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It's also just kind of cool and fun to hack together a personal website

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I am getting tired of web development after a couple decades. Anyone work in an interesting software development area that you'd recommend?

I gave up trying to read this after closing the 3rd popup

I think it's an apt analogy. The Internet (and the web) was definitely good tech that is still used. Artificial Intelligence (or maybe more broadly, data science or _statistics_) i…

How are the deer in Nara?

LOL, completed PhD at 20

I've been thinking about this recently with internet comments on here, reddit, etc. There are very few topics on which I'd consider myself an expert, but whenever one comes up, the…

I'm on the cusp of going back to a job I really enjoyed that paid pretty well, but I was lured away by my current, high-paying job (for the money, prestige, etc.). I'm getting cold…

I work at a Big Tech company and in my part of the org I can't help but feel like the EM role here adds more of an inefficiency than anything else. Our EM has 10 backend engineers …

Nothing you mentioned here disagrees with the title or the article

I left Microsoft a year ago because the group I worked for checked pretty much every one of the items on this list. It was wildly unproductive.

Some people here are confused. Kindness towards people doesn't preclude you from being assertive. It doesn't preclude you from being a shrewd negotiator. It doesn't preclude you fr…

Yes. A person's performance on the job does not change how I treat them as a human.

Or maybe they have to figure out how to actually make it work

But hey, at least Microsoft got to increase their stock price from the initial, hasty announcement, right?

I find it can be nice to have an academic understanding of things you work with even if you don't have to develop it directly yourself.

My job is pretty terrible aside from the pay. What that means is, in this market, it's been basically impossible to land any job interviews for positions equal to or greater than m…

I am noticing a trend, perhaps a "do more with less" thing, where frontend job postings are starting to ask for frontend engineers who can also act as designers and even UX researc…

A bit of short-term thinking, though. Even if companies _right now_ can treat applicants like crap, they probably shouldn't. I'd rather have an applicant accept an offer because th…

While it's not fair, what I've settled on is this: if they can't spend for in-house recruiting, they probably can't afford me. This is based on ~20 years of this consistently happe…

With all the hallucinating (or "bullshitting") going on, it's hard to imagine LLMs working well for query generation. But hey, we're _very_ early days for all of this.

yeah, true. I didn't realize how much being on Twitter was bringing me down until a few months after I got rid of it.