throwawaytoday5 (u/throwawaytoday5)

throwawaytoday5 commented on How to Find New Music solfej.io/blog/how-to-fin... · Posted by u/garretthenry

This doesn't get me out of my bubble.

I'm a huge fan of cheesy synthwave and would have never known had Trevor Something - Death Dream not been a freeleech pick on w.cd years ago.

Curation + association is the key.

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

w.cd had the best recommendation system for music and audio equipment. The communities that tried to take it's place after don't come close.

It's a shame because I don't know where to talk about it anymore. r doesn't come close, at least not yet. The community music collages on w.cd were unreal.

throwawaytoday5 commented on The Real Class War americanaffairsjournal.or... · Posted by u/arcanus

bad-joke · 6 years ago

> which helps technological change, which leads to a more efficient economy

You made a leap of logic here. The technological innovations in finance directly contributed to a more volatile economy that crashed and inflicted massive losses on huge swaths of the global population, many of whom never recovered.

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

Not too mention, at least in America, the vast majority of American lives are far worst off than they were in the 70s, 80s, or 90s. Making smart phones and personal computers just made rich people richer.

throwawaytoday5 commented on Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search? · Posted by u/definitegrunt

istjohn · 6 years ago

>> And one side piece of advice - your blog posts, open source contributions, speaking engagements.... those all are commendable. But mean little when it comes to hiring you.

This may very well be true. But I will say, as someone looking to break into the industry, this is very surprising to me. I guess I should focus on acing the technical interview?

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

When I interview candidates who mention github contributions or courses they've created/taught or talks they've given I never have time to look at it. I'm literally told we're bringing someone on site maybe a day or two in advance, mostly it's day of. I don't have much time to personally comb over their resume sadly.

If you can bring this up during the interview I'd greatly appreciate it otherwise don't assume these things (open source contributions, blog posts, talks) will help you get interviews. What they may give you is the ability to network with people who are hiring which gets you an onsite.

throwawaytoday5 commented on Today’s Top Tech Skills hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/... · Posted by u/netcyrax

_bxg1 · 6 years ago

I figured that was mostly due to legacy code at this point; is it undisputed for new code too?

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

I've work for large national ISP where they are heavily trying to create a new series of network engineering tools (device discovery, adding new ARs with ease, upgrading existing devices, pragmatically change thru-puts between regions based on load, etc).

Most of the backends for these types of tools would explicitly be done in Java. Why did they chose Java? Mostly because they would staff entire teams with H1Bs and dump them after 5 years. The directors of these projects would only hear about "buzzwords" surrounding the latest tech if they themselves went to conferences or happened to luck out if the project managers they hired had varied experience.

Oddly enough, there's a lot of greenfield work being done using Scala at Verizon and Comcast. But from my direct experience, it's entirely dependent on the team. The more the team doesn't rely on contractors the more likely they are to use niche tech.

throwawaytoday5 commented on Average product lifespan of Google products before it kills them gcemetery.co/google-produ... · Posted by u/walterbell

cookie_monsta · 6 years ago

Not a Google fanboy by any means, but couldn't this be read with the opposite conclusion as well - that the average time that Google keeps marginal products alive is 4 years?

Of course it's possible that everyone has some personal favourites amongst those 164, but if an idea really has legs what's to stop people from exhuming it from the Google graveyard?

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

4 years for a product is abysmal from one of the richest companies in the world. This is Google not some garage shop with 2 employees.

throwawaytoday5 commented on It’s the End of California as We Know It nytimes.com/2019/10/30/op... · Posted by u/tysone

baggy_trough · 6 years ago

It's almost as though progressivism and throwing money at problems doesn't really work that well.

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

I forgot the shinning examples of conservative rule that is Alabama and Mississippi. For all the faults that California has political, it's still an economic powerhouse.

What does Kentucky have?

throwawaytoday5 commented on Git repository summary on your terminal github.com/o2sh/onefetch... · Posted by u/o2sh

pm90 · 6 years ago

I thought this committed all my terminal commands to a git repo. It doesn’t but now I want something like that.

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

Do you mean bash/zsh profiles or recent command history?

throwawaytoday5 commented on Taiwan managed to build high-speed rail. Why can't California? desertsun.com/story/opini... · Posted by u/jrmg

jkw · 6 years ago

California is terrible at managing infrastructure projects.

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

It's not just California, it's every state and every city in the US. People have an aversion to public works projects often crying about taxes or how the service is useless or not good enough. We have a political system where one major party (out of two) decries any public spending that might help people who aren't millionaires/billionaires/corporations.

Is it any wonder when you have evil groups of people spending hundreds of millions of dollars to tell people that they should vote against their interests?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

throwawaytoday5 commented on Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011) kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/... · Posted by u/greyoda

Dumblydorr · 6 years ago

What if you truly need employment and you are a run of the mill beginner? Is that 5 company application approach still optimal?

throwawaytoday5 · 6 years ago

IME no.

This is going to be an extremely cynical take but most software jobs (>80%) are basically the same. That goes for the companies as well, we aren't as unique as we think; and the companies that are unique or doing unique work aren't exactly having trouble finding employees (FAANG vs nearly everyone else).

If you want an employment as a beginner apply to as many postings as possible. Only do research for companies once they want to talk to you, anything else is a waste of time. It also takes very little time filling out job applications (outside of obnoxious companies that ask lots of behavior Q), it should less than 10 minutes to fill out job apps.

IDK how to feel about cover letters, every company I've worked at (startups, national ISP, to massive insurance companies) have stated they never read cover letters sent. They just want to make sure candidates have all the keywords on their resume before even talking (this part is largely automated away).

I have a basic cover letter that explains what I'm doing at my current job and how I'd like to work at $company doing $unique_stuff. Basically my cover letter is 90% the same between job apps, but I change the intro paragraph to match the title, company, and job description.

But as a beginner or moving to a new city where you know no one, apply to everything everywhere. It's a numbers game and even as you progress in your career, you may not command enough talent to target specific companies.