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by mjayhn 6y ago
I have a string of terrible workplaces that I'm pretty sure gave me work-anxiety/ptsd (not to belittle worse experiences, but these were bad) and I still have a lot of shame that I didn't speak out more or do more - but I was
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I feel like I need to mention this in case some eyes see it that need to hear it. If you're running global teams and you have a side of that team that has to show up at the ass-crack of dawn every morning while you get to show up at 4P
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by mjayhn 6y ago
> You'd send out an e-mail update to others who need to know. Or you'd scheduled a follow-up call or meeting to discuss it. Just my anecdata; this is the polar opposite of what I want. I do not ever, ever want a meeting or a fo
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I get so frustrated using reddit on mobile browsers because the reddit app popups or dark patterns that stop me from reading a complete post or the comments in the post are so antagonistic. I don't know how much time I've wasted t
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Wild huh? I think insurance paid $500 for one 500mg Ibuprofen. Even drove myself to the ER, no ambulance, that'd be another $10k I'm sure. https://khn.org/news/appendicitis-is-painful-add-a-41212-sur...
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I was about 10% bodyfat and literally in the best shape of my life when it happened. If you can expound on the dietary thing I'd like to hear it. I've heard ideas that its a bile duct blockage but I've never seen any correlat
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by mjayhn 6y ago
At my healthiest at 31, tons of marathoning and cycling going back a decade I got appendicitis out of the blue, it was $35k and about 15 minutes in the OR. Back to healthy now but wow that literally came out of nowhere and I learned a lot o
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I was laid off, I've got a $500/mo prescription that keeps me out of a dark pit and gives me the ability to even work, I either pay that or pay $850/mo for COBRA to extend my healthcare. Or, what, medicaid? I'll probably
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by mjayhn 6y ago
That twist was a definite kick in the ass to this 35yo, question is will I wake up tomorrow still acting on it.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
That evolution is coming strangely close to us becoming company towns owned by billionaires. Little Vendorvilles everywhere. I wonder how much property Amazon will accumulate in the next few years. edit: Oh, yeah, I pay rent and insurance t
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Yeah my one call center experience involved cameras over everyones desk and the cruelest management team I've ever experienced that watched you like a hawk.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I failed 7th grade because my parents were divorcing in the middle of it and literally everybody including my family acted like it was the end of my school career and I'd never recover and get a real job and would be SOO behind my peer
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Has this site had any UX/UI updates in years? I've always assumed assumed it's "done" and we just have to deal with what it is. I come here less and less because of how feature-free and bad the UX is. Everything is
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Google, Apple and Netflix are definitely not remote, that's half of FAANG (not sure about FB, never applied there). Maybe you get lucky and get some unicorn remote gig there (sales typically). I've turned down all 3 in the recent
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by mjayhn 6y ago
> Not being productive at home is your issue I'm not productive at home right now because I'm taking care of sick relatives and have young children to keep safe while my government throws everything into chaos and we don't
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Because we make $2-3x+ our EU peers salaries in most cases. Why hire Americans if their govt is in chaos every few years to the point that they can't even show up to a conference to work with their EU/etc peers and you now have a
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm worried this will really damage tech workers in the USA. I'm in meetings with overseas clients most of the day and it's getting to the point that some are back in offices and we're still locked in our kitchens. Menta
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I do this and I feel bad about it when I'm not reading someones stuff. Please don't take it personally. There's a lot going on, my plan is to eventually get to it and support you along the way for making it. Also I'm hug
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I don't know what I was expecting but nice work that's really great. Now I want a data is beautiful coffee book..
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Oh interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll check that out.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I really hate their dark-pattern of holding your credits hostage if you want to pause your account. I have like 10 credits that I don't want to spend right now, I'm backed up and hardly reading and I can't pause my Audible me
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm really curious how exponential the amount of signatures you'd get for a protest that brought 2 million people together would be. I'd bet it'd be 30m+ easy but I'm doing completely baseless twitter retweet math.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I've spent the last 3 months slowly trying to move to WSL/WSL2 on the weekend and the experience has been really bad IMO. Right now I'm in some state where I somehow deleted my Ubuntu WSL vm and nothing I do will get it to re
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I started going to the Super Computer/HPC confs here in the USA over the last few years and it was shocking how few American companies are there with impressive hardware engineering. Maybe the Japanese/SKOrean/Taiwanese compa
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I haven't used an Iphone since the Iphone 6 (2014) and I just got an Ipad a few months ago and I was absolutely blown away that the app store is still as bad as it was in 2014. I still have to go to 3rd party websites to actually filte
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I have about 4-5 pairs of headphones in a drawer of various $80-150 prices that were finally replaced with my $300 Sony ANCs. I just had to finally get so sick of my open office that I'd splurge that much coin into ANC.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
This hit a bunch of us about a year ago, maybe two years, I forget. It was incredibly annoying and made me completely stop relying on gmail for calendar stuff.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Well I'm envious. I want to pull the trigger with 3 months of savings in my account and its terrifying. I absolutely loathe the people I work for right now and how they're treating their employees during COVID. I'm just reall
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Are you dealing with anxiety from covid/quarantine/everything right now? I think a lot of us are in this same boat, want to get out of tech, etc. I remember what it was like making a $45k paycheck though. I had such little agency
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I loathe being in management and am totally aware that I'm probably a bad manager, so I've got a lot of respect for engineers who wind up being put in management roles, but the one thing that keeps pushing me to want to go back in

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