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by cblum 6y ago
How did you get into that space? What was your background? I hope you don’t mind me asking.
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by cblum 6y ago
Interesting, I’m on the same boat. Embedded systems and low-level coding are my beacons of sanity.
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by cblum 6y ago
I don’t really expect just to do the fun stuff at work, but modern technology seems to progressively burn me out more and more. I was drawn to software at a time when it seemed like we had control over things. With the advent of the cloud I
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by cblum 6y ago
I posted my anecdote here the other day if anyone’s interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22959688
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by cblum 6y ago
That's how I read it too. I've recently started doing that and it's been a breath of fresh air. I don't really like the stuff I work with, which is services. I think I've become good at it given the feedback I get f
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by cblum 6y ago
Mostly the biters, but also I got to a point where I was getting frustrated with the spaghetti I was creating.
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by cblum 6y ago
Factorio made me super stressed out when I was playing it. One of the reasons I quit.
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by cblum 6y ago
Going off a tangent here but just wanted to comment how powerful the nocebo effect can be. I'm familiar with it in the context of strength sports, where "tweaking" your back, knees, etc. is relatively common. If you tweak som
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by cblum 6y ago
Funny, at least in my neighborhood in Seattle, I've been seeing those vans all over the place.
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by cblum 6y ago
I'm sorry, what is IFC?
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by cblum 6y ago
I stayed home the whole time. Was totally shot. And if they're right about COVID-19 spreading asymptomatically around 2 days before symptoms start, if my memory serves me right that would have coincided with the weekend for me.
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by cblum 6y ago
Same in Seattle. They give me a delayed estimate but usually I've been getting my packages days earlier.
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by cblum 6y ago
Disclaimer: this is my own anecdote. I'm not trying to spread misinformation. These are my personal opinions. I think we'll eventually find out COVID-19 has been around way earlier in 2019 than we thought. I've seen both here
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by cblum 6y ago
Thank you, that is super interesting. I wonder how valid this bit still is: > the discrepancy between the severity of cases observed in the Hubei province of China and those occurring elsewhere in the world I think at this point we’ve al
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by cblum 6y ago
Do you have any sources for that last sentence?
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by cblum 7y ago
That's cool. Same here, can't wait. I actually bought a cheap barbell and some light weights so at least I can keep practicing technique in my apartment :)
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Ask HN: How to switch to embedded software development mid-career?
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by cblum 7y ago
I know a CrossFit coach who only coaches to make a living (his passion is Olympic-style weightlifting, but there's no money in that in the US). Heard from him multiple times: "CrossFit is bullshit." It's a very cultish a
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by cblum 7y ago
If you don’t mind me asking, how could one get into this field if they’re already an experienced software engineer in the more “vanilla” stuff (web services, etc.)?
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by cblum 7y ago
> If you don't actually have long term goals and are just in it for an immediate pay-day, well that makes you 1. A person who doesn't plan long-term, and will probably bring that same lack of planning to the job. 2. A less secu
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by cblum 7y ago
+1 on this The most fluent conversation I’ve ever had in German while still learning it happened when I got drunk with an Austrian friend of mine.
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by cblum 7y ago
We’ve been using that with our daughter. Lol
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by cblum 7y ago
International Christian Concern ( https://www.persecution.org/ ) They provide aid to persecuted Christian minorities around the world. For example, they help rebuild villages, farms, etc. when they are raided and destroyed by
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by cblum 7y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by cblum 7y ago
This must be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of. Imagine the cost of setting all that up, and going through the process with each student to get their visas. Only to tell them on arrival they’ve been tricked. What exactly were the
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by cblum 7y ago
Source?
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by cblum 7y ago
I found a bug in the .NET compiler back when I worked at Microsoft, and at first no one wanted to believe me :) It manifested when you had a single static member of a specific generic type in a class. The program crashed complaining about i
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by cblum 7y ago
Boy I miss that Nokia E71 keyboard.
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by cblum 7y ago
That’s exactly what I got from it. What he’s proposing is censorship. Have everything posted anywhere be vetted by someone. I also think that saying “Google shows you all these neonazi sites” (probably not an accurate quote, but he said som
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by cblum 7y ago
Yep, exactly this. Whenever I try to grasp it, I feel like things are being abstracted beyond comprehension. It doesn’t feel right. That, and the fact that it seems like you need to adopt about 100 completely heterogeneous tools to successf

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