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CrulesAll

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About CrulesAll

coding curmudgeon rapidly approaching 40 and an aneurysm.

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    Both parties had this view even up to a decade ago. It was actually right-wing libertarian fanatics that advocated mass unchecked immigration with a view to cheap labor. The Koch b…

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    If you need to have that explained to you, you are the problem.

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    Comment #46668539

    "I'm already 40+, and it looks like my company doesn't go away in a few years and we are so short-handed" FANG employee for over a decade quit her job, opened a consultancy, and so…

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    Comment #46668501

    Not fair on you. I did not mean to have a dig. I get where you are coming from, and should have elaborated. I've worked with those one or two engineers who were rude by default. Wh…

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    Comment #46668457

    "If you can't write well, communicate well, plan and organize" Straw man. Pretty sure, this is the dilbert equivalent of "I can problem solve". If you are an engineer, we are makin…

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    Comment #46668415

    Wait until you try to explain basic concepts to such people! What's annoying is HR employing more of these people and not understanding why the dial does not move. What is baffling…

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    Comment #46668389

    "software engineers are going to have to get better at thinking in larger abstractions" ........Math was first on my list. I don't know how else to say that.

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    Comment #46668233

    "Effective communication, building trust, bringing people along with you" That's a David Brent powerpoint presentation.

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    Beyond engineering itself, strictly computer engineering? How many coders have no idea what goes on behind an IDE. Have not even the slightest notion how a computer works. Who thin…

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    Software 'engineers' are going to have learn the hard skills that they have gotten by without thus far. The ones who were never engineers in the first place will have to learn 'sof…

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    That's not how it works. Once in control, vanguardism defends itself by suppressing all dissent. It does not dissipate. It grows like a virus.

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    Sorry. Definitely Swedish! Apologies to any Swedes.

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    I just watched the film about Spotify "The Playlist". It took a few minutes before I picked up that it was dubbed. I switched back to Norwegian with English subtitles and the film …

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    "What are you going to do about it." is the new mantra of the oligopolies. These institutions, both private and public sector, are now so big, they get away with things like this a…

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    There was no reply button. No it's definitely a True Scotsman. When you cherry pick what authority to quote, and therefore imply it's the only true position to have, it's a true Sc…

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    As opposed to figuratively. "If you were to remove all the illegal immigrants right now from the US" The wage levels and benefits would have to rise to meet the demand for labor. T…

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    It's the entirety of your argument because it's the only argument you have.