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DigitalOcean is a great example, they have repurchased $1.6e9 in shares since their IPO and all the price has done is sink. They could have built their own datacenter for that much money.

It's unlikely we'll automate all of software engineering without also making considerable steps in the software of robotics(since that is also software). This puts many physical jobs up for automation as well.

For someone with no experience installing and supporting linux I would recommend an 8gb Raspberry Pi 5 instead. Mainly because they are all the same and if the beginner has problems there is a wealth of information about that specific device in beginner formats.

You might be underestimating how quickly a basic CRUD web app turns into a very complicated CRUD web app. I don't see AI code tools slowing this down.

This is interesting! I'm curious how you accounted for the layoffs at the FAANGs? They dumped a bunch of engineers on the market and anecdotally companies seem to be filling their hiring funnels without advertising.

On the 3ed page there is a plot of the funds rate to job postings that has a bunch of dots above the line until ~2.5% or so.

It 2020 being a warm body was enough to get you a job. But in this market there will be a dozen people with directly applicable experience applying as well, those people will get the first calls back.

The second list only matters once you've checked the correct box. If you go to a .NET shop and say "I've never used Microsoft products before but I'm a quick learner, look at these haskell projects" your resume is going in the bit bucket.

with the exception being if they have some constraint that means you are the only person applying to the job, e.g. they want you onsite 5 days a week in the middle of nowhere and you're the only person willing to move out there

This is actively harmful advice to someone looking for a job. The hiring team is only going to pick one person and if you want to be at the top of that list you need to be familiar with their stack.

_once you have a job_, yes then you can focus on breath and flexibility.

With 250 employees[0] and $20MM yearly revenue[1] a Buc-ee's can pull numbers a many startups would envy. I'd imagine managing all of that is not trivial.

[0]: https://financebuzz.com/secrets-about-buc-ees-from-employees

[1]: https://d3.harvard.edu/platform-rctom/submission/porcelain-g... (from 2015, so probably more in 2023)

That's a pretty good success ratio as far as startups are concerned, right?

Will the permission to be remote continue for someone who is hired now? The only thing that stopped me from applying in the past is the requirement to relocate.

HN has a lot of main character syndrome. Anyone posting here is closer to 1/330,000,000th of Jay Powell's concern.

AI failing to live up to the hype is so common it has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

Pinch your nose and add "web3" to those search terms.

It's annoying that one time pricing feels worse than recurring. Roam is $15/month, so much cheaper!

I wonder why https://www.thebrain.com/ didn't get more traction, it seems to check all the boxes.

This is a big problem in New Orleans, where short term rentals require a license. The hosts don't have that license so to keep the city from finding them they show a different unit and pull this switch.

It's the cost of failure that's different. If you loose a hackathon everyone gets a high five and goes home empty handed. If you loose at your job(in the US) you have no income, a very high COBRA payment, and possibly a major visa problem. All of which are a fantastic way to start a recession.

Exactly, go to your 25 year old HotMail account and open the spam folder. That's what they've been fighting.

It's going to be hard to sell the premise of extreme work and unwavering dedication with the looming knowledge they will cut you out at a moments notice.

Having a news source that you can "finish" for the day, and that you trust will tell you tomorrow if something really important happens today, is important. I've found the NPR Up First podcast to reliably cover major event of the previous day. Marketplace from APM is also great, but tries to couch their coverage in economic terms. Both of these are radio shows by professional journalists and broadcasters that are available in podcast form.

That's a much more generous take than I had. I always assumed "contact us" pricing meant "tell us who you work for so we can google their funding level before suggesting a price to you".

I use the same, solarized light is surprisingly easy to read when sitting on a patio or at a coffee shop.

I agree, it would be more interesting to see these numbers for the last 4 years.

Out of curiosity, did the bike have traction control or stability control? I'm curious why it let you apply enough force to break the wheel loose.

Same here, we bought a Brother color laser printer around when my partner started grad school. Since then it's been through a few of the high yield toner cartridges without a problem.

You can get heated office chair covers, think like a car's heated seats but for office chairs. They pull about 30W and made a big difference when I lived through Illinois winters.

AgTech is big enough to have it's own tag on TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/tag/agtech/ It might not be interesting on the coasts, but there are a bunch of agriculture startups in midwestern places like Urbana-Champaign.

And interesting companies don't have to advertise their job postings as far and as wide to get a bunch of candidates. So you have to find the companies first then watch for a posting that fits you.

If the Boring Company's cost estimates are anywhere near realistic a 1500 mile tunnel isn't too far off the cost range of other big infrastructure projects.

(Yes I realize this taken with a heaping spoonful of "what if", there are far better things to spend this money on, unknowable environmental impacts, there is a personality cult around that company, etc.)