artsyca

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by artsyca 7y ago
Hey you seem relatively new to HN -- welcome to Hotel California
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by artsyca 7y ago
What I mean is, writing software with other people is about as intimate as you can get, you are literally combining your thoughts on paper and creating a shared paradigm If you believe that can be done while simulateously avoiding all intim
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by artsyca 7y ago
In other words, true corporatism relies on deep long term connection and vulnerable intimacy, whereas false corporatism rests on shallow guarded careerism and we're investing our entire livelihoods on a confidence scam
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes, but the difference is we choose our work families -- ostensibly we're working together towards a common vision of some sort whereas we are simply thrust into our school lives by our parents Corporatism has a rich history and it us
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by artsyca 7y ago
I've paid my dues in the industry very similar to tech lead, including my wife having to preemptively and defensively flee the country with our kids --
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by artsyca 7y ago
You gotta ask yourself what are you actually doing if you invest such a large portion of your daily life amongst people with whom you can't be intimately vulnerable?
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by artsyca 7y ago
Fascinating --
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm pretty sick of having had all the best intentions over these past ten years yet walking into a bunch of shitshow situations centered around bullshit agile antipatterns Is anyone else sick of living hand to mouth in the land of plen
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm being sarcastic by the way -- that shit doesn't work
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Actually I'm all for roasting people on skewers but I felt i ought to be the voice of temperance for once -- bring out the pitchforks!
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by artsyca 7y ago
Funny enough I found an article on vests just this morning on digg -- do you ever experience these weird synchronicities? https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/monc...
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I'm talking about the original nexus of homebrew computing and gaming that brought us tech fashion, but this is a very interesting tidbit of esoterica I will cherish
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by artsyca 7y ago
Yes, I think about it a lot, that's what makes me modest. I have people who's faces I can't remember but their asinine t-shirts are burned into my retinas. Managers who wore the same damned 'Reading Rainbow' tshirt
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Yea, they're the ones wearing the puffy vests -> https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/intelligence/monc...
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by artsyca 7y ago
And that's another reason I wear a danged tie, so people can recognize that I'm a little different from the hoi polloi eager to please their managers with feature after feature and ticket after ticket -- believe it or not I'm
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Damn you Stack Overflow -- well what I hate about my favourite language is all the noobs who think they know what they're doing who don't even know how to compose a commit in the imperative
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by artsyca 7y ago
I've had terrible experiences in this industry too -- look at TechLead, his wife left him! but we're being forged into something stronger than steel -- that's why I wear a silk tie, not because I'm trying to be some kind
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by artsyca 7y ago
Couldn't have written it better myself, however the toxic element is when all these naive/entitled people make the same mistakes over and over and lead to people lives getting destroyed over and over again
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agile methodology -- first build a skateboard, then a scooter, then a bicycle then a Tesla -- they were probably building an MVP ref: https://m.dotdev.co/the-agile-bicycle-829a83b18e7
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by artsyca 7y ago
Let's not dox the poor bastard
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by artsyca 7y ago
I'm telling you I want colors, and more of them, but there's a difference between living in a world that children made and being a true adult -- most of us in this industry are crashing and burning in our 30's and 40's a
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by artsyca 7y ago
Dude, I grew up listening to gangsta rap and punk rock -- I always believed we were out to overturn the machine, not become it through fragile sensibilities and asinine perpetual adolescence --
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Also, if it's coerced, it won't work either, but at this point tshirt culture is coerced just nobody has really tried going against it -- try wearing a proper shirt and tie as an engineer, people won't even ask if you're
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by artsyca 7y ago
The whole premise of Zuckerberg and his contemporaries wearing the same tshirt every day is precisely to be good worker robots like you describe whereas dressing up ironically gives the finger to the technology industrial complex and frees
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by artsyca 7y ago
That's the whole point! Tshirt culture effectively leads to that dystopia where everyone wears a jumper -- it's ironic but professional adult dress done right preserves the individuality. I challenge you to see the wisdom inherent
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by artsyca 7y ago
My theory is that we've thrown out a large part of our humanity along with the bath water and technology of today is akin to the fire granted us by the mythical Prometheus. We're so busy dancing amongst the flames in our rags we d
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It's turning into the abyss that gazes back at us --
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And by the way, I'm not the only one suffering, check out this poor guy who permanently deleted his Facebook account by taking a dive off the fourth floor -- https://digg.com/video/qin-chen-facebook-employee-suicid
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In general! We're applying all sorts of ideas across various fields. Genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence. Mathematical approximations of processes -- applications to societal control. - everywhere you look knowledge is accelera
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Confirmation Bias! Tell me you never make the evidence fit the facts and not the other way around?

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