arandr0x

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by arandr0x 4y ago
I've left 3 teams over this, and as a manager would encourage my people to try other teams if they feel ours isn't a growth direction. Sometimes jobs change on you too. One position used to be for you, and now they need someone di
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by arandr0x 7y ago
So, I grew up drawing, writing, doing acting/improv, and work as a programmer (but mostly have worked on R&D teams). do you want to trade convergent/divergent thinking tips? My programming colleagues are always telling me how
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by arandr0x 7y ago
does he still play the violin for fun? Being able to play at all is rare enough that that alone is worthwhile if it entertains him&his family. Nobody needs to be Nobel prizewinner or anything, and plenty of people become Nobel prizewinn
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Have you met other people in this situation in real life (either who skipped grades or who could have and didn't) and what did you think of them? Also how did this affect your expectations of your own children?
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I'm not sure if your advice is for kids good at math who want to eventually do something else, or kids that actually want to be mathematicians? I always thought being a mathematician was something special in that there is ample histori
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by arandr0x 7y ago
1. being successful and famous are not the same thing 2. being famous at an early age is probably correlated with wanting to be as far away from the public eye as possible as an adult, if any other options are there. But also, I was in one
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I also agree that people running their mouths of on how bad teens are without considering that they are essentially chattel and being told every day of their life they are not to make any decision that matters to their physical and mental w
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by arandr0x 7y ago
There is a French psychologist called Françoise Dolto who agrees with you, she even write a book about it. She says a great deal of the problems with adolescents today (where today is in the past century, this is not a recent book) is that
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I think there's a number of creatives who have sub-clinical manifestations for ADHD or bipolar and don't really qualify for meds but still would benefit from schedule adjustments, and I don't think they necessarily should nee
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Tell the other employees that they aren't privy to their coworker's personal situation and that you are at liberty to allow any employee to not show up a few days a week, if you believe doing so is essential to their physical or m
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by arandr0x 7y ago
IDK if this is a "mental" health issue, but my caffeine consumption is not helping my problems but I don't feel like myself on "slow days". Otherwise fine. I guess I could use more/better relationships but am w
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by arandr0x 7y ago
"Why not allow patients to set their own moods to suit their own circumstances and desires?" Can't most people to some extent do that?
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by arandr0x 7y ago
The same is true for me, however, I'm also quite productive early mornings. My "down" time is 2-10pm, so I often feel like it's a shame I have to sleep at all.
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Find more exciting stuff to do outside of it. There's something of a percentage of the population that are probably meant to be running on loads of adrenaline all the time, and people are happy to capitalize on their restlessness to ma
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I use all the gifts I receive due to never buying myself anything, but this is definitely an issue I can see. I have spent countless Christmases telling family to donate to charities (and provided a list), buy me food (specific foodstuffs)
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by arandr0x 7y ago
They look beautiful. You know, like art. Is that also of no value? That said, is art (or having a beautiful environment) worth, in this particular case, filling the oceans with junk and killing people, probably not. But let's not prete
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Not all textiles are made to be worn -- and plenty of those that are are children's clothes that are outgrown.
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Public transit systems do have need of programs for control, infrastructure maintenance and so on, as do railroads. There's (some) work in conservation (meaning ecological habitats and stuff) if you care about biodiversity, but it most
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I'm a super disorganized introvert but I'm puzzled by this. Do people on HN have actual systems to organize people they meet in lists and take notes about them? Is this like for sales calls or normal people also do this for regula
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I've got to say this: reading fiction that survived the test of time was like having thousands of substitute parents who were better at raising me than my own.
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I read 200 books a year (some years) due to reading lightning fast and not driving, but reading books using my algorithm of picking the most appealing at the library is not really more edifying than social media. Like I sometimes pick up gr
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by arandr0x 7y ago
All of those also screw up your sleep something fierce, and so (general you) end up piling hacks on top of hacks to make something kinda sorta work that you understand less than you did the original system. (Although, PSA, I do understand t
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by arandr0x 7y ago
I am currently an adult going to a driving school whose parents don't drive and who lives in a urban center with no parking, AMA. I also have a full-time job. It is the first time in my life (since I started working FT at 16) that I ha
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Not really a "values" argument but isn't it unsafe to use drugs (even alcohol) alone with strangers? I guess for men a bit safer but still?
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Same, but I think it's in part because I'm baseline underweight (and have a hard time keeping the weight up), and so it only takes a couple meals of chicken and veggies before my muscles literally eat themselves. I can't eat
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by arandr0x 7y ago
> But just in that one sentence I would learn like 1000% more about biology than I currently know. I mean, no you wouldn't. DND1 is a protein name and googling it won't tell you exactly what it does, because it may be involved
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Ask your PhDs if they have a journal club, they'll translate the jargon to you and you'll develop decent pattern matching. Read the conclusion before the "Results" section. In fact, read the "results" section l
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by arandr0x 7y ago
It may not seduce employers, per se, but I'd rather read a technical blogs about what should be done vs how to do it, and I think big picture is more important that stuff that can be figured out as is, and I don't think I'm t
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by arandr0x 7y ago
The author of the original article is lamenting that "show don't tell" is making people reluctant to write about the personal traumas of their life, and instead have to write "action-packed" scenes. There are like t
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by arandr0x 7y ago
Well yeah "show don't tell" is terrible memoir advice, but memoir isn't fiction, and memoirs about abuse, your own thoughts, or crying a lot are terminally boring (but important). "Show don't tell" is how

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