Hacker News: lampshades

New comment by lampshades in "Managing difficult software engineers"

lampshades — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:11:04 +0000

This article is depressing because corporate America is depressing.

New comment by lampshades in "Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:57:21 +0000

He cracked yesterday for some reason, go check out his history.

New comment by lampshades in "Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:56:49 +0000

https://archive.is/ThwbI

New comment by lampshades in "UUID Collision"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:39:25 +0000

Except this, apparently.

New comment by lampshades in "Does the “Learn Vim the Hard Way” website still exist?"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:58:12 +0000

This is how I learned Vim a decade ago. Highly recommend.

New comment by lampshades in "Engineer slapped with suspension after bridge collapsed hours after opening"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:24:42 +0000

Fair point. Maybe us programmers are just a class above professional engineers.

Should've been a politician.

New comment by lampshades in "Engineer slapped with suspension after bridge collapsed hours after opening"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:54:57 +0000

Boeing 737 Max 8

New comment by lampshades in "UUID Collision"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:48:50 +0000

I clicked this thinking and hoping someone saw a collision. Disappointing that wasn't the case.

New comment by lampshades in "Engineer slapped with suspension after bridge collapsed hours after opening"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:45:28 +0000

Designed a bridge that injures no-one and collapses a few hours later? 5 year suspension.

Programmed a faulty flight control system that kills hundreds of people and ground all planes that use it for nearly two years? Probably a promotion, if I had to guess.

Can someone remind me why software engineers can't be held to higher standards?

New comment by lampshades in "Federal agency tells SF workers to work from home due to unsafe conditions"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:34:09 +0000

I disagree. I've always found HN to be a great place to discuss things like this. In fact, HN sometimes feels like one of the only places I can discuss things like this without being downvoted to hell and back.

Speak your mind.

New comment by lampshades in "Jira can’t stop people from using it incorrectly"

lampshades — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:23:06 +0000

I hate Jira and I hate managers.

New comment by lampshades in "The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data"

lampshades — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:15:04 +0000

Originally it was right more often than I expected but now I have a pretty good sense that I'm usually right.

New comment by lampshades in "I feel like I made a mistake investing professionally into Flutter"

lampshades — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:51:18 +0000

I've interviewed a lot of candidates over my years and technology specific information isn't something I ever look for, unless money is tight.

New comment by lampshades in "The Bipolar Lisp Programmer (2007)"

lampshades — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:15:06 +0000

I've never had a professor understand me like this. I picked up Lisp during my Freshman year when I bought SICP. If you look at my transcripts you can easily infer my mental state at the time. Some semesters all A's, others all F's (or W's), with no rhyme or reason. I graduated with a 1.7 GPA, showed up high to class (if I showed up at all), and barely made it through. It took me 9 years to graduate between all the stopping and starting, working at Pizza shops most of the way through.

But I never had problems with the programming assignments or the labs, I enjoyed those. And when I finally got my degree, I found out that all it takes to make hundreds of thousands of dollars is to solve a couple of algorithms for someone. I guess it all worked out in the end, although I do hate the corporate world (and have trouble staying anywhere long) with a passion and would very much like to find a way out.

Note: I was put on bipolar medication because of the wild swings in my grades during college, but I don't believe I am actually bipolar so I no longer take it.

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

lampshades — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:32:31 +0000

Understandable.

Yeah, I'm a dick online, it's an outlet. No hard feelings.

New comment by lampshades in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

lampshades — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:21:57 +0000

Yes, I believe you are correct.

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

lampshades — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:39:23 +0000

Let me guess, you're autistic too?

New comment by lampshades in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

lampshades — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:34:46 +0000

You said L3 so I was curious. I looked up the guy's LinkedIn [0] and honestly an L3 engineer would have a lot more context about Google's search. Danny, what do you even do?

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannysullivan/

New comment by lampshades in "CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking"

lampshades — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:30:48 +0000

Because politics, not solutions, drive big tech.

New comment by lampshades in "The Yandex leak: How a Russian search giant uses consumer data"

lampshades — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:07:44 +0000

I use Yandex whenever I feel like Google is censoring something. Turns out I feel that way a lot.