I am very very close to starting an instagram account in which I deride people's stupid "requirements" in SW industry job ads. It seems like almost everyone involved is incompetent.
@danjac I understand that part, I'm from Hungary, nepotism is the norm there. But the others, the ones who really want to hire someone from the outside, are doing a very bad job at describing what they actually need.
Today's example: Do you really need full proficiency in NodeJS to be a pure manager (not a lead developer) of a team that writes the frontend? Probably not! All kinds of "soft skills" that are not mentioned? Definitely yes!
@danjac Trust me, this is not one of those places. ;) This manager will have 0 coding to do. It might be useful to be able to read JS, and know the basics of how it works, but definitely not the full proficiency they require, and most probably nothing Node specific.
How much would it cost in HW and bandwidth to replicate the original Google search? (Just crawl, index, search the index, display results. Only text in v1.)
I suspect it wouldn't be too expensive.
We could implement this, slap some collective QA on top of it, crowdfund the servers.
@mensrea Yes, I used it for a few weeks not long ago. I was not impressed by the quality of the results.
My question here is not about finding something that exists. I'm actually interested in how cheap/expensive it is to build a simple search engine today. (I suspect it's not expensive.)
@tek There was a time when you could get your fresh Windows install (from a CD) hacked before it could update itself. If I remember correctly, the Scarily Low Number was something like 25 minutes at that point. 😂
Perspective: the biggest carbon capture plant in the world sequesters 1 millionth of our annual emissions. We would have to build a million of these plants to not_increase the CO2 level. And we need to decrease the CO2 level.
@TarkabarkaHolgy Yeah, this makes him sound like a Bond-style villain with no morals. (Also, I think everybody knows a person like this in their workplace. :D)
@warandpeas Which retail channel gives you the biggest portion of the price? Is it possible to get the book directly from you or the publisher? Are you planning an e-book version?
I filmed the intersection at 23rd and Valencia for fifty minutes on a Wednesday morning. It's more dangerous than you can imagine. https://youtu.be/s1XSS4Y0dDk
Drivers running red lights or driving into bike lanes are common occurrences all along #ValenciaStreet. We need physical changes to our streets to make them safe for everyone.
I support the BetterValencia.com plan. Add curbside protected bike lanes and take steps to pedestrianize Valencia Street.
If you do contract work for a government agency, you have to live with the fact that their IT department will do their best, usually through bureaucracy and incompetence, to make your work nigh impossible.
@danjac I agree with all that, especially the freelancing part and that SaaS is dying.
How about an older, more established place? (10+ years of history) Something industrial/embedded? Specialist scientific software? Being the tech guy in a greentech company?
I know that this doesn't feel like the right time, but dream a bit. What would you ideally like? What real possibilities exist in that direction? Anyway. This is hard, but I believe in you. You got this. Don't give up! #MakeKindnessNormal
@danjac if you read back this thread, you have made a lot of assumptions/statements about how/why none of the options could work. This makes you not try them. The one thing that is really impossible is succeeding at something you don't try.
I have worked on industrial and embedded software, no PhD. I have worked fully remote to the one bigger company I have been with since COVID made this easier. Hard or unlikely != impossible.