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itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: Google is shutting down Stadia

I mean if Google's goal is to maintain it's monopolistic lead in the search/ad space, that means gobbling up as many of the really talented devs as possible to keep them out of the hands of would-be competitors. Really talented devs want to work on new and exciting shit, so google continuously mints projects and kills them off when they are no longer shiny and new. Seems to me things are working as intended.

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why corporate culture never increment your salary?

Taking a leap here, but reading OPs post it reads as if English is not their first language. If they are a remote employee, say from India - that company is probably doing global remoting precisely to pay as little as possible for engineering staff. It is little wonder they are not proposing raises if this is the case, and it also complicates some of the advice here about just putting in notice and heading across the street for a better paying job. Purely speculation but would be curious to have OP clarify.

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Should CTO own company shares?

Perhaps unpopular opinion, but I think unless you had original risk/skin in the game, you shouldn't have any shares - but should have fair market compensation salary wise. If you didn't put in sweat equity, or actual equity back when a return, or even the early survival of the company was not guaranteed - you are an employee, not an investor/founder - and should be compensated as such.

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Does pure Front End still exist?

Amusingly, agency I work with is having trouble crafting a job description to attract a narrower frontend focus. They want someone who would be excited to spend 80% of their time on html/css with maybe 10-20% of their time on light design or some minimal amount of JS (alpine). Unfortunately the same things we've seen from "full-stack" - which has seemed to translate to "70% backend + 29% frontend JS frameworks + 1% CSS if I have to" - seem to now apply to frontend folks too. Namely they "can" do CSS, but they really don't want to. Finding folks who really excel at HTML/CSS, who can quickly craft well thought out responsive layouts seems to be near impossible to hire for =/

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?

It's kind of insane that on the one hand we have folks playing lip service to "anyone can learn to code" and on the other, decent developers being so rare that to hire one you need to offer compensation equal to winning a minor lottery for just 2-4 years worth of work. I wonder how much more software would get written if it didn't cost $250-500K/yr for a single developer.

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: Thoughts on the potato diet

I was pretty into the idea of this drug until I saw the patently ridiculous cost. $1,300? Literally no drug that must be taken long term should cost anything close to this price.

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

Win+shift+S brings up the screenshot tool, then you can just box around whatever you want and it auto-throws that into the annotation tool. You are also able to paste either the pre-annotated screenshot or the post annotated screenshot from the clipboard into other apps without any fiddling about. No need to change default behavior for this extremely common use case. If you are doing it over video, it conveniently freezes the output for the purpose of the screenshot at the exact moment you hit the key combo (without pausing the video or game in real time). It's miles better than the macOS workflow.

itstomkent | 3 years ago | on: Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard

Man if you like the MX Master 3 you would have loved the original Performance MX. They've made this mouse worse with every iteration. The first one was frickin awesome but when it eventually wore out I've slowly iterated through the MX Master series (1, 2 and 3 now). Honestly if I could get the hyperscroll on someone elses wired mouse (Mionix Noas Pro w/ hyperscroll wheel would be a dream) I would jump in a heartbeat but I just can't quit that damned scroll wheel.

itstomkent | 4 years ago | on: Apple M1 Ultra

I'll just never understand this. Chances are you are at the same desk day in and day out. You probably have monitors and external keyboard/mouse hooked up because hunching over a laptop and using a touchpad is unnecessary torture for a fixed workspace. Given that why would you hamstring yourself with a thermally constrained and overpriced-because-miniaturization-isn't free setup?

Until maybe these M1's (and I'm not entirely convinced) I've not in the 20 years I've been computing seen a reasonably configured desktop (eg not just a laptop on a stick ala iMac but an ACTUAL desktop) ever not smoke the pants off of every single laptop you could put up against it. It's hard to beat the one-two punch of lots of power and room to cool it. If you are sitting at at desk why the heck wouldn't you leverage that?

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