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104 votes
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Tips on building keyboard-centric workflow
I do not like using mouse. I feel it disturbs the flow of things I am doing. Moreover, I like quickly pressing through a bunch of keystrokes that results in what I want. There is a sense of...
I do not like using mouse. I feel it disturbs the flow of things I am doing. Moreover, I like quickly pressing through a bunch of keystrokes that results in what I want. There is a sense of satisfaction in that.
For starters, I use Vim and love it. I liked it so much that all my browsers have Vim-like keybindings (through Vimium or Tridactyl). But that is as far as I have gone in making my life easier (apart from switching windows via Command+Tab, but for all else I need to use mouse).
I recently bought a MacBook and it is kind of disappointing that the keybindings are not so intuitive or don't exist natively as they do in Windows. For example, resizing the window was easier on Windows with Win+arrow. There are many such things I find lacking on Mac. Broadly, I am asking for what other improvements can I bring into better my keyboard-centric workflow.
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Cloudflare CEO says viral firing video is 'painful': 'We were far from perfect… We don't always get it right'
28 votes -
The young moderators sifting through the internet’s worst horrors
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I'm about to start my first ever job as a Software Engineer. I'm terrified about losing it in a layoff.
I wanted to be a SWE ever since I was a young kid, and now after a undergrad + masters degree I was one of the first people in my batch to get a job. I just moved to a new country for my first job...
I wanted to be a SWE ever since I was a young kid, and now after a undergrad + masters degree I was one of the first people in my batch to get a job. I just moved to a new country for my first job and I love it here already, it just feels sad imagining if I do get laid off and I'd have to go back to where I was doing my Masters (and even that would be limited time visa before I have to go back to my very under-developed home country). I do want to just mentally let go of the anxiety and just focus on performing good at my job but with all the recent layoffs it feels hard, my own company laid off a lot of people last year and because of that their glassdoor rating is kindof bad. I've been spiralling a bit just reading the glassdoor reviews of people blaming the management of uprooting their lives. Other people who changed cities or countries and were left jobless and were trying to navigate in a extremely bureucratic environment.
I have a 6 month probation in which I can be laid off pretty quickly, I just need to learn to not worry about the stuff I can't control.
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US stores increasingly reverse course on self checkout
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Spotify is the world's biggest music streamer but rarely turns a profit and just cut 17% of its workforce – its business model looks increasingly precarious
59 votes -
Former Twitter employees give advice to companies who want to replace it
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Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring
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Software development jobs for people that want to have a life outside of work
Hey there! Back when the pandemic was in full swing, I stumbled upon a comment that shared a link to a website with a title quite like this post. I can't quite recall if I saw the comment on...
Hey there! Back when the pandemic was in full swing, I stumbled upon a comment that shared a link to a website with a title quite like this post. I can't quite recall if I saw the comment on Reddit, the orange site, or even here. The site was quite basic, and claimed to have a list of jobs from companies that understood that its workers would like to have a life outside of work
The job market has changed a lot since the pandemic, but if any of you awesome folks happen to know where I can find a good part-time software development job, I'd be seriously grateful.
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Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 9,000 and 14,000 jobs by the end of 2026 to cut costs
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What compensation will make you accept on-call without regrets?
Recent article How can I get my engineers to accept being on call? sparkled some discussion, so I was become very curious. If you can choose between working without any on-call duties or working...
Recent article How can I get my engineers to accept being on call? sparkled some discussion, so I was become very curious.
If you can choose between working without any on-call duties or working where every second/third day you will be 24h on-call, what compansetion will make you accept second options?
Im in my early middle ages, and personally, I think
x2 of my current compensationwill make me choose on-call without regrets. I'm quite enjoying my stress free hours outside of work, so quality of sleeping is not something that I can easily surrender.49 votes -
How can I get my engineers to accept being on call?
