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by groaner 15y ago
Doctors use Google, too. http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/study-nearly-half-...
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Ask HN: Autonomy, Mastery, Purpose -- how does your work give it to you?
2 points by groaner 15y ago|0 comments
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by groaner 15y ago
If even programmers write crappy commit messages, there's not much to be optimistic about legislators' commit messages.
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by groaner 15y ago
Heh, I don't mind. Anything I say on the internet can and will be used against me. I appreciate your advice and it's definitely something I plan to follow.
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by groaner 15y ago
Ha! If only it were that easy. I've spent most of my life being a goody two shoes, only doing what other people told me to do and never really exercising any individual free will. Passion? What passion? I'm aware of the irony of reading
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by groaner 15y ago
OK... so as one of those people with a fair amount of spare cash lying around and no debt, I still can't quite grok this "invest in yourself" idea. Clearly I'm not about to start swallowing Ben Franklins. I'm just a jaded programmer who is
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by groaner 15y ago
Wow. Haven't felt so blind in a while! Good catch.
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by groaner 15y ago
I had to dig through their site to find this, as it wasn't immediately noted on their donation page, but they are a 501(c)(3) non-profit and donations should be tax-deductible for US taxpayers. http://www.archive.org/about/about.php
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Ask PG: Showdead has lots of constructive comments from hellbanned users. Why?
3 points by groaner 15y ago|1 comments
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by groaner 15y ago
Three or four years ago, maybe 10-12 hours spent on thinking about programming, probably no more than half that spent actually writing code. Today, I'm burnt out and have written only a single line of code in the last month, for recreationa
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Ask HN: How does one gain expertise in scalability?
49 points by groaner 15y ago|26 comments
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by groaner 15y ago
Plan B section 2, whining about how exploitable deficiencies opens up people to being defrauded by vendors, consultants and recruiters who can talk the talk but not walk the walk, is still legitimate (though not constructive). There's gett
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by groaner 15y ago
I'm Asian. What social stigma? I could probably pay less by living elsewhere, but $1000 that stays within the family > $500 to some landlord with whom I have no connection. Also, I'd miss out on Mom & Dad's awesome cooking.
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by groaner 15y ago
> 5 weeks corp leave, 2 weeks public holidays and weekends Thanks for rubbing it in :( /american
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by groaner 15y ago
It's not that surprising when the house is valued at roughly $1 million. This is in southern California, where that kind of money doesn't get you a mansion either.
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by groaner 15y ago
My monthly breakdown: - $1000 renting a room in my parents' house (utilities and wi-fi included!) - $50-100 my contribution to groceries and household purchases - $50-100 transportation - $10 cell phone (it's prepaid and I'm a recluse who p
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by groaner 15y ago
What if I'm ugly?
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by groaner 15y ago
The cynic inside me would extend this problem to the entire economy or even human society itself. Any economic transaction is supposed to benefit both parties: the buyer offers an amount he is willing to pay for what he wants, the seller p
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by groaner 16y ago
I've mentally checked out of this place for quite a while already.
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by groaner 16y ago
Why is this the typical reaction? Because bosses don’t have to read, edit and support the code. I dunno about that -- mine actually watches SCM check-ins and flips out if there's some unauthorized code cleanup happening (it "adds risk", s
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by groaner 16y ago
Clearly their censorship efforts have failed: http://graph.facebook.com/http://lamebook.com
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by groaner 16y ago
This grumbling keeps coming up here, so I just have to ask: how feasible is it for a young American like me to just pick up and leave for a place that does have a sane health care system, and work on whatever I want? As far as I can tell, t
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by groaner 16y ago
This story sounded familiar -- it turns out that some of our own HN'ers have done this too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1823191
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by groaner 16y ago
I certainly agree with you, though the truth seems to be that the so-called "academic enterprise" seems to be succumbing to the pressures of industry. My university's CS department has begun offering grad-level courses in silly things like
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"What society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil" (1994)(cs.utexas.edu)
73 points by groaner 16y ago|27 comments
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by groaner 16y ago
I've worked 80+ hour weeks on an emotional roller-coaster knowing I would certainly fail. I definitely hated it. The difference is that this was at BigCo. Does this mean that I'm not cut out for a startup? (EDIT: Am I a fool for believing
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by groaner 16y ago
There is a solution - wait. Artificial popularity without the engineered quality to back it won't stand up to the test of time. People are fickle and will tend to jump to the next thing that catches their attention, but the sort of thing t
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by groaner 16y ago
Thanks for the Candide recommendation. I've had it on my reading list for a while but I'm picking it up on my next library trip.
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by groaner 16y ago
For the record, I never said I didn't want to work for myself, just that I wasn't ready to start my own company. And I don't think corporate culture is unique to the US, despite my phrasing as "corporate America."
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by groaner 16y ago
Wow, I never thought of it that way. I really really want to believe this is true... but time will tell.

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