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by mnsc 6y ago
> ... only person around with enough knowledge in the areas of [x, y and z] to combine them effectively This is a good interpretation of "only" that made it click for me as a jack of all trades-type of person! Thanks!
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by mnsc 6y ago
In sweden we have a law mandated "vilorum", that's basically a room where you should be able to take a nap. However this is only applicable when an office is larger than x people (x ~50 ?) and is frustratingly often just impl
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by mnsc 6y ago
> With video on, the visual cue of someone getting ready to start talking makes that easier to avoid. You have the possibility of using an actual raised hand to signal that you want to interrupt a discussion that has gone astray. But tha
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by mnsc 6y ago
You have the explanation laid out pretty well by chipotle_coyote in the comments of one of your linked posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22601557 Specifically: > But the words of the linked Reddit comment from
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by mnsc 7y ago
> ... slow-stream a bunch of html elements Slow-stream?
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by mnsc 7y ago
> However, once a feature is ready to be reviewed (and then released), I'm arguing that developers, before submitting their work, should re-organize their commit history: remove WIPs commits, remove refactors that happened during de
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by mnsc 7y ago
Can the PR still show all the individual commits when you come back to it? If so, are they still in the repo with some keepalive tag or are they persisted outside of the repo along with the PR-comments/metadata?
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by mnsc 7y ago
> What I'm trying to say is, stop letting others telling you how you should live your life and figure out what works for you. I'm no entrepreneur but I think the article is saying that this is easier said then done when you wan
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by mnsc 7y ago
"punitively taxed" is your words not mine. And yes a employee who reap benefits from taxes but acts in a way to evade taxes is acting in a morally bad way. However, an employee has very limited ways of evading taxes and pressuring
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by mnsc 7y ago
> This is one of the reasons exit tax has failed miserably around the world: it prevented good business people doing business in punitive countries in the first place. You have to define the "good" in "good business people
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by mnsc 7y ago
> Telling those individuals that they need 8h is not improving anything. Of course not, but telling these individuals that they are outliers and shouldn't give this as advice on "how to be successful" will improve things.
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by mnsc 7y ago
> Yes, I know I'm treading on some dearly-held religious beliefs .... > what exists or doesn't exist in the universe that's not visible is pure unscientific speculation I don't see anyone saying that the existence
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by mnsc 7y ago
Choosing a name is hard. Facebook might have committed a small freudian slip here. https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-why-rome-fell
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by mnsc 7y ago
> I actually think it was worse before, just like in many areas. The bullying and fighting then was physical and real. That seem like a pretty hard to prove statement. Per definition those who were young in the olden-days of bullying are
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by mnsc 7y ago
"Four intergalactical-capable factions are trying to decide who holds the most power. In an average galaxy in a pretty anonymous corner of the universe one faction detects a unprecedented large star-about-to-go-nova and races to captur
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by mnsc 7y ago
"So how's the wife?" "I don't want to talk about that" "Subordinate! You will do as you are told. How. Is. The. Wife" "She's struggling with depression right now". "Glorious! Tell
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by mnsc 7y ago
I saw a talk with April Wensel many years ago that made me reevaluate the "soft" skills and how getting better at those produce better code _and_ more personal happiness. I think opening up is a good thing but it's also hard
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by mnsc 7y ago
Well when I was young I spent about $1k/year on little thingamajigs called cd's. That was perhaps "stupid" in a pure economic sense but I did it. And if I were young these days I can't say I wouldn't give that
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by mnsc 7y ago
Ctrl-f "convert" gives me two hits?
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by mnsc 7y ago
That's true now but in the future when people start realizing that "Pay this premium for amazing 16K content!" doesn't do shit when they sit in their couches with their normal size tv:s we are gonna start hearing "P
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by mnsc 7y ago
> This alienates the productivity seeker, because not many people who are not productive currently can imagine becoming innately productive people. So in turn they seek help from people who are not "innately productive", and in
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by mnsc 7y ago
Can you estimate how much time you put into the assignment? Did you get paid?
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by mnsc 7y ago
Talking about zen, the concept "beginners mind" [1] is where this "feeling like a noob" is the desired state that will help you not get stuck in your ego when you get good at something. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by mnsc 7y ago
This SciShow-clip discusses this study and others. https://youtu.be/HsonXuJs8-s I do it most mornings for (anecdotal) "waking up the mind" when I'm tired. Sometimes it feels like the world goes from SD to HD.
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by mnsc 7y ago
I want to comment on this but...
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by mnsc 7y ago
I've pushed zulip in my org (~50 people, 15 devs) and no one that has tried has "gotten it". I haven't used it that much myself so I can't demo it properly but i believe it could be "the right way" of doin
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by mnsc 7y ago
It would be nice to see a reply from you in this thread where you were clearly in the wrong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098152
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by mnsc 7y ago
Those guidelines are the best on the internet and has stopped me from writing many comments! But sometimes still someone ticks me the wrong way and I venture down to the low levels and fight the ogres ogre-way. When that happens I usually f
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by mnsc 7y ago
> And why in the world would (...) people being systems to be optimized rule out treating people with respect, empathy, and kindness. Because seeing people as systems to be optimized is per definition dehumanizing which is an action that
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by mnsc 7y ago
Well, I guess I assumed wrong then! =) And for me as a Swede the most alien thing for me is the "lone genius startup"-thing (that probably is very over represented/emphasized here at HN) where developers work for stocks(?) an

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