I am tempted to try to buy a computer on Wish.com just to see what I get
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Yeah, I have a bunch of burner emails, so it's not the end of the world - but that's 100% the thing stopping me from doing this
One thing I struggle with a lot in my career is that I am very *good* under pressure. I like working under pressure. I am really good at building plans and testing hypothesises under pressure. I also want to do things I can be proud of. I don't want to be in the same spot and not getting better. So, usually after two years things aren't in the crisis point anymore, and I begin to feel useless, rather than acknowledge that I helped make things better. And I don't know how to grow into a role where I am a senior who is managing a system.
Most of this comes from the problem of tech companies not *promoting*. My last two jobs I came in to a situation where there wasn't a lot of support for the operations team, and things were a mess. I was then *heavily* involved in cleaning up the situations, and spent a lot of time in high pressure fixes. And generally got most of my respect from my ability to fix those crisises.
But then, in both roles, I transitioned into a role where I was the fixer - the person who was trying to keep things sensible. But I wasn't promoted or changed in terms of authority in both cases. Meaning that I am making changes to a system, without authority to authorize those changes, so I am stuck making little tweaks here and there - with no architectural vision or authority. And maybe that's the problem. Or maybe it's a skill I am missing and I don't understand.
Part of that problem is that I am always working on stuff that is for stability, repeatability, and safety - rather than features - it's hard to *sell* what I do. It's also hard to sell when you don't have it. But it means that I often lose to those pushing features.
Most of this comes from the problem of tech companies not *promoting*. My last two jobs I came in to a situation where there wasn't a lot of support for the operations team, and things were a mess. I was then *heavily* involved in cleaning up the situations, and spent a lot of time in high pressure fixes. And generally got most of my respect from my ability to fix those crisises.
But then, in both roles, I transitioned into a role where I was the fixer - the person who was trying to keep things sensible. But I wasn't promoted or changed in terms of authority in both cases. Meaning that I am making changes to a system, without authority to authorize those changes, so I am stuck making little tweaks here and there - with no architectural vision or authority. And maybe that's the problem. Or maybe it's a skill I am missing and I don't understand.
Part of that problem is that I am always working on stuff that is for stability, repeatability, and safety - rather than features - it's hard to *sell* what I do. It's also hard to sell when you don't have it. But it means that I often lose to those pushing features.
Oh, that's not exciting
Booze cravings are not things I expected - but that's really not good
Booze cravings are not things I expected - but that's really not good
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"You can't import modules conditionally, and you can't put conditions into where the module lives, for security"
"Oh, of course you can make the module location be fetched via DNS"
"Oh, of course you can make the module location be fetched via DNS"
No, the worst would be a web browser that's an electron app.
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Oh fuck
that sounds horrible
Imagine using the Electron core for web browsing, it's so bad
Less sarcastically: https://blog.jscrambler.com/building-a-web-browser-using-electron/ ARRRRRRG
that sounds horrible
Imagine using the Electron core for web browsing, it's so bad
Less sarcastically: https://blog.jscrambler.com/building-a-web-browser-using-electron/ ARRRRRRG
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I spent time with a cheese grater to make those chocolate flakes damnit!
I am not taking this guff!
I am not taking this guff!
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That's reasonable.
I do need to get less mad about American politics. Since you know, it's broken beyond belief, but it keeps harming Canadian discourse.
I do need to get less mad about American politics. Since you know, it's broken beyond belief, but it keeps harming Canadian discourse.
@silverwizard - well, you know that Canada is part of the US in many people's minds, so we reflect badly on you in that way /s
silverwizard 8 months ago from ZoobopDeDoDop!