irateswami's comments

I have 2 KA2's, one for my personal and work rigs, respectively. I've honestly never had a problem with their noise level, they sound pretty much the same as any other modern and commonly available mechanical keyboard.

For shits-n-gigs I bought a Dactyl Ergodox from Oh My Keycaps, I'm still waiting on it to be delivered but I'm really stoked. I would never go back to a typical keyboard.

> Simple metrics like LoC, story points and number of commits are lazy ways to evaluate developers.

I mean, looking through the git logs means you look at code contributions. If you're a software engineer, that's kind of, ya know, your entire jobs. You can get a lot from looking at someone's contributions, especially in code or documentation or slack responses. Volume doesn't mean shit though, that's the trick.

> Might as well replace managers with a bot.

Yes, please.

I can't tell if you're making a joke about do-nothing managers or not, but if so, brava.

Literally the way to "manage" developers is to enable them to do good work, and then get the hell out of their way. The git logs, uptime, and slack messages are all the records you need for evals.

Perl was my first language too! Believe it or not, there's a ton of b*ch work that still needs to be done by interns at legacy tech that involves the language (looking at you Veritas, although this was a long time ago so who knows).

I'm grateful Rust now exists and is able to match, and even beat, Perl in regex text surgery.

> Recruiters are in the way.

So much this. I've had many conversations with interesting companies that have good pay and cool products, but recruiters/hr keep coming up with bullshit policies and processes that are just obnoxious and only serve to sort out the compliant from the competent.

Get while the gettin' is good, people!

You now have power over that caviling, micromanaging boss of yours. Or the job that doesn't pay you enough. Or the gig that makes you come in the office when you can work perfectly fine from home.

Remember that productivity in America has doubled in the last 40 years, but wages have only risen by half. So sit on your ass a bit, get paid, then get a gig that respects your worth.

I have three young children.

My wife understands my introversion and that I need time to myself. We have a sort of agreement, she could be a stay at home mom but she also is going to take the majority of the child-rearing, I make and manage the money in our home.

One of the reasons I love working from home is that I actually spend more time with my kids. It's not a chore and I don't have to set aside specific time to do so, it just happens organically.

What has helped tremendously is outsourcing a number of chores. I've hired people to clean my house, maintain the yard, etc and it's really freed up more time. Now I have plenty of bandwidth to devote to family, along with all my other hobbies and intellectual pursuits.

Honestly, I just prefer being alone.

I find that I get all my needs for social interaction through work and family, and even that can be too much. I have to spend large swaths of the day just being by myself, and I typically use that time for the things I want to do; reading books, learning Russian, trying new technologies. These are all solitary pursuits, and I like that I can do them in my own way at my own pace.

I guess my roundabout way of answering the question is that I simply got comfortable being with myself. I like me, I think I'm pretty cool. I know I'm not perfect but I have a lot of self love. Combine that with the desire and grit to always be working towards self improvement, plus a wife and kids, and I find that my day is filled to the brim with joy, love, and excitement.

Greetings from Minneapolis, I work and live as a Dev here and it fucking sucks.

> I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.

Good Lord what the hell are you doing on HN then?!?!? Go talk to your therapist/doctor for God's sake and get off social media.

Whew boy do I have some stories that might shatter your view of trader joe's being a good company.

Prime example: my store captain, Jeff, got busted having an affair with a crew member that he was a direct supervisor of. Granted, Jeff was an asshole from the day I met him, he did everything he could to hold up my (and many others) promotions and pay raises just because he could, but the thing that got him finally fired was dipping his pen in the company ink.

I was personally denied safety equipment multiple times, like lift belts and new blades for my box cutter.

I know of a another store Captain that got fired for kicking out customers that weren't wearing masks when they tried to come in.

TJ's is extremely anti-union and anti-union propaganda is posted all over the employee areas and handbook.

Trader Joe's corporate will turn a blind eye to ANYTHING, as long as a customer doesn't complain or it doesn't open up the company to some kind of liability. It was a super cool company up until about 20 years ago when Bane took over as CEO. Since then it has been a cavalcade of hiring shitty management and unsustainable growth. TJ's has lost it's original weltanschauung and Joe Coloumbe would be horrified to see how the company is run now.

Is this linkedin? Agree?

"If you know the volume of a toilet bowl 1.3 gallons, how many radii of the earth's rotation would fill the visible universe" - Google interviewer

It takes someone with a Michael Scott-level of self-awareness to ever think it would be a good idea.

I would bet any amount of money that it's a private space debris tracking conglomerate that discovers a widowmaker asteroid coming at us...

...and they make us subscribe to a rundle for the rest of our lives to keep it from hitting us.

"Earth, and life on it." - brought to you by Facebook, probably

Or here's my favorite: let someone go through the entire interview process at subcompany (Shipt) only to have your former, embittered, manager (Fuck you, Dave) at the parent company (Target) torpedo your offer.

Don't work for Minnesota companies, kids. Optum, CHR, Target, etc, they all suck with shite culture, bad pay, and poor career prospects.

> Of course you already lined up a new job, have no loyalty to your current employer, and will tell anyone who is willing to listen.

God. Damn. Right.

the linux community never fails to deliver drama, it's like watching a bunch of nerds have a slap fight.

I fail to see what problem F# solves that is not already done as well or better in Go, Rust, or Python, coupled with the wide acceptance and/or hype among other developers for those languages.