No, there aren't enough "smart CS grads". I think American talent tend to overestimate their ability vs their actual skill level.
There is no real skill needed for these big tech jobs. I think many people *over estimate* their “skills”.
Readit Newsdxxmxnd commented on The H-1B Visa Program and Its Impact on the U.S. Economy americanimmigrationcounci... · Posted by u/rramadass
Certainly didnt seem like a joke.
Its definitely a joke. They were saying it again when the WhatsApp call failed. They were being sarcastic.
For those who didn't pick up on it, they were being sarcastic about the issue being wifi related haha
I’m surprised everyone is saying they weren’t sarcastic. They were even being MORE sarcastic about it being the Wi-Fi after the failed WhatsApp call.
The people at Google seem to think much more like me than the people at Apple.
There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me:
1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles.
2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unsorted photos are. When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders. This seems impossible on iPhones. Everything stays in the main folder forever. You can add photos to albums, but that does not remove them from the main folder. So there is no way to know which photos I have already sorted.
3: On Android I can use Chrome. Which means web apps can use the File System Access API. This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones.
I'm sure people who prefer iPhones have their own set of "this clicks with me on iPhones and puzzles me on Pixels" aspects?
Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids?
I use an iPhone because Apple is more focused on privacy, and I don’t really need that many features on my phone.
dxxmxnd commented on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine cnn.com/2025/05/30/busine... · Posted by u/lwo32k
That's from Indeed. And, Indeed has fewer job postings overall [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUS]. Should we normalize the software jobs with the total number of Indeed postings? Is Indeed getting less popular or more popular over this time period? Data is complicated
This website has its own graph which looks different.
https://www.trueup.io/job-trend
I have never gone to Indeed to apply for a job.
dxxmxnd commented on Database mocks are not worth it shayon.dev/post/2024/365/... · Posted by u/shayonj
Don’t code with mocks period.
Structure your code such that it has a functional core and imperative shell. All logic is unit testable (functional core). All IO and mutation Is not unit testable (imperative shell).
Mocks come from a place where logic is heavily intertwined with IO. It means your code is so coupled that you can’t test logic without touching IO.
IO should be a dumb layer as much as possible. It should be Extremely general and as simple as fetching and requesting in the stupidest way possible. Then everything else should be covered by unit tests while IO is fundamentally not unit testable.
If you have a lot of complex sql statements or logic going on in the IO layer (for performance reasons don’t do this if you can’t help it) it means your IO layer needs to be treated like a logical layer. Make sure you have stored procedures and unit tests written in your database IO language. You code should interface only with stored procedures as IO and those stored procedures should be tested as unit tests in the IO layer.
Any suggestions on where to read about this more?
dxxmxnd commented on 91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with RTO, 3-in-4 want to jump ship theregister.com/2024/09/2... · Posted by u/taubek
Short term it doesn’t matter for Amazon, they are printing money but more challenging times are ahead and wouldn’t mind to reduce their headcount. Being “unhappy” has been the staple of most Amazon employees since the beginning - see Yegge blog posts.
Tech jobs do not abound right now, so if they are going to do this, the moment is now.
The discussion if this is the right move or not ( for the future of the company) is one we could have, but in a way it’s like the peasants discussing the latest drama in the Royal family, at the of the day: who cares? They’ll be fine either way.
Mind linking the Yegge posts? I haven’t found the Amazon ones via google.
dxxmxnd commented on YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers androidpolice.com/youtube... · Posted by u/prhrb
You'll cross-pollinate across functions. Or at least increase the chances of that happening. Not saying that's worth the tradeoff. But my time in the office often finds serendipitious value in random off-team conversations, not scheduled time.
There are, however, a few times when getting together and discussing something in person is valuable, but this is no more than maybe a couple times a month. I can definitely see this being different for other roles.