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by arandr0x 8y ago
If the company performed well, and politics or weird accounting ju-jitsu is the reason for lower raises either across the board or in your department, you can push for the top 2-3 employees to be awarded RSUs or stock options, those usually
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I'm in kinda that position (keeping the condo not having more than 1 kid, though). And honestly the sad thing is the kids don't care. Growing up my parents did the whole, salary treadmill, long hours, 30% travel, Saturday conferen
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Although they're light years better because of their experience , not because of any inherent merit that starting a company suddenly revealed. By far the most disgusting implementation of meritocracy is when people believe that some p
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by arandr0x 8y ago
In my experience, even if you stay frugal, and I did, the main change comes from the job requiring full-time hours (and some weird culture stuff). I worked part-time in college and programming hasn't changed, but then I had daylight ho
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I like you and you're alive for a reason.
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I mean, I definitely don't think anybody should be fired for something they did 20 years ago no matter how egregious, but it's misrepresentation to say the problem is bad work. The problem is the work is needlessly and unapologeti
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by arandr0x 8y ago
It's good that you actually give actionable advice. 1) Wake up early, 2) Don't do all your chores on the weekend, 3) Do less housework, and an optional 4) Don't have kids. I have the same experience you do as far as routinely
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I'd like to submit the possibility that in a lot of cases dopamine is doing its exact job (which seems to be ranking your brain's predictions and facilitating learning of patterns) -- if you are correctly able to predict with high
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Where in Quebec are you located? I know a few psychologists here but nobody who actually left tech for it, it sounds like an interesting combination of skills.
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Then don't code in your free time. My family likes eating my cookies and hearing me play piano.
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I agree with this. I lived abroad (several abroads) for years at a time, but you don't need however many thousand miles to go meet a new society that has unique rules and different values than yours, just go spend a month at your paren
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Women not working at this point would decrease the birth rate, because the reason people aren't having kids is they feel like they can't afford them, and halving their revenue isn't going to make them afford them more. (In lo
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You can actually acutely treat opioid overdose (with antagonists) and so presumably the actual issue here is people use drugs alone in locations where nobody is going to check on them for something like an hour. There may be an education ca
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by arandr0x 8y ago
I've spent significant stretches of my life sleeping 4.5-6 hours/night on weeknights, and then 8-10 hours on weekends. It works just fine. I do drink a ton of coffee, but I'm quite alert even before my first one at 9AM, and c
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I can empathize with your situation and it must be very painful to be there. I hope you had awesome times with him and that you have a great life moving forward.
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Nobody's gonna cure cancer. We'll be able to prevent some cancers and treat others, but cancer is a large number of distinct diseases with different causes and outcomes and you can't eradicate it. That said you don't nee
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by arandr0x 8y ago
You mention you work at a nonprofit. Do you take volunteers as well?
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This was strikingly on point, although I'm saddened it's mostly about the Internet, and only obliquely mentions the status games of office culture, wider adult culture, and pre-technology child's play. One very, very uncomfor
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In r/antiMLM they sometimes talk about "financial advising/consulting" pyramid schemes involving either selling information on stocks or weird funds, and those disproportionately target men. (And reading Gang Leader for
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In my experience people provide excuses because they're being addressed by management in a way that is unnecessarily negative and/or management is wanting to find "guilty people" and not work out which is the best person
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by arandr0x 8y ago
How exactly would you "set" a mental injury?
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by arandr0x 8y ago
So it is for more money. At 10h/week I'm assuming you're a consultant. Have you tried accepting more jobs than you feel you can do (not a lot, a little more) and then giving the client a deadline? It's not usually reco
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People are talking them out of it because the way they word it sounds like there's no reward. They don't need or want more money -- they don't have trouble working harder when needed -- they have no generalized motivation iss
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This was my life in college and I eventually realized I just had an above average prioritization mechanism. If it doesn't really matter, and I don't feel like doing it, it's not getting done. It's actually pretty product
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Gifted education is, I believe, an area that has rather too much funding compared to gifted mental health services. (Mental health services generally, of course, but often gifted children are functional long enough and just enough that debi
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You'll make decisions. They will have consequences. For good or ill they will change your life forever. No, but, seriously, I'm scarcely older so I distinctly remember what it's like to be young and watch stuff feel permanent
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by arandr0x 8y ago
Will you want to move to California at 32? It's kinda old to be starting over in a brand new place with no friends, high cost of living and terrible traffic (as well as about zero dating prospects). I mean usually 32 is the kind of age
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I've never had a BMI above 19 since puberty, so I can't speak as to being overweight. However I did gain (a welcome...) 10 pounds when I moved to the US. I attribute this to: * my workplace had free candy bars lying around (think
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Ask HN: How do mid-level people write achievements in their resume?
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I work as a programmer in Canada. In the past 10 years of my career, exactly one employee has taken the full parental leave at my workplace (a woman), and several male employees have taken parental leaves from 5 weeks to 4 months. In additi

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