monkeyodeath

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by monkeyodeath 3y ago
"As the analytics overtook decision making, the quality of everything declined sharply." Pretty much. I'm sure Hollywood execs have always wanted to make as much money as they could, but they also (formerly) didn't want
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by monkeyodeath 3y ago
The business philosophy of "maximize shareholder value above all else" is going to eviscerate our society until there's nothing of quality left. Hollywood has always been a dirty and money-focused business, but it seems like
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by monkeyodeath 3y ago
Sapporo's "innovations" for the Anchor brand were to pick a fight with labor, tinker with the recipe of their most historic beer, and green-light of the most infamously eye-searing rebrands in recent memory.
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by monkeyodeath 5y ago
It's a good idea to target your product to the sensibilities of your consumer. American Millenials and Gen Z are having less sex than the generations before them. They've also grown up with frequent mass school shootings and the &
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by monkeyodeath 5y ago
True. I guess it's pretty much just product (or should I say "content") that we're discussing, despite all the lip service given to the idea that it's this really creative endeavor.
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by monkeyodeath 5y ago
What, pray tell, constitutes "necessary" in art? People act like the only point of narrative work is to tell a story and advance a plot, forgetting that some of the greatest novels, plays, and movies of all time have creaky plots
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Religion, at least the dominant Evangelical Christian kind, has gotten increasingly politicized, to the point where religious == conservative (note I'm using JS-style "truthy" here, I know that this isn't a blanket case)
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
The poll mentions "patriotism", not "nationalism", and I think those are two different things. "Nationalism" increasingly refers to an exclusivist mindset, whereas "patriotism" at least used to be mor
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
You should go find a Holocaust survivor and check. I'm sure many of them take comfort in the fact that destruction of their lives contributed to the progress of science.
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
I see where you're coming from. I guess to me, it makes no moral difference. The means corrupt the end. The Nazis managed to get some useful science out of the Jews during the Holocaust, but it's hard to see that as a silver linin
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
It's a point of view that makes no sense. Murdering one person to save another is not "noble". It negates the entire point of "human rights" in the first place. You might as well suggest that people who need organs
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Not that it makes a moral difference, but the victims aren't all hardened criminals. They are political dissidents, people who follow the wrong religion, and racial minorities. Most of the greatest mass atrocities in world history have
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
From this article: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/519/filling-the-void "The true source of drug addiction: a society organized around the quest for wealth and geopolitical power, which creates enormous
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
I appreciate the encouragement! Sometimes I have to just assess the situation more objectively and tell myself "you're making a good living at this stuff, you can't be that terrible at it!"
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
This is good to know, thanks!
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
True, I guess focusing on the impostor feeling doesn't really have much practical application to getting the work done and getting paid for it!
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
I think it's just a confidence thing -- when you learn an idea in a class, you know it's something that's been validated by your professor and whoever wrote the book. When you come up with it or learn it on your own, you don&
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
That's sort of how I felt when I took the job -- just kind of thrown into the deep end. I had no idea how I was going to complete my first assignment. I think it's tempting to want to seek comfort in your profession (or anything y
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Yeah, I think there's a tendency to assume that everyone else is so much more competent than you are. I have to say that being brought in to fix other people's code has helped a lot in building my confidence as at least a decent e
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Yeah, I think I need to keep that in mind -- that some of the "softer" skills are just as important. I can see how leadership pushes you away from some of the nitty-gritty of the code.
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Awesome, I think I know this stuff but just not the exact name for it. Thanks for the help.
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Asking for help is something I'm trying to force myself to do more and more. It's hard to shake the paranoia that you're revealing a weakness that will eventually come back to haunt you, but I know that's an attitude tha
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
This is a great idea, thanks for the advice!
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Yeah, I think I had enjoyed being comfortable in my skillset, but I can see how that can be the exact moment you stop improving.
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
That's good to know. I think in some cases I know the concept from experience but just don't necessarily know the official term.
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by monkeyodeath 7y ago
Well shoot. I guess this is just part of the territory.
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Ask HN: How to deal with impostor syndrome when you don't have tech degree?
19 points by monkeyodeath 7y ago|28 comments
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by monkeyodeath 8y ago
I agree that the author is opinionated, but it's not an uncommon opinion. Plenty of Bay Area residents who lived there before tech took over feel pretty "suffocated" by its dominance. I've seen first-hand how SF has chan
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by monkeyodeath 8y ago
I think it's ironic that so many of these "frugal living" gurus advocate cutting your expenses to the bone to avoid taking part in America's rampant consumer culture. Then they advocate plowing those savings into home ow