Desafinado

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by Desafinado 1y ago
This. I was waiting to find this post. In addition, there's the reality that it takes a reasonably long tenure to even know what quality looks like. And some engineers lack the skill to get there at all.
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Ask HN: Is Gang of Four still the standard on design patterns?
1 points by Desafinado 1y ago|2 comments
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by Desafinado 1y ago
They have to work harder at school because they're competing with a higher density of kids. Students in Asia are under intense pressure to perform at school because lack of success often means a life of misery. By comparison other race
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Github repos and Workflowy
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Intermittent fasting. For several months I didn't eat until about 10 or 11 am. Combined with a reasonable amount of exercise and healthy diet. That's the easiest way to have your calories in less than your calories out.
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Nothing is stopping me from starting my side project because I genuinely enjoy working on it. But the side project has nothing to do with software or financial incentives. If you're having trouble starting a side project it may be beca
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Ask HN: What are your favorite software related podcasts?
3 points by Desafinado 1y ago|2 comments
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by Desafinado 1y ago
How old is your kid? I don't see why they'd have much interest in a command line interface or have any need to learn how to use one that young. Install Linux Mint, download GCompris. It'll teach your kid how to learn the mous
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by Desafinado 1y ago
You do need to delineate between the end goals of promotion and job security, though. If your only goal is to make money and be promoted then yes, politics are necessary. But that developer who is doing all of the work on the bottom rung an
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by Desafinado 1y ago
This might be true in companies with awful, cut throat cultures, but it's far from ubiquitous across the industry and worldwide. Meritocracy in software is very real and being good often helps politically. That's just less true fo
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Ask HN: How to keep the software field fun?
1 points by Desafinado 1y ago|1 comments
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by Desafinado 1y ago
I don't think any of us can answer these questions for you. It sounds like you've done enough real development to consider yourself integrated into the field, so there's hope I think. If I were in your shoes the main thing I&
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by Desafinado 1y ago
It's good to have solid hands on experience in a variety of languages and platforms, ideally either from college or a handful of different jobs. Without that it's harder to learn on your own time, and you'll be better served
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Having a family or co-working space available helps.
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by Desafinado 1y ago
There is a lot of generalization in this thread. Most of us have very limited experience that's only applicable to a small region, and likely doesn't apply everywhere. In general, not only in the software industry, people just lik
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Ask HN: Recommend data privacy tools to limit big tech from collecting our data
1 points by Desafinado 1y ago|2 comments
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by Desafinado 1y ago
I've done some research on this previously and have heard that 'Typetastic' is very good. Haven't tried it yet, though, as my kids are still too young.
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by Desafinado 1y ago
I'll stop with this comment but I will say that there are a few fallacies in your comment. In short, you're overestimating the level of freedom many entrepreneurs actually have. Can they choose anywhere on the work / life con
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Try retiring at age 45 and see how that goes. As I'm trying to re-iterate, work-life balance. Others in this thread are making the assumption that work is always bad. People like working, without work we have no purpose. But finding wo
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Yes, he has to work because he would have too much free time, and he still needs his businesses to survive, just as I need employment to survive. It's the same situation, but I work less hours and have a more pleasant life. If his busi
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by Desafinado 1y ago
See my comment above. It's not that simple. Yes he could retire, but then he'd be sitting around, doing nothing. As many entrepreneurs have discovered that's not actually an appealing life. So the work that he does have to
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Because then he risks the businesses failing and losing his livelihood. On the second point, still nope. He took on the businesses for lack of a better option. It's true that it was a conscious choice, but my career path was actually h
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by Desafinado 1y ago
What you're not understanding is that he doesn't have the choice either. He could retire in theory, but his businesses are how he spends his time. If he retired he would have too much free time. So in practice he's in the s
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Nope. He is still dependent on his businesses to survive. It's a job for him just like it is for me. I have a boss, his businesses are his boss. The difference is that I work far fewer, less stressful hours, and have much more time to
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Nope, he has no choice but to work as well, but he works 7 days a week and 10 hour days to keep his businesses afloat. If he retired.. then what? I'm also going to retire, but in the interim I experience no stress, have plenty of free
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by Desafinado 1y ago
Many years ago when I took my current role I made a conscious decision to choose something that would grant me a good work-life balance. I wanted to check out at 4PM, not have to think about work after that, and do whatever I wanted. Since
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by Desafinado 1y ago
In an ideal world we'd be able to switch careers and do different things over the course of our lives, but money reigns supreme. I think what you're experiencing is normal. An entire lifetime doing the same thing for almost all of
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by Desafinado 2y ago
- writing thoroughly tested code that works and has minimal defects - being someone who is pleasant to work with and who shows interest in others - digging down into requirements and rooting out the real problem that needs a solution, actua
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by Desafinado 2y ago
You don't need books on how to think. You already know how to think. What you need is raw material (knowledge) to think with. This means reading books, lots of books, in a variety of fields. It also means shutting off your smartphone a
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by Desafinado 2y ago
It's a rolodex of professional contacts for me. I connect to people I like but who I don't want to reveal my personal life to. I follow people I'm interested in who don't fit the above description.

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