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GiorgioG
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  1. > HN is known for its optimism and abundance mindset.

    At this point I think you’re just trolling.

    If you’re serious however, come back after you’ve spent a year in your desired first management role and we’ll see if you still feel the same way.

  2. The first step is for you to get your head out of the sand and look around. Jobs are scarce unless you're knee-deep in ML/AI. You're talking like a naive, idealistic, young person. I'm long past any of those attributes and I do have a family and a mortgage. Sure you can move to Europe, workers have more rights...and they earn a hell of a lot less than we do here in the USA (my brother lives in Europe.) And even there companies try to employ contract workers so they have more "flexibility".
  3. Workplace organization...for tech workers? I haven't seen it.
  4. By all means then, lead the revolution.
  5. It’s already normal and has been for a long time. Defeatist? No, people who have mortgages to pay and families to feed can’t be martyrs for workers’ rights. You want to change it, I’m not opposed, but you make it sound simple/easy.
  6. That may work where you live, but as a small cog in a big wheel in the USA, profit over people is the rule, not the exception.
  7. I did not say MongoDB weren’t being assholes here. I’m saying asshole behavior is the norm and should be expected. I have an excellent boss (and his boss is fantastically supportive too). Several coworkers have needed leave for sometimes weeks and they have accommodated them. I don’t expect this is the norm or written in our company policies.
  8. IMO, there should be a balance. My brother lives in Europe and it seems every time he has a small ache/cold he can go to the doctor and get a note for a couple of days off. On the other hand, companies here in the US expect you to be at work unless you’ve been hit by a bus.
  9. If only LLMs didn’t just make shit up regularly.
  10. $5,000-7,000...that's crazy.
  11. LLMs are nothing more than fancy weather forecasting models…they still get things wrong a lot.
  12. The Fortran compiler worked though.
  13. Can't wait for this AI shit to be over so they can get back to their bread & butter...great dev tools.
  14. Layoffs by another name.
  15. Different people optimize for different things. I have a 450 mile trip (each way) next weekend. I can do it in 1 full tank of gas, but realistically I’ll stop once to fill up halfway. I don’t plan any other stops. If I had an EV, I’d probably have to stop twice, for 30+ minutes each, extending my already long trip by an hour each way.
  16. Add most of what Martin Fowler said to that list.
  17. I’ve worked remote for at least 16 of the past 22 years including my first job out college. It’s always been friggin awesome. The only downside was when I was contracting and I’d get calls in the middle of dinner and I didn’t have the self-discipline to ignore the call. A few times a year I have to travel to work, it’s nice to see folks, but it’s not required to get the work done, I put my big boy pants on and figure it out, or ask for help when I can’t.
  18. Were they intelligent to begin with?
  19. Despite the latest and greatest models…I still see glaring logic errors in the code produced in anything beyond basic CRUD apps. They still make up fields that don’t exist, assign a value to a variable that is nonsensical. I’ll give you an example, in the code in question, Codex assigned a required field LoanAmount to a value from a variable called assessedFeeAmount…simply because as far as I can tell, it had no idea how to get the correct value from the current function/class.
  20. It's just time to kill the MD-11 entirely. These 3-engine aircraft are too risky to continue flying.
  21. Stop spamming your own service.
  22. YakPDF (as far as I can tell) is an API and not a library that generates a PDF. If you're going to go that route, host https://github.com/gotenberg/gotenberg yourself and call it a day.

    edit: Stop spamming your own service.

  23. Congratulations, you worked at a huge company. Nothing to do with the tech stack.
  24. Not that rare, I work in one now and we use: .NET, Mongo, Postgres, SQL Server, Node, Python, etc.
  25. Just say you don't want to use .NET. It's fine, but how many startups ever get to over 10k containers? You can use AOT to further reduce the footprint. It's totally fine to hate Microsoft, but this is as weak an argument as I've ever seen.

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