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Readit Newstcbasche commented on Ask HN: What shall we call our niche tech consulting initiative? · Posted by u/nerdynapster
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Thanks ChatGPT
Not sure in Finland but in Sweden yes you can see everyones salary (or more correctly you can see their income from salary. So if you got salary from two different jobs you just see the aggregate). Doesnt matter how much or little. And yes, it is def being used by criminals (on the other hand I'm sure it isnt hard to figure out in the US who is rich or not based on their lifestyle)
I’d say it’s easier to tell in the US as cities and towns tend to be heavily divided into class-based areas. Not to mention people in general are far more comfortable “showing off” their financial status.
Finland is a lot more homogenous in that sense and people certainly don’t flaunt their wealth.
tcbasche commented on Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on? · Posted by u/atleastoptimal
Software as a team sport usually produces both poor software and a poor team experience.
I'd say this is mostly due to the fact that building software in many companies is largely a social activity, and there's an interesting intersection of personalities and motivation that ultimately disincentivizes building good quality software
tcbasche commented on Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on? · Posted by u/atleastoptimal
I have two, at least.
1. Personal names are not generic strings, any more than Dates are numbers or Money is a floating point value. Name, as in a person's given and family name, or whatever, should be a type in every standard library, with behaviors appropriate for the semantics of a Name, language, and country. Yes there are lots of conflicting international differences. We've managed to handle languages and calendars of significant complexity, we can do so sufficiently well for the things we use to identify ourselves.
2. "AI" is a marketing term for a kind of automation technology able to use pattern matching to reproduce plausible new versions of the data used to train the model's algorithms. It couches this automation as especially powerful or magical as a way to draw a smokescreen around the real problems and limitations of the technology.
I love that first point and I wish it was something that was applied even further to other pieces of data - integers and floats are intended for mathematical operations and so to make database row identifiers integers always seemed strange to me.
tcbasche commented on Ask HN: What're your favorite/practical design patterns for daily use? · Posted by u/revskill
Doesn’t it kinda depend on the problem at hand? Or maybe I misunderstand what a design pattern is.
tcbasche commented on Ask HN: How do you deal with a co-worker who thinks they are always right? · Posted by u/questionThrow
Have you tried talking to them one on one?
tcbasche commented on Ask HN: What are youre favorite languages to debug in? · Posted by u/Decabytes