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Comment #48356060
Code is for human consumption. Believe it or not, some of us like to understand how things work.
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Comment #48125919
It is highly correlated to Trump, who has threatened to invade denmark not too long ago.
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Comment #48062069
There's a reason why startups always begin with a software guy/gal and a sales guy/gal. It all begins with a product and a sale. That's how you go from zero to one. Then if you're …
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Comment #48055858
> Why am I awake at 1:00am, ruining my brain and body Stop. They don't deserve it. If you have to sacrifice yourself, do it for someone who deserves it. Value your body, value your…
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Comment #48042008
No matter what you do, entrenched engineers will make SURE they will be the only ones maintaining everything until their retirement, because they will make life impossible for ever…
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Comment #48041778
I live by these words: “if the client could enunciate a perfect spec, they would code it themselves”. Software development is about helping people get what they want out of a compu…
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Comment #48035574
This is a false dichotomy. Software development has always been about keeping people in agreement, from the customer to the coder, and all the people in between (the fewer the bett…
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Comment #47279529
It's always been that way. They're looking for a senior at the price of a junior. That kind of job listing has always been around, and it makes companies look good to have openings…
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Comment #47275625
The rules are simple and ancient: noble blood breeds nobles; common blood breeds commoners. What’s sophisticated are the layers of ideology and falsehood that made people believe t…
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Comment #47274947
They have elite debt without elite position
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Comment #47274692
They’re just angry at everything and everyone because they're 200K deep in debt with no way to pay for it.
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Comment #47274669
Exactly. Elites are elite because they’re the children of the elite. Their degrees never mattered. “Elite education” was always a cover-up.
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Comment #47274639
Unironically yes. They were promised a seat in the ruling class. All they got was crippling debt. That’s how you incubate dissidents.
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Comment #47274627
The problem with educated youth who understand the game is that if there’s no room for them to join the ruling class they become very angry. They will want to topple the elite so t…
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Comment #47274585
STEM and PHDs were definitely “elite” 40 years ago. For-profit degree-churning colleges made them not-so-elite through the law of supply and demand. And now they can’t even get a j…
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Comment #47274440
It works in China because they have growth. In the west thousands of college kids thought they could land cushy management positions or at least highly paid expert jobs. Then these…
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Comment #47274379
You just wanted to jam in this conversation your dislike of DEI (which can be criticised but it’s not the subject). Elite overproduction is about everybody wanting to be basically …
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Comment #45050432
This kind of blanket statement smells of the same dogmatism as the AI hype train in reverse. LLMs are a just a simple tool, if people misuse it it's on them.
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Comment #36762569
In a tech/biz duo his role should be to raise money and find clients so you can focus 100% of your time on development. If for you both raising money and finding clients carries ve…
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Comment #36601794
The ability and willingness to perform well on IQ tests is a metric which deserves adequate analysis. Taking it out of scope by conflating it with "potential" and "heredity" is a l…