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At my work we use what are called spikes to indicate that research is required and at the end of the spike you must have some documentation or a proof of concept produced so other people don't have to do the same research again. Unfortunately with your job it appears that the problem might be more that business relies on what they deem 10x programmers instead of creating a collaborative environment. They should be saying, "Hey if you're having difficulties maybe you and xyz can look at it together". If developer xyz comes to the same conclusion as you then business should can it at that point. If they don't then it could be that you were wrong and having another set of eyes on it helped out a lot, or it could be due to weird competitive culture where people want to take credit for things. I try to avoid this as much as possible by discouraging usage of the word I during any team discussions. It's almost always should be We. If one person fails, everyone fails. If one person does good, everyone does good.

I've never worked at a tech job for more than 5 years so I'm not sure that is a great metric.

I'm very senior and I only work about 30-40 hours a week max. It's called work/life balance.

What is more unfortunate is that we're just okay with these practices.

Depends who you ask I guess

Oh cool I use the same LaTeX template as her for my resume. Mine is blue instead of pink though! https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV

That article format is like someone just vomited on the page, who is speaking?

This title doesn't even make any sense. Golang is not going to magically shield you from the math and machine learning teaching methods that do attempt to shield you from the math recognize that it is just a stepping stone to understanding that eventually results in learning the math. That being said the math isn't really that difficult. It sounds complex but I was able to develop a working knowledge without having had taken a calculus or linear algebra course.

Also what does Go magically do that any of the other abstractions over machine learning algorithms don't do? The answer is nothing. If anything you're just making it more difficult for beginners since the machine learning in golang ecosystem isn't fleshed out nor does it have the documentation trail that python does.

Does anyone actually know if this benefits workers? Given how little most people seem to tip it seems that doordash delivery drivers were likely making more on average with the model they just moved away from. It is more of a redistribution of tips across workers. I also didn't hear much complaint about this from employees but from customers instead and I regularly visit the gig economy subreddits for workers to see what their complaints are.

I'm confused how you accomplished anything without some type of looping abstraction. If you understand one of them most of the rest are fairly intuitive except looping with recursion. It just seems bizarre that you were working somewhere and being productive without knowing what a for loop was.

Always be constructive with your feedback or don't give any at all.

If being competitive internationally comes at the cost of exploiting workers then I don't want it and neither should any other modern country.

Rezoning plans usually include refactoring to current infrastructure and public transit. If you let things sprawl then you make infrastructure and public transit cost more and less likely to ever happen. Take Austin for example, they've spent millions on rezoning plans and they always get shut down from the NIMBY types. Meanwhile lower income individuals in Austin suffer due to poor public transportation and increasing cost of living. Additionally adding more efficient and convenient public transportation cuts down on personal vehicle usage and having people live in higher densities incentivizes public transportation efforts. If there is too much sprawl they can't really meet the needs of everyone and remain convenient.

Yeah I could see some of the sleepier east coast towns picking up. I know places like Portland Maine are pretty appealing to myself and other millennials but not sure if I could do the cold thing. Seems like all the lesser known metropolitan areas are picking up a lot of steam right now. Boise Idaho for example has also appealed to me.

Also Boomer logic: cut down every rezoning proposal for no reason

When I was at Fairchild AFB for SERE training we had a break before it started and we got a ride into Spokane's Downtown. Immediately upon exiting the vehicle we saw a guy in front of a bar getting beat up by several people surrounding him and kicking him. Across the street a guy was staring at us and then lifted up his shirt to flash a piece. That combined with the memories of SERE training make me never want to return.

It's hard to give good advice because I don't know what the culture is like where you work. Sometimes this behavior is because they are feeling you out for a few months and making sure you stick around before investing a lot in you. Other times it could be because the more senior devs like being in control and making decisions. You have to learn to work around these behaviors because directly confronting them won't always go so well.

The reality of the situation is they are just making their own lives more difficult by not enabling more developers to help out but that's how people are. Do you do 1 on 1's with your manager? That is the best place IMO to express what you want to do and if you're feeling left our from knowledge or conversations. A good manager will help you out and make the senior devs be more inclusive it makes sense. If they are not helping then go to the director. If the director doesn't help then you should reassess your future in the company. Note that I'm not saying quit, because sometimes, especially when just starting out, you have to work a less than ideal job to build up some experience.

As long as you're still learning and growing you can benefit from it, but the second you feel like you're stagnating and you're sure it's not you it's them, then leave. Next time you will have something to discuss at the interview too about what kind of place you want to work at.

Juniors also generally do not understand how a piece fits in a larger system nor are they are expected to.

Kind of interesting most of the people agreeing with him are Indian.

Social media influencer is a rebranded beggar, we already were able to imagine that.

There's only a few that are commonly used at most companies, the rest are just pet projects people made cause they wanted to learn how to make a framework.

I make quite a bit of money without a degree and I work 30 hours a week as an engineer. Doctor salaries are not much more than what I get already so I'm failing to see how it pays more to be a doctor. I guess if all we're looking at is total compensation then sure they make more than me, but I put in way less effort to formal education and work way less.

If I see other people do it I make a point to circle back to the person who was cut off immediately after the person who cut them off finishes and make a comment like "Sorry you were cut off, you were saying." That being said, know your audience before taking that approach. I wouldn't do it to an executive for example but I have no problem doing it to a director or manager (people in my experience who are notorious for doing this).

Well one reason people use credit cards a lot in the US is that it is much easier to dispute a payment charged to a credit card then it is a debit card. Additionally a charge on a credit card is not money you currently have it is more potential money, whereas a charge on a debit card is tied directly to your bank account and can take a while to be returned in the case of fraud. At one point you used to be basically SOL if fraud occurred using your debit card.

> boiled down to "I cannot put even a minimal effort in keeping an eye on my children, so I will blame someone else for it and make it their responsibility."

When you add multiple devices/platforms/app stores it becomes a lot more difficult. Sure it is a relatively seamless experience on one platform, but not all of them. Additionally, parents who didn't grow up with cellphones don't even think about this stuff until it happens. It isn't common sense for them.

This is disgusting. Yes parents should be aware of these things but shifting the burden of locking down every system a child uses when this could be handled at the app store or financial processor level is ridiculous. It seems that some of these people are claiming that the game is not distinguishing well between fake and real currency. There are definitely games I've played where this is ambiguous as well.

IMO there needs to be a more rigorous opt-in process for different types of apps. You can opt in for automatic purchases for utility type apps but not for game purchases for example and it needs to be off by default. There also needs to be ways for people to get their money back in certain situations. If a child has a cognitive disability of some kind then holding them accountable seems kind of exploitative. Parents can prove these things with documentation and if proven the money should be refunded.

Short answer: Because everyone else is doing it.

Netflix does not beat them in videos. Netflix's library has moved towards very specific titles and original programming done by Netflix. Amazon has still retained a lot of movies in addition to their original programming plus they have plenty of options you can pay for which Netflix doesn't even offer. Amazon Prime has around 18k titles to Netflix's 4k titles.

Making pretty software in Windows is totally doable, people just don't make the effort.