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by npsimons 4y ago
> Meanwhile, my other three grandparents are enjoying their late 70's and early 80's - they travel, go hiking, play golf, play with the grand children and great-grandchildren, etc. It's okay to slow down, but don't st
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by npsimons 4y ago
This is why I "soft retired" early. People haven't said it to my face, but I get the definite impression many think I'm crazy for "abandoning" work. I'm through hiking the PCT this year, something I never
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by npsimons 5y ago
> just be good at two or three different fields and see what happens when you combine them. "Jack of all trades, master of some ." That's been my goal for most of my life.
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by npsimons 5y ago
I mean honestly, there's a whole bunch of shit that is considered "normal" in the work world that just should not be the way it is. The quarantines really opened (some) peoples' eyes to the reality that a lot of workplac
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by npsimons 5y ago
No, I was in civil service. Something I've had explained to me since is that even if my boss wanted to (he didn't; very old-school thinking), they couldn't because my position wasn't "coded" for part time. This
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by npsimons 5y ago
> made me really want to find a job that was less pay but also that low in hours This was a very large factor in why I quit - old job wouldn't let me cut back hours, even at reduced pay, even framing it as "leave without pay&qu
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by npsimons 5y ago
> If you're just returning JSON I'm not. Not sure where you got that idea.
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by npsimons 5y ago
CL is Common Lisp.
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by npsimons 5y ago
> Nginx with a reverse proxy to Rails, Django, Express or Laravel /me over here reverse proxying to Hunchentoot with CL framework of the week. Have yet to see a serverless setup that even has any idea what CL is . . .
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by npsimons 5y ago
> I really really dislike having to bend to unnecessary restrictions. I don't think I'm alone in that regard. You aren't. I'm one who actually moved from a more managed product to a VPS precisely because I couldn&#x27
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by npsimons 5y ago
> I'd instead advice to read the whole Ijon Tichy cycle starting from Star Diaries That might help, I should probably do that. I started with "Cyberiad", then got into Lem's other works just sort of at random. It does
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by npsimons 5y ago
"Cyberiad" is by far my favorite, whimsical, yet instructive to engineers. "The Futurological Congress" is good, but not great; "The Congress" with Robin Wright was loosely based on it and had more of an impact
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by npsimons 5y ago
I myself might be overreacting a bit; having "noped" out of a large bureaucracy relatively recently, my "stick it to the man!" mode gets triggered easily by such things, as well as such articles as OP. Honestly, the line
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by npsimons 5y ago
> we should rethink ... place of work if compensation was important. If that's not a glaring neon sign telling you to quit, and quit now, I don't know what is.
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by npsimons 5y ago
> I always wonder if this is just a poor understanding of the value individuals bring or just short shortsightedness on the part of management/the finance team. I'm thoroughly of the jaded opinion that when it's not a powe
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by npsimons 5y ago
Honestly, as another satisfied customer, I jumped on the opportunity to buy some of their stock. I believe it's a solid investment.
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by npsimons 5y ago
> you can't really use woks on induction. I found a flat-bottomed induction compatible wok on Amazon when I got my induction cook top. I'm not a master stir fry cook, but it woks for me!
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by npsimons 5y ago
> This sounds like more of one of those articles to manipulate people perception of back to the office. My first thought exactly, and one I've easily debunked for at least myself. Anecdata point of one, YMMV, but I definitely have
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by npsimons 5y ago
> careful about painting with too broad a brush there. Which is precisely what every single "plan" from the article does.
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by npsimons 5y ago
> just so story Thank you, this is the term I was looking for, and indeed, pretty much all of the "plans" the author lays out are "just so stories", untestable and with the implication that they are the true reasons
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by npsimons 5y ago
> it seems to be happening on huge swaths of adults as we speak. I am fully convinced there are vast swaths of legal "adults" who are not fully emotionally developed. On my really bad days, I'm one of them. The one thing t
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by npsimons 5y ago
I'm not any sort of expert, but the topics TFA article covers are many that weigh upon my mind, and quite frankly, the author comes across as smug and egotistical, ironically the traits he seems to rail against in the "edgelord&qu
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by npsimons 5y ago
"Five minute precis" has been the dream since Gibson's "Count Zero." Unfortunately, getting something anywhere near worthwhile isn't easy.
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by npsimons 5y ago
Tempting as this is, it's a colossally bad idea: just as one point, how long do you think it would take for the usual operators of botnets (spammers, those attempting DDoS for other purposes, etc) to target the C&C for this botnet?
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by npsimons 5y ago
Wait, is this the same McIlroy who claimed that PL/I has features no other language has, then listed syntactic sugars and things that could be implemented easily in libraries? Edit: After having read the link, yes, McIlroy has a point.
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by npsimons 5y ago
I am also on about the same timeline as you and GP, and in my humble experience, it's really just about having a lot of code/prose "under your fingers", so to speak. I can't remember where I read it, but the wisdom
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by npsimons 5y ago
Keeps one alert and attentive too! The challenge probably also helps sharpen the mind.
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by npsimons 5y ago
> My contrarian take: I prefer to work from a small laptop, with a non-fullscreen terminal window, and no IDE. Ah, the Joey Hess DE: https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/
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by npsimons 5y ago
> What I'd like: an editor with multiple tiled windows side by side, filling up a wide monitor, all showing the same text threaded through it. Line n at the bottom of one puts line n+1 at the top of the window to the right of it. Sc
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by npsimons 5y ago
> I find switching applications with keyboard shortcuts and focusing on one thing at a time has improved my productivity. Using two or more monitors made it so easy for me to get distracted. I very much agree with this - alt-tabbing betw

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