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by allenu 7y ago
I’m about a year younger than the author of the blog post and I agree with you. This is something that has been scaring me a little in the last year: getting older does not mean life as a whole gets easier. There are just more advanced thin
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by allenu 7y ago
Yes! I watched that video as well around the same time and read the book. (Admittedly I was in a "positive psychology" kick at the time and was consuming anything about happiness.) I like your summary. An even more general way to
813.
by allenu 7y ago
This reminds me of large code reviews which have a million different things going on. After a while, people tune out and don't see bigger issues and quality of their feedback goes down, or they give up and say "yeah, all this seem
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by allenu 7y ago
It's one of my favorite talks and books as well. It really opened up my eyes to how I am often trying to maximize in a lot of ways in my life and that it was making me miserable. Now I try to limit places where I expend that mental ene
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by allenu 7y ago
I agree. I think that's at play here even if Google or their hiring department will never admit it. Having a long, drawn-out process will dissuade a lot of older workers with families who may not have time to invest in practicing for t
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by allenu 7y ago
I think the 40% number is the point of contention. The highest tax bracket for 2019 is 37%, and that's a marginal rate, so no one is going to be paying 37% of ALL of their income. More likely it'll be in the range of 20-25% of all
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by allenu 7y ago
I’m curious just what process was in place to let this happen. Yes, I know it’s government, but I’m really curious what organizational process is in place to allow such an obvious thing to slip through.
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by allenu 7y ago
I use a notebook as well but mostly for hashing out design ideas. It's a great pleasure to just sit with a coffee at a cafe with just your notebook drawing system diagrams. No distractions from online. However, I still keep track of wo
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by allenu 7y ago
I keep a daily log like this at my job. Basically, if I have a list to-dos, I add them to today's log and if they don't all get done, I copy-paste them into tomorrow's entry. Like the author, I tried various productivity apps
820.
by allenu 7y ago
Oh I totally agree with you about immigration from other countries not necessarily being about finding jobs immediately. My family (including me) immigrated to Canada from another country (a third world country) because the opportunities wo
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by allenu 7y ago
I think the "didn't fit into Canadian culture, or found something imminently attractive about US life" may be reading too much into things. It's more like those people just found good jobs in the US that weren't ava
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by allenu 7y ago
I normally do iOS development and have been building a few fun sites in the last few years and because I'm not familiar with web front-end frameworks and tooling, all the stuff I've done[1] is done in vanilla javascript. I've
823.
by allenu 7y ago
As the author alludes to at the end, streaming is a skill, and I think that really is a big issue. A lot of us, myself included, don't immediately reach for streaming as a solution to our problems, even if it can be. For instance, I&#x
824.
by allenu 7y ago
I worked at Microsoft for 12 years and I probably moved desks 20+ times. A handful of those was because I changed teams, but even in the same team, you do tend to have one or more office moves a year. Team focuses change and often people ar
825.
by allenu 7y ago
There might be some survivorship bias in there if STEM fields are more successful than others, naturally leading to more STEM leaders, or more opportunities for leaders to form.
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by allenu 7y ago
I use draw.io all the time. It's incredibly simple and that's what makes it work so well. I can whip up a good architecture diagram in a few minutes using it.
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by allenu 7y ago
Really cool hardware, but I wish there were a bunch of more photos of plots on the page! I want to see the output.
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by allenu 7y ago
I have an apple trackpad device (i.e. separate from the laptop) and I believe it uses a fake haptic feedback to indicate a "click" as opposed to a real mechanism. It's indistinguishable from a real click. HOWEVER, it makes my
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by allenu 7y ago
Talk about easily misreading a graph... I thought the article in the second link was going to explain the decline of the Simpsons based on frequency of episodes focusing on specific characters, but it was just trying to be clever with that
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by allenu 7y ago
My regular glasses already keep me in the moment by forcing me to toggle a light switch with my finger. This marketing is such nonsense. They're really reaching to find some utility in something that provides very little.
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by allenu 7y ago
I agree it can be hard to read at first, but after learning the syntax, it's not hard to read. It's also about what the language allows you to do (or prevents you from doing) that determines, to me anyway, the utility. I love Obje
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by allenu 7y ago
I had to look it up, but Stripe got Y Combinator funding, so that's likely it. I was also confused about why it comes up so often here.
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by allenu 7y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I remember being so confused by it as a kid when I saw it in games. Like, why do you need a key that displays a fake DOS prompt?
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by allenu 7y ago
One of my coworkers did this the other day during daily standup. He had his airpods in while he talked.
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by allenu 7y ago
BBSes were central to my growth as a software developer. I was a teenager in the '90s and quickly became hooked on calling up BBSes. I played the games on them and found out you could make money writing and selling them... so I made my
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by allenu 7y ago
I've done lots of side projects over the years.[1] The things that stand out for me in staying sane working on them, and occassionally getting them done are 1. the most important thing: prototype end-to-end user workflows to prove out
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by allenu 7y ago
Exactly. I started going through the SICP book recently, not having used Lisp all that much. After several exercises I see why Lisp is useful for teaching: the syntax doesn't get in the way. If JavaScript was used, the code wouldn&#x27
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by allenu 7y ago
I remember these so well. I remember logging into someone's BBS and immediately getting social anxiety when the SysOp would randomly start chatting with me. (The reason I'm using a BBS is so I don't have to directly socialize
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by allenu 7y ago
I agree. My theory now it's due the fractal nature of the tasks in software development. To design at a high level and break out the work, you have to make some assumptions about the ground-level designs (i.e. how individual components
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by allenu 7y ago
I'm 41 and still have recruiters contacting me and generally do well in interviews. I'm lucky in that the skills I have are harder to find (8 or so years doing iOS development). I also have to admit that one thing that helps me tr

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