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New comment by jselysianeagle in "The AI Layoff Trap"

jselysianeagle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:19:35 +0000

> Regardless of that. AI is here to stay. Nobody is going to revoke the constitutions and criminalize AI to prevent this from happening.

> What's going to happen will happen.

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New comment by jselysianeagle in "Layoff Thinking"

jselysianeagle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:45:58 +0000

If you don't mind sharing, what did you pivot to? Glad you found a path you're happy with!

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

jselysianeagle — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:02:31 +0000

Where is this "mountain of evidence" that an attack from Iran was imminent?

New comment by jselysianeagle in "U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025"

jselysianeagle — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:25:46 +0000

> GLP-1s

How do GLP-1s indicate a casino economy?

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

jselysianeagle — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:21:19 +0000

I think by "reward" in the context of this discussion on loneliness, OP may have meant the opportunity to meet people, make friends, perhaps hit it off with someone and land a date, if you're single. Not that it's entirely useless/detrimental to spend time at home reading or pursuing whatever solo hobbies you happen to have.

To be sure, there certainly are many introverts who are perfectly happy on their own with no need to get out and meet people. More power to them! But there are many that crave human connection, even if they happen to have many intellectual interests and for these types of individuals, they would be well served at least carving out some portion of their time to get out of the house with the explicit aim of meeting people. And yes, not every such outing will lead to lifelong friends or meeting your next soulmate, but it's a numbers game.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "The housing market isn't for single people"

jselysianeagle — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:20:30 +0000

Hmm I think this depends alot on the individual and their particular life situation though. I've done a ton of travel solo over the years and the vast majority of the time it was really fun.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

jselysianeagle — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:20:41 +0000

> unless you're already in your 40s or 50s, you're going to see the bottom fall out of that sector mid-career.

Can you elaborate? What's going to happen to the healthcare system?

New comment by jselysianeagle in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

jselysianeagle — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:12:03 +0000

Docker re-uses layers as needed and can detect when a new layer needs to be added. It's not like images grow in size without bound each time something is changed in the Dockerfile.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

jselysianeagle — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:08:28 +0000

I'm not sure what the complication here is. If application code changes, or some dependency changes, you build a new docker image as needed, possibly with an updated Dockerfile as well if that's required. The Dockerfile is part of the application repo and versioned just like everything else in the repo. CICD helps build and push a new image during PRs, or tag creation, just like you would with any application package / artifact. Frequent building and pushing of docker images can over time start taking up space of course but you can take care of that by maybe cleaning out old images from time to time if you can determine they're no longer needed.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

jselysianeagle — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:40:35 +0000

Isn't this problem usually solved by building an actual image for your specific application, tagging that and pushing to some docker repo? At least that's how it's been at placec I've worked at that used docker. What am I missing?

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Sunny days are warm: why LinkedIn rewards mediocrity"

jselysianeagle — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:53:59 +0000

Product discovery is one facet of it, certainly. It’s also about pursuading people to buy a product / service they don’t really need, creating demand where none (or not as much) existed previously, of convincing people that their product / service is better than that of others when this might not in fact be the case.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

jselysianeagle — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:00:40 +0000

> American higher education is expensive, because you chose to defund public universities. And because you have an unhealthy obsession with rankings and top universities. Those are the things you need to change more than education itself.

There's this and also the massive budgets for college sports and fancy student housing that make it worse.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Ask HN: Career advice and what skills gave you the most leverage"

jselysianeagle — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:43:43 +0000

> Tactically switching industries midway through my career led me to significantly higher comp longer term (several multiples).

Out of curiosity, which industry did you switch from (and to)?

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Want employees to return to the office? Then give each one an office"

jselysianeagle — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 21:17:27 +0000

"petit bourgeoisie" used to mean "lower middle class".

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

jselysianeagle — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:28:30 +0000

People who interview at these companies report on their interview experience. It's true, these leetcode style questions do get asked and not just by the FAANG companies but lots of much smaller, no-name companies as well.

Yes, you can certainly find companies out there that don't interview in this way, but leetcode interviews are extremely common.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote"

jselysianeagle — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:30:47 +0000

Same here - I was recently offered an "interview support" job by one of these body shops in a far away Asian country, which I immediately rejected. The role would've been to help candidates pass interviews using tricks (cheats, really) like the ones that've been brought up in other discussions before.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote"

jselysianeagle — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:24:07 +0000

> In 2023, the software engineering industry faces a record-breaking shortage of professionals. This skills crisis has resulted in an astonishing 1 million tech job vacancies that still need to be fulfilled. Reports suggest that the number of US job vacancies, due to a lack of talent, will reach 85.2 million by 2030.

This doesn't disprove any of what's been shared earlier in this thread. Because of the layoffs and uncertainty around the future effects of interest rates on the wider economy, many companies have laid off thousands and are being much pickier about their hiring.

So even though there's vacancies, that doesn't mean the experience of seeking a job is as easy as it used to be - just the opposite, in fact. This is what many mean by "the market has shifted".

I don't know if there's studies out there conclusively proving that it's gotten harder to find a job (longer to land an offer, lower salaries on offer on average, # of remote jobs available, # of applicants applying to them etc), but I think we might never find such to begin with because these specific metrics might not be as keenly tracked.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 2023 are remote"

jselysianeagle — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:09:39 +0000

Considering that literally hundreds of thousands of qualified people have been laid off this year alone, many of them devs, and plenty of anecdotes on this and other tech forums/chat groups about how the job market has shifted to favor employers, I think it isn't wildly irrational to believe the person you're responding to.

Sure, "the plural of anecdote isn't data" and all that, but talk to recruiters and you'll hear much the same. Yes, even in this market it's possible to get outstanding offers but I'm fairly confident in asserting that that's much rarer right now than it was, say, a year or two ago.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "On Becoming a VP of Engineering"

jselysianeagle — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:38:19 +0000

> The best reason to be ambitious is the realization that the people above you are just as flawed as you are.

Can I steal this? It's so on-point and I've seen it many, many times throughout the course of my career. There's been a few truly brilliant managers and principal engineers I've had the good fortune to work under, but for the vast majority of upper level leadership this tracks.

New comment by jselysianeagle in "On Becoming a VP of Engineering"

jselysianeagle — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:38:38 +0000

So from what I've seen and learned, there's definitely a difference between being truly smart/visionary/creative etc vs just being "not dumb". And while I suppose the latter could also be deemed a kind of competence, I think what the others are driving at boils down to this - people with connections or just a knack for politics and schmoozing can get pretty far ahead and many underlings often mistake their rise for some sort of amazing technical or creative ability.