Now that the US is knocked out, I am formally extending an invitation to the American people to support Norway.
Why?
1: The Vikings discovered America before Columbus.
2: There are more ethnic Norwegians in the US than in Norway.
3: Next weekend we can pillage the English peasants together.
4:
the more i learn about history, the more I appreciate America. America is actually an extremely cool and special anomaly in the timeline of civilizations. It's so successful that it's allowed the people inside it to lose touch with how bad things can truly be
The obvious solution is that if an illegal alien has kids in the U.S., you deport the parents and raise the kids in some sort of ultra-patriotic super-soldier program.
saw a tech lead in enterprise i used to argue with get laid off, dude spent 4 years almost in the same position
i was the tech lead of an adjacent team and wanted to move things forward, ship products and improve the lives of our fellow engineers - he wanted to argue about code reviews and variable names, always nitpicking things and wanted to be included in all decision making, to make the decision
i quit the job after making the whole enterprise roadmap of AI for my team, this was back when chatgpt was just getting popular, i wonder on what step of roadmap they are on
my team shipped a product in record time and is saving the company several millions every month and i had to fight every PM and VP to get things out while the other team was only worried about getting more ownership of the product and headcount
it became very obvious how and why people play politics in large companies, i wonder now with AI what is the excuse going to be and where all the political experts going to end
so it’s always funny to see how the frontier labs are getting ex-FAANG engineers, sometimes it’s not a good thing, i interviewed many of them and you just end up with people who look good on paper, who can do leetcode but there’s just no juice in them and they need constant hand holding
i guess it’s really hard to find passionate people and sometimes the job is just a job but many people in tech ended up being drones that want an easy career, is it wrong? of course not, but huge comps and even token spend on these people is hard to justify nowadays so i wonder how the tech landscape is going to change