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gregvab··on IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
Worked at IBM back in 2010. It was the second most valuable company in the world at that time. I left and now the rank has slipped to 86. Sorry.
gregvab··on IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI
Good
gregvab··on Was your degree really worth it?
I have a Masters in Computer Science and Engineering. Most jobs in my country requires either a Bachelors or a PhD so it is more of a stepping stone for a PhD which I have no interest in pursuing. My current job is the only one that requires my highest degree. My previous jobs all require a lower qualification. In fact, most of the things I learned in my 2 years of acquiring the degree are not that useful in all the jobs I've had so far. Was it worth it? Well, I got the degree from a prestigious institute and that seems to matter more to interviewers than the degree itself. Maybe the real degree is the friends we find along the way \s
gregvab··on In Namibia, lions are king of the beach
I love it when the NPCs in my life story become half-sentient to make my day a bit better.
gregvab··on Explore Wikipedia's New Look
Apparently I only gave it a quick glance because I thought it was Arabic
gregvab··on Windows 98 icons are great (2015)
My favourite is the Gnome 2.2 icons that come with Redhat 9

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/gnome220redhat9

gregvab··on Sam Bankman-Fried No Longer a Billionaire After $14.6B Overnight Wipe-Out
No longer part or the tres commas club
gregvab··on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print
had
gregvab··on Ask HN: Which boring technology do you still use?
Django is not boring
gregvab··on [dead]
What is the name of this technique where some ranking based on year (or any other criteria) is displayed. Is there any javascript or c# etc library for this where the Year could be user controlled?
gregvab··on My First BillG Review (2006)
Finally figured it out. It's in the name!!
gregvab··on I still love PHP and JavaScript
just gonna leave this comment here to reply to the person whose blog I've followed years before Browserling was created.
gregvab··on Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020)
And he always asks them the question "What is life?"
gregvab··on GnuCOBOL – a free/libre COBOL compiler
My first job was as a COBOL developer 10 years ago. My annual salary was around $4000
gregvab··on Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
thats quite good actually