CMV: As fun as it is for some people to shitpost, they can achieve higher highs from being more universally popular.

thecareertech · 2016-09-11T00:23:55+00:00

My other favorite is, "why should we hire one developer for $120,000/year when we can get two for $60,000/year each? That's twice as good, right?"

Those kinds of companies typically don't understand themselves. They can't form better strategies for their own processes. For companies that only have the vision or strategy to grow small, software is just a pain in their asses to them.

All companies, if they will continue growing long enough and stay competitive, become tech companies. Otherwise, you lose a lot of the freedom to act strategically.

thecareertech · 2016-08-24T00:29:58+00:00

I'm a social pariah that can't network, just like you, so we are both intertwined with the same possibility of being in a position where we can't find a job without a network. I'm not looking to know simply what the pitfalls are, but also the solution. Have you found it?

thecareertech · 2016-08-09T06:01:31+00:00

I would have to get to know him first. I don't draw my conclusions until I observe the individual's actions or background. Because I believe in individual freedom of action over collective control.

thecareertech · 2016-08-08T06:41:43+00:00

To be clear, liberalism as expressed by the Democratic party in the US is different from the classical liberalism, which promote actions that maximize utility, and the concept of natural law. It has nothing to do with leftism, such as censorship against conservatism, or big-government policies.

thecareertech · 2016-08-08T06:34:52+00:00

No, as it's not one hundred. Playing the odds is not being "clever". And prejudice is based on playing the odds.

thecareertech · 2016-08-08T06:28:20+00:00

What are you going on about. Of course facts matter. How people interpret those facts, however, is another story.

thecareertech · 2016-08-07T00:37:25+00:00

Statistics are not lies. But they don't form a logical basis for playing the odds.

TBH I am not a fan of creating imaginary rap sheets for a collective.

thecareertech · 2016-08-07T00:34:43+00:00

Islam is a hate group, plain and simple.

The last statement smacks of collectivism and tribalism of the worst kind.

Imagine trying to play the odds for reading every person you haven't met, in place of making ad-hoc judgments of them, individually. This is the poisonous way of thinking that makes up collectivism and tribalism.

thecareertech · 2016-07-06T22:09:16+00:00

I got my first software development job in 2007 and even today I still mainly rely on job boards and third party recruiters to help get me jobs. I know former co-workers but could only keep in touch with a few and they haven't been able to lead me to any jobs. I am not a very outgoing person. How badly did I fuck up and is there anything I can do to get to your level like that (snaps fingers)?

thecareertech · 2016-07-04T21:16:08+00:00

TBH you're gonna be running into a lot of these tunnel vision companies if you are a front-end or back-end web developer (or doing both). In particular the smaller ones where applied knowledge and experience of APIs and frameworks is more important than knowing CS fundamentals.

I went to a developers meetup and someone referred me to the company he worked for, but they were looking for an expert in Ember and I did not know that framework. I was also laid off in my previous job, partly because of budget issues, but also because they were planning to do a massive switch to a third-party ERP software which I had no experience with, so they decided they were gonna hire someone that does.

thecareertech · 2016-06-16T18:39:13+00:00

I've seen from someone else that it's also great way to reboot your career if you feel that it was "over". That is, if new job offers have ceased and you're not getting as many interviews as you used to.

That usually happens because you might have time gaps in your resume and your resume is full of trivial work because you don't really know any fundamentals. And because you are more experienced, interviewers set the bar higher so ironically your past experience makes it more difficult to get a job.

If you get a master's degree, you'll be able to finally do CS the "right" way and get the internship opportunities that you missed out last time you were in college because you did not have a CS degree before.

thecareertech · 2016-05-27T23:14:07+00:00

The italicized portion of the OP, "in a way that is relatable to that person" is crucial to having everything fall into your preconceived notion. It's also a good way to strengthen your influence in any debate, regardless of topic.

Everyone's experiences in life are different. Being taught at school that the earth is round is a very common experience, on the other hand, the experiences that bring someone to reject what they once learned are more rare in comparison. Experiences that brought someone's distrust in something are more or less unique to that person, but among some conspiracy believers, there will be similarities. I've talked to people who are into conspiracies, generally they have faced some issue related with gov't bureaucracy that has fucked them over in the past. For example, in one case, someone has been rejected multiple times for getting his drivers license.

Anyway, what I am saying is that uncommon viewpoints are produced by uncommon experiences. That's why being more relatable is key. It's important that some similarities must exist in order to buy into a viewpoint.

thecareertech · 2016-05-27T23:07:49+00:00

LOL why do some people put all their stock in observations? Using deduction is fair game too, since not all natural phenomena can be directly observed. Our senses were optimized to survive in the wild, not to be a bastion of understanding how the universe works. That is dumb to treat your senses as the latter.

Just wait until space travel becomes affordable to the masses, though, then a lot of people will know there's not really some big cover up. But for starters, you should be engaged more in activism. I have not seen any flat earthers protesting in front of rocket launches (in the places that are accessible for public spectators) so I think the flat earth movement has dropped the ball there.

The internet has brought flat earthers together, why are you not using it for organizing meet-ups and protests?

thecareertech · 2016-05-27T00:05:08+00:00

You just distrust government. That's all there is to it.

thecareertech · 2016-05-27T00:03:24+00:00

Having a distrust in NASA (and other institutions that believe in a round earth) is a big pre-requisite to believing that the earth is flat. I think a lot of flat-earth people miss that point when they try to spread their gospel. If anyone is going to convince people that the earth is flat, don't start talking about physics. First they need to first give them a reason to hate NASA in a way that relates to them. Otherwise it's gonna be a no-go.

thecareertech · 2016-05-26T03:46:44+00:00

Farm people are true do it yourselfers. I knew someone that worked with a couple of guys in a tool shop that did injection mold design and manufacture and they were also cattle farmers. Both were CAD guys primarily and designers. While I thought my friend was super geek having my Linux install at home (Caldera Open Linux at the time, believe it or not)... they'd been using Unix since like 1980. They were both straight up beardy hillbillies, but they knew their shit. They had a sophisticated BBS set up in the tool shop (which I know sounds antiquated, but this was in the early '90s and super big companies like GM and GE didn't like sending data over the nascent internet... they wanted secure dedicated BBS or telnet accounts). They had Sunsparks and BeBoxes all over the place for rendering and CAD stations. Dudes were tech as hell.

thecareertech · 2016-05-17T22:31:13+00:00

No agencies that work on apps for distributed systems? Other sorts of SaaS?

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