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The Daily Zen: An Apology(atis.substack.com)
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by orzig 5y ago
What would the beach be like if everyone went today? It's not unreasonable to use the actual context when deciding
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by orzig 5y ago
Seniority matters here - of course a junior is going to have weaknesses, and a poor fit could easily result in two abysmal quarters. But I believe seniority comes with a responsibility to proactively raise any higher level issues blocking p
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by orzig 5y ago
There are a lot of negative things that one can imply about America, so I'm surprised that you reached for 'boring'. I don't even know what source to cite, but it seems self-evident that Americans care passionately about
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by orzig 5y ago
Thank you for trying this, and even more for writing it up. People talk about bad startups that do happen, but not nearly enough about good ones that don’t . We should be at least as outraged at the systems that quietly steal what could
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by orzig 5y ago
I did the opposite by accident: I was fascinated by older kids when I was young, and they thought I was charming. Then in my 20s most people seemed repetitive, and I had some real social headwinds. I'm trying to recapture some of that
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by orzig 5y ago
There's also a subtle clinical communication aspect to this. I once had a doctor message me shortly after a routine test and say "I need you to come back tomorrow ", and my pregnant wife was losing it until we could get thro
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by orzig 5y ago
It all depends on whether you summarize a thread by its best or worst comment. At best, HN is way better. At worst, while hardly 'warm', it rarely ruins my day, which I appreciate.
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by orzig 5y ago
Anki (or similar). Spaced repetition is the most underrated tool I know of. And I barely use it: 8 cards per day, probably 1.5 minutes total with a noticeable bump in ease of professional life
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by orzig 5y ago
Having just bought one, I think they have recently gotten a lot more efficient, and/or cheaper. Several installers couldn’t name any options, but the more savvy ones were talking about all the new manufacturers in the game
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by orzig 5y ago
I didn't see any statements about what will be, just what should be. The sort-of counter-example is that "Tech jobs [..] are increasingly willing to hire with no degree". But strange that he of all people didn't add
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Ask HN: Should I upgrade Ubuntu to 22.04 LTS?
47 points by orzig 5y ago|83 comments
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by orzig 5y ago
I've been successful enough, but glancing at my bank account it doesn't look like i can literally buy 51% of any company I've heard of. Have you done it? Or can you help point me to someone like myself who has? If 'you&
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by orzig 5y ago
Are those people optimizing for having every product available at every time? They have to balance against the very real cost of spoilage, so I don’t think they consider the occasional out–of–stock as the system breaking
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by orzig 5y ago
That’s fantastic introspection, but to give another anecdotal piece of data: I spent 6 months stressing about how to keep iterating communication and fit with an underperformer, and he never managed to contribute (I was the second of four m
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by orzig 5y ago
Thanks for the nudge (public philanthropy has positive externalities!) I just did the same, and my day is better for it
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by orzig 5y ago
Render to ASCII, everyone wins! (e.g. https://ascii-generator.site/ )
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by orzig 5y ago
To provide a third vote: My midsized company barely considers people without degrees, even if they have extensive technical work experience. Example: I had to battle hard to get somebody considered for an entry-level non-technical role, and
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by orzig 5y ago
I'm a DS/ML consultant, but I've never done Kaggle or even serious public github projects. For context, I've only changed clients once, as my contracts have been very long-term. My initial client reached out to me and in
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by orzig 5y ago
I read the article twice: what are the quieter corners the headline promises? Almost all the examples were still pooling money to buy a thing, with two of those things being a single piece of real estate. And Friends with Benefits seems lik
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by orzig 5y ago
I don’t disagree, but an important distinction relative to the OP is that political communication is in an overtly adversarial environment. It’s a whole other ballgame.
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by orzig 5y ago
Valuable prospective, but (as is the gist of half my comments here): People are even more different than you think. RescueTime wrote a similar post, but +100 data: https://rescuetime.wpengine.com/work-life-balance-study-2019
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by orzig 5y ago
Yeah, a good manager can fix that in 30 seconds (by giving you explicit permission to learn), but a surprising portion don’t think too.
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by orzig 5y ago
I went through a period like that, I wish my manager had put some boundary (even admittedly artificial) around how long it would be, that it was going to be OK, and help me set some soft goal for that time. It would’ve made the exact same a
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by orzig 5y ago
> It is estimated that 70% of wealthy families will lose their wealth by the second generation and 90% will lose it by the third. As far as I can tell this is the only number in the article, and it is “estimated“. Who knows, maybe it is
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Marginal Revolution on Android with Flutter: 5 Reflections(lifanzeng.com)
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by orzig 5y ago
Sure, but few comments are useful to a full 50% of readers. Bottom Decile: This is your moment!
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by orzig 5y ago
I super appreciate your willingness to share a small moment of intellectual humility - they are too rare and I hope that it will inspire at least one other person to approach at least one other issue with a similar spirit. I know that my th
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by orzig 5y ago
It's very situation-dependent, so here are a few things I've done: 1. In a work situation where I'm relatively senior, I've proactively communicated that I like minimally-interrupting notifications (email>slack>IRL
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by orzig 5y ago
I don’t think it is “going away“ in a general sense anytime soon. The main counter argument is that it is more complex than you need, but of course this depends on your (more likely “your organizations“) needs. That can be hard to forecast

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