44 votes -
Men took over a job fair intended for women and nonbinary tech workers
51 votes -
What happens when nurses are hired like Ubers
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How human translators are coping with competition from powerful AI
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How “little tech” is driving workplace surveillance—and what can be done to push back
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Work profile, akin to credit score?
I was scrolling through Tildes a while ago when I can across a comment talking about how employers fed data into a credit-bureau-esque application that they could check to see things like your...
I was scrolling through Tildes a while ago when I can across a comment talking about how employers fed data into a credit-bureau-esque application that they could check to see things like your past salary data. Unfortunately, I can’t find that comment anymore. Does anyone know what it was, or where to find it?
I find the concept to be incredibly worrying, especially as it seems like unregulated technology or at the very least operating in a gray area carved out by existing credit reporting.
(Please let me know if this should go in ~misc or somewhere else. Wasn’t sure where to put it!)
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As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states in the USA have rules
12 votes -
X to collect biometric and employment data
39 votes -
TSMC blames struggle to build Phoenix plant on skilled labor shortage but workers cite disorganization and safety concerns
31 votes -
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom
52 votes -
As its moderators remain on strike, Stack Overflow introduces "Overflow AI"
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Madison Reeve explains why she quit Linus Tech Tips (CW: self harm, slurs, sexual harassment)
167 votes -
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution
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Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff
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Elon Musk and Twitter sued over unpaid severance packages
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OpenResume
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America's first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week
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How Microsoft's ruthless employee evaluation system annihilated team collaboration
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Military AI’s next frontier: Your work computer
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Inside the AI factory: The humans that make tech seem human
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Google parent Alphabet tells workers to be wary of AI chatbots
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CodeWeavers, maker of open source Wine software used in Linux gaming, transitions to employee ownership trust
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r/antiwork seems to be back (was it really gone?)
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?). I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year"...
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?).
I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year" setting] ... which is right on the border between "keep posting in that thread" and "it's too old, start a new one" ... so here we are.
I'm familiar with the ideas, but never heard of that specific subreddit before. Looking through the Fox interview, I must be missing something, because I don't understand what all the fuss was about. What "mistake" did the mod make in the interview? Why did everyone suddenly hate her? etc. Seemed perfectly innocuous to me (apart from, why even bother with Fox).
But that aside, the previous thread indicates that r/antiwork was effectively bullied into going private. Looking at it this morning, it is not private. I am assuming that they just recently de-privatized it?
On a side-note, top comment on the thread is about not supporting r/cringetopia ... which ... that subreddit is private. Is that also new? It had me confused for quite awhile this morning, trying to figure out which subreddit was actually under controversy and forced to go private.
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Elon Musk bans remote work at Twitter, warns staff of “dire” economic outlook
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Facebook parent company Meta will lay off 11,000 employees
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First thing: Twitter sued by former staff as Elon Musk begins mass firing
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Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification. And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired by Elon Musk.
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Chinese tech giants are creating a new class of elite workers in Latin America
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AI won't take coders' jobs. Humans still rule for now.
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Food delivery drivers fired after ‘cut-price’ GPS app sent them on ‘impossible’ routes
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Creators are mitigating burnout with longform YouTube videos
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Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
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Meet Freshii’s new ‘virtual cashier’ — who works from Nicaragua for $3.75 an hour
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Job search and placement services
I've decided I'm going to start looking for a new job. I'm a software product manager in the US and will be looking for senior positions, hopefully remote. Has anyone used a service to help find...
I've decided I'm going to start looking for a new job. I'm a software product manager in the US and will be looking for senior positions, hopefully remote. Has anyone used a service to help find jobs before? This is the first one I've come across and I'm considering it.
https://www.findmyprofession.com/career-finder/Any thoughts or feedback welcome. Thanks.
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New York Times tech workers vote to certify union
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The New York Times Tech Union vote count starts this morning, and we made a live vote tracker!
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Shades of DevOps: Related job titles
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/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes