Bud is beer for poor white conservative men. Using Dylan Mulvaney as a spokesperson for Bud is insulting to those poor white conservative men. It's a complete mismatch on the part of the marketing department. It'd be like Starbucks using Trump to sell lattes to liberals. It's an insulting marketing mismatch that liberals would be just as upset about.

The problem with remote workers leaving expensive locations for places that require far less money to live is that companies would want to capture some of those financial gains for themselves and require workers to take lower salaries. Looks like Amazon and Microsoft finally figured that out. Employers can demand a much lower rate and still get good, quality workers enthusiastic to take what Seattle engineers would consider lower pay. Who loses? Developers who remain in high cost of living cities such as Seattle and San Francisco.

I know how RFCs work. This guy didn't. He had no fucking clue due to a lack of understanding of the issue. He simply didn't have that experience from working on the job. And given that he didn't have a CS degree, he had no other way of knowing about it.

You know degree holders have been exposed to a certain breadth and depth of information that they'd be unlikely to encounter on a job. Further, they succeeded enough in their understanding of the topic over 4-5 years of painful work to convince a university to give them a degree. And, that exposure helps them understand complex solutions that people without that exposure struggle to understand even if they've been working in the industry for years.

Corporate Github repos are private. NDAs block candidates from providing that code.

Candidates with work experience typically aren't out writing publications. They've been working at their employer doing whatever their employer requires.

Work does not provide the same breadth and depth of knowledge as what's provided from a good 4 year CS degree. Work involves repeated tasks with similar technologies. You only learn enough to do what you need. Developers rarely have the time to learn any one topic in-depth on the job.

I'm sorry, a 6 week course does not provide the same level of understanding as a 4 year degree. And no amount of on-the-job training will cover the topics in the same breadth or depth.

That person with the degree may enjoy playing Xbox. But to get that CS degree, they spent nights and weekends working on homework while other people their age were out drinking and screwing. They know how to work and get the job done when it's needed.

What I've seen consistently among the people without degrees is that they lack a depth of understanding. And given that lack of depth, they take painfully longer to understand any solution of mid to higher complexity - all the while arguing over stupid shit and holding up the work.

I had one guy argue against implementing oauth 2 in favor of his home-spun security solution. All the guys with CS backgrounds were saying to go with the oauth 2 approach since that was a tried and tested industry standard. His answer? "Well, make my solution a standard." Uh... No... That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

The nice thing about hiring people with degrees in CS is that you know they've been exposed to a basic set of facts, can understand and work with complexity, and can put up the consistent, daily work over 4-5 years required to get a degree. Without the degree, you're gambling this person your team talked with over 2-3 hours has a similar set of skills. Keep in mind that developers typically have shitty interviewing skills since they're more comfortable evaluating machines rather than people. I'd rather have the engineer with the degree than the one without.

Supposedly Tiktok is not an arm of the Chinese government. But if the US requires a divestiture of Tiktok US assets, China's Commerce Ministry will be upset and block such a sale?

Why does the Chinese government care if Tiktok is just another company? The Chinese government seems to care a bit too much about what the US thinks about this particular company which totally isn't important and not controlled by the Chinese government.

The Roku shines when going on vacation. All I have to do it pack it in a bag with an HDMI cable and then set it up when we arrive. The Roku is tiny, which makes it super easy to pack. I get instant access to all the same content I get at home. I don't have to enter a bunch of passwords IF they have access to streaming services. I don't have to worry about logging out of multiple services when we leave. All I need to do is re-pack my Roku. It's all super easy.

That's not factually true. Black folks are only marginally more likely to commit violent crime than whites or hispanics. And given their percentage of the population, they would not and could not be responsible for 70% of violent crime.

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Given that the statement is not true, it looks like you'd get banned for making an outright false, seemingly racist comment.

If you wanted to write something that was true that would get you banned, you could write something like, "women have vaginas," "men have penises," "women lactate and give birth," or "trans women are men." In fact, any number of true statements about basic biology that conflict with trans ideology would quickly get you banned from someplace like Reddit.

Cryptocurrency was always a ponzi scheme where the new investors bought out the old investors. The underlying "currency" didn't have any real value like regular currency. Those regular currencies establish their value through the government requiring payment of taxes using their currency. There's no such similar establishment of value with cryptocurrencies.

They're removing some anonymous reporting system. That's hardly shutting down free speech. Students still have the right to complain.

When I started, it was all cubicles like Office Space. I disliked them for being very corporate, oppressive, and impersonal. Microsoft promised developers a personal office with a door and I always preferred that idea. We complained to management about cubicles. Noise was part of the complaints with cubes since cubes only partially blocked sound. We wanted our own offices.

How did management respond? By removing cubicles altogether and replacing it with the more noisy and "revolutionary" open office. Careful what you ask for.

One of the options I really like that you didn't include is breaking teams into separate, noise-proof rooms. In those rooms, you can do individual desks or cubes. The room limits noise to a single, related team. So, you can have impromptu discussions with teammates. But, you don't get all the irrelevant chatter that you do when every team is in the same room with the open office or plain cubicles.

In your hierarchy, I'd place the team room between "small office with a door" and "proper cubicle".

I mostly agree with your sentiment. Although, I recently tried ChatGPT and was surprised at it's overall usefulness (when traffic was low enough to allow me to use it).

I'd like to know exactly how much these tech companies speculated in crypto and whether those financial losses contributed to the tech layoffs. Given that one happened right after the other, the timing looks suspicious. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all announced layoffs at damn near the exact same time, right around the time FTX failed. Normally, getting the tech giants to do the same thing at the same time is damn near impossible.