CameronBarre

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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I don't find the activity inherently malicious at all, it's a certain type of brain picking that people don't respond to positively. Thanks for the example!
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Indeed, as I responded to the other mention of this, I think engagement with organic subject matter is different than the engagement that comes from asking introspective questions like this one. That's my personal opinion right now, I
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I don't think it's dumb at all, I bet it does count as an ingredient to an overall compelling post. Ignoring a fact like posting when a large number of users are potentially active does appear detrimental to the goal.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
That's an interesting position, I would expect clickbait to be more important on the normal posting format, because users are being asked to go to some external resource for reading.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I get a feeling that contentiousness works better with the normal post format that usually links to someones opinion on a subject that is obviously contentious here.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Fair point, since this question is getting engagement, but I don't think breaking the fourth wall equates with an attempt to ask a compelling question about a real subject, if that makes sense.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Must not have been tail call recursion.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I don't quite know how to express my rationale, because I know exactly what you mean as well. There is a certain flavor of question that I characterize as an attempt to harvest ideas from users who respond. I would agree there must be
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Ask HN: What are some key ingredients for a compelling Ask HN?
13 points by CameronBarre 7y ago|17 comments
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Get amped up about the business domain. Learn by watching and being inquisitive, but do not judge publicly. Don't advocate for what you perceive could be better about anything the company, team, or even individual does until you unders
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
You have to believe in yourself, beyond any personal conception of career advancement or professionalism. Unless you work in a hellish organization, most people appreciate a person who can own a mistake and then take the required action to
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Ideally I will have decoupled my income from my time, made progress on personal savings, still be working remote, still have full control over my time, still working with great people, still paying the bills, and all that. IT predictions, n
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I've considered responding to this question 3 or 4 times, but every time I try, I bump up against the nebulous spetrum of spectrums of knowledge from which we get the terms "junior" and "senior." My early work expe
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Yay Clojure! It's such a natural tool once you go all in on it.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I try not to limit myself to having a career.
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
So true. Thanks for the kind works :)
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Stacks of unassigned, multi-level scaffolding to fit more people in the room?
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Yeah it gets way harder to wake up 'early' as the sun starts coming out later. Especially in the PNW when it's straight gray outside in the morning during those seasons. How do you manage 3 hours at the park?
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Tomato timer
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Technically you don't need a degree to work as a software engineer, or a web developer. You have the option to learn some of the lower hanging fruit of our industry, generate income with your skills, and fund your schooling if you stil
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I worked for a university. I worked remotely half of one day without asking permission and was essentially scolded for not sending an arbitrary email request that would have been approved. During that scolding I stated that if I really coul
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
>You should always drive engineering excellence, but you shouldn't be driving day to day decisions/execution unless the company is very small and you are still having to play architect, coder etc. Once you have team leads and t
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Wake up between 5:30 and 7:30, it's harder to wake up on the earlier end when the sun starts coming up later. I might read a bit while my other half gets ready to walk to get coffee, currently reading "The Worldy Philosophers&quot
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
One time we managed to trick our cat for about a month by using a combination of scheduling our brown noise generator to go off and scheduling some holiday lights to come on at the same time, for a noiseless alarm. Cat would still be sleepi
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
No company at all, I'm determined to make it on my own like the contrarian I am!
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
We don't have the most sophisticated setup, we're on AWS so we use a fluentd daemonset to ship logs to cloudWatch. In many respects kubernetes is just a really nice piece of marble to start with, you still have to carve your statu
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Hell no!
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Do keep a gitops folder / repository to keep your cluster in sync with expectations, do not let adhoc edits become the norm. Use tools like kustomize to reduce proliferation of duplicate k8s resource files. Do make sure you are using h
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
I started experimenting with nicotine gum as a non-smoker. From what I've read, the method you get your nicotine has a major effect on level of addiction. Inhalation combines a habitual act with the near instanaeous activation time to
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by CameronBarre 7y ago
Search for easy wins, shun refactoring, and always try to build the next thing better, rather than going backwards to retroactively "fix" working (but perhaps less than ideal) things. I can't really advise on finding companie

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