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Exactly! It seems very narc-y. Just let me build my cool waste of company resources, it's not like Zucky is going to notice, he's too busy building his 11 homes

by WD-42 1y ago

Exactly! It seems very narc-y. Just let me build my cool waste of company resources, it's not like Zucky is going to notice, he's too busy building his 11 homes. Imagine being able to build an operating system, basically the end-game of being a programmer, and get PAID for it. Then some nerd tells on you.

markus_zhang 1y ago
I'm not sure if you are trying to be /s, but yeah that's basically what I'm trying to say. Definitely better than working on those recommendation systems. Damn, I'd pay to work in some serious OS/Compiler teams, but hey why should they hire me? Oh well...Yeah I'm doing a bit of projects on my side but man I'm so burnt out by my 9am-5pm $$ job + 5pm-10pm kid job that I barely have any large chunk of time to work on those.
- WD-42 1y ago
  Not sarcastic at all. I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to get into contributing to Redox, but at the end of the work day when the kid is finally asleep it's hard to motivate.
  - markus_zhang 1y ago
    I get it man. It’s really tough. How old is your kid? Mine is a 5 years old boy and he doesn’t seem to need a lot of sleep but a huge amount of companionship which really bugs me out. In theory, it’s better to sleep early, get up around 5 and get 2 hours of quality time, but man he sometimes gets up around 6:15 and earlier, and I found it difficult to get good sleep anyway, so I tried to switch to 2 hours of night time, but he wants to sleep with me for 30 mins around 9pm before going to my wife’s bed, and I usually fell sleep sooner than he did… Girls are much easier to raise. They sleep earlier and don’t fight too much, as far as I heard from friends.
    - WD-42 1y ago
      I actually have some ideas about this kind of situation, drop me a line, email in my profile!
    - IshKebab 1y ago
      > They sleep earlier and don’t fight too much, as far as I heard from friends. Definitely depends on the specific children!
      - markus_zhang 1y ago
        I guess so. But the sample size is over 10, although not statistically significant but definitely something.
    - osullivj 1y ago
      I'm now a post kids greybeard; two nats, two steps, both flavours. Yes, girls under 10 are easier than boys. That flips on you in the teen years!
      - markus_zhang 1y ago
        That sounds scary…I don’t know how to communicate with teenage boys. I had a lot of quarrels with my parents back then.
kranke155 1y ago
Carmack saw it as a waste of time. Is this really what we are doing now? Justifying that my waste of company resources is no less inefficient than the others?

by WD-42 1y ago

markus_zhang 1y ago

I'm not sure if you are trying to be /s, but yeah that's basically what I'm trying to say. Definitely better than working on those recommendation systems. Damn, I'd pay to work in some serious OS/Compiler teams, but hey why should they hire me? Oh well...Yeah I'm doing a bit of projects on my side but man I'm so burnt out by my 9am-5pm $$ job + 5pm-10pm kid job that I barely have any large chunk of time to work on those.

WD-42 1y ago
Not sarcastic at all. I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to get into contributing to Redox, but at the end of the work day when the kid is finally asleep it's hard to motivate.
- markus_zhang 1y ago
  I get it man. It’s really tough. How old is your kid? Mine is a 5 years old boy and he doesn’t seem to need a lot of sleep but a huge amount of companionship which really bugs me out. In theory, it’s better to sleep early, get up around 5 and get 2 hours of quality time, but man he sometimes gets up around 6:15 and earlier, and I found it difficult to get good sleep anyway, so I tried to switch to 2 hours of night time, but he wants to sleep with me for 30 mins around 9pm before going to my wife’s bed, and I usually fell sleep sooner than he did… Girls are much easier to raise. They sleep earlier and don’t fight too much, as far as I heard from friends.
  - WD-42 1y ago
    I actually have some ideas about this kind of situation, drop me a line, email in my profile!
  - IshKebab 1y ago
    > They sleep earlier and don’t fight too much, as far as I heard from friends. Definitely depends on the specific children!
    - markus_zhang 1y ago
      I guess so. But the sample size is over 10, although not statistically significant but definitely something.
  - osullivj 1y ago
    I'm now a post kids greybeard; two nats, two steps, both flavours. Yes, girls under 10 are easier than boys. That flips on you in the teen years!
    - markus_zhang 1y ago
      That sounds scary…I don’t know how to communicate with teenage boys. I had a lot of quarrels with my parents back then.

kranke155 1y ago

Carmack saw it as a waste of time. Is this really what we are doing now? Justifying that my waste of company resources is no less inefficient than the others?