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But LLMs are already doing this for us supposedly...

on a personal level I was hired (by Microsoft, my first and only "big tech" job) in April 2020 and I am still working here... all these companies "over-hired" during the pandemic, and the term "covid hire" is even a thing..

and what is MOB

Why the hell is Iran bombing other middle eastern states, like UAE?

I'm quite naive about these conflicts but it seems like whoever is in charge of the Iran military really has a death wish. I wouldn't be surprised if Iran is a parking lot by the end of the year at this rate.

5 billion doesn't look like much when OpenAI just raised $110b though. And how sustainable is NVDA's immense profits if this bubble actually bursts?

It's pretty cool to see this machine come out. The Macbook Air is still my sweet spot though, I use a Thunderbolt audio interface, and need more RAM.

Great for a student or casual user though for sure.

MSFT up 1.84% today..

this new macbook does not have Thunderbolt

At Microsoft I would map your L6 to Principal, and L7/L8 to what we call "Partner". I'm a Principal, but I'm definitely not an 8 out of 10 yet.

I love Deftones and Alive in Chains. both quintessential bands of my teen years

The AI stuff and Windows 11 have been big drivers of bashing

It is, although considering my age (41), I would hope the college thing is not very important anymore. The only time in recent history that I've been ghosted after mentioning no degree (when asked) is ByteDance a few years back, and I don't think I'd want to work there anyways.

Google has offices in Kirkland. Amazon and Meta are big employers here, with Meta paying the best, but both of those companies have their own issues which are probably worse than just being made fun of ..

It apparently used to be even much better to work here. I've been here 6 years now. There is naturally a lot of "talent" exchanged between here and Amazon, which has influenced the culture.

It's true. As a matter of fact I credit a lot of my career to being made fun of on IRC in the 1990s for running mIRC client for Windows, because you were not "leet" if you didn't run Linux or FreeBSD, which took my down a huge rabbit-hole of Linux and coding for many years, which is how I know anything in the first place. I'm in the tiny minority of people in big tech who didn't go to college.

The bashing on MSFT has really ramped up in the last 6 months though

It kindof sucks waking up every day, checking HN or YouTube to see one or several new posts bashing on your employer. Not that many of them aren't warranted, and that a multi-trillion market cap company isn't fair game for criticism.

I've surveyed the market pretty heavily, and given my specific credentials, experience, and risk tolerance, unless I got really lucky, I don't know if I could find a better place to work. I live near Redmond and have a small family to support.

It's when people (or bots) acting in bad faith make a lot of noise to make it seem like there is a strong support for some (usually bad) position. It' a play on the term "grassroots". Fake grassroots=astroturfing

I had the good fortune of going to Croatia (as an American) for work about 10 years ago, and I milked that trip hard. What a beautiful country. Dubrovnik, Split, Hvar Island, it was pretty magical.

Pete Hegseth (and Trump) are such cartoon-villain buffoons.

Anthropic is a "Supply Chain Risk" much the same as Rene Good was a "Professional Agitator" or "Domestic Terrorist".

I pray that Trump gets crushed in the midterms

when you say "audio interface" I assume you mean like, "Hey Siri" and not an audio interface as in recording device, right?

So we are talking about a HomePod with a screen, or like one of those Meta "Portal" things?

Jeez. I'm glad I "splurged" for the 24gb RAM in my macbook air. Should last me a few more years..

such a good tune

This is what I thought. The iMessage integration makes sense I guess though.

To be clear I'm not saying being divorced is a failing. But he has now been married 3 times, and has admitted to having extramarital affairs with prostitutes, as well as "supporting" them financially.

why were mac minis so popular for this compared to any other machine, cloud VPS or local VM?

The market is spooked by capex projections generally. Interesting that Microsoft, despite some apparent hesitation in 2025, seems to be still going all in on AI spend over the next several years according to the most recent earnings call.

I listed to this audiobook several years ago, and while it intrigued me to an extent, I had a hard time getting past the fact that the guy (who is an American white guy), calls himself "Culadasa".

I also found it troubling to try to take spiritual advice, no matter how practical, from someone who had been married and divorced multiple times.

More recently, he's been accused of inappropriate behaviors and was blackballed from some of the spiritual/meditation organizations he was a part of.

Perhaps it's my evangelical upbringing that has made me hardened and highly suspect of anyone trying to lead people in a spiritual way, but unfortunately I feel like I just keep getting proven right over and over again.

C# is a great language, and .NET is a really good runtime that is cross-platform.

I would personally chose it over Java, and I think it is more "batteries included" than Go.

If you need to write a business/web application that is fairly easy to maintain and has good performance, yes I would pick C#.

Also, while functional programming etc is possible in C#, all the code I've seen has been very Object-Oriented. Classes for days. Dependency injection, factories, and other "Design Patterns" aplently.

Obviously with Python or Node.js you'll likely have an easier time getting off the ground but the performance will be worse (if that matters)

source: SWE manager at MSFT, mostly C# stuff. 10+ YOE with other languages prior to joining

Sounds like Microsoft too.

I realize this does nothing to solve your problem, but for the sake of discusion, internally at Microsoft, pretty much all the developers I know have switched to using "Devbox", which means we use a remote desktop client to access our dev machine.

A lot of us resisted this at first, but then just kindof came to accept it, and it made it so we have a lot more capable machines to do development on than the laptops that we would have to recycle every couple years.

I know there have probably been a lot of "thin client" products/services in the education space in the past, but I think it might be time to try again.

Like another poster here, I think it's "sad" that kids are using laptops. Laptops have small screens and poor ergonomics.

A thin client setup with a good keyboard, mouse and monitor could be better and more affordable / future proof.

I wonder if Michael Bury's puts printed. The stock is down about 30% from when I think he announced them.