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@ELLIOTTCABLE@kolektiva.social I really like your point about "people use #OCaml to get stuff _done_ and it shows." That's been my experience in interactions. You have a strong theoretical bent and a lot of math (a lot a lot of math) in the edges, but it has never felt particularly _purist_ or siloed: the pragmatic emphasis permeates interactions I've had about it and my own experience reading about it. It was also one of the reasons it's been on my list of "things I want to learn" for years. @geography@mstdn.social
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I recall a regular piece of advice for software engineers: “change your job every two years.”
There’s innumerable Google results for this, even from as recently as 2022 — but none of them really seem that high-quality?
I’m really, really enjoying my current (somewhat unusual, hard-to-replicate) position; am about a year and a half into it; but I also don’t want to relax into that and have it cost me in the long-run, career advancement wise.
So, what’ve y’all been doing? Especially in the post-pandemic/fully-remote world, does that advice still apply?
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