resin85
@resin85@lemmy.ca
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 6 days ago:
Never has more divorce been captured in a single photograph
- Comment on I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software 9 months ago:
Meanwhile, me over here with the self-doubt slamming ctrl-z
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 10 months ago:
The 2017 tax bill that the Republicans rammed through had a time bomb in it for software developers. Starting in 2022, companies could no longer expense R&D costs, and instead had to amortize them over 5 years. This has led to massive tax bills in 2023 for companies. I have no doubt that this is another major factor in the recent tech layoffs.
Take an imaginary bootstrapped software business called “Acme Corp.” This company generates $1,000,000 of revenue per year running a SaaS service. It employs five engineers, and pays each $200,000. That is $1,000,000 paid in labor costs. For simplicity, we omit other costs like servers and hosting, even though those costs can also fall under the new R&D rules, and have to be amortized. So, how much taxable profit does this company make?
In 2021, the answer would be zero profit. In 2022, the answer was $900,000 in profits(!!)
- Comment on Shows how out of control inflation is 10 months ago:
It’s so depressing when you remember that some of the stupidest voters in the country (of which there are a LOT) watch fox news as their only source of news. Has there ever been a larger propaganda outlet throughout history? I guess China and Russia probably have government controlled TV stations that rival it in terms of audience numbers.
- Comment on Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows 1 year ago:
Visa, for example, spent $10 in the 12 weeks to October 6, compared to $77,500 during the same period last year, according to Sensor Tower’s data.
I’m no business genius like musk, but I’m gonna take a guess that wouldn’t even pay the bills for the ridiculous X sign he put on the roof and then had to take down.
- Comment on Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare | WIRED 1 year ago:
I think it varies by seniority. We had layoffs, and all of our lead and principal engineers were able to land a new position in 4-6 weeks. But the junior, mid, and even some senior level engineers had a far rougher time. And managers/directors are having a really difficult go of it right now.
- Comment on Dotfiles matter 1 year ago:
Somewhat related, at least on Linux and OSX, GNU Stow is a great way to manage dotfiles.
- Comment on The only thing doing tech tests has taught me is that I'm too stupid to do the job I've been doing professionally for the better part of 2 decades. 1 year ago:
For a lot of these you need to study/practice on sites like HackerRank for a while first. Some companies go overboard and expect you to build some crazy recursive dynamic programming implementation in 15 mins without an IDE, others are more realistic and just want to see if you know things like algorithm complexity, can pick appropriate data structures, and write logical and clean code. And yes, very little of it applies to what most of us do day to day. Anyways, HackerRank is great for interview practice, you can Google for pretty much any solution to their questions.
- Comment on Bruce Willis’ Wife Gives Blunt Update Amid His Dementia Battle: “I’m Not Good” 1 year ago:
Aww yeah, time to get a brewskie, CBC is showing sci-fi again!!
- Comment on [Discussion] What is your go-to movie that you will never turn down? 1 year ago:
Blues Brothers. Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips.
- Comment on Mmusks new ideas 1 year ago:
Pretty sure this one is the result of mixing cleaning products… Image
