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My job did a 'lunch concert'. A violinist and pianist were invited to play during our lunch hour. Great initiative. And then they notified us by means of an ai-generated poster inv…

And everyone knows how well-received clippy was :D

Hiya, I'm 39 and divorced 3 years ago. For me, my saviour was my 'third place'. I have frequented a spot since I was 18 where I can basically go any evening and there will be frien…

Agree. As a programmer that likes to sew in her free time; I do think it is significantly easier to pick 10 random people of the street and make them into excellent sewists within …

It's way easier to make a good programmer out of a researcher than a researcher out of a programmer. I have always had programming jobs (job title: software engineer) that required…

And that's not the only one :). The company I work at worked on this one: https://inovo.nl/

But you can solve this systematically by just having that medium sized company pay for it. They don't have to do it; but they have to pay for it; meaning the cost will be transferr…

Can you name me 3 tech companies in the Randstad that aren't consultancy that pay more than that? I don't think these numbers are exceptionally high but they're not low either. Sou…

ASML is well known for it's exceptionally high pay compared to other Dutch tech companies.

The point is that the labor is moved to the customer (and is now unpaid labor). So it's not 'less labor' but it is definitely 'less labor costs'. Think 'serverless' technology - th…

I... completely didn't get that it was a metaphor. I also still very much agree with Joe. Everyone derives pleasure from other avenues. For me it's playing an actual musical instru…

Completely agree. I sew clothes. The vast majority of projects I start get finished. Sometimes I'm happy with the result, sometimes I'm not. I wear them regardless. My kids wear th…

> Who would argue without the implicit desire to convince/convert? Me? I'm an engineer, when I 'argue' with my co-workers, it is with the goal of finding the best solution. I don't…

Hackernews: Working remotely is so much better! Why would they ever want us to work from to office! Also Hackernews: Ever since Corona started, I hate my job. I wonder what changed…

If I find that kind of shit in my free library, it immediately goes to the (properly recycled) trash. Nobody will take it, it's just taking up space and bringing down the attractiv…

> If I was running one, I'd have maybe 10x what will fit in it, and constantly rotate them. The ones that don't move within a couple months go to the thrift store. That's how I run…

Yes, that is probably true indeed. That's why there are so many bullshit jobs. I could never work in a zero-sum environment.

> More like “extremely tedious and mind numbing” To me it seems clear that that is not what this book is about. It's about the purpose, not the contents.

> 43% of companies will use artificial intelligence (AI) to run their hiring interviews by 2024 Bullshit. I can imagine 43% (or more) involving some sort of AI tooling in their hir…

I'm a manager and when I ask my engineers for an estimate, I always, always increase it for my own purposes.

Awww, unfortunately nothing in my country! I love going to weirdo museums. My favorites so far are the sardine can and the dredging museums.

I think you're looking for 'major'.

Same. In our team of 10 there was one guy that did about half the work. Making him literally the 10x (okay, 9x) programmer.

My master thesis, which is supposed to take 8 months, took me 2 years and 4 months. Every morning I would wake up and think 'today is the day I will do good work!'. And every night…

Shit, I'm binging it right at the moment. I guess I'll mentally prepare for a horrible ending!