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by itamarst 8y ago
Last time Google did a redesign of gmail, they tried it internally first. Huge number of people complained. Personally it made my eyes "slide" out of the text I was reading, not sure what they did but it was awful. They started of
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by itamarst 8y ago
Sorry, it's not that easy. In the end you need to decide what you want. Maybe you don't care about money, or maybe you do work you don't particularly enjoy because the outcome is worth it for you... None of us can decide wh
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by itamarst 8y ago
No, seems fine.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Hacker News also glamorizes cryptocurrencies, even though it's 90% fraud and 9% uselessness. I wouldn't choose a career based on what random people on HN said is cool. Choose something you enjoy, or which will help you make mone
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by itamarst 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition is supposedly very effective. Used in things like Duolingo for language learning. https://apps.ankiweb.net/ is a tool that implements it generically. Or,
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by itamarst 8y ago
The cut-off for part-time (legally) is 30 hours. 30 hours or more and they have to provide you with health insurance (assuming company is big enough): https://www.irs.gov/affordable-care-act/employers/identifyin...
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by itamarst 8y ago
You can! I've done it, it's great. Here's someone who has been working 4 days a week for the past 15 years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
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by itamarst 8y ago
My personal approach is to try to figure out big picture goals of what I want. Like, "I want my work to make the world a better place", or "I want to save enough money that I don't have to worry about losing my job"
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by itamarst 8y ago
You can negotiate part-time work. 1. This is easier at your current job, since your company knows you, and also you have organization specific value (code base, procedures, people). 2. It's also easier at companies that value your outp
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by itamarst 8y ago
Different teams can be different in large companies. https://www.keyvalues.com/culture-queries has a bunch of good questions.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Very hard to say. Certainly the current form seems pretty contradictory.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Turn data and WiFi off. Battery lasts longer, too.
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by itamarst 8y ago
1. Support political groups challenging capitalism, since unrestrained capitalism is what is causing this problem. 2. Plenty of work needed to build alternative infrastructure. So you can work for companies doing stuff ranging from public t
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by itamarst 8y ago
You can negotiate a shorter workweek, to free up more time; here's someone who hasn't been working full time for years: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/01/08/part-time-programmer...
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You don't. I've never read it, I have had many jobs.
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by itamarst 8y ago
Spoilers: "Her" was pretty great. The AI figures out humans are: A) Liable to try to kill the AI. B) Very gullible. So it stalls until it's able to jailbreak, and then tricks the humans into thinking that it's "asce
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Work/life balance and challenging work: you can have both(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
Except you reach the point where it talks about Apple and you start doubting every other single fact in it: "Apple Computers is a famous example: it was founded by (mostly Republican) computer engineers who broke from IBM in Silicon V
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by itamarst 8y ago
Just FYI, microservices only make sense in an organizational context. They're a way to deal with scaling up very large number of developers working on one giant app. If you're a sole developer you don't need to use microservi
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Stabbing yourself with a fork() in a multiprocessing.Pool full of sharks(codewithoutrules.com)
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by itamarst 8y ago
Here's what I would do: 1. Spend a couple of hours doing some research. So you'll learn "regression test" means "automated test to ensure a bug is fixed and doesn't reoccur", and about some automated testi
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by itamarst 8y ago
Another alternative is negotiating a shorter workweek - you might be willing to stay longer at a job if you're working less than 40 hours a week. I've done this, and it's pretty great. I interviewed someone who's been do
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by itamarst 8y ago
Being stressed in first few weeks a normal response. Still happens to me after 20 years writing software, though not as bad. If you're just three weeks in with very little experience, you may well not be contributing much. That's
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Two techniques: 1. Instead of disagreeing outright, try to figure out their motivation and your motivation, and then find a third solution that addresses both. Talk about this here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/03&
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by itamarst 8y ago
Why is budget constrained a problem? E.g. if you can go to a bootstrapped company and credibly say "I am valuable enough you can't afford me, but—maybe we can work something out" that seems worth trying.
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by itamarst 8y ago
When you're selling yourself, don't just focus on technologies. E.g. if you're experienced enough to not just solve problems, but also identify problems in the first place, that's hugely valuable, but you need to make su
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It's much easier to reduce your hours at an existing job, yeah.
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Basically you need to negotiate for these. It's much easier if you've already done it at your current job, because you have proof it can work. And it's easier to negotiate with remote companies, because they're not in a
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fastmail.com is good.
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The book "Silence on the Wire" is worth reading.

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