2025-01-14
8 分钟Foreign I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, January 13, 2025.
One way folks pinch pennies these days is by downgrading their streaming subscriptions to the ad supported plan.
But just how many ads might you have to endure for from any given streamer?
According to some Sherwood news research, Disney plus will likely subject you to more ads than anyone else, eating up about 13 to 16% of your watch time.
Netflix, on the other hand, shows you ads about 3 to 4% of the time.
These numbers are different depending on what you're watching, and they may change at any moment, but I found them interesting nonetheless.
Okay, let's get into this week's News.
The new $30,000 side hustle, Bloomberg reports, but I linked to Megan McDonagh's commentary on LinkedIn because paywall that employee referrals have become a lucrative side hustle for tech workers.
Quote Platforms like Blind and Refermarket are connecting job seekers with company insiders willing to offer referrals for for a fee.
End quote.
I'm not surprised that this is a thing, but I'm certainly disappointed.
How can you feel good about making money by referring a complete stranger for a position?
I guess you get over it because it's an easy 30k.
Crazy times while this phenomena is likely rare, it is indicative of a job market that is way out of whack.
The 30k income referenced in the headline is one individual who produced more than a half a dozen successful hires for the company after referring more than 1,000 job candidates to his employer.
Mistakes Engineers make in Large Code Bases Shahan Ghodecki has spent a decade working on large, established code bases, which he defines as having single digit million lines of code, like 5 million.
Somewhere between 100 and 1,000 engineers working on the same code base, and the first working version of the code base is at least 10 years old.
I can't say I've ever worked on a code base in this category, so I'll have to take Shawn's word for it.
And that word is quote.
There's one mistake I see more often than anything else, and it's absolutely deadly ignoring the rest of the code base and just implementing your feature in the most sensible way.