tim_curry [they/them]

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Cake day: February 23rd, 2025

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  • I never liked this take because I work as a dev and optimisation will be one of these things that drops off the priority list when your team is a skeleton crew with 100 managers and you have about enough time to implement the barebones of what you’re making and move on bugs and all.

    This is typical called a minimum viable product and for the last 10 years of professional development its all I’ve ever been able to make.

    This post wasn’t for shitting in devs its because I’m very interested in game engine tech but lack a lot of knowledge and wonder why something from my perspective seems simple and low cost to implement gets missed assuming there is actually a valid reason to leaving it out I’m just curious. Also death stranding is a rather well optimised and finely tuned game so its omission most certainly isn’t developers being “lazy”

























  • The recruiter was paid by the companies to find people so it was at no cost to me. I have little experience of recruiters I would pay i feel like they’d be different. Most recruiters i end up in contact with are from linkedin DMs. Its been about 7 years since I’ve had to apply for a job so I don’t know how relevant anything i say is now.

    I’m one of those cringe programmers so the recruiter worked out well but yeah it’ll not be so great for other jobs although i have no experience to know.


  • I have very recently trained myself to just let people be wrong sometimes. You have to pick your battles and dedicate the energy to people who you think will actually listen and just nod and smile at the ones who don’t. Also sometimes the thing the person is being wrong about is just not that important and doesn’t really need to be corrected.


  • I’ve never successfully got a job by applying on indeed or any other website the only methods that have worked for me are

    • Applying for a scheme, mine was an apprenticeship scheme but graduate schemes also work the entrance requirements are low cos they usually want to get as many people as possible and the scheme has to find you something. This is limited to being young and or a recent graduate unfortunately.
    • A good recruiter, I once had a machine of a recruiter who in the background was doing hundreds of applications for me and got me an interview in like 24 hours, got the job and bought me coffee then asked if i wanted to apply for another job she found with an even higher salary before I’d even started the one i just got. I feel like if i took her up on the offer I’d probably have been a CEO by the end of the week
    • Nepotism. Absolutely nothing works better than plain old nepotism. Its almost always a guaranteed interview and the bonus of having someone put a good word in gives you a huge advantage. Some companies even have referral schemes where the person referring gets cash

    Job market is absolutely trash atm though. I’m largely trapped where i am all my applications have been falling through for months usually i would get a hit on something.



  • What is it with this website and shit takes recently?

    It’s a pointless regressive punishment that doesn’t solve anything other than to shame the child and not actually understand or teach anything useful. Yeah wouldn’t call it abuse its just backwards and completely useless at doing what its supposed to do. You could ynow try TALKING to the child who is also a sentient lifeform capable of reasoning.

    Anyway the post is about how these arcane punishments didn’t stop the school shooter doing ynow the shooting…

    Hate this site