gshdg

11 ms·

61.
by gshdg 6y ago
I work on an engineering team of 15 with 5 women. None of whom would find it acceptable to be called “females”. That’s not “language policing” as described elsewhere in the thread. You don’t see men in the workplace being called “males”. “F
62.
by gshdg 6y ago
Automate them? Give yourself a reward for doing them? Gamify them? (Compete with yourself for how quickly you can complete them, for instance.)
63.
by gshdg 6y ago
Consider contracting?
64.
by gshdg 6y ago
This but before investing put 3 months living expenses (or 6mo if you’re feeling conservative) into a savings account as an emergency fund.
65.
by gshdg 6y ago
Fwiw: the textwrangler-equivalent unregistered version of BBEdit (basically without the features that used to distinguish the two apps) is free.
66.
by gshdg 6y ago
Practice and feedback. Find someone whose writing style you admire and ask them to suggest edits to your drafts. Try to understand why they suggested those edits. Ask about any edits you don’t understand. Write more. Get more edits. Wash ri
67.
by gshdg 6y ago
The consistent underestimation of the capabilities and development of historic indigenous peoples outside Europe and the Middle East is both absurd and tragic. You’d think that by now archaeologists might have adjusted their assumptions.
68.
by gshdg 6y ago
Something highly portable that can drive a large external monitor when you need to do spreadsheets.
69.
by gshdg 6y ago
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
70.
by gshdg 6y ago
I also mostly mouse non-dominant because of RSI. Took less than a day to get to 75% capability, and about a week to 98%. Now I’m just as good with a mouse lefty as righty except for a few things like drawing. Which may just be a matter of p
71.
by gshdg 6y ago
Ah. “And hitchhiked”.
72.
by gshdg 6y ago
125 miles a day? That’s 5mph all day (as in 24 hours) without stopping to rest. 4mph is a very brisk walk unless you’re quite tall. That doesn’t sound physically possible to do for 10 days straight.
73.
by gshdg 6y ago
That’s for incoming mail. Looks like OP is asking about outgoing.
74.
by gshdg 6y ago
For management roles
75.
by gshdg 6y ago
If you have, don’t take that as a reflection on remote work in general. Currently, childcare is eating into a lot of people’s time. Roommates and children who wouldn’t normally being around are causing distractions. People have lost their s
76.
by gshdg 6y ago
I already do something I like, so not much. That said, a FAANG or bank would pay twice as much, at least. And I’ve deliberately avoided that out of preference for startups. So perhaps in that sense I’ve already taken a 50% cut. And only reg
77.
by gshdg 6y ago
The modern military does have some technologists. But they seem to rely heavily on contractors for software development.
78.
by gshdg 6y ago
“Right” and “wrong” also mean “correct” and “incorrect”, which are not moral judgments.
79.
by gshdg 6y ago
Not ordering from Amazon. There are a couple dozen sites I trust across a number of categories of goods. I order from those, even if it means paying a bit of a premium. Heck, maybe because it does. I’d rather pay $30 for a well made widget
80.
by gshdg 6y ago
I’d guess the Euro in the short term and the Yuan in the longer term.
81.
by gshdg 6y ago
The US’ status as global hegemonic power has been eroding lately.
82.
by gshdg 6y ago
Their cultures don’t value engineering as highly and thus their engineering cultures tend to be more pathological.
83.
by gshdg 6y ago
Yeah. “Override” seems accurate. “Weaken” is a much stronger claim. That said, the overriding does make it harder to self-regulate. But only wrt each addiction rather than in general.
84.
by gshdg 6y ago
It doesn’t even have to mutate if the antibody reaction fades over time, as there is evidence for with other coronaviruses.
85.
by gshdg 6y ago
And if immunity isn’t long lasting? And how many people have to die to reach it?
86.
by gshdg 6y ago
Don’t forget an enormous economic depression in between...
87.
by gshdg 6y ago
Only if immunity is long lasting, which it may not be.
88.
by gshdg 6y ago
The common cold is a coronavirus. There’s reason to believe immunity to this might last only a handful of months.
89.
by gshdg 6y ago
And that strong cross draft can be blowing it directly into someone else’s airspace anyway.
90.
by gshdg 6y ago
If you do a year or two in games, it may make it easier to get a more general programming job, fwiw. Btw, you may want to edit your post to prefix the title with “Ask HN:”

More ›