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celim307··on Inside the longest Atlassian outage
After this they might have to boomerang back to your company lol
celim307··on A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle
Hey if I’m getting paid I’ll tell these jokes all day
celim307··on Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Isn’t that the premise of the Amazon series upload
celim307··on The sunny side of firing someone
Comment on the code review but follow up privately and offer to pair.

It’s extra work but it shows the contributor that you’re not just out to poke holes and make extra work, it shows you actually care about their development and progression as an engineer

celim307··on If the US Market for SWEs is on fire why isn’t Europe’s, or India’s?
I was of similar mindset until I worked with some. Not to say a 200k dev couldn’t do it, but especially at big tech or rapidly growing large scale startups, the price difference is worth it from experience alone.

Not only are the technical challenges different at large scale, the product and human challenges are different. The 750 principle is basically leading a 500+ engineer org’s technical vision and steering the ship. Not only is it crazy difficult to get 500 people align on a vision, but the mechanics of organizing and leading that large number of people are unique too.

Plus product wise a 750k engineer can save the company multiples of that just by advocating on what not to do, and avoid expensive mistakes.

I’ve learned more in 2 years at big tech than I have in 7 in local companies or smaller startups.

celim307··on The war on gifted education
As someone who interacted mainly with adults growing up, I’d disagree. Being an adult isn’t a great filter of good character. As a kid I was exposed to some backwords ideologies and toxic attitudes from adults, exasterbated by the fact that since they were adults they came with a position of authority. This also made it difficult to make friends and socialize with peers when I got into my teens, I felt like I missed out on a lot by not smoothly integrating into teen culture.

Having a handful of solid adult role models is key, but a lot of social skills are learned by trial and error, and it’s way more helpful when you’re learning those alongside others who are also figuring it out, that’s also how new ideas and new cultural zeitgeists are created, by challenging old concepts and not having the baggage of the old way of doing things.

Obviously there’s pitfalls with taking all your social cues from hormone riddled peers, but it’s a trial I think everyone needs to go through to prepare them on how to socialize with the world at large.

celim307··on Anyone else feel the constant urge to leave the field and become a plumber?
As a web dev who glues together api’s and json, I’d call myself a plumber. Instead of shit, I shuttle data from the frontend to a database and vise versa.
celim307··on An unlikely meditation on modern happiness
This is kind of a privileged take. There are many people where struggle is survival, not an opportunity for growth.

Unless theres an equal playing field for all and everyone has means to overcome their suffering, then this "God" is nothing more than perverse and cruel, not some kind of benevolent parental figure encouraging us to edification.

celim307··on Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
I’m using the 2018 se
celim307··on Ask HN: Is Bay Area in a tipping point for tech talent?
I’m at the age where most of m friends are flung across the country. Close relationships take tons of time and mental investment so at this point I like living in lcol and flying out for a week to visit or them visiting me
celim307··on The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M
Spider-Man I thought was a well done blockbuster. First half drags a little but the climax and second half are pretty solid with an emotional scene and great chemistry

If you like Spider-Man or marvel you’ll enjoy it

celim307··on Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship
10-20 years ago you could get adderall from any kid on the block, it was similar to the opioid situation where the markets were flooded and overprescribed.
celim307··on Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship
Now it is
celim307··on Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
I have an iPhone SE and it’s still the best phone I’ve ever used, simply because it just works, and I know it will for years to come.

Every android I had died/missed updates less than 2 years after I bought it, exception to the original moto x that was the pinnacle of android for me

celim307··on Staggering stat: 87% of U.S. teenagers have iPhones
Idk why people are downvoting you, There’s tons of social pressure for young kids to fit in and the green bubble is such a loud marker that kids will beg their parents just to get away from it
celim307··on I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
I think he nails satire and weirdness of humans well, similar to apatow, but I think he falls flat on the more emotional or positive aspects of humanity.

Not to say he’s not a master of his craft, and king of the hill especially had tender moments, but maybe that’s just not what he’s interested in

celim307··on Drug ring hid $1B worth of coke on a single ship
Cause it’s more profitable to sell you adderall
celim307··on We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400
Wow I’ve been using photopea forever and I’m a little starstruck to see you in the comments. Wanna say thank you for all the years your tool helped me
celim307··on 100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets
“CEO of El Salvador”

This would be hilarious satire if the man wasn’t in charge of peoples lives.

celim307··on Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?
There’s also “levels” to the scale of stuff you wanna learn. You can learn deployments, testing etc that will carry over from small teams up to huge big tech size teams, but I’ve worked on projects with 200+ active maintainers and the problems there are different than problems and architecture you would find in a team of 10
celim307··on What's it like to star in a flop?
Drive was made purely for the ambiance and aesthetic. Basically a music video for vaporware soundtrack, or the b roll you see behind the lyrics on a kareoke machine

I enjoyed it

celim307··on Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020)
I generally agree but it’s definitely an advantage to have money, I got tutoring and practice tests from an early age. Someone poorer would have to work twice as hard
celim307··on Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
Competitiveness is good but if you’re unhappy right now, do you think being an amazing programmer would change that?

Maybe your passion lies elsewhere or you haven’t found the project that motivates you.

Be the captain of your own happiness, don’t try to win a race that you don’t like

celim307··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)
Unity Technologies | Engineering (Senior React and Fullstack) | Seattle area (Currently fully remote, 2 days a week onsite after COVID)

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Developer to join our web-platform team which is building the UI foundation for the growing suite of customer-facing Unity products and services.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for building new platform features used by product teams to build next-generation web experiences. Stability, quality, and robustness of code are requirements, as teams across Unity rely upon our services to create their best products.

Some things you'll touch: Component libraries, CI/CD, Javascript monorepo and frontends.

A big part of this role is being active in the larger community of internal Unity web developers. Our team sets code standards, process, and are the bar raisers of the organization.

To see the full job description: https://careers.unity.com/position/senior-full-stack-softwar... or reach out to me charles.lim (at) unity3d.com if you have any questions.

celim307··on As teens left Facebook, it planned to target 6-year-olds, documents show
If you make 400k at fb you can make 300-350k at other tech giants, who are not perfect but not as comically evil as fb
celim307··on An Update on Our Outage
Bad timing too, I bet holiday events like Halloween are a big deal in the roblox culture
celim307··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
From acquaintances I know, the combination of long periods of sitting, stimulant abuse, lack of healthy food options, inconsistent sleep, air quality from being around other trucks, stress from the job, and mental isolation from being away from friends and family all are really hard, even for a year. Now imagine a 30+ Year career.
celim307··on Facebook will hire 10k new employees in an effort to build the metaverse
The virtual world you are envisioning and the one that will be built can be two very different things
celim307··on Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
I agree somewhat, the users which include me get caught in the crossfire if someone releases a zero day out in the wild, but I also think there needs to be a negative feedback to these tech giants that expect work for free.

But in the grand scheme of things, does it even punish the tech giants? They have so many claws in a users life, and in the case of apple, your only other choice is google or a bunch of shady oems.

At the end of the day the only people who pay for it are users themselves, their data is comprised and irreversibly out there

celim307··on Instagram has largely replaced TikTok in India
I mean it’s the same job as a celebrity, but decentralized.
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