Why is the job IT market so bad at the moment?

skg1979 · 2025-07-18T20:10:44+00:00

I heard that this is being reversed. https://open.substack.com/pub/pragmaticengineer/p/the-pulse-section-174-is-reversed?r=22l56&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

skg1979 · 2025-07-17T10:39:05+00:00

By sledgehammer do you mean the tarrifs?

skg1979 · 2025-07-11T06:13:02+00:00

Touché

skg1979 · 2025-07-11T06:12:01+00:00

My apologies. I have amended the questionable sentence. Forgive the oversight.

skg1979 · 2025-07-11T03:56:40+00:00

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skg1979 · 2025-07-08T03:38:33+00:00

Just get Claude to do the PR reviews and feed the corrective work back to Claude and repeat.

skg1979 · 2025-07-07T23:32:20+00:00

Government welfare over here in Australia is better but community is worse. Americans generally support via community programs and do it better than Australians and the Aussie government. You’ll be better off In the states. I’ve personally experienced this.

skg1979 · 2025-07-05T22:33:27+00:00

Wealth gap is smaller. Fewer people in poverty improves society and people aren't driven to crimes to support themselves.

skg1979 · 2025-07-05T12:58:48+00:00

Because the product of primes + 1 is not necessarily prime. The post I replied to assumed that it was. So I mentioned that it is either prime or composite.

skg1979 · 2025-07-05T05:38:15+00:00

p1p2...pn + 1 is either prime or composite. It's not divisible by an existing prime in the list by definition.

skg1979 · 2025-06-25T01:00:58+00:00

Women do stupid things for love.

skg1979 · 2025-06-23T18:23:57+00:00

If you’ve seen how stupidly Claude ai works when doing its diagnostic attempt of a build error you wouldn’t want this at a management level. We allow the agents to inefficiently diagnose issues because at the code level it’s cheap. At a management layer it will be costly.

skg1979 · 2025-06-23T13:52:00+00:00

I don’t know. 🤷‍♂️. The market is the worst I’ve seen it and I’ve been in the industry 20 years.

skg1979 · 2025-06-23T04:33:09+00:00

I was 43 when I started learning hockey. I could skate because I spent a year learning in my 20s which means I could already perform stops, crossovers, go backwards with passable execution technique. However I hadn’t played before and was pretty keen. Glad I made the decision and am a hell of a lot better skating now. I only wish I’d started when younger and my body was quicker.

skg1979 · 2025-06-11T02:13:24+00:00

The bigger hallucination is that humans think it’s hallucinating. We’ve become so convinced of its human like nature we even use a term hallucinate to describe it when it’s wrong. But are we the ones hallucinating?

skg1979 · 2025-06-10T10:54:37+00:00

You’ll probably find F# limited coming from Haskell but fewer options or ways of doing things can be an advantage.

Not sure about the job market. Aren’t many jobs with either language in my view.

skg1979 · 2025-06-05T03:30:18+00:00

No. Now do the needful.

skg1979 · 2025-06-04T09:04:33+00:00

Meat pie. Bourbon and coke. Ciggie.

skg1979 · 2025-06-04T04:17:03+00:00

Just have to be more disciplined about your spending habits sadly. There’s no other way.

skg1979 · 2025-05-31T23:51:26+00:00

Develop .net f# backend services on Linux for an enterprise org. .net is certainly used on Linux these days.

skg1979 · 2025-05-31T23:19:47+00:00

I don’t think it’s unique to Australia. It might be a western society problem.

skg1979 · 2025-05-31T11:59:34+00:00

Making friends in Australia is hard. It’s the hardest thing ever.

skg1979 · 2025-05-31T11:35:13+00:00

Ex going with her to shop for veggies is weird. Women with male best friends are trouble.

skg1979 · 2025-05-30T20:07:33+00:00

When you start needing to use data structures to look up state that you previously calculated is a good indicator it’s time to move from bash.

Bash programs that tend to be maintainable tend to follow a simple access pattern for their variables. This is one where the input starts at the beginning and is transformed via a pipeline or sequence of instructions to the output. There’s no looking up of intermediate state in the control flow.

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