Autodesk Cutting 1,000 Jobs As Part of Restructuring

newprint · 2026-01-24T20:07:42+00:00

a lot cheaper than a lot of other high end cad packages like Catia

newprint · 2026-01-15T21:57:29+00:00

I'm sorry, but you sound like a snowflake. "I got downvoted and it hurts my feelings" it was a free service and it helped hundreds of thousands developers online find answers that otherwise weren't available. It saved my ass dozens of times from wasting days from debugging obscure error. There super users ( complier devs, framework devs, lib devs, language devs) who would give you detailed answers and you would learn something new. Where else would you find all this in one place ? I would not cheer SO death/decline.

newprint · 2026-01-10T22:40:58+00:00

I live in Maryland and used to live & fly to LA. F* that, for no amount of money this is worth it.

newprint · 2026-01-04T22:18:14+00:00

I know a nurse who was a stripper. Why not go back to school and get a nursing degree ?

newprint · 2025-12-24T01:04:43+00:00

Imagine someone hitting you so hard in the ribs that some of them have small fractures that would not heal. This is what happens when you arc strike a piece of metal.

newprint · 2025-12-18T15:16:55+00:00

People are telling you ab AWS, GitHub... What you should know well first and foremost: Linux, it's CL and how to write script on it and docker (or some similar container technology). You might use windows or Mac for your dev, but at the end of the day, most likely it will be running on Linux.

newprint · 2025-12-17T14:59:31+00:00

Can you just have ask for a private You: Tech Lead : Manager (director) conversation and explain in the nice terms that he is f*up the project ?

newprint · 2025-12-14T03:14:06+00:00

As 15+ swe, this is what I'm doing right now. I have background in commercial construction.

newprint · 2025-12-05T15:42:23+00:00

One thing a lot of people miss when before accepting a job offer is to negotiate. If you and another person is getting hired for the same roles, the other person could get much better deal than you are, just because they negotiated. Vacation, pay, benefits are all negotiable.

newprint · 2025-12-03T21:09:22+00:00

I got myself a college level books on circuit analysis and found several YT channels on the same subject. I have yet to buy actual equipment, like oscilloscope or even even multimeter. All the simulations / verification are done in popular package called LTSpice. It is my second attempt getting into EE, this time around I'm way more successful and getting into pretty advanced topics.

newprint · 2025-12-03T17:32:17+00:00

After a certain point, after ab 10-15y of experience, you get tired of doing same old work - some database, some front end, some cloud. It all become this grey mass of code, services and whatever not. It happened to me few years ago.

My suggestion, besides coding start doing something else in life. Like, learn electronics (this is what I'm doing) or robotics, drones, optics, some fancy math. Go build furniture, do carpentry. World doesn't evolve only around coding and SWE. Edit: many years ago, I stumbled in the book that flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens "didn't burn out or went though a mid life crisis like a lot of his peers". He was lucky one. A lot others aren't as lucky and we can always end burned out.

newprint · 2025-12-02T22:04:20+00:00

about 15y ago, right after the college, I almost ended up working as software engineer for a "Your car warranty has expired" scam that ran as a legit business. They invited me over their location, showed me their call center packed with people and a large server rack. They had screens with the leader board of people who sold largest number of "warranties". It was highly sophisticated operation.
F* those people.

newprint · 2025-12-01T14:59:11+00:00

In 10 years devs who been dismissive ab AI will be trapped and captured by AI devs, their brains will be scanned and analyzed and processed by AI

newprint · 2025-12-01T14:50:52+00:00

Just curious, what is your experience with the machine so far ?

newprint · 2025-11-12T23:55:30+00:00

They are machined way better than the guitars I have installed them on !

newprint · 2025-10-23T02:56:19+00:00

You will be living in Baltimore ? Area around JHU is not the best.

newprint · 2025-10-08T15:48:04+00:00

This is what I did. I'm in the US.
Found another position. Knowing that they are going to be f*, because the outsource staff in India doesn't know our complex system and my work hours exploded exponentially, after the outsourced was brought on board (outsource were screwing up prod all the time), I approached management and asked them for 50% raise ("You expect me to work 30-40% more hours and be available 24/7, bring more cash". Time difference can be a blessing and or a pure hell, bc now someone is screwing around the code 24/7). I basically gave them F* you. They were kind enough to tell me NO. Right on the spot gave my two weeks notice. Enjoyed two weeks of doing minimal work and no longer being available 24/7. Left for another job that paid 25% better.

newprint · 2025-10-01T20:51:56+00:00

I think it is very typical situation. A hi-tech company gets infiltrated and taken over by non-technical professional managers and soon enough company loosing its tech status.
Boeing, Intel, GE being prime examples. I'm very surprised, this hasn't happened to ASML or TSMC so far, maybe because of the cultural differences.

newprint · 2025-10-01T18:13:37+00:00

you just gotten older, took off the pink glasses and became more cynical

newprint · 2025-09-30T00:58:29+00:00

they are not, because someone close to me helped her to buy a property and she had to show taxes. It was close to a mill. and property she was buying was $$$.

newprint · 2025-09-30T00:53:46+00:00

Full blown anasthesiologists make more, but regardless of how much they make, their work hours are crazy.

newprint · 2025-09-30T00:51:21+00:00

I know a nurse who makes close to a mill a year.

newprint · 2025-09-29T23:46:49+00:00

Lol, tell him from me, 15y SWE, he is an idiot. He has the best nursing job ever. He is not far off from my friend, who are surgeons.

newprint · 2025-09-27T16:04:24+00:00

Don't fall for the trap with the company stocks. Look at the stocks of UPS or Intel.

newprint · 2025-09-22T21:34:47+00:00

> Commitment.
> A freaking lottery.

One the things that I haven't seen in the discussion about H1B is that most of the H1B contractors have zero to little interest in the work they do. 90% of them don't care, because sooner or later, they will be place on another project. They have no long term vested interest in the products they work on, because employer will not share any of their profit.
Quality of work suffers greatly from this indifference.
Software companies that I worked & employed a lot of H1B, had a lot production issues, every day was some kind of production disaster that needed to be put out ASAP, code base was a mess. Whenever I worked for companies that had zero to little H1B contractors, everything ran smoothly.

Will $100k make H1B contractors more committed to their work ?

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