• SugandeseDelegation
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    1 month ago

    This has been 100% my experience as well. Most of the really good coders I’ve met are the types that also do it as a hobby outside work and also are reactionary/turbolib empire bootlickers. Literally regurgitating MSM slop and thinking they understand societal problems because they’ve read an op-ed in Bloomberg about why we need AI to fix the economy rather or something like that.

    I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world

    I’d also add to that the fact that this one thing they focus on has often been put on a pedestal (like coding for instance), which gets to many of them and makes them overestimate their abilities in other areas (“society says coders are smart, I’m a coder, I make good money, maybe I really am better than others, even at other things too” - an attitude I’ve encountered quite a few times).

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      100% agreed. Most software engineers are awful in this respect.

      I’ve heard one fun thing is being a software engineer with multiple jobs at the same time, barely doing any work, and mostly just studying political theory and using the extra funds to fund local projects organized by their local communist party. A … um … friend of mine does something like that.

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        1 month ago

        Interesting. I need to learn more about this from this friend of yours, for academic reasons

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          So you have to maintain separate resumes once you split into two or more simultaneous roles. You probably want to do this once you’ve reached software engineer or senior software engineer level and are feeling very comfortable.

          Sometimes you’ll have two meetings at the same time which can be kind of a pain. A 3.5mm audio mixer can enable you to mix the audio outputs from two or more computers so you can listen to both at the same time. As software engineer, you probably only have to talk occasionally.

          This can probably apply to other jobs where you can easily exaggerate the amount of time tasks are taking. Most people in the software engineering industry seem to have no idea how long a given task should take.

          I heard this can be risky with two jobs in the same industry due to limits of one account per person. This was from a tiktok video though so I don’t have any other details.

          Unless you luck out, it would probably be difficult to accomplish this with one or more of the jobs being FAANG employers, but I’d be rooting for anyone who tried.

          Any other particular questions?

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            1 month ago

            I admit I didn’t expect you to go into the specifics of it but this is some next level shit that never crossed my mind!

            Tbh I’d chicken out trying to do that now, but I’ve definitely been in a few jobs where it felt like I could get away with it. Makes me miss even more the days when you could easily work fully remotely. Maybe one day…

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              Ah yeah, they definitely have to be remote roles for it to be feasible. Good luck to you!