Readit Newsjeffdotdev commented on Rippling's suit against Deel is wild cautiousoptimism.news/p/r... · Posted by u/djm_
Deel's business practices are wild. I've had to call them out for overstepping their role as an EOR and to stop sending marketing email to my team about "virtual deel events". Deel treated the people I "hired" through their platform like their own users. I will never use deel again.
jeffdotdev commented on Rippling sues Deel over spying twitter.com/parkerconrad/... · Posted by u/amacneil
We had about 75 people hired through deel at one point. I actually complained to them because they were reaching out to my people inviting them to "Deel Events" and sending them marketing emails.
Deel is just another tech company that thinks they're entitled to data, you're just a user to them. I hope Rippling wins, and that management team gets put in their place.
In the mean time, I'm back to setting up local entities. They took a great idea and ruined trust. When I called them on it they just gave me corporate gaslighting.
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jeffdotdev commented on AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU techcrunch.com/2025/02/02... · Posted by u/geox
Laws that are open to interpretation with drastic consequences if it's interpreted against your favour pose unacceptable risk to business investors and stifle innovation.
There is no law that isn't open to interpretation. There is a reason for the judicial branch of government.
jeffdotdev commented on Ask HN: What tools and practices have helped you work better as a developer? · Posted by u/kartm
Learning to type properly. Even if you can bump up your typing speed 10 wpm. Over the life time of a software engineer it's worth it.
jeffdotdev commented on Ask HN: What tools and practices have helped you work better as a developer? · Posted by u/kartm
My Jetbrains IDE is bar none the biggest productivity boost for me. Even after VScode arrived (and got better, much better, over the years!), Jetbrains still has so many built-in features that I find it hard to code without, and I happily pay for my own subscription.
Aside from that, I think the thing that's helped me the most is simply over-commenting, everywhere and all the time. I leave a quick note for other devs (and myself) for every helper func, even if it looks trivial to me. And for anything complex, I try to leave detailed line-by-line comments that any junior dev can pick up. This not only helps others pick it up, it helps me myself a few weeks from now, and it also helps prevent runtime issues through what is basically as-you-go "rubber ducky" debugging, forcing me to verbalize my rationale for writing something a certain way.
And of course ChatGPT has been a moderately big help. It's not quite a replacement for another experienced dev, but it's certainly taken over 90% of my Stackoverflow and Google usage – if only for its much better natural language parsing abilities.
With these tools in place, the code mostly just writes itself if you can give me time to focus and not force me to join pointless meetings and scrum planning sessions. I can only be productive if I can sit down and focus without pointless rituals where my input isn't even needed or asked for.
What language do you write in?
jeffdotdev commented on Why we can't predict the timing of climate tipping points phys.org/news/2024-08-day... · Posted by u/geox
It's interesting to hear Taleb talk about statistical analysis in the climate space and this seems to support his point. He's pointed out the inability to really predict what is going on and as I understand it - supports just focusing those prediction resources on mitigating the problem
This seems like classic fat tail uncertainty. We really shouldn't be F'ing around.
(I don't know what this is supposed to mean)