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I worked as a barman, a shelf stacker, a fruit picker, a stock picker (I mean the guy at the back of the warehouse stacking trolleys with orders) before I transitioned to software.…

> This leads to everyone getting poorer, as there are no more immigrants to exploit. I'm an immigrant to the UK. No-one exploited me. I had a choice of lots of countries to go to (…

> For those not in the know, this is the favorite living/gathering place of London's Champagne socialists. Are you a real socialist as opposed to champagne socialist? Could you exp…

A configuration management system. Actually I didn't build it, but have used different implementations at every job. Why can't this just be a commodity? It's not exactly doing anyt…

I believe I remember reading about that in the book "The Emperor's New Mind" by Roger Penrose back in the late 90s. It was something that has stuck with me ever since, even though …

> I feel the covid fearmongering by governments, medical companies, medical authorities, and the media has made public discourse in general (let alone specifically medical) even mo…

sigh Do you really think this or are you just projecting elitism?

This is our company. Frankly, I don't agree with this approach. We're a hedge fund that uses Java for low latency trading systems. Someone pushed for Rust to be used for a new proj…

I write low latency Java for a living (usual finance type stuff). Our fund has started to use some Rust but I've not yet delved. I'm still trying to resolve whether it will be wort…

As someone who hasn't looked at Rust, reading all this makes me never want to. Am I missing something? Is it actually easier to reason about the language than it feels like from re…

> In a law firm, the partners call the shots and the rest of the staff is there to support them. In tech companies, the structure is inverted. The engineers are at the bottom of th…

Pay them more and you won't struggle.

Please could you link that aritcle?

> Here in Israel with proportional representation, every small party has outsized power since every one of them has enough power to vote down the current government by joining hand…

> Those hospitals are understaffed because of extraordinary levels of foreign immigration (globalism) Rubbish. The rest of your post is just as bad.

Good luck with that. We are now mostly a remote company but we still pay top rates for the best employees, some of whom like to come in to the office every day, some work from home…