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Post by com »

bluGill wrote: post #255
com wrote: post #201

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Could you expand on the other problems with Europe other than hiring and firing laws?

Senior/staff type engineers are not a union position so great people refuse promotions and responsibility because they don't want to leave the union. Thus they won't mentor juniors, and other things that you need great engineers for. (At least that is how the union people I work with in Europe are, there are other unions with different rules) There is probably more.

Never heard of that, and I've worked in about 7 EU countries...

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Post by tock »

epolanski wrote: post #454
tock wrote: post #415

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1. "out of college". I'm sure you can figure out how to interview new grads and identify good devs. 2. They are not. FAANG in India pays higher than what I quoted. My senior numbers are especially on the lower end of the spectrum. If your numbers are lower then you aren't working with good devs. These are the numbers for good devs. The ones who get into great startups/companies. 95% make less and it shows in the qual…

No you can't. Because the real difficulty is not bullshit leetcode questions, but professionalism, ability to handle pressure, requirements collection and research, soft skills, design, etc. you can't interview for those. You build these skills by writing good software under constraints not by building personal pet projects and farming leetcode.

People can do leetcode AND all the things you talk about. Or do you really think engineers at companies who ask leetcode are all bad at their jobs?

> you can't interview for those

Also yes you absolutely can!

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Post by 1313ed01 »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #407
1313ed01 wrote: post #381

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I thought about this a lot recently and decided that the small, mostly complete, project I work on now, if I release it (I probably will), I will just post an archive somewhere with the source code, like in old days.

What about posting it read only on Github so folks can download and fork it but not bother you with inbound requests (discussions, PR, issues)?

I kind of do that already with my most recent project, developing it in my local fossil repo and each release I have a script that copies it to a local git-repo, tags it, and pushes it to GitHub. So the GitHub history just has a series of release commits.

But the project is still open for issues and PRs. Can only be disabled on paid accounts, right? Never had anyone try yet. I had feedback through other channels, just not on GitHub, so maybe explicitly keeping all development offline has had the intended effect? I get a trickle of issues and PRs for my other repos where development is out in the open with every commit pushed to GitHub.

But if it was discovered by drive-by LLM contributors I would still have annoying extra work, for no obvious benefit compared to just sharing archives. I do not think anyone (out of at least dozens) discovering any of my repos do that on GitHub, but from seeing my posts elsewhere.

It's not like no one can fork a source code archive, even if it is like 3-4 git-commands to run instead of just a button to click.

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Post by overfeed »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #378
lostlogin wrote: post #340

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Great example. I work in a radiology practice and greet patients regularly. 99% of them say the are good/great etc. It’s quite a striking response when they are limping, bandaged and on crutches.

That’s not really an example of cultural lying- that’s an example of a fixed answer to a fixed question. When somebody sneezes and you say “bless you” you’re not expressing your belief in god, and you’re not lying about one either.

> that’s an example of a fixed answer to a fixed question.

That's my whole point! The expected answer seems pretty obvious to you, given the context, doesn't it? Why then are you surprised that a different culture has an equally obvious (to them) fixed answer ("Yes") to any question asked by someone with power/authority to their lesser? Both depend on mutual learned cultural awareness, and can fail spectacularly in cross-cultural contexts.

Edit: my regional favorite is "We should meet for lunch some time" which just means "I'm heading out now", but you have to decode the meaning from the nature of the relationship, passive voice usage, and the lack of temporal specificity.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

mixedbit wrote: post #156

Long time ago Sourceforge and then GitHub promoted into the current default the model of open source distribution which is not sustainable and I doubt it is something that the founding fathers of Free Software/Open Source had in mind. Open source licenses are about freedom of using and modifying software. The movement grew out of frustration that commercial software cannot be freely improved and fixed by the user to…

I don’t agree with this newer idea that has arisen that FOSS authors are “victims.”

It’s up to you to set boundaries (or prices) and communicate them, like an adult. If one is still rude and entitled then ban them from the repo, or let people fork, but not before looking in the mirror first and reflecting at your own behavior.

(I’m trying to imagine folks painting xfree86 maintainers as victims back in the day when xorg forked them for intransigence. The point is disagreements happen, deal with them.)

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Post by throwaway85825 »

nottorp wrote: post #213
throwaway85825 wrote: post #109

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In china medical students are required to publish original papers. Instead they just pay someone to write it for them and pollute the literature.

Medical? What's the point? I'm happy with 98% of doctors being able to handle known conditions and only the few percent that are really interested to do research.

It makes the university look better if they do a lot of 'research' even if it's fake. There's not a real reason a doctor needs to do research for an MD.

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

pixl97 wrote: post #439
b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #394

Projects are not going to be so open open their development process if they have to keep wading through emoji-filled and erroneous PRs. The Bazaar doesn't work so well if nobody can get around the piles of manure that are being delivered

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law Should be a highlight of the 2020's decade. It's not just open projects, it's anything that accepts unvetted information at all. Bug lists full of shit. Forums full of shit. News feeds full of fake shit. Ads full of fake shit. Cultural zeitgeist full of fake shit. Culture and society has not figured out how to inoculate themselves yet.

This kind of automated industrial output is the foundation of our culture, it's not surprising that we aren't prepared for the virtual grey-goo of the LLM era that is our milieu brought to it's acme.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

embedding-shape wrote: post #442
TomasBM wrote: post #408

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I've also noticed this expectation. Where does it come from? FOSS means that the code to be free and open-source , not the schedule or the direction of its developer(s).

I dunno, I think at one point there was a similar merge as to what happened with "git and "github" where "open source the licensing" somehow became the same as "open source the collaborative and open software development process", and nowadays people get kind of confused when you say you're doing open source yet you don't accept pull/merge requests.

I propose the FOOSSNO license, fuck off its open source, no obligation, for communication purposes. ;-)

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Post by gdilla »

freakynit wrote: post #126
causalscience wrote: post #44

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> Indian students Is this cultural? I ran a small business some years ago (later failed) and was paying for contract work to various people. At the I perceived the pattern that Indian contractors would never ever ask for clarifications, would never say they didn't know something, would never say they didn't understand something, etc. Instead they just ran with whatever they happened to have in their mind, until I cal…

Indian here (~15+ years in tech). I've seen this behavior a lot, and unfortunately, I did some of this myself earlier in my career. Based on my own experience, here are a few reasons (could be a lot more): 1. Unlike most developed countries, in India (and many other develping countries), people in authority are expected to be respected unconditinally(almost). Questioning a manager, teacher, or senior is often seen as…

An Indian person basically is used to not making any decisions for themselves until maybe they're married off (and even then, probably not until age 40). /s
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