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Spoiler alert
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There were and will be several people pushing to buy property, Bitcoin, a particular stock, etc at different points in the past. Investing in things like property makes more sense and somewhat more timeless than things like Bitcoin. But sti
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I feel you. Thoughts on getting another gig or contract work? There seems to be plenty of software work that can be done remotely. Maybe you can coast thru 2 jobs.
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what's web3? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Coasting is fine. Right? Dunno if you are bay area. The blog article is mostly about SF, but his points about work culture might apply to the broader bay area. Maybe issues like safety and cleanliness are better in other parts. Practically,
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I suppose it is hard to find a team like that. Team needs to be owning and building out something that is getting traction and growing. And an engineer has only a few chances (2-3) to get this early in their career.
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One way to establish that expertise would be to execute and show the others that your advise/strategy is good. For that I think we have to execute fast. So we can build first, ask permission later. And if you build fast enough, then ot
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Engineers should avoid pursuing the perfect, most-generic, elegant solution. Spending too much time to decide the best tools, the right design pattern, etc. Coding is a lightweight process (compared to other forms of engineering). So it is
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Who else immediately ordered the book on Amazon? Lol Bullshit Jobs: A Theory https://www.amazon.com/dp/0141983477 The first review is lit. Quoting: """ Manifesto for the Professional Class Reviewed in t
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I got into Rust by working on Advent of Code 2021. The problems seem arbitrary, repetitive and sometimes unnecessarily hard. But they are well-designed for starting on a new language. We are forced to repeatedly use basic concepts of a lang
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Exactly. But how much effort was and is being put to control the psyche of the masses to achieve the population control? How much of this effort was original and far-sighted with good intentions?
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Curse the wretched spoon for disturbing you and go back to sleep.
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not before misclicking a few likes or ads
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Would be great to see the thread of "replies" functionality also. I use that feature in Telegram and WhatsApp for chaining related stuff. I have long lists like that. And separate streams for work and personal is definitely one us
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App looks great. The autocomplete suggestions for hashtag is nice. Would you add functionality to edit notes? Also I want to keep a few different "threads". I guess the workaround is the hashtags.
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I was hoping, like others in this thread, to see something that takes HLL code and outputs a ASIC design. Of course it would have to be limited in the type of code it can take. It is similar to programming FPGAs. Are there applications that
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Should we just consider buying an air purifier? Currently in Bay Area where air outside seems good but these apartments seem poorly ventilated, old fixtures, old floors, lots of electronics, etc.
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It would have been fun to see illustrations or artist renderings.
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Exactly. So what if Google controls the internet experience through Chromium. The user will have to pay someone eventually. Firefox is not a free magic bullet. On the other hand, much bigger problems in the world, so we go build something
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I thought I was the only one who felt this way^. Dunno why this article is upvoted so much. Actually the post heading itself seemed so clickbait-y that I didn't click into this link and the comments until it reached 500 votes.
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> Similarly, effective principal/staff/+ work requires a lot of strong connections to people in many teams, which again tends to favor internal promotions. This might be a smaller factor for doing effective work itself, the num
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There seems to be a few other undocumented features like these in HN. Or maybe they are documented somewhere and I dunno :)
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You are right, people are probably missing a lot of things in plain-sight. Most of the comments are about some esoteric product or software - so nothing to add to the shopping list :) Only recognize Google apps and Apple hardware from the o
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I get the same feeling too. And maybe that's fine. We are led to believe that we are over-reliant on a particular things like the internet or the shipping supply chain but we probably are not. Most modern, massive systems seem that hel
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This is great. First visible commit is on Mar 12th. The front-end is HTML? Hope we start to see more gov apps being built as web apps hosted in the cloud. With WebAssembly, the C++ code should be usable directly.
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To your points: I have only seen these small store shopkeepers working really hard and helping out the local folks more than just running a shop. The local folks also had a collective power over the shop - quality of products, prices, etc.
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This toaster was expensive when it launched, but could be considered worth the money since it would last for a long time and it seems to have a good resale price even today. On the other hand, today it is hard to buy simple things of good q
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agree, I can't tell how this is Rust programming for web developers. It assumes we are all very beginner level web developer? However it is cool to see so many Rust posts recently. Or maybe I am noticing them more since I am getting in
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Not a mental model or saying, but still I remind myself several times a day. Breathe, ~5 seconds in, ~5 seconds out. James Nestor style.
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Sayings I remind myself recently: - Do not be overheard complaining, even to yourself. - Look at what people actually do, not what they say.

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