhile as a discussion point.

Ignoring the preference of people generally wanting to live in HCOL areas, this only works if every company hires equally from LCOL areas. One of the benefits of living in a HCOL area is access to the job market it provides. It's much easier to get hired for a software position living in San Francisco than it is living in Deming, New Mexico.

Do you mind sharing a little more about the plugin you use? A quick online search wasn't very helpful to me but I've also been hoping for something like this.

Well, the GP mentioned

> if it’s a solo greenfield project

which is a pretty large caveat. Anecdotally, I've found my side projects (which are solo greenfield projects, and don't need to be supported to the same standards as enterprise software) have gained the boost the GP was talking about.

At work, it's different, since design, review, and maintenance is much more onerous.

Adding to the review thread: I bought a Framework 13 in 2021. I'm sold on the ideal, I really like the chassis and the keyboard, and I _love_ the screen ratio. I replaced several parts and own every type of connector. I really liked my 13!

I just had my mainboard die, and I was advised there currently isn't another mainboard in stock that works with my old DDR4 RAM. They don't have any newer DDR5 RAM in stock apparently either, so I was out of luck and ended up buying a Lemur Pro last week.

In my experience, the Framework hardware is great but very flakey and frequently needs replacing.

Support is awful; they'll repeatedly ask you to do things you've already done (and shown proof of), they can take days to get back to you, and are generally unhelpful. They also didn't think to mention to me when I said I needed to buy a new laptop and their parts were all out of stock that they had a new machine coming out in the next week, which is insane to me. I would've been an easy convert. Sometimes I think it's bots doing the support, but if that was the case, they'd reply back faster.

Time will tell whether I'll return back to the ecosystem, but the support experience (and the hardware being poor enough that I frequently need support) is putting me off for now.

I'm curious if this site actually uses AI in some form or if it's just the hot TLD at the moment. There's no mention of AI on the page itself.

Another assumption that bothers me here is that the $9M in revenue would be completely lost during an outage. I imagine many customers would simply wait until the outage was resolved before performing their intended transactions, meaning far less than $9M would be lost.

The author sort of alludes to it at the end of the article when they mention that Gen-Xers' expectations are even more tempered than Boomers' expectations about what it takes to survive today.

Is there another group/time period you're interested in specifically comparing to?

This seems pretty clickbaity to me. There's very little content and no specific personal experiences discussed. What types of companies did you have better luck with? How many employees does a "startup/medium-size company" have?

This site also has articles entitled "The Must Know 7 Traps That Make Your Software Useless" and "Make Money with programming. Your Advanced Guide", so I'm not sure how high to set the bar.

The entire article can really be summed up as "Email the founders and get a recommendation."

The article mentions all of that content (though without those links). Perhaps they changed it? It's a fastcompany domain now.

In addition to some of the other well-thought-out replies, much of the allure of streaming comes from live interaction, donations, chat, etc. Streaming to multiple platforms at once is more feasible for events like esports competitions, but would really make it difficult for a streamer to engage with their audience.

Well, that's a highly-opinionated statement :P

The serious answer is that Go is a reasonably well-supported language at GitHub, and C# isn't at the moment.

I like that too, but it's worth noting that Github (not sure about lab) allows you to disable these features (wiki, issues, etc.) with a checkbox on the repo's settings page.

You need 500 “karma” IIRC in order to gain the privilege.

There’s an easy way to find out if that’s true, and it’s to making a similarly successful solo project by yourself!

Is this a response from the company or are you putting it forth as an example response for how to handle this incident better? It’s unclear from your post.

IIRC they don't actually run anyone's cards until the project meets the goal, so refunding isn't an issue. Perhaps someone who's funded a Kickstarter more recently than me could confirm.

The two As are usually for Apple and Amazon. I think the shorter version of the acronym is just incorrect.

How did you do this? Does your bank have APIs you can code against? Did you use other (Paypal?) APIs?

Definitely. It's not indicative of any sort of quality, which naturally makes it fun to game! I randomized the amount of commits on each day so my graph has varying shades of color!

I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality.

A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for each DM and mention we got (so I could manually respond and claim the prize). We didn’t disguise it well, and were shut down after about 4 weeks, but it was fun while it lasted! :)

You may not have read that far down, but the article mentions exactly what you did regarding Fossil:

> Fitbit would not be the first deal that Google would be carrying out in the wearables space. Fossil Group Inc said in January it would sell its intellectual property related to smartwatch technology under development to Google for $40 million. Google’s plans for these assets are not clear.

That's fascinating. Would you mind sharing the full story?

I hadn't heard about this. Do you have sources about the DOJ theft?

That's a common mistake. Ads don't always (and you could argue rarely) show their target demographic.

Easy example: ever seen an overweight person in a fast food commercial?

“Better than the world’s worst” is not such a high bar to set.

I used to work for an airline as a software engineer (different from a company that makes airplanes, but you brought up airlines, so I think it's valid).

We definitely attempted to write the best code as we could given the circumstances, but we had issues doing so:

* airline margins are razor thin, so salaries are comparatively low, which means

* the best employees frequently left for other opportunities, causing

* management to institute an over-reliance on process and tech debt from poor engineers to build up like crazy, and then

* management's priority was always "keep the lights on" rather than repay any tech debt or start new ventures.

Eventually we were working on an unmaintainable codebase, spending way too long to ship each feature, and the situation was not improving.

It was not a wonderful environment to work in (hence my departure).

Can you offer any sources for your assertions? In my observation, we were seeing the exact opposite of

> We were starting to see a massive push to shift away from FAANG

In my experience we were/still are seeing ever-greater consolidation towards Google/Facebook services. As an example, authentication/login with Google and Facebook is becoming the default on many web services, excluding users who may have deleted or never acquired such an account.

Yes. It's both mentioned and linked to in the article on which we are commenting.