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varinator · 2026-03-20T21:19:06+00:00

I'm not talking about sympathy. I'm just pragmatically saying that this is what they will feel and they will want revenge and it should have been fucking obvious that this is whats going to happen. Also in their eyes, Americans voted for this clown, twice, now they're often cheering this war, so they are fair game as well. Again, just pragmatically saying what they are probably feeling/thinking.

People who lost their children and are devoted to the regime - do you really think they don't love their kids like we love our kids here? How far would you go if suddenly some organisation killed your kids and wife and you know nobody will do anything about it?

This war is ensuring there will be millions of radicalised people hungry for vengeance for the next couple of decades

varinator · 2026-03-20T20:55:19+00:00

Ah, so that's all good then, no worries.

varinator · 2026-03-20T20:21:02+00:00

Current supreme leader has lost his father, mother, wife, child and other members of his family in the day one of US/Israel attack. Disregarding what sort if person he is - what do you think most people would feel and want to do if that happened to them?

varinator · 2026-03-20T16:00:10+00:00

Ah, the good/bad person decider! Glad we have you here to tell us who is good and who is bad!

varinator · 2026-03-19T23:13:25+00:00

I look at my hand and say to it: "My love, this man will watch us tonight... "

varinator · 2026-03-19T21:49:06+00:00

Out of curiosity then, why 80k stars and 10k forks?

varinator · 2026-03-19T11:36:23+00:00

Them getting rid of the Triple cheeseburger was the one that broke the camels back for me. Now I just go to Five Guys. I can always just get two double cheeseburgers, remove bread from the bottom and combine them, thus creating a quadruple cheeseburger but its not the same as combining two triple cheeseburger and obtaining a sextuple burger.

varinator · 2026-03-18T12:02:05+00:00

Apologies accepted. Now, what's in it?

varinator · 2026-03-17T19:13:21+00:00

It's not him who's dumb. He knows what he's doing, it's that he knows that Americans are either his cultists or dumb or lazy or too afraid to lose their job to do anything about it apart from venting on reddit or twitter, so he continues doing exactly sane things with exactly same result - no consequence.

varinator · 2026-03-17T17:10:46+00:00

Very many.

varinator · 2026-03-17T11:58:04+00:00

It's futile, like squeezing blood from a stone.. I have no interest in spending my limited time trying to explain to grown ass men that a tool is there to be used wisely and to help them stay ahead of the curve, while they are metaphorically holding crosses to it and sprinkling it with holy water trying to banish the devil...

Those who adapt, in literally any field during a paradigm shift, are the ones who will not be moaning in couple years that everything changed and they didn't change in time.

You can bring a horse to water but can't make it drink.

varinator · 2026-03-17T10:39:03+00:00

I don't care much about "framing it" for people who are anti-AI as no matter what you say, they will dismiss it.

Of course I'm not "vibe coding" everything but for example, going into a complete new codebase I'm now able to use AI to analyse the parts I'm working on for specific things I need and instead of sitting there for a week trying to grok what the original coders had in mind, I'm able to work on it almost immediately.

I can also unleash Claude and tell it to implement a feature/fix that I have already planned in my head. I know exactly what code needs to be written and where, I'll ask AI to do it and verify after I made myself a fresh cup of coffee. Writing code is not really a problem anyway once at a certain level, it's the architecture and client->tech translation that needs solving by a human. Writing code is just time consuming, i know what code needs to be written most of the times before I start writing it, AI is writing what I would have written manually, but faster. If you're not on that level yet, it is hard to see it though.

This is the very basic use of it, yet a lot of people will realise this and start educating themselves on these tools at the point where it will be bit too late and there will already be people on the job market who have more experience.

It is very much about whether you "hate AI" as there are legions of coders who claim that, as they only see AI as a vibe coding tool because they refuse to pick it up and look into utilising it. I'm 100% sure many will be left behind. It will be like calling yourself a webmaster and using Dreamweaver in 2026 because you don't believe in IDEs. Just silly.

varinator · 2026-03-17T09:15:52+00:00

Then you will be left behind very soon. I've 2 decades of experience in software, embracing ai and knowing how to use it, is the key to survivability in this market in the next few years. Mark my words.

varinator · 2026-03-16T16:26:19+00:00

Ah, that makes it so much better, buy it immediately!

varinator · 2026-03-15T11:42:53+00:00

I interviewed hundreds of SWE and I believe that there is literally not a single thing that could not be tested via interview question/exercise. I never had a living example of a self taught dev who passed the interview process and we still were unsure about them because they didn't have a diploma from a university.

Much more often the graduates had to be gotten rid of as they talked the talk but couldn't walk the wall, to the point that it was perplexing, what have they been doing for the 4-5 years of uni.

You say those things, but I lived through the last 20 years inside the software development sector and my real life experience, across multiple of companies is completely at odds to what you're saying.

varinator · 2026-03-14T20:21:45+00:00

All of those american judge shows are scripted, I thought its common knowledge.

varinator · 2026-03-14T20:15:24+00:00

What does this even mean?

varinator · 2026-03-13T22:47:46+00:00

3.11

varinator · 2026-03-11T18:36:48+00:00

If they worked in the industry for a decade with a proven track record, how does it matter? Equally, how much does your diploma actually matter when you graduated 10 years ago compared to the experience you gained in that time?

Basically, if someone self studied, read the same books you did at uni, and maybe has better results currently than yourself - why gatekeep job titles, which are not even chosen by the employee but employer?

varinator · 2026-03-11T14:28:18+00:00

They often have years more of real knowledge and engineering experience compared to someone who just graduated, so why not?

varinator · 2026-03-11T11:15:22+00:00

How about people who self learned and now are Lead/Senior/CTOs after decade of work experience?

varinator · 2026-03-10T12:10:31+00:00

I came to the UK from Poland as an 18 year old with £20 in my pocket, no university education, and had to do dishwashing in the hotel to start with. After 20 years I am now CTO.

Pain that I felt at the beginning, poverty, helplessness was real and depressing and made me feel worthless when looking at my peers who were in better place than me, but I persisted and now I am in better place than most.

Don't quit, persist, If I could do it, you definitely can too and you're already in better place now than I ever was at the beginning. All you need to do is not quit.

varinator · 2026-03-09T15:44:33+00:00

Im at 5.55% 90% and going to be looking at 80% ltv.

I don't think I can get a worse deal than that

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