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primeblue··on Laid off tech workers quickly find new jobs
What kind of a rotten profession is software engineering that it dismisses more experience.

Doctors, engineers, lawyers, builders, architects, brick layers, pilots etc are sought after if they have more experience

primeblue··on A Better Way to Implement Bit Fields
Excellent work with Zig and great documentation with detailed examples. Beautiful syntax.
primeblue··on IT boss slams lazy Aussies who'd rather do paid work than do unpaid internships
This employer is living in the 19th century. Cheap and despicable employers getting rich off the back of naive hard working people.
primeblue··on Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
Why not use a package manager to publish a library for a destination?

Then just release a package and reference it whenever there is a change to the target.

Should work well in either a monolith or micro service.

primeblue··on Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
Modern SQL servers implement this
primeblue··on Why SQL is beating NoSQL, and what this means for the future of data
NoSQL is practically useless for succinct and efficient queries
primeblue··on Ask HN: Sell my startup for $14M because I can't raise $2M?
It's all about talking
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
This is a brilliant result, make this toy broken language compete
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
We've learned JavaScript is a toy
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
Java 8 still has syntactic sugar for generics?
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
It's still ugly
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
It was so ugly
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
They should be fined
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
Oh don't you worry, that will come and we'll be free of that ugly JavaScript thing.
primeblue··on Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly
JavaScript is so 2015, long live C++
primeblue··on The Myth of the Objective
Beautiful!
primeblue··on Ex-CIA Agent Raises $40M to Find Every 'Thing' on the Web in Just One Hour
This sounds like nothing new, other than a new way to take money from ignorant executives.
primeblue··on Mercury Protocol: Communication Platform Built on the Ethereum Blockchain
Has Ethereum been fixed since all those DAO hacks?
primeblue··on Amazon has as much office space in Seattle as the next 40 biggest employers
It will be ironic when these millennials grow up and have children, then try cycling to do the weekly groceries with three kids in tow.
primeblue··on Evolution will no longer be taught in Turkish schools
>worried, but I hope it changes by the time my grandchildren are in high school

Good luck with that.

primeblue··on Is the open office layout dead?
They say hell will make you dream of heaven.
primeblue··on Is the open office layout dead?
> keeping engineers crowded together like livestock in stables serves as a visual indicator of the inherent superiority of their managers

Bad management and a sign the company is toxic.

primeblue··on Show HN: Dharma – Programmable Peer-To-Peer Loans Using Ethereum Smart Contracts
With all the DAO hacks and criticism of Solidity, why would one use Ethereum?
primeblue··on Performance Improvements in .NET Core
It's very easy.
primeblue··on Performance Improvements in .NET Core
A very understated company.

Microsoft keeps getting better. Open sourcing so many things.

C# and Visual Studio is a breath of fresh air compared to the bloated, aging and vexing obfuscation called Java (work in both).

Since 1991 Microsoft Research keeps making contributions.

primeblue··on Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?
Desk sharing is he worst when you have to think deeply. The talkers never shut up.
primeblue··on Ask HN: Women in tech, how do you find non-toxic work environments?
It's hard to find an academic-type culture without big egos and ignorance.

Look for teams that have a broad range of ages and experiences. These people foster learning and accept they individually don't know everything.

Stay away from mono cultures.

Managers that are involved parents having ongoing experience raising children are great. People without children haven't been forced to learn patience and compassion...day in day out being a responsible parent is like a good manager.

primeblue··on Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets
Microsoft PowerBI
primeblue··on My 11-year-old son auditioned at Juilliard, learned how top performers practice
Maybe it's time we stopped doing things simply to become better at them?

That's like focusing on the spelling or formatting instead of quality content.

primeblue··on The US has forgotten how to do infrastructure
Too much compliance and suing by lawyers/everyone.
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