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@oliverbrocato If the company isn’t making money from software , b+ employees can be ideal
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The B+ employee pandemic is real.
Always "on it." Calendar blocked. Slack green. Never misses a deadline.
Company still not moving.
Bc they're all professional seat warmers.
No edge. No urgency. Never fixing any gaps.
They won't push back on anything.
Just smile, execute, cash checks.
Founders love them because they're "low maintenance."
But what they actually are is low impact.
U can have an entire team of B+ employees and wake up a year later in the exact same spot.
Congrats, you’ve officially normalized mediocrity.
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Τα όρια ταχύτητας είναι απολύτως παράλογα. Βλακώδη, σαδιστικά χαμηλά, δήθεν για προστασία. Σε συνδυασμό με τις κάμερες, τα πρόστιμα και τις ποινές, που θα σου πάρουν και ο δίπλωμα, όταν σε δρόμο τριών λωρίδων, αντί για 50 που γράφει το πανηλίθιο όριο, πηγαίνεις με την... ιλιγγιώδη ταχύτητα των 80 χλμ., συνιστούν την πιο φασιστική εκδήλωση του κράτους - νταβατζή. Βάλτε όριο 30 χλμ. την ώρα παντού, να μην γίνει κανένα ατύχημα, αλλά να μην φτάνει και κανένας ποτέ στον προορισμό του.
Stefanos Damianidis@dstefanos
Ζήτω τα παράλογα ζήτω η Ελλάς… όριο ταχύτητας 50 σε δρόμο ταχείας κυκλοφορίας! Αν προκληθεί κάποιο σοβαρό τροχαίο από αυτήν την ακραία εφαρμογή του ΚΟΚ ποιος θα φταίει;
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@Abhirajputfit The other day I was defending solo travel but… it is usually inferior to group travel. This post only makes sense if you think that eating alone is some sort of achievement, it is not after the first x times. Solo travel is only better than no travel.
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harsh truth about solo travel:
once you've eaten dinner alone at 9pm in a random place in rajasthan because you felt like it, once you've changed your entire itinerary at 6am because you wanted to, once you've spent 4 hours at top of hill without anyone rushing you...
you can't go back.
group travel feels like babysitting adults who can't decide where to eat.
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@kristijan_kralj what a post, for so many years I thought I did not like development whereas it more likely I did not like exactly what you described
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The hidden cost of "enterprise" .NET architecture:
Debugging hell.
I've spent 13+ years in .NET codebases, and I keep seeing the same pattern:
Teams add layers upon layers, to solve the problems they don't have.
IUserService calls IUserRepository.
IUserRepository wraps IUserDataAccess.
IUserDataAccess calls IUserQueryBuilder.
IUserQueryBuilder finally hits the database.
I've seen a lot of classes having one-line methods whose sole purpose was to call the next layer and that's it.
But to change one validation rule, you step through 5 layers.
To fix a bug, you open 7 files.
The justification is always the same:
"What if we need to swap out Entity Framework?"
"What if we switch databases?"
"What if we need multiple implementations?"
What if this, what if that.
The reality:
Those "what ifs" don't come to life in 99% of cases.
I haven't worked on a project where we had to swap the ORM.
But I've seen dozens of developers waste hours navigating through abstraction mazes.
This happens with both new and experienced developers.
New developers asking on Slack all the time:
"Where to put this new piece of code?"
But senior developers are too busy to answer that message. Why? Because they are debugging through the code that has more layers than a wedding cake.
The end result?
You spend more time navigating than building.
Good abstractions hide complexity.
Bad abstractions ARE the complexity.
And most enterprise .NET apps?
Way too much of the second kind.
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@DaveShapi @VraserX so many people "clinged desperately" to it and still had great or good-enough lives. so many people mocked it and are still paying the price~
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@VraserX To me the weirdest part is people clinging desperately to wage slavery.
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@aruvinchan The truth is solo travel feels incredibly lonely and meaningless. << No
As someone who travels solo occasionally, yes I would prefer to do it with a partner who shares my interests. It can get lonely at night. It is still 10x better than not travelling when you do want to travel
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Solo travel is cope.
The truth is solo travel feels incredibly lonely and meaningless.
There's almost no aspect of solo travel that cannot be made better by having the right travel partner.
We know by asking women why they travel solo.
99% of the time, they say something like, "Well it's either I go alone, or I don't go at all."
Men, of course, are a little more prideful about this and wouldn't admit it so directly.
But really they're signalling their inability to find the right travel partner or even any travel partner who's willing to pull her own weight.
Sure, you can travel solo "socially."
Like stay at backpacker hostels and join a tour group, etc.
But those aren't your friends, those are people you've just met, and you're spending some of the most beautiful moments in a new exciting place... with total strangers, instead of bonding with your loved ones over a unique shared experience.
Of course that still beats roaming a new city/country on your own, and, if I had to travel solo, that's exactly how I'd do it.
Still it's also a very unnatural thing to do.
Human beings are social creatures who yearn to bond.
It makes sense to shop for groceries alone, run errands alone, go to the gym alone, even go to the cinema alone.
But travelling alone is cope.
It's really strange that people can lack travel partners.
I've never lacked travel partners ever -- anytime I wanted to go somewhere, I've always had 0 trouble finding a person to go with me.
Even in a new city/country/continent like I am now.
I just don't understand why it's so difficult to invite someone else along.
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@ZubyMusic I have never once met someone who’s been in therapy for years and thought, “They really have their stuff together.”
It’s usually the opposite.
Same for enlightened spiritual chasers.
But I’ve met *many* people who’ve turned their lives around by becoming supremely fit.
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We hired a consulting firm to tell us why our profits are down.
They sent three 24-year-olds wearing vests.
They spent two months interviewing us about our own jobs.
Then they put our answers into a PowerPoint presentation.
They charged us $250K for this privilege.
During the final readout, one of them used the phrase synergy optimization without blinking.
I looked around the conference room.
Our CEO was nodding like he just received the Ten Commandments.
The grand conclusion was that we need to increase revenue and decrease costs.
I could've told them that for a gift card to Panera.
But nobody listens to the guy who works here.
You only listen to the guy who flies in on a Tuesday.
I'm updating my resume to include synergy optimization.
It feels like the right move.
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@anandnagu Does this also help with lower back pain caused by disc herniation? Only appears when running or when lifting weight at my limit
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There is nothing worse than the 50-year-old with 35% body fat who thinks he's superior to anyone else because has a strong deadlift and squat. Dude, you can't run, you can't move, your joints ache, you eat junk, you drink too much beer & walking up a flight of stairs makes you out of breath. You need to break out of your little silo of irrelevance to improve your health - down the line you'll realise how foolish you've been.
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@LinkedInLunat1c I instinctively knew this. HR is for people that want to work in corporate but do not have any other relevant skill
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