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by apercu 2y ago
"The problem is when this is the case all the time instead of a season here and there" I hope I'm not projecting, and misinterpreting, but I try to explain this to a colleague all the time. His work style is 8 months of the y
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by apercu 2y ago
> I draw the line at doing work that I can be proud of. That's important. I spend more awake time working/thinking about work than really else. I don't know that it's healthy, but at least I want to be proud of the ou
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by apercu 2y ago
I'm a little older than probably the average HN visitor, but I bet my experience matches a lot of peoples: Mid 90's startup: Sold company, proceeds company covered debt, basically. I learned a ton on those 2.5 years, but had to ha
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by apercu 2y ago
I don't really know what "metacongnitive laziness" is even after they explain it in the paper, but I use LLMs to filter noise and help automate the drudgery of certain tasks, allowing me to use my energy and peak focus time o
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by apercu 2y ago
Even though ChatGPT "invents" its own reality sometimes, I also find it superior to Google search results (or Duck Duck Go). In some cases LLM results even provide specific strings to search for in the search engines to verify the
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by apercu 2y ago
You're right, they should totally die much earlier from stress-related illnesses like the rest of us!
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by apercu 2y ago
I sort of did the same. Quit a job and joined a start-up consultancy as a partner. The politics of that were a little tiresome after 6 years (and that was probably due to the post dot com crash year or two). I then moved to Canada, consulte
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by apercu 2y ago
More likely they know someone. Or know someone who knows someone. But also, yea, probably not sharing my values. Perhaps sociopathic.
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by apercu 2y ago
Sooooo many misaligned incentives in the modern world.
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by apercu 2y ago
That's a lot of SW Ontario now. I've moved back to the US due to the high costs of the GTA, but a lot of my friends in Toronto own multiple condos.
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by apercu 2y ago
I'm still using my 2017 27" iMac Retina, and vastly prefer it for most things over my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro (which I dislike primarily for not having volume buttons).
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by apercu 2y ago
Can you get insurance for them?
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by apercu 2y ago
Those blacked out areas are totally aliens.
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by apercu 2y ago
What's especially awesome is how many unsolicited emails don't have unsubscribe links in them.
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by apercu 2y ago
I lived in Ontario for ~18 years. While national healthcare is fantastic (and the US should totally have it), Canadians are getting squeezed, and have been for the last 5-6 years.
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by apercu 2y ago
It was better search than other search options at the time, but was quickly an advertising company. It's also too bad that that it was so dominant early, because there used to be 4-5 search Enginess and their results were very differen
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by apercu 2y ago
I found it interesting that Madison, WI is on par with Chicago, and pay is better than Milwaukee. Digging in a little it's because global tech companies have offices in Madison (also Epic, but even though I was in Toronto for 20 years
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by apercu 2y ago
If the ads weren't invasive, covering the content, purposely distracting you and your data wasn't being collected and resold, we wouldn't need ad blockers.
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by apercu 2y ago
If they are shut down but valuable, some other company will produce similar products. That's how the market should work.
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by apercu 2y ago
"search technology" Google is an advertising company, search is a by-product and has been for a long time.
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by apercu 2y ago
Or the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago ?
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by apercu 2y ago
Right on, yea, I was here in the 90's and early 2000s. Worked at Nicolet Biomedical, then a small software company (Wingra Technologies), then joined a startup custom coding shop as a partner from 98-2006. In 2004 I moved to the Toront
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by apercu 2y ago
I was surprised to see another Madison area person in the thread. Howdy neighbour.
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by apercu 2y ago
I have always assumed it's sort of an algorithm that manages this, some combination of account duration, "points", etc..
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by apercu 2y ago
Basically that's exactly the problem, a serious lack of leadership in nearly every organization. Very little adult behaviour. Rather than discuss how specific features can and will solve business objectives and how exactly they will be
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by apercu 2y ago
I love the idea of agile. And I've tried to apply the principles to hundreds and hundreds of projects. But as a consulting type, I've never understood how you run a project with a fixed (well, ok, continuously growing usually) sco
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by apercu 2y ago
Those kinds of tactics gave me acid reflux in mid 20's. I had to re-frame how I look at work after that. Although a few years later I fell in to the trap (again) and left a very senior position to go solo (again) in order to have some
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by apercu 2y ago
I've been moving the same way, but still working so I couldn't buy 4 acres in the country (need reliable internet), but I was able to find a (somewhat expensive) half way solution where I have internet (but well and septic), a woo
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by apercu 2y ago
Yep. We should be investing our tax dollars in our economy and our people.
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by apercu 2y ago
Poster summed it up well: "If our economic system was great you wouldn't have to pay think tanks to tell people how great their lot is." We're not healthy, mentally or otherwise.

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