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by benched 13y ago
I consider myself to be consciously observant of organizational issues. I would say it took me about 4 years to develop a reasonably rounded picture of "how things work" at Microsoft, and then only from the point of view of a low-
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As a lonely, single, childless, unpropertied, mediocre 35-year-old, any exposure to anybody else's life, excepting the homeless, makes me feel worse about myself.
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Even more egregious: "We appreciate your cooperation and your assurance that you will discontinue the use of 'It's the real thing.'"
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I am so gratified that someone made this.
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This is really good. I actually play piano and guitar. In fact, 15 years ago a lot of my social life was incidental to guitar playing. It hasn't occurred to me to use music this way lately. Thanks for reminding me.
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Do you yourself experience subjective awareness? Why? And what does that subjective awareness have to do with a Turing machine?
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You cannot reduce or hand-wave consciousness away by calling it illusory, or by reducing it to neural activity. You can try, but you'll just be stringing words together to make nonsense. Every one of us experiences consciousness - subj
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I am depressed due to social isolation, which others have mentioned, and constant career struggles. Past attempts to strike out on my own have failed, or just not succeeded enough. Software jobs pay extremely well, but at a cost of having t
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I have a friend who posts to Facebook several times per day about where they are and what they're doing. Only a few years ago, this person used to be my closest friend. Now, we are distant, and I feel this Facebook usage is part of tha
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I didn't think having to maneuver around passive aggression and outright blocking by current management, or having to pass full interview loops for each new position, were particularly fluid. Perhaps in a culture of hyper-competitivene
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I was at Microsoft for 5 years, in a completely different group from the OP. My experience matched his exactly, in character and specifics.
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The pictures look cute and friendly, but to me it read like a series of non-sequiturs or deus ex machinas. I don't know Haskell.
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Counterpoint: Don't quit your job. Unless you're ok with the prospect of failing, and winding up broke, homeless, and seriously depressed. Oh yes, two weeks in the sky was the limit and I was living the dream! Two years in was a different s
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You've written the awkward kid character to sound enlightened.
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I have always believed that we were nowhere near over our chauvinism as a species in this regard.
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I did this. It was scary because I was leaving a very well-paying job, but I was so excited for all the possibilities. In a year, I produced tons of awesome code, that did what it was written to do. But the product itself floundered, and ne
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This thesis is the kind that I might wish was true. And in select cases, survivor bias has and will make it seem to be true for a lucky few. For most of us, even finely honed skills built over decades will have very little consequence unles
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Oh, striving is certainly necessary to succeed at all. But empirically, things still seem to be zero sum. Out of a group of people with dreams and motivation, some will connect up with opportunities to express and manifest them, and some wi
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I agree with the view of Buffet as extraordinarily intelligent. If you generalize intelligence to the ability to mentally model and make good predictions about dynamic systems (such as companies and markets in this case), and recognize that
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Being born in the USA is only a stroke of luck after the fact of achieving a measure of success. There are so many types of walks of life experienced by tens of millions in the USA that consist of suffering unimaginable to a person doing we
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In certain circumstances, people smell blood like sharks. If you're a 'normal' and successful person, with a functioning ego, you will either naturally or semi-consciously put out a vibe that lets other people know you're going to hold your
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Strongly agree. Last year, I had the misfortune of being sent to the ER for lightheadedness and confusion while hiking. All different doctors ran a battery of very expensive tests, none of which I was in any condition to consent to. They di
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I don't understand this. We are caring for my grandfather in his home precisely because we cannot afford the astronomical cost of a nursing home (around $10,000 per month).
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"the well are without mercy" This line jumped out at me, as if taken from my own thoughts of the day. I have found, anytime that I am functioning at anything less than 100%, that almost every other human becomes like a jackal. Nonchalantly,
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Wow, these descriptions reflect my own experience exactly. The small failures that snowballed and became patterns. I had been working at a large software company for several years. I was in kind of an oddball group, doing miscellaneous web