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by achenet 2y ago
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” - Douglas Adams
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by achenet 2y ago
the counter quote to that is John Carmack, who was originally a fan of the "it'll ship when ready philosophy", saying he 'largely recanted from that now' when discussing Rage on the Joe Rogan podcast. Or Duke Elling
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by achenet 2y ago
that scene from Office Space where he talks about "I do just enough not to get fired" may be relevant here. There is something to be said for 'if you're going to be a rational economic actor and you have a salaried job,
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by achenet 2y ago
I'm sorry to hear that. I had a similarly shitty first job, although I was lucky to be in France, which was very strict worker protection laws, so "working day and night" was 'only' 10 hour days. However, after like
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by achenet 2y ago
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html If you want to write good software, get it in front of someone who will actually use it as soon as possible. Get it in front of many people who use it as soon as possible. No
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by achenet 2y ago
You could try changing the toxic two party system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
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by achenet 2y ago
actually, I think the issue is that there are only two sides: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law
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by achenet 2y ago
if you're the type of ruthless criminal who would commit horrific crimes like downloading a car, your diseased conscience may enable you to use pirate websites like library genesis to get it for free.
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by achenet 2y ago
this. I imagine the author found themselves approaching their job like many of us here would approach a highly paid job where you have to write COBOL or caricaturally bad entreprise Java all day.
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by achenet 2y ago
brb, founding AI startup to solve this important, non-trivial problem via burning through large stacks of VC cash. :DDDDDD
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by achenet 2y ago
It's like people who support drug prohibition... ample evidence that something doesn't work won't stop people believing it.
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by achenet 2y ago
you should probably prefix your post title with "Ask HN:" as for your question, I don't have enough knowledge to help you. You can try emailing cybersecurity firms and seeing if they offer some sort of apprenticeship.
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Half of Workers Around the World Are Struggling with Burnout(bcg.com)
151 points by achenet 2y ago|190 comments
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by achenet 2y ago
you've got a good point about experts being critical with no accountability. However, when studying a complex, multivariate problem, if you find one or two variables that can easily affect the outcome (lower hood heights), it does seem
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by achenet 2y ago
this is true. I suppose it still might be interesting for people considering spending 10,000 on a handbag to ask themselves if they might not overall be happier donating that money to help the homeless in their cities, however (because not
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by achenet 2y ago
because in this case, there's only one company making that special computer, and it's either suck up to their sales reps or buy an 'inferior' product. I guess probably like periods when NVIDIA GPUs or Raspberry Pis get s
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by achenet 2y ago
ASML would like to have a word with you :) (unless you count them selling lithography machines to semi-conductor fabs as 'catering to the (aspiring0 hyper-rich ones with overpriced crap)
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I've yet to see ChatGPT run away from a cat.
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> Fa A long long way to run?
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Probably a bad counter example but: Abortion got reversed recently.
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by achenet 2y ago
https://archive.ph/aXv01
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Ask HN: Why are all major operating systems monolithic?
44 points by achenet 2y ago|77 comments
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by achenet 2y ago
interesting. On the one hand, the correlation could be suprious (I've heard the correlation between eating chocolate and winning Nobel Prizes as an example of this), on the other hand, there have been studies linking Toxoplasmosis with
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by achenet 2y ago
I disagree about the "finite number of high paying jobs", and the "finite number of houses". You can always build more houses. As for jobs... have you noticed that thing where programmers tend to create work for other pr
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by achenet 2y ago
did not know that German university students were at the forefront of the Nazi takeover, would you have any good sources on this to recommend?
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reading this makes me very happy to have done by university in France. My tuition was 400 euros per year for undergrad and master's.
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by achenet 2y ago
go for hippie chicks who like doing acroyoga in the park, they're cheap dates :)
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by achenet 2y ago
yeah that's nice that you point out the irony in 'official' sources blaming an organized group. To my mind... I do think there is truth to the idea that if you're trying to make money in media (media = newspapers, televi
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by achenet 2y ago
I believe in order and purpose, I have a fairly strong spiritual practice. I pray, I meditate, I view my life as a journey, I believe I was put here for a reason. I'm don't believe in conspiracy theories however, because I'm
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by achenet 2y ago
at least there is a bit of poetic justice here: the people suffering for this stupidity are the people responsible for it <3 of course, being stupid,they refuse to call themselves into question, which blocks them from changing their beha

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