cbanek

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by cbanek 8y ago
I'm so happy to hear that things are looking up for you. I remember when you posted the first time, and I was really hoping things would work out. As someone prone to depression throughout their entire life, I have to agree that a bad
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by cbanek 8y ago
It sounds like you're in a rough spot. Luckily, it sounds like from what you're talking about that there's a lot you can offer and there's a lot of low hanging fruit that can be picked. Here's what I suggest: 1. Fi
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by cbanek 8y ago
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse It's all about the making of Apocalypse Now. It's really great, I'd say it's almost as good as Apocalypse Now the movie itself. The mental state of the characters and w
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by cbanek 8y ago
I know this sounds weird, but this is like a blast from the past. The offices still look the same, the patent cubes, the standard MSFT office equipment (even that chair is a classic with the pump up thing in the back). The stack of Talkin
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by cbanek 8y ago
I'm playing FF6 again right now on my SNES classic, so this just hits real hard. This man is a legend and such a special piece of my childhood! Get better!
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by cbanek 8y ago
I've actually thought about doing this as a service, somewhat like triplebyte, but you bring me the candidates you want. The idea was more for just doing the phone screens and finding the people you'd want to interview onsite (wh
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by cbanek 8y ago
I can only imagine the kids asking, "why don't old TV shows have the happy birthday song in there?" I'm wondering what other songs might come into TV and other popular media now that they are public domain. Note: Both t
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by cbanek 8y ago
This, also there was that kerfuffle in Oregon about someone saying they were an engineer, but not licensed, and how that was apparently illegal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/12&
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by cbanek 8y ago
This makes me want to boot up my PS2 which has an official Sony Linux install. Yep, they did that. They made a Redhat distrib that runs off of DVDs (with a bootable disc), hard disk, ethernet controller, and video that could connect to a
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by cbanek 8y ago
I'll take a wager and say it's overwork. If you're a startup, and a successful one, you're probably very busy. Busy doing a lot of things, wearing a lot of different hats. Many startups can be victims of their own suc
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by cbanek 8y ago
While I agree we're all taking on a lot of debt with these low interest rates (which I believe was the idea), I have to love the twist ending with "hackers" and cybercrime causing the next financial crisis, even more than geo
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by cbanek 8y ago
Totally agree. Also recommend the audiobooks, which I've been listening to for these summer road trips!
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by cbanek 8y ago
Now we're all just _agents_ of change.
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by cbanek 8y ago
Users/PMs/Management either don't know what they want, or worse, they think they know what they want, but can't articulate it or tell you something else. Then after you do it, they tell you it should have been some othe
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by cbanek 8y ago
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope | Front End Engineer | Tucson, Arizona | ONSITE LSST invites applications for a Front-End Developer to join the Education and Public Outreach (EPO) Team. The goal of LSST EPO is to provide worldwide acces
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by cbanek 8y ago
Former SpaceX Flight Software Engineer here. Agree about WarpDrive being pretty amazing for all the stuff it did. Although amazing things tend to just clump up from all the features that you need, and you end up with an app that is hard to
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by cbanek 8y ago
Who's hiring right here on HN (on the first of the month).
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by cbanek 8y ago
I've actually gotten to visit the Vasa museum, and although it sounds a bit strange, it was totally worth it. Totally recommend it if you're ever in Stockholm.
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by cbanek 8y ago
It's hard for me to dislike this, because I also find standups and sprint planning meetings to be painful and somewhat less than useful for myself. On the other hand, when you are with a new team, or a team with a few people that need
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by cbanek 8y ago
One part I think the article neglects as a negative for the staycation is that when you're at home, your mind is usually in the habits that you have while you're at home (like you said, thinking about all the projects around the h
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by cbanek 8y ago
Wow. I'm somehow not surprised, having read a few of Montana Skeptic's articles on SA. He writes really well, and always seems to get a good flame war on SA going.
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by cbanek 8y ago
I wonder if this is why watching video games / e-Sports is also getting popular, even though people complain there's not much physical skill involved. (Yes, I do watch professional gaming myself)
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by cbanek 8y ago
It sounds like you're worried that you aren't accomplishing things because you aren't finishing them. But really, I'm sure you're learning a lot while doing them, and that's accomplishment too. Many times whe
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by cbanek 8y ago
I had this same experience. I went to UIUC for Computer Engineering (I think it was #3 at the time), but my differential equations class was taught by someone with such a thick german accent it was impossible to understand. At least 100 pe
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by cbanek 8y ago
I feel like it can be realistic if that person has about 5-10+ years of experience and a lot of time on their hands to keep up on frameworks. But a junior level full stack person, probably not. Backend devs I find usually also do a fair bi
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by cbanek 8y ago
Could be, I wonder if that is ever accounted for in these burnout studies... I always felt like the senior people are the ones burning out, because they are generally the ones that have to take on random firefighting activities and operatio
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by cbanek 8y ago
> Some companies had more burnout than others in the survey. Credit Karma had the highest rate, with over 70% of employees saying they were burnt out. Netflix was the lowest at around 39%. Interesting. I've heard that Netflix is a
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by cbanek 8y ago
Or prosecution for people who's job it is to properly take care of people in their charge, when those people aren't allowed to take care of themselves.
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by cbanek 8y ago
Two things: 1. Automated indoor gardening. I used a raspberry pi hooked up to x10 devices as a way to monitor the temperature of my garden, and run the watering and light cycles. This meant I only had to worry about my garden maybe an hou
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by cbanek 8y ago
Physical security is so important. I was really surprised when the Xbox team moved from the RedWest campus to Studio A. In RedWest, we had a building that was pretty much all Xbox employees, and other Microsoft employees couldn't just

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