koof

8 ms·

31.
by koof 4y ago
I need more free time from my work responsibilities so I can think about this very scary question with the gravitas it deserves. Can you give me a day off?
32.
by koof 5y ago
Yes, I don’t wanna give too many personal details but I gave them a lot of solid work for years after that. Some in the comments suggested a differentiator about my performance gap was my self awareness that I was doing poorly - I certainly
33.
by koof 5y ago
I think if my meeting with my manager went another way I think I might have spent more time looking for an escape route rather than focusing on the tasks at hand. Someone who thinks they're going to be fired can sometimes cause a self-
34.
by koof 5y ago
Totally get that. I want more money and growth too, but this taught me I need a good boss.
35.
by koof 5y ago
My first leadership lesson looked like this: as a junior engineer I had an abysmal quarter or two. My manager asked me what was going on. After I gave them an assessment of the situation, they said that they believed me and went to bat for
36.
by koof 5y ago
It's worth noting that Diet Coke has about 50% more caffeine than regular.
37.
by koof 5y ago
As opposed to you, who is definitely not virtue signaling.
38.
by koof 5y ago
I resonate with the author preferring to read an e-reader than a book when their mind is more amped up. Why is it easier to read from a mutable screen than paper when I'm frazzled?
39.
Ask HN: Hobbies sans screen?
4 points by koof 10y ago|5 comments
40.
by koof 11y ago
Here's an article that echoes this sentiment: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/11/paris-attacks-bataclan-ho...
41.
by koof 11y ago
The fact that music.razerzone.com exists means there is little hope for democratized electronic music-making being anything but a male money dump, much like video games. Razer will probably start making bike computers next.
42.
by koof 11y ago
Their budget keeps getting slashed. Calling the EPA the disgrace, when you have an actually good target for your anger right in front of you, is nonsense.
43.
by koof 11y ago
Computers can suck sometimes. Maybe stepping away from them for a while might be helpful.
44.
by koof 12y ago
If you are listening to headphones loud enough to block out other conversations, you are almost certainly going to damage your hearing.
45.
by koof 12y ago
Yep, I was saying that too!
46.
by koof 12y ago
Jobs always said stuff like computers were the bicycles of the mind right? Here's your gold bicycle.
47.
by koof 12y ago
Man, there's something about a gold laptop that just makes me want to never give money to a company again.
48.
by koof 12y ago
It's a crime that he only sleeps for two hours a day.
49.
by koof 12y ago
I think you might find this article relevant. I think that liking your work shouldn't be in exchange for fair compensation and work conditions. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014&#x2
50.
by koof 12y ago
This has a lot of truth to it, but rather than encouraging labor as the opposite thing that makes you interesting, who cares about being interesting?
51.
by koof 12y ago
Ah, I see. Personally I think I could have taken the "give an example of a classifier" question into a deep dive of their competency (talk about how one would build that classifier, etc.) but they might get so many completely unqu
52.
by koof 12y ago
Do you think mathematicians start over from learning how to count everytime they encounter a new problem? That's different from looking up the 10th digit of pi: that's encyclopedic. Knowing what a classifier is is simply more than
53.
by koof 12y ago
It's only recently that I've found (a few) programmers who talk about the beauty of the work - I think the "get money get out" folks are the vast majority at the zillions of non-buzzworthy companies. I smirk a little at
54.
by koof 12y ago
Maybe it was how you implemented it? That's also a sample size of one.
55.
by koof 13y ago
Would you call someone being removed from a position of power "stomping out"? Eich can and will still live a decent life and nobody in their right mind is denying him his right to that, but remember that he did seek to deny those
56.
by koof 13y ago
There is a lot more to the rights gained from marriage than just "legal obligation".
57.
by koof 13y ago
Means of production more has to do with scale. Software is extremely unique as an industry in that people can truly "produce" something by themselves - all other cases of self-employment I can think of are pretty much services, wh
58.
by koof 13y ago
"Steal" is probably not a word you want associated with a health information product, no?
59.
by koof 13y ago
This was what I really wish I had done. I tallied up all of the electives I didn't need/benefit from on top of the B.S.: it came up to around 12 courses, enough time to fit another major and more. A B.A. would have cut into that e
60.
by koof 13y ago
I was in the same boat for a while, I really enjoyed everything and couldn't get enough and was immensely satisfied. I was feeling so great about it initially so when things started to go south, I thought I was in a rough patch and wou

More ›