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_jesseb commented on How We Built r/Place (2017) redditinc.com/blog/how-we... · Posted by u/mynameismon

zeven7 · 4 years ago

I saw a lot of people having fun and didn't see people getting really angry. Though I'm sure there were people actually getting angry, that happens with every game. Maybe those people should relax more, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was part of a community maintaining a small logo that got attacked a few times, and we repaired it - part of the fun. I agree with the people who think a canvas full of flags is kind of boring and wish people didn't jump so quickly into nationalistic identities as a way to express themselves, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

_jesseb · 4 years ago

Yeah I was part of a community that coordinated several logos/art pieces and it was a lot of fun. Almost all of the communities in the area we were in banded together into an alliance and we beat off a bunch of attacks, mainly streamers who thought we looked like easy pickings.

Agreed on the flags though, they're just so boring. At least a lot of the flags ended up with artwork on them this time though. Some of the big streamers were pretty irritating too, they just seemed like they wanted to ruin peoples fun. I don't mind chaos but it's more interesting if it's a swarm like the void and not just some guy screaming into a mic to attack a random spot.

_jesseb commented on Rethinking Levels, Promotions and Salaries daily.co/blog/rethinking-... · Posted by u/vr000m

yawgmoth · 4 years ago

Living in the Midwest and currently working remotely for a NY based company. Remote / coastal salaries are so much higher than typical Midwest engineering salaries that I'll never be able to return to the office again. This feels like a problem worth examining, but what can be done?

_jesseb · 4 years ago

Same here, midwest working for a SV company. Nobody in my city is even close to competitive to my salary, and my salary isn't even that amazing for SV.

_jesseb commented on Remote-first work is taking over the rich world – research hints at why economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/pseudolus

extr · 4 years ago

I always see a lot of hemming and hawing in these threads but it's impossible to underscore just what a HUGE boon remote work is for people who don't want to or can't live in Tier 1 cities like SF or NYC. My career has taken on an entirely new trajectory. Prior to the pandemic I worked at two different companies over 6 years. Since the start of the pandemic I've changed jobs 3 times and my TC has almost tripled.

There are definitely downsides to it no doubt. I'm a social person and I miss shooting the shit with coworkers and in-person interaction. But I have to laugh when I see statistics in the article like "workers view being forced to be in the office full-time as equivalent to a 5% pay cut". 5%? Are you serious? For me, being asked to come into the office = I must physically live near my employer = I take more like a 70% pay cut. For 70% I'll find another social outlet!

_jesseb · 4 years ago

Yep, my TC is 3x what it was 2 years ago and my career feels like it's on a new trajectory as well because I now have access to a much larger, much better pool of companies to work for.

_jesseb commented on What's Wrong with Tech Hiring neverworkintheory.org/202... · Posted by u/luu

game_the0ry · 4 years ago

> The tech interview with the ludicrously simple questions are all about finding people who 'get it', and are actually effective at it. Which is why it persists.

No downvotes from me, friend.

I get what you are saying, but I wish my tech interviews ludicrously simple. They tend to be the opposite, and it seems to be worse when you are a front end UI engineer. Not only do I need to be up to date on the new new javascript hotness, I need to be able design twitter's back end architecture and implement min / max heaps on the spot on a white board (now in coder pad, hacker rank or, even worse, google doc) in about 20 mins or less.

That's asking a lot.

_jesseb · 4 years ago

Been interviewing lately for front end positions, it's rough. It's leetcode questions that touch on things I don't do that much when building UIs (or ever do, like why would I implement a sort ever? I don't even use the built in sort array method that often) and very specific questions about whatever front end framework they're using, so if it's not your daily driver at the moment then good luck.

_jesseb commented on Why I Love Tailwind mxstbr.com/thoughts/tailw... · Posted by u/0xedb

scandox · 5 years ago

> This does require some design taste, but most frontend engineers I know have developed that over the years of building user interfaces.

Nope. Never really happened for me. Admittedly I don't solely work on frontend. But 22 years of making user facing interfaces and I really don't feel more confident about it than I did on day one.

_jesseb · 5 years ago

There are a _lot_ of frontend devs who don't, especially now that frontend is so much more than "slap some html and css together". I probably just know the wrong people but I can count on one hand the amount of frontend people I know that I would say have an eye for design. It's pretty easy to get by without it. :)

_jesseb commented on What's new in Svelte (Dec 2020) svelte.dev/blog/whats-new... · Posted by u/krona

skellera · 5 years ago

Now that it’s been around for some time, what’s the general thought on it?

Anyone use it then go back to the traditional frameworks? Anyone love it and still think it’s the next big thing?

_jesseb · 5 years ago

I recently gave it a try and it generally feels nice starting out, but I started running into rough edges pretty quickly, enough that I don't think I would want to build a large app using it. Main complaint is how it handles styles, it does not allow you to apply styles to the edge of a component without doing one of several workarounds, all of which have downsides. Means it's very hard to create a set of generic styled components and then apply layout to them using a parent, which makes it a bit of a pain to reuse things, which is kinda the point of component based libraries.

I also get the feeling that the Svelte maintainers do not particularly care what the community wants and are building what they want, which is totally cool, but unfortunately I disagree with a lot of their choices so I guess it's not for me.

_jesseb commented on Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December pfizer.com/news/press-rel... · Posted by u/KoftaBob

enragedcacti · 5 years ago

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the latest I had heard was that _pre-symptomatic_ spread was the issue rather than asysmptomatic. As in, if you got covid but never developed symptoms, you likely never had enough viral load to transmit the virus. If you later showed symptoms then you likely had a high viral load between contraction and showing symptoms and were likely to transmit the virus. So if this stops the symptoms, it may also stop the viral load from reaching transmitable levels.

_jesseb · 5 years ago

Yeah, that's my understanding as well. There's a period of time between when you initially get it and when you start showing symptoms (4-5 days is the number I've heard) where you are contagious but most likely don't know it. That's why Covid is particularly nasty, because it spreads before it shows symptoms.