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by fsociety 4y ago
Very well put. We each have some small effect on the world and we should stay mindful of it. Especially with the amount of power a corporation (read large group of people) can have on the world.
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by fsociety 4y ago
You should read up on Bedlam Hospital and learn more about how privileged we are to not be born in that place and time. Trans people don’t have the same luxury of safety today.
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by fsociety 4y ago
They never said anything about those unemployed without savings. I grew up in a poor family and am always disappointed with this take. Everyone is allowed to share their stresses and try to learn how to deal with it from others.
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by fsociety 4y ago
If the Murdoch family buys FB and bans anyone who posts about a BLM protest.. I would happily make a social media startup. We both know that will never happen. But this is not a question of politics. It is a question of integrity of which T
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by fsociety 4y ago
I’ve heard several high-level security engineers take this stance in organizations with stringent security requirements. There may be some truth here when prioritizing work, but I have yet to see strong authn/authz prevent red teams fr
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by fsociety 5y ago
My terms of living are to become a craftsman at what I do, use that skill to improve the mess that the internet is today, and then to teach others. We will see if I end up burning out before I reach the end, but as I get older I become bett
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by fsociety 5y ago
You’re taking a sample size of one and using it to stereotype or generalize a large group of people working for a company. Many do care, and dedicate our time into making FAANG systems respect user’s privacy and improving security. There ar
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by fsociety 5y ago
That’s all and good if your senior engineer is a program. But they are a human, and humans are prone to making silly mistakes. Instead systems should be designed such that you can’t easily take them down due to operator errors.
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by fsociety 5y ago
The wonderful days of conglomerates endlessly advertising how their candy will transform our lives. I find the argument that advertising was somehow okay before the internet a hard pill to swallow. My recollection is that ads were misleadin
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by fsociety 5y ago
What’d you learn for taking better notes? Always curious how to improve note-taking.
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by fsociety 5y ago
There is a lot to a guitar. Players can be particular about the type of wood used on their fretboard, if the frets are slanted or not, if there are frets, floating bridge vs fixed bridge, locked tuners, intonation, weight, feel, electronics
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by fsociety 5y ago
You have to read a lot of code to know how to integrate with systems there. This strongly signals what you should avoid doing, and I don’t know anyone who actually thinks you’d be fired using it. Meeting rooms are jokingly named after these
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by fsociety 5y ago
Blameless company culture can help on this a lot. FB had “move fast and break things” so people would not feel bad about breaking things and instead would focus on fixing them. Other companies may have improved versions of this culture. Thi
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by fsociety 5y ago
My biggest pain with Go modules has been the fact that projects use 0ver [0] and some are backwards compatible updates and others aren’t. But it was designed in a way to force everyone to use semver. It gets worse if you have a mono-repo b
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by fsociety 5y ago
The service industry truth is that some customers are jerks. That doesn’t excuse poorly ran restaurants, but the good ones will occasionally fire the customer. It saves your mental health, and helps keep a healthy client base.
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by fsociety 5y ago
It’s a great idea. I bet this would ultimately improve security and reliability/devops organizations at companies too.
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by fsociety 5y ago
The bar to becoming a doctor is significantly higher than becoming a programmer though. And there are several obligations you have with professional boards on continuing education and remaining sharp in your practice. I find it hard to agre
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by fsociety 5y ago
Read up on attachment theory. Having a healthy relationship with a caregiver is necessary for social and emotional development. Lots of people don’t have that, for various reasons, but having a healthy relationship with a partner can also s
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by fsociety 5y ago
At the risk of exposing myself, I’ve had to jump in and make changes to Sigma on several occasions. It was painful and I am not convinced having it in Haskell did anyone a favor.
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by fsociety 5y ago
IMO find companies that are remote friendly, even if you go into the office, and do not value ass in chair time. They are more likely to not care if you show up late one day, or don’t get much done one day. I see a lot of comments on medica
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by fsociety 5y ago
What words do you consider psychobabble here? It was written in a plain and simple manner.
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by fsociety 5y ago
Additionally some VPNs route through legitimate devices. The only way I’ve seen this somewhat work is to have a complex system that pulls apart the connection info, and then you use a combination of data science + threat intel + good ol’ re
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by fsociety 5y ago
Recommend getting a good therapist and setting boundaries with your work. It will help you get off the hedonic treadmill and manage your anxiety.
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by fsociety 5y ago
May not apply to you, but sleep depriving yourself can be an unintentional self-treatment for ADHD, or even other things like depression. Good to know if anyone reads this comment and identifies with it.
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by fsociety 5y ago
The issue is that companies are setup to protect themselves in every way possible, and they will do that. I worked on an abusive team and raised blatant harassment to my skip. They ignored it, so I slowly worked my way up the chain to the h
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by fsociety 5y ago
Boohoo. What is the point of your comment, people are allowed to feel how they feel. Holding contempt for someone because they are expressing work difficulties is no reason to shame them.
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by fsociety 5y ago
> Facebook is where most of “thought, desire and opinion” manipulation occurs. Totally the opposite of anonymous and untracked. This matches media sentiment instead of what is happening in the real world. Qanon originated on 4chan and th
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by fsociety 5y ago
Bitcoin is like the steam engine. It will go away for things which are more efficient.
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by fsociety 5y ago
ADHD does not mean having a short attention span. It means having difficulty regulating attention span. Big difference.
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by fsociety 5y ago
Psychotherapy helps you increase your window of tolerance. Having meltdowns due to stress is normal.. but it doesn’t have to be a regular thing.

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