Arisaka1

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by Arisaka1 3y ago
What's wrong with realizing that a business is charging money in exchange for product features, and then evaluate whether the features are worth the price? It's one thing when they raise donations, and they leave you a custom wind
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
>And if a candidate obviously has put a lot of effort in preparing for the interview, then this indicates that he/she is motivated to get the job. In case someone doesn't see the absurdity of this situation, let me make it clea
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
The first time I became aware of my tendencies to daydream was a very hard time of my childhood, and if it wouldn't for video games overstimulating me (which I don't consider them a good thing in excess, but I digress), I cannot e
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
My first job was with a "we are a family" company, they used stupid names for the employees internally but also in the job post, together with an emoji spam that couldn't say "how you do fellow kids?" any harder, as
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
>There is a stigma associated with failure that society still hasn't accepted. I don't think that the stigma is only associated with failure, but also with lacking talent/gift. Founders, developers, etc. simply want to loo
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
Yep. Yesterday I ran into a job opening asking for "Java developer who delivers 3x faster than the other developers" in one of the bullet points. It's such a weird point to emphasize that you want speed with no concern to tra
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
>but not popular enough to be spoiled and optimized for the "casual" user I'm trying really hard to come up with a scenario where optimizing the desktop experience for the average user is a bad thing. For example, what kee
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
Ever since I quit my first job I've been tinkering with languages and frameworks. And every time I would complete a book or course I'd face the decision of building something on my own. That building never happens. 1 month later m
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
I usually don't respond to comments, but there's a lot of things that I can identify with in your comment and I'm far from experienced as a developer. >The amount of politics, power jockeying, engineers who hide behind dec
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
I can only begin to wonder what would his opinion on Google search would be since we (developers) always practice the "don't memorize what you can easily search", and there's a sizeable amount of people claiming that mem
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by Arisaka1 3y ago
Because the human brain has the capacity to frame specific pieces of work in their time periods, understand the discrepancies between past and present and work around it. I would also like to offer an additional counterpoint: Leaving work i
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
One of the reasons I went with AMD for my new GPU was Linux support. Nvidia has been abhorrent of Linux before Torvalds did the famous gesture and that was over 10 years ago! My old workstation had an Nvidia and performance has been all ove
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
The same way anyone lacking knowledge can confident say that they got the right information from anyone with experience: You don't. You just trust them. That's what I did with my gastrenterologist, I ended up got misdiagnosed for
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
Now apply this to doctors. It's crazy for me that, unless you have a medical issue that tend to encounter frequently enough to have it in their mind, you're either met with wrong diagnosis, often accompanied with a dose of "m
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
Yep. I got a taste of that in my first gig, where the guy who always attended the "optional" office twice per week ended up getting the high profile project that drives the company, and they didn't even tried to hide it becau
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
https://www.paulgrahamai.com/recERuX0piB0V6Xfa I think I broke it? There's tons of repetition and then it fails.
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Ask HN: How can I learn from an existing codebase?
3 points by Arisaka1 4y ago|3 comments
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
I just started being a professional developer in my forties, and all I can think of is that I wasn't this competent ever before. I slap my noise cancelling headphones, put some piano music and enjoy the process. But I'm not perfec
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
What do you mean by "Reddit is leaking"? Do we hold ourselves to a higher standards out of merit of posting here? Is there some sort of tribalistic exclusivity that was broken? Was there perhaps a manual of commands a Vim user who
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
I have a colleague who almost feels like he's actively trying to make me hate him by throwing completely unrelated to work off-hand remarks in the most basic thing I do, like telling people that I'm gonna take a lunch break or jus
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
40 years old. I used to work doing odd jobs, but during the quarantine decided to pick up programming because I was always a gamer and my desktop was where I would spent most of my time. I also have an unidentified health problem, which is
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
Fighting games are also driven to a niche genre due to the amount of "labbing" (training mode to build combos into your muscle memory) is required.
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
Take what I'll write next with a spoonful of salt: I think the main culprit for the decline of attention spans is our poor internet browsing hygiene. When you see social media platforms competing for our attention using clickbait title
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
Socrates had the ancient agora, which was (oversimplifying) a group of experts gathering in the same place bouncing off ideas from each other verbally. It's time to stop discounting the role of one's environment in personal growth
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
Software development is different than competitive programming, and while it's true that there's performance degradation with years it's either not meaningful enough for the average software project (or as meaningful as they
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
I am far from disabled but I have multiple chronic issues, one of them being 100% visible to the naked eye and I've been told by multiple doctors to "not stress about it". And we're taking about a nail color change, a fi
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Ask HN: Is speed of delivery the most important metric in productivity?
3 points by Arisaka1 4y ago|2 comments
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
>it boils down to the same thing though OP is not asking "how do I find something that grabs my attention", but rather "how do I find something I'm naturally really good at". The implication is that what grabs my
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
>At the end of the day, Windows is the only desktop OS that enables me to use my computer to do the shit I need or want to do. I feel like this is the kind of dystopian thing everyone just accepted that it's normal. And by that I me
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by Arisaka1 4y ago
What's more sad is that nowadays you're expected to have not only breadth of knowledge (sacrificing depth) but to also learn fast. We romanticize speed. We want the chef who creates quality food in fast food speeds! Something that

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