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by leros 5y ago
I feel like I was able to learn those things on the job as needed. I'm sure my MS program gave me some knowledge that helped, but I don't personally think the ROI was there. I also had an EE background.
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Ask HN: Is it possible to effectively regulate tech companies?
2 points by leros 5y ago|0 comments
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by leros 5y ago
Facebook actually has pretty decent arguments why all their products have strong competition. They can also make some arguments about how the other tech giants have much worse monopolies.
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by leros 5y ago
In addition to emojis, I've also had issues with certain characters copied from Microsoft Word being 4 bytes.
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by leros 5y ago
Don't you think it's bad design to only allow one request per function? We shouldn't have to migrate to different cloud services to be able to unlock a common pattern. Optimizing the function to allow handling multiple reques
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by leros 5y ago
I completed an MS in software engineering while I was working. I ultimately consider it to have been a waste of time and money. I think it gave my resume a slight boost early in my career but I don't think it matters much now.
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by leros 5y ago
I understand why this is technically right, but I don't like it. The promise of Cloud Functions is to give them code and they run it. They should be optimizing how it's run and you shouldn't have to do anything different to o
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by leros 5y ago
Unless it's a very particular scenario, I can't imagine your ex-employer bothering to take the time to bad mouth you in any way that matters.
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by leros 5y ago
I help companies with their technical recruiting. They're always trying to get more candidates in to interview. However, they're not looking to source candidates externally. They simply want help digging through all the candidates
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by leros 5y ago
The movie even went meta explaining what it was. It's hard to be mad after that.
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by leros 5y ago
I completely disagree on not listening to your brain. Your brain has an emotional side, some call it your inner child, that is the raw unfiltered you. You inner child might be screaming out for help because he doesn't feel safe and nee
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by leros 5y ago
+1 to everything you said The exercising point is really important. I've heard that 30 minutes of light cardio per day is equivalent to taking antidepressants.
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by leros 5y ago
I suggest finding a therapist who specializes in cognitive behavioral therapy. They can help you with strategies to improve your thinking patterns and help you work on the origins of your problems. It's life changing, so find a therapi
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by leros 5y ago
My day job company pays upwards of $1000/hr to short-term contract leadership people. I guess it's really more consulting than contracting but the lines seem pretty blurry based on what I've seen. Based on what I've seen
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by leros 5y ago
I think that because that's exactly what I was discussing and doing with multiple companies. The only reason I never got into serious compensation talks is that I was just testing out the waters to see if my contacts could help me find
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by leros 5y ago
Those companies were willing to hire me. Hopefully this doesn't arrogant, but those companies can't hire someone of my caliber. They're mediocre companies that can only hire average/mediocre people. I wouldn't want
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by leros 5y ago
Is it mostly finding your own clients? I did a bit of asking around last year and I found several opportunities where companies have small average quality engineering teams who need someone to lead an effort in something like a product mana
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Ask HN: How do you start contracting?
180 points by leros 5y ago|112 comments
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by leros 5y ago
Interesting. So he got upset with his project and pushed a new version to NPM which was an empty repo, breaking lots of people's builds. Fair enough I suppose. It's his project. Then NPM reverted the last version to unbreak things
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by leros 5y ago
Yeah. By "half-assing" it I mean putting an appropriate amount of myself into it. It'll feel like half-assing it but I'll likely still be doing my job very well.
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by leros 5y ago
Backblaze publishes some great reports on hard drive reliability that may be of interest.
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by leros 5y ago
Of all my side incomes, the appreciation of my house is winning. Buy real estate in fast growing market.
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by leros 5y ago
Can I suggest that you take a "vacation" by half assing your job instead of leaving it? Maybe switch teams at your company so people don't have expectations for you. You know the lazy people on your team who do 10% the work y
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by leros 5y ago
My feeling about work changes every few years. I started out as a developer. I learned how to build web stuff, I built massive global systems, I designed and built a successful product, then I got bored. I then became a team lead, then led
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by leros 5y ago
The rise of AB testing and releasing often is probably somewhat to blame. It turns out that if you have a good, popular product that you can push your users to their limits. I've seen so many tests that resulted in lower NPS scores but
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by leros 5y ago
If money wasn't an issue, a high end private school seems best. You'll get multiple specialized professional teachers and a school social media environment with other nice kids.
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by leros 5y ago
Open rate should really only be affected by the content, though it's possible the platforms have different deliverability/spam rates.
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by leros 5y ago
I expect there will be complicated regulations like in the financial industry and most people will end up using things like AWS Blockchain to build their web3 stuff.
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by leros 5y ago
This this 100%. I discovered I had extreme work addiction. Working my job, working on my 20 hobbies, starting side projects, etc. As with many addictions, working all the time is often a coping mechanism for something else. For me it was ch
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by leros 5y ago
Yep. As I understand, many innocent people take guilty pleas because the time cost of court appearances is unbearable or will cost them their job. I've become pretty jaded about the justice system as I've learned more about it.

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