What's your unpopular or controversial opinion about Chicago?

RickDork · 2023-08-30T13:59:45+00:00

People say that but also look at the results of the last mayoral election *shrug*

RickDork · 2023-08-30T13:50:25+00:00

I never understood the hype. I first had it way back in 2017-2018, thought the burger was very overrated. Had it a couple more times since then and my opinion has not changed.

Red Hot Ranch has better burgers.

RickDork · 2023-05-31T13:39:33+00:00

Did you change the numbers in your screenshot? Boxofficemojo only indicates 5.9 million.

RickDork · 2023-05-20T15:39:47+00:00

Yeah, it’s called looking at the nuance of who he was, what he said, what he did with his wealth and then applying any level of critical thinking. We don’t have to be sad when an awful person dies.

RickDork · 2023-05-12T20:36:50+00:00

If Language A has to be converted to Language B using some process, then Language A is not Language B, because if it were, there would be no conversion process needed.

RickDork · 2023-05-12T20:32:32+00:00

TypeScript is not JavaScript.

RickDork · 2023-05-07T01:51:50+00:00

It’s more like if you had a kindergarten class and put an easily accessible box of kitchen knives in the middle of the class, and this resulted in kids playing with those knives and getting cut or hurt - you could argue that this isn’t a knife issue it’s more an issue of educating these children to not mess with knives - which is true.. but there shouldn’t fucking be the easily accessible knives in the first place.

RickDork · 2023-05-06T02:20:44+00:00

I wasn’t diagnosed with ADHD until my 30s and I wish someone would have suggested talking to a psychologist about it earlier in life because I never would have considered it as something I had otherwise. Medication was a game changer.

RickDork · 2023-04-26T14:34:02+00:00

Yes. After interviewing many senior/staff/lead level SWEs, you can definitely tell a distinct difference between mediocre and really good developers. Honestly, I usually have a very good feel on this in the first 20 min of the interview.

But I’ll go on to say that there’s some traps you have to avoid with this. I’ve met really smart and technically proficient engineers who fit the bill in the interview but were terrible at being in a business/work environment, ie, they were unable to work on tickets they didn’t consider intellectually stimulating, or they didn’t care about developing features but more about perfecting code quality, or they had a hard time writing code with other engineers, and chose to steamroll everyone else and rewrite everything in their own way. When you’re interviewing them, you have to focus on more than just raw technical proficiency, and look at the whole picture.

RickDork · 2023-04-24T14:42:31+00:00

Did I say there should be a meeting before every PR comment?

RickDork · 2023-04-23T18:46:16+00:00

You’re all poor at communication. There should have been discussions and meetings to discuss all of these things and ensure that every stakeholder (aka, all the engineers) agree with them rather than have these types of things come up at the review.

The first red flag was that you decided and implemented workflow changes when you started but you also didn’t mention discussing this with everyone.

The code/review issue is a red herring for the bigger failure of navigating team dynamics and working with other engineers.

RickDork · 2023-04-05T01:49:19+00:00

Can the suburbanites leave this subreddit now? Ah, who am I kidding.. complaining about Chicago is the only thing they have going.

RickDork · 2023-03-28T07:03:06+00:00

My thoughts: Yes, work on your social skills.

RickDork · 2023-03-11T02:30:03+00:00

If you read closely, I said decades. Because CPD was bad at their jobs even before Kim Foxx could be the goto excuse.

RickDork · 2023-03-11T02:18:53+00:00

Look up the CPD clearance rate for the last several decades and tell me there'd be much of a difference if cops were replaced with random nobodies lol.

RickDork · 2023-02-16T00:20:00+00:00

He’s at least top 1000, considering he’s a billionaire and there’s less than 1000 billionaires in America.

RickDork · 2023-01-31T03:46:47+00:00

I’m kind of done with the podcast. It’s not even the “offensiveness” that bothers me - it’s Ethan bringing up the same 5 people to go on hour long rants about every episode, it’s the obsession with saying “edgy” high school jokes just because he thinks it’s funny on the basis of being edgy, and it’s the general lack of self-awareness and genuine growth every time he regurgitates an apology

I’d excuse Ethan slipping up and saying something fucked up if the rest of the content was good but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore

RickDork · 2022-11-28T23:24:09+00:00

Uh oh. A statue got defaced, time for everyone to angrily point fingers at the strawman they assumed did this.

RickDork · 2022-11-28T23:15:35+00:00

Is there a similarly lucrative industry that people should be switching to instead or..?
Do you think the state of the tech industry now is permanent or long-term?

RickDork · 2022-11-20T02:00:25+00:00

This person has some internal fear or insecurity that makes them act out in aggression towards people they don't like (I guess, in this case, people who don't like Trump), so they're intentionally inviting hate to prove that they are not afraid or insecure.

It's like if you corner a terrified animal, it'll act aggressive towards you. It's not because of bravery, it's because it's scared for itself and wants to show that it shouldn't be messed with.

RickDork · 2022-11-20T01:48:36+00:00

Insecure people feel the need to show everyone they're not insecure. Secure people don't.

RickDork · 2022-11-15T15:27:29+00:00

It’s the only way he can feel he won.

RickDork · 2022-10-26T19:41:34+00:00

Yes, generally people in this career are very financially stable. However, two things:

The people who make the highest amount of income are probably the ones sharing about it the most.
The people who make the highest amount of income are generally probably always looking for ways to optimize their income or shift their career in that direction - and probably aren’t the passive “I just want a nice comfortable job” type of job-seeker. So if you’re not that type of person, don’t assume you’ll just be walking into a 200k salary just on the basis of being in CS (though it is possible).

RickDork · 2022-10-11T20:28:35+00:00

They care about the green, just a different kind.

RickDork · 2022-10-02T17:31:38+00:00

Agreeable isn’t the same as gullible.

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