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by ok_coo 5y ago
I don't know how we solve for the people that get a dopamine hit from a sales transaction. My MIL is a great example of this, she goes shopping just to go shopping and get a deal. She buys more than she could ever want or use. Christma
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by ok_coo 5y ago
And yet, companies in interviews will ask you where you see yourself in 5 years.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
You don't have a life and it's difficult for ~4 years. You live/breath/eat work and school. If you have a family, good luck. I did it in my 20s and would not do it now as my body has aged.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
IMHO, it's better than a deluge of political posts. I don't mind reading about politics but I come to HN to read about tech. We can go elsewhere to get whatever politics we desire.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
Well, in the USA we are literally called Human Capital Stock. So, I would disagree that's the case here.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
Money/Greed attracts a certain type of person who has different values, priorities, and interests. I think it mostly comes down to that.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
The best marketing a company will do is to itself.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I'm of the same mind on this. It would be ridiculously easy to identify who I am with some tangential info on me. I'm here to talk about tech and related stuff. It's ok that people don't know who I am. I don't need
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by ok_coo 5y ago
We got a 3% COL increase. I went permanent WFH and that has been a gigantic reduction in expenses so we're doing pretty good now. I haven't noticed inflationary effects in the stuff we buy. Food seems a bit more expensive but ever
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by ok_coo 5y ago
They are now (maybe not Trump, but the rest of the republicans). I don't know if they switched because they're concerned their voters are going to die or if they're worried about getting sued but there's been a sudden sw
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by ok_coo 5y ago
Our org has an accessibility consultant that we hire periodically to help us with aspects of our site and beyond (into other topics/things in the org). There's definitely a market and a need for this type of work. So, I hope it wo
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I do not dream of labor.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I've been burnt out bad before and a week isn't enough. IMHO, with burnout, a week off feels like taking just one breath. What a week does though is let the workers reconsider their situation. Is the burnout worth it? Companies ul
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by ok_coo 5y ago
There was a period in time of my life where I would say I was addicted to games. Looking back, it was 100% a response to trauma. Once I was in a better spot in my life, my gaming scaled way back to something more reasonable. Sometimes now,
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I don't know if there's a special tax in place in Chicago, but AirBnbs have been almost double the price of hotels recently. Uber/Lyft have been super expensive as well. I wonder if we're seeing that these company's
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by ok_coo 5y ago
It was a combo of being a fresh/new dev on my part and IE6/7, but I recall spending (wasting) days and days of my life working around IE issues. I know we don't want another situation of one browser dominating the web but Chr
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I recently upgraded to a Pixel 4a from an iPhone SE and it's convinced me that, in fact, Google is really good with software when they have the opportunity to program directed against a set SKU. Performance is really good on the device
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I've had a similar experience. Many more meetings now than when I was in the office. Middle managers not knowing what to do with themselves, so calling useless Zoom meetings. However, I've been super productive when I've been
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I promise that this isn't a snarky question. Why has it taken so long for corp America to move off of IE? There are so many other better alternatives. I still sometimes have flashbacks of having to design around and support IE6. /
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I was making $12/hour as a bus boy at a restaurant in the 90s. $15/hour is pathetic. Target is _starting_ at $15/hour in the rural midwest, near me. Yes, maybe their restaurant (and other biz) margins are small but they'
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I used to work for a PR firm in Chicago that would work with AT&T to do astroturfing. I never knew the details but the gossip about the contract with AT&T was interesting. Internally, they would never say the word, "AT&T&qu
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by ok_coo 5y ago
Supply and demand until it comes to the labor market. Then, it's we're entitled to all the cheap labor we require.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
I moved back to rural Midwest and be with and around family and it's made me appreciate them a lot more. I've thought about why I sacrificed this, by moving away to a big city, just to get an ok paying job with healthcare. So, I w
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by ok_coo 5y ago
Are we pretending our industry has a glut of experienced people begging for work? GL to all of the inflexible employers out there.
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by ok_coo 5y ago
This is a good point. What I've noticed for our org is that it's much more apparent which managers are quality and are able to help out their team and more, and which where obviously just filling up their work days with meetings,
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by ok_coo 6y ago
We were in this situation and have been lucky enough to move back in with family, in a more rural location. I've loved it so far, being able to be around family more and take care of them and just be around. If full-time remote becomes
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by ok_coo 6y ago
Independent journalists have been moving to Substack. I subscribed to one, for about a year, who charged like $5/month. I felt that it was good value, this particular solo journalist did a ton of investigative research and posted almos
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by ok_coo 6y ago
It's performative virtue signaling and I wish Cook et al would stop. I wish all of corporate virtue signaling would stop actually. Corps are amoral and we should stop pretending otherwise and if the US wants corps to behave different,
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by ok_coo 6y ago
Thank you for this! We just started using Go for all of our new and/or updated backend stuff and I love it. I'll definitely be checking this out. :)
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by ok_coo 6y ago
To echo this statement, I wasn't financially stable until ~35. We still do not own a home/condo and I'm not sure it's going to happen at this point. My spouse and I may just move in with family to split costs and live ch

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