same bud.

maybe that just means it's a maturing field and we gotta adapt?

yes, the promise has changed, but you still gotta do it for the love of the game. anything else doesnt work.

or maybe it's learned helplessness?

i have adhd and can't stand these type victim mindset promoting comments.

Not to say I entirely lack learned helplessness, but not everybody with ADHD is the same. With my ADHD I can try to get out of bed and the body will refuse to move. I can try to get something done and I just won't be able to focus long enough for that to happen. Or, I'll do something useless like watching YouTube videos or scrolling Twitter and the entire time I will be screaming at myself trying to do the productive thing that I'm supposed to have been doing the whole time and it just won't happen. It doesn't feel like learned helplessness; I'm not deciding that things are hopeless "because of ADHD". In fact, the only reason I found out I had ADHD is because I posted about constantly being unable to do even things I know I enjoy and someone commented that it could be ADHD and I had apparently never heard of this aspect of that before. Turns out I definitely have ADHD.

Sorry you can't stand my comment. It's genuinely how I feel. I'm sorry if I haven't sufficiently conquered my mental disorder to your standards yet - maybe I should get off the Internet until I do?

It's cool if you don't feel the same way I do. I don't have that privilege yet. Maybe one day I will, but that's no reason I should wait to express myself. This is a genuine struggle I face and I'm not saying ADHD makes everyone helpless but it sure as hell makes me feel helpless.

if you start having kids earlier, you will have more kids. if so, wont those be more represented in the population and just stablize to closer to where we are today than otherwise?

been at a few high-paying companies.

amazon generally pays the lowest and benefits are generally meh

I read once that they don't even give a free Prime account as a benefit.

The grand total discount an employee gets is 10% a year for purchases of $1000 max: so $100.

good. time for better leadership for devices.

during my time as a swe, not sure what he actually ever did.

crazy that these sort of people still accumulate generational wealth while failing the whole way up.

'Failing the whole way up' is a bit too much.

Echo (and others) was actually successful back in the days, just not in the way Amazon envisioned. Commercially it didn't make sense for Amazon (I guess most ppl don't want to buy stuff over a speaker) but it can still be a great entry point for many other things, given the new AI progress.

still use vim every day.

worked with him ~decade ago.

this hits hard.

does anyone know if his family needs help/is there a way to help out? i would love to give back if possible.

same.

m1 here, previously on track to m2, but I'm not bothered by this.

With ae + stock appreciation I'm getting m2+ pay so can't really complain.

same era. same sentiment.

the era of getting good value by providing good value seems foregone.

now we focus on extracting maximal value in the short-term/for self and acting that it's naive and dewy eyed to expect anything else. which casts such behaviour as the status quo instead of being shameful. which results in an overton window where "i got mine" is all that matters.

weird.

but I guess that's what the story was supposed to signal.

my experiences during product demos showed jeff had a great knack for asking the right questions and being able to dive into meaningful details.

Please note that tech worker here is someone in tech. Specifically, in this case, a recruiter.

If meta was hoarding recruiters, then truly the stock deserved to go down.

The recruiter was hired at the beginning of the hiring freeze in 2022 when the storm was setting in. What did she expect to work on before they cut her contract?

IMO it's less about calling out how Meta was honoring contracts and more about trying to exploit this to raise her profile to get more leads for her career counseling gig.