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_dibly commented on Three programmers got fired, including me, due to a single app crash betterprogramming.pub/3-p... · Posted by u/signa11

devoutsalsa · 5 years ago

It doesn’t depend on the student. Every developer starts out as a dumbass. There are an infinite number of sharp edges in software and we all cut ourselves on all of them.

_dibly · 5 years ago

I'm almost two years into self-employment and I'm wondering when I'm going to either stop cutting myself on things or land a position with some people who can show me their cool scars for a while.

This forum is the closest thing I get to coworkers and I don't even understand what half of you are saying. I'm fortunate for the opportunities that I have, but my antisocial tendencies and lack of professional peers can make progress a bit of a bear on occasion.

_dibly commented on WriteFreely – An open source platform for building a writing space on the web writefreely.org/... · Posted by u/btdmaster

DerekBickerton · 5 years ago

> ditch social media

Personally I have made my addiction to social media work for me. I make full use of curated feeds, and make sure my feed has a good signal to noise ratio. The ADs are annoying, but I would rather trade my data for them. I can't afford $5.00 per month, and happily let ADs subsidize these companies (Twitter, Facebook etc).

_dibly · 5 years ago

>I make full use of curated feeds, and make sure my feed has a good signal to noise ratio. The ADs are annoying, but I would rather trade my data for them.

I just don't think that is a sustainable position with the way things are moving. If anything, this is the direction social media is moving away from. Feeds are increasingly curated by the user's browsing behaviors and and not their conscious decisions. Data is only becoming more valuable as more people make the choice to trade theirs away with no real thought about the long-term effects of colossal repositories of complex user data and very little regulation in place to restrict their use.

Not to say that it isn't possible to make social media work for you. I just continue to wonder what the threshold is where users won't be comfortable leveraging their personal data for convenience.

_dibly commented on As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit' npr.org/2021/06/24/100791... · Posted by u/pseudolus

bluedino · 5 years ago

It ends on Sept 1st so we'll see how things go then.

_dibly · 5 years ago

Where I live, the $300 from the federal gov’t continues until early September but the $300 from the state ends this month, I could be wrong but I assume it’s going to differ moderately from state to state.

At any rate, a lot of people I know that quit have already found or started looking for a different job. Most people aren’t looking to keep living off the system so much as they are looking to find a job that doesn’t pay them _and_ treat them like dirt. Social services companies around here are literally offering $1000+ referrals because they can’t keep group homes staffed or run any community interactions. I think it’s pretty clear at this point that it’s not just about the handouts, it’s about people realizing how atrocious their working conditions were and not wanting to put up with it anymore.

_dibly commented on The Future of Games is an Instant Flash to the past fortressofdoors.com/the-f... · Posted by u/meheleventyone

_dibly · 5 years ago

I feel like a lot of time was spent convincing the reader that instant games are the future and not explaining the benefits and potential shortcomings of the area. A significant amount of the article is filling in background information. I didn’t need two pages on why Apple and Steve Jobs are the worst thing to happen to instant games, the explanation of how flash games were once monetized, or a rundown of all the different ways that they (or indeed any digital service in the modern day) could become profitable.

The article starts with a point that there is a huge spectrum between the arcade-style instant game and modern “full” games but then never really addresses that gap. They highlight that these games can be on a maintained third-party streaming service but then go on to focus mainly on browser games and make points that don’t even apply tangentially to things like Game Pass or PlayStation Now.

_dibly commented on As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit' npr.org/2021/06/24/100791... · Posted by u/pseudolus

vincentmarle · 5 years ago

This is admirable but the truth is that these jobs will not disappear, they will simply be outsourced abroad. There’s swaths of competent people abroad that are happy to take your (overpaid) place and the major shift to remote work tools has made it all the easier to blend in your team even if they’re working from another country. On top of this, foreign workers usually get paid 1/3 of the American salary, so the employers are extra incentivized to outsource these jobs.

_dibly · 5 years ago

From reading the article it seems like the job areas getting hit the hardest would be low level hospitality jobs and on-site jobs with little to no remote opportunity. I imagine those would be the hardest positions to outsource. People quitting their job at McDonalds are in more danger of losing their job to a high school dropout than a foreign agent.

_dibly commented on As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit' npr.org/2021/06/24/100791... · Posted by u/pseudolus

_dibly · 5 years ago

The first thing I said when the $600/week unemployment started rolling out was that people were going to realize how little they were being paid to work, and here we are. It's almost like they didn't know any better.

I'm sure the landscape is different for people already set in their careers or making some decent money, but everyone making minimum wage got to see how little $10/hr actually is.

_dibly commented on Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead wsj.com/articles/forget-g... · Posted by u/sologoub

mlang23 · 5 years ago

Where I live, people are apparently not a chicken as where you live... Most of my coworkers are happy to go back to the office. I guess we have about 10% which would like to have full WHF. OTOH, I also dont care what the majority wants. What counts to me is what I want.

_dibly · 5 years ago

Yeah, something tells me the fact that your coworkers are more excited to be back in person doesn't have anything to do with how brave you all are.

Maybe consider that are other reasons besides fear for why people prefer to work in an environment that is productive for them?