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by nscalf 7y ago
What I took from this was that, if you're willing to pay a competitive rate and you're worth a competitive market rate, no one is getting high offers. If you can get the same compensation offer at 5 places in the next 2 months, t
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by nscalf 7y ago
If you have any capacity for those things though, they're far easier to learn and practice with. It takes years to become good at building products, but I've gone from almost no knowledge to being good enough to manage a product&
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by nscalf 7y ago
Someone capable of making an app, website, software used inside of a company, script that gives a company insight, or whatever else you could possibly think of can make a 6 figure company on their own within a year for nearly zero dollars.
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by nscalf 7y ago
There is also doing the most good for most people. For every person who dies due to a misdiagnosed disease, there are 10,000 that were properly diagnosed with the less dangerous, cheaper to test for, and massively more likely illness. It
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by nscalf 7y ago
I was happy to see some Python tips I actually haven't already seen. That was a good, short, interesting read. Thanks for writing it up!
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by nscalf 7y ago
And it's totally reasonable that this isn't common place. The team I'm with now has been spending a lot of our spare time at work trying to get a suite of tools built out to make things like logging, message publishing, etc.
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by nscalf 7y ago
...for smoking weed? What in the hell does weed have to do with security? Outside of some archaic argument like “it’s always been a requirement”, why is smoking weed a factor in security clearance? Can anyone give me a logical argument for
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by nscalf 7y ago
What is tough about this problem is how hard it is to communicate. We all know something is wrong, even if we don't really realize it. Like the article says, we've been promised all of these incredible things by the advancements
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by nscalf 7y ago
I’ve always been highly skeptical of this approach. Often what you’re doing is so clear cut that tests are entirely unneeded. In fact, outside of the most complicated cases, I don’t even use unit tests. I have black box testing that I use t
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Ask HN: How many people are doing indefinite travel with remote?
2 points by nscalf 7y ago|0 comments
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Naa, this is totally backwards. Organizations should strive to decrease the number of interruptions and be flexible enough to allow people to work in environments that let them thrive. There is no good reason to say people should get used t
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by nscalf 7y ago
That doesn’t feel like the right question to me. I’d say you’re your “true self”, given your environment, in each situation.
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I don’t think I’ve seen vitamin D claimed as an anti inflammatory supplement (or that deficiencies cause inflammation). The same goes for omega 3 to omega 6 ratios. I’ve heard plenty of claims, but not that one.
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I find that, if you look closely enough, there can never really be any “intelligence”. Everything is just a model or a likely association or a statistical model, etc. and it will always be that. This statement of there being no intelligence
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I agree with that, but I was thinking more along the lines of bugging your home, tracing your internet traffic through ISPs, etc.
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The fact that you’re in one of these countries makes you easy to access by enemies on the global scale. Assuming the individuals are good, that doesn’t mean they’re not a security risk. The reality is, countries like Russia and China do not
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by nscalf 7y ago
I think the original post conflated stress and discomfort, because they described my views pretty closely but I call it discomfort instead. I think if you’re resting, be largely comfortable. If you’re uncomfortable (in a constructive way),
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by nscalf 7y ago
I was not a very good public speaker (or general communicator), and it would make me feel uncomfortable having to have some normal conversations like ordering food. Nothing too severe, it didn't really interfere with my life, but it b
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Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a software background
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And often if it just kills you slowly.
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Let's say you're a tech expert, how do you get involved with the biotech revolution. Is there any resources to learn what is currently available, how you can contribute, etc? I think this field will likely yield some of the most
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by nscalf 7y ago
First off, completely disregarding the legal status of this, it is both hilarious and encouraging to see this. Why? Because people too often seem to forget that companies you work for actively are likely trying to minimize how much you ge
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by nscalf 7y ago
I think I would probably be making a Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/etc competitor that night. They exist because people want them to exist, even though they have some bad parts. It's much more effective to work to make th
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by nscalf 7y ago
I can buy the accident thing on a long enough time scale, even though I would imagine that emergency medicine would improve over time so it would have to be increasingly more severe of a problem. However, the “get depressed and kill yoursel
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by nscalf 7y ago
I think we might be talking in different time scales, and maybe different responsibilities. If you're looking to bring on someone to solve an urgent problem this month, you're going to need a specialist in the area. If you'
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by nscalf 7y ago
Expecting a minimum amount of professionalism to join a professional environment is not the same thing as discriminating agains people because they are a part of: women, people of color, LGBTQ+, etc. That's a pretty extreme comparison
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I have no research to point to, but my personal experience is very different from this. Sure, everywhere has it's own downsides, but that does not mean that a company is either terrible to work for or everything is failing. That&#x27
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by nscalf 7y ago
You don't need to pick all of your managers, coworkers, and clients. That's the point of vetting a company culture before you join. In general, the culture should be a reflection of a shared ideology for business and interperson
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> You can justify any kind of discrimination that way. I can come up with a number of reasons that would make women, people of color, foreigners or literally any other group a "poor culture fit". Do/would you hire any pers
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This seems like an extreme example, to be clear, I don't think you should determine culture fit based off the word you use to describe basketball. So do you think there should be no thought on if someone will get along well with your

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