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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 involving a photorealistic image of a violinist and pianist playing in an office setting. But not the actual artists, no, fake real artists.

And I feel like that is such an insult to the actual artists? Like, these are real, actual people, with real skills, that are doing real work, and apparently that's the same as these two fake non-existant people?

So yeah, I share your sentiment. But I may just be old woman shouting at clouds with the old man.

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 friends I know that I can chat with any time I need it. It makes not having a partner so, so much better.

And I also missed talking about the random small things in my day that no one except my partner really cares about. I deal with it by partly suppresing it, but I've also just decided that occasionally whomever comes into my path, be that a coworker or a friend or a family member will have to deal with it :). (Making sure I don't overload specific people to much). But the coworker right next to me at work definitely gets more little details from my private life than he would if I had a partner, and he happily deals with it :).

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 a year than to make them into good programmers.

Programming is harder and more specialized, but it's not harder work.

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 the 'researcher' mindset. We didn't mind teaching them our stack or even good coding practice, but if they didn't have the 'explorative/innovative mind' of a 'researcher', we could never train them up to the level they needed to be.

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 transferred along to the end user.

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.

Source: Former SWE, current PM in the Randstad.

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 - there is still a server, it's just no longer owned by you.

Seeing how the customer had to wait for the labor to be executed anyway in the past, I see this as a win.

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 instrument with other people. Not writing blogs.

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 them. After a while they grow out of them.

Goal achieved, project finished.

> 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 care whose solution it is. I want to find consensus on what is the best solution.

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 attractiveness of my library.

> 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 mine. About twice a week I rotate ~10 books. Either ones that have been there for longer or ones that I know will never be taken anyway. (I leave everything for at least a week, but the 'guide to 2004 Honda Civic maintenance' never stood a chance...)

Every once in a while I sort through my 'additional collection' that I keep inside my house and take the unattractive ones to the thrift store.

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 hiring process. Almost half of all companies 'running their hiring interviews'? No way.

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 I would go to bed and feel terrible and like a failure because no, I did not write or even read a single line. In hindside, I was definitely depressed during these days. I wish someone had told me I needed to get help for my mental health.

I only 'snapped out of it' because of how the student loan system in my country works, and there was a huge financial incentive to finish it before a certain date.

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

Oh my god the hair tugging. I fucking hate her braid. (I never could finish the series).

No one is debating that. The question is what do you do with them after the wrong has been done. Which is exactly why the marbles were referred to in this article.

Completely agree. A managers task isn't so much to make sure 'more work gets done'. They are there to make sure 'the right work gets done'.

And that the right people are there (and stay there), that the right tools are there (which does increase efficiency), that no work gets left behind, etcetera, etcetera.

> The only worse option is asking female candidates if they’re planning a pregnancy

This happened to me in my very first grown-up job interview.

I think that's a little one sided.

My job is project management. I hate remote working. And that's because by the time something is big enough that someone feels like they need to notify me, my first options of mitigation have already passed. If I hear two engineers at the desk next to me discuss something, or if someone gives me a headsup because we happened to meet at the coffee machine, my job becomes so much easier. I much, much, much prefer a hybrid style where people spend 1-2 days a week doing focus work at home, and spend the other 2-4 days in the office doing collaborative or less focussed work.

It has nothing to do with me needing an 'in person audience because I'm narcissistic'.