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New comment by mathiaspoint in "Ask HN: Is your company still hiring junior engineers?"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:53:16 +0000

Do not expect to have a career in IT or software engineering in the US. If the market does improve they'll do their best to crush you with immigrants.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messenger"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:23:26 +0000

>Personal CRM

Interesting to hear I'm not the only one who's found the need to write something like this.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:17:45 +0000

That is actually absurd. If they're insane enough to think the world is conspiring against them they wouldn't surrender that way.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:04:51 +0000

Either people can manage themselves or they can't and the ones that can't probably need to be institutionalized for their and everyone else's safety.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:03:57 +0000

TOTP was definitely common decades ago. E-Trade for example supported it before KYC was mandated.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:11:55 +0000

First of all I don't think you should be surprised that pay is the most interesting thing to potential employees? That is the entire reason they're tolerating you. If I just want to work on interesting things you would only get in the way.

Secondly, yeah, I'm not like that. I've got three or so side projects (I guess they're just projects now) I'm actively working on and have been building things with my teens. It doesn't matter anymore socially, like everything else in the US your counterpart just never shows up.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:01:12 +0000

I think you're right that it did used to work that way but now all the juniors are competing with people like me who have done all of that and also have five years of professional experience at large companies.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:40:08 +0000

Because that faith is what got people to accept "the brown people living next door." The idea that we could get along and just work harder is what let people give up tribalism. If that no longer works tribalism must come back.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:27:50 +0000

It's proof that they're not complying with the DMA.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:17:24 +0000

No that's close to the compliment of the male labor participation rate. 4-5% is only the people who have lost their jobs in the past six months and are actively looking for another one.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:06:46 +0000

If your parents are paying for it that's still spending money on it.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:05:18 +0000

It no longer scares me, it gives me a lot of hope and I think most people my age and younger feel similarly.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:54:00 +0000

Do not go to college if you have to spend any money on it. If you do that's everyone telling that you don't belong there and you'll have a hard life if you ignore them.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:41:52 +0000

Large corporations are probably the worst place actually. You get slotted into some random project treadmill (which will be completely different from whatever position you interviewed for) where most of the decisions are made by middle managers at least one or two levels above you. Going out of your way to solve problems will be ignored at best and my even result in a reprehend.

These places are for people who hate thinking but are good at pretending otherwise.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:30:59 +0000

If you can't fill a role in this market that's definitely a you problem.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:04:04 +0000

As someone who voted for it I'm entirely aware and don't think it's going far enough.

If you truly think there's a moral problem here you need to campaign for secession.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Take something you don’t like and try to like it"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:00:12 +0000

You can go too far the other way. I only stopped liking jazz once I understood it.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "The day Return became Enter (2023)"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:28:12 +0000

The language runtime will insert/remove CR for you if you open the file in text mode on Windows. You'd be surprised how much stuff cygwin itself actually does for you. If your code isn't too Linux specific try building it under mingw instead and you can see what's actually going on.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:22:27 +0000

DP -> HDMI conversion hardware is pretty intense. I haven't owned a device that does this and doesn't at least get warm.

New comment by mathiaspoint in "MAGA declares war on the property tax"

mathiaspoint — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:16:28 +0000

Not everyone needs to live in your particular neighborhood. The US native population is shrinking so baring immigration (which we absolutely do not need more of) housing prices should fall without any development.