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by iamcasen 7y ago
When I lived and worked in SF it was hilarious to me how rapidly the culture shifted. In only 6 years, it went from a lot of competent, interesting, varied personalities, to an army of chrome backpacks, folding bikes, and brown leather boot
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by iamcasen 7y ago
It is obviously possible, we all do it all the time we just don't realize it. All that's required is realizing that your waking life is no more "real" than your dreaming life. You've just drawn an arbitrary line in
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by iamcasen 7y ago
I'm not sure quality has gone down as much as the need for programmers has drastically expanded. Now pretty much all businesses have the need for custom software to some degree, and many of those businesses do not have a big budget. Wh
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Yeah I love the soundhound app as well. My wife is a professional singer, so often times she can sing or whistle a song and soundhound will pick it right up.
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by iamcasen 8y ago
TL;DR: We were way too ahead of our time. Back in 2010 I joined the founding team to build a crowd-sourced video editing platform with the goal of getting people to edit their countless hours of home movie footage into short clips they will
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by iamcasen 8y ago
This is an interesting hypothesis. I can definitely see this being true outside of major urban centers. Public transit seems to be the remedy for teenagers doesn't it? When I was a kid, my parents had to drive me everywhere, and I&#x27
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by iamcasen 8y ago
OP probably works in a city packed with male-dominated industries, and works in a male dominated industry himself. As a software engineer myself, I find this perfectly understandable. When I took a work trip to NYC and spent time in the fin
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by iamcasen 8y ago
In the US too there is a trend of women taking over the work force due to the nature of where the economy is headed. The kinds of jobs that need doing are jobs that women excel at. Less and less manual labor, more and more intellectual and
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I feel this really acutely right now. I'm finding that it takes about 3 years of conscious, dedicated, effort to build a small circle of friends as an adult. It feels like all forces are against you in the process because there is noth
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Just because average wealth has increased, doesn't mean life is better. Who is more poor: a farmer who lives in the middle of no where in a hut, but has fresh water, fruit trees, and a couple goats, or a person who works at McDonalds i
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by iamcasen 8y ago
The message the photographer is trying to convey is that our world economy relies on startling wealth inequality to keep functioning. There is no escape, and no solution without the wealthiest folks massively sacrificing. In order to live i
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by iamcasen 8y ago
This is such a conundrum. When I really sit down and think about all the modern tech in my life, and how much of it is a promise to make my life easier, I can't help but laugh. The modern world is far more complicated and difficult to
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I agree with your point entirely. In practice, the software industry seems to be rife with a cult-like worship of humility and team consensus. So much so that consensus and humility have lost all meaning! Leaders should naturally rise for v
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I like how I was down-voted for simply stating that it is common sense. You're agreeing with me! I didn't say the article was bad... haha.
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by iamcasen 8y ago
That article was quite literally just a bunch of common sense. Are those techniques for coping not widely known? I thought that's what everyone did after a breakup. ::Shrug::
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Yeah how ridiculous! Loved ones should honestly be our number 1 priority. That work is so demanding of the majority of our free time while we are alive is a travesty. Work used to have meaning when we would hunt, gather, or farm. You did th
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by iamcasen 8y ago
The purpose of life is to enjoy your time alive in this world. Typically one does this by connecting with other living beings and balancing a life in service of self with a life in service of others. Will the founders of Snapchat be revered
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I think the argument goes, people who make 500k per year are well off, but they are not running the country. People with 100 million, 1 billion, or hell, 100 billion dollars are the people not paying their fair share. There is an undue burd
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Am I the only one who views pennies like an extreme annoyance? I would rather throw pennies in the trash than have them. They are literally THAT worthless. They take up far more space and weight than they offer in value. It seems like such
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Django is by far the best full-stack MVC solution IMO. It is well known in python communities, and python is growing in popularity year over year. As for your javascript questions: React is the answer. Not just because it has the considerab
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I'm still surprised by that. I visited Manhattan in 2010 and was noticing 1br rents that average around 6k per month. Nothing luxurious, just a decent 1br. Manhattan is far larger than the entirety of SF, but when they talk about rents
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Absolutely. Many tribes throughout the amazon have different plant concoctions that end up producing some variant of DMT. While I haven't experienced DMT, I have tried mushrooms, and I can say without a doubt that it reshaped my mind a
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I think about it a lot. The term is eco-psychology. You should look into it, it's really interesting! You're right to say that we have evolved alongside nature, and it is really only since the industrial revolution that we have fu
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Thanks for asking! I think this is an important topic that not enough people talk about. First and foremost I know myself. I've spent a long time figuring out who I am and why. This allows me to set myself up for success. I've liv
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by iamcasen 8y ago
Sure, once you're at the VP level your reputation probably precedes you. If you're young in your career though, with little work history, your manager won't be able to gauge shit unless they see the work you produce. Even the
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by iamcasen 8y ago
I'll toss my hat in the ring for SoundHound. I worked there a few years back, and it honestly felt like family. I was going through a lot of changes in my personal life so I decided to leave, but I regret that now. I should have stayed
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by iamcasen 8y ago
It's pretty unrealistic, as you can be fired for any reason, at least in most states in the USA. It's called at will employment, and all a manager has to do is say "You know, things just aren't working out, good bye!&quo
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by iamcasen 8y ago
The problem with those points is that they are lies. And you will have to stick with the company for at least two years before you figure out they are lies, and that even if you do what they say you will not be promoted, because promotions
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by iamcasen 8y ago
The only way this works is if EVERYONE is accountable, including the CEO herself. It's called radical transparency, and it's the best for everyone involved. Secrecy creates all kinds of issues because people aren't working wi
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by iamcasen 8y ago
"Performance reviews are important as they provide a means for companies to document negatives about workers they eventually want to get rid of" That's true, and it's horrible. That's why the whole thing is a joke.

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