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by Ocerge 4y ago
No plans, other than maxing my 401k and IRA. I try to ride the line of saving while also not letting life pass me by. I'm doing enough to where I won't be in dire straits, but I can't suffer in the hopes of retiring early.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
14 years is a _long_ time in terms of safety tech. I wouldn't buy anything older than 5 for this reason alone.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
We'll see where this all goes, but for now it seems like most companies are just reverting to where they were in 2020-2021. It's not a complete catastrophe (yet), but the open pipeline into FAANG is pretty well closed. You can s
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by Ocerge 4y ago
I used to run around Buffalo Bayou when I lived in Montrose. I love that area of Houston, it has some of the best food in the world within a 5-minute drive from there. The bats were super cool too, glad to see they survived the freeze (ev
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by Ocerge 4y ago
So you're implying only people who are passionate about tech should be allowed to work in tech? This does not hold water for almost any profession. Tech pays extremely well, and if you can do the work, who cares how you feel about it
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by Ocerge 4y ago
I'm not self-taught (bachelors CS degree), but this is the first time I've seen somebody else mention this way of learning things. I basically do the same thing; skim lots of things and inefficiently modify code until I eventuall
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by Ocerge 4y ago
Having grown up in Central Texas, I absolutely have a Texas drawl in my back pocket whenever I want it, but generally my accent is just standard American + overuse of "y'all". The drawl comes out usually for comedic effect o
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by Ocerge 4y ago
Shadow of the Tomb Raider being so high is very surprising to me. I remember it being an average AAA game that sort of came and went without much fanfare.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
MA, as well as several metal forums I've been a part of, have stayed shockingly consistent over the years. It's really neat to me. There's drama in every corner of the internet, but I've always enjoyed my metal spaces.
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by Ocerge 4y ago
I had the exact same experience at a state school in Texas (Computer Science, graduated 2012). Worked the whole time, paid off what I could, and ended up with ~15k in debt that I paid off within 2 years. I completely understand how colleg
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by Ocerge 5y ago
As a complete layman, I read Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee and found it interesting, especially with respect to how little we know about cancer, even today.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
I don't think you're taking it too literally, you're absolutely right. Always keep your professional boundaries and recognize the transaction of money-for-time for what it is: a transaction.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Twitch desperately needs competition. There are seemingly endless examples of completely opaque indefinite bans that can ruin peoples' income. Of course most people won't have sympathy for people who make money playing video gam
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Laziness. Software is almost all bad and will be thrown away anyway. Get it working against happy path, solve for obvious bad paths, and move on.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
You're arguing against QAnon at this point, best to let that dog lie.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Hard agree with comment sections being predictable. Based on the headline, you can deduce the greyed out, the top voted, and high engagement comments. Reddit has been this way for a long time as well, and it’s just so damn boring. I’m no
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by Ocerge 5y ago
I probably spent a month and a half studying most days for it (including reading my old data structures and algorithms books). It's the first time in my career I actually tried to prepare for a LC-style interview, and tbh it really wa
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by Ocerge 5y ago
I'm a Googler, but I don't talk about it on HN, mostly because the Google-related articles are almost entirely negative, and I'm not about to be in the trenches on HN defending my employer. There's plenty of other good
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by Ocerge 5y ago
I agree. Tech debt planning reduces down to x% spent on "fixing bugs" which never works (or at least I've never seen it work). Explicitly engineering fixes to actual definable problems is the best solution, but it takes eff
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by Ocerge 5y ago
It me, straightforward-job-haver at a FAANG. I bounced around from startups to small companies, and eventually ended up at big tech due to the anxiety/uncertainty small orgs were giving me. A lot of (maybe privileged) people like tha
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by Ocerge 5y ago
I agree with this, but I would place a larger emphasis on Breaking News being something one should actively avoid. Unless it's a 9/11-level event, or you are in imminent danger (which is highly unlikely), you don't need to k
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Got in to university as a History major, decided I needed a job in the future that actually makes money, and transferred to the CS department. 10+ years later, I'm still a SWE at a FAANG. It's definitely not my passion, but it p
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by Ocerge 5y ago
> This may seem outrageous to someone that hasn’t experienced this type of situation, but in the Big Tech world this expectation is normal. I work at a FAANG, and it's probably a team-by-team thing, but that is absolutely not normal
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Yes, it's boring as hell. But I value stability more than a stimulating job.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted; remote work has been awful for me mental health wise since COVID. Not every dev wants to sit at home all day while they work. The separation and social interaction are important for me.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
The average user could not care any less. I understand where you're coming from, but the HN archetype is an extreme minority.
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by Ocerge 5y ago
I feel like the pandemic has given rise to a winners vs losers mentality with respect to WFH. For the longest time, people who prefer to work in office were the winners, and now it's the people who prefer WFH. In reality everybody is
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by Ocerge 5y ago
Don't think you need to negotiate at all. I have no plans to work remotely when my office reopens (I hate it, it's bad for my mental health), but without even looking for _any_ job, I get 3-5 emails a day about remote gigs all ov
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by Ocerge 6y ago
Any time I read "flat hierarchy" in a job posting I feel the urge to run. That may be true contractually, but there is _always_ a hierarchy.
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by Ocerge 6y ago
Ditto for me. This is the loneliest I've ever been and worst my mental health has ever been. I had no idea this is how I would react to remote work, but I'm counting the days until I get to separate home and work again.

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