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by orzig 4y ago
As a technical expert, it would not be unreasonable for you to counter propose a more narrow definition of the technology that would qualify. Either you come to an agreement about something that would not overly constrain you in the future,
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by orzig 4y ago
One thing I learned when consulting across companies is that there are multiple versions of confluence. I’m not sure how many, nor what the distinguishing factor is in terms of search, but one has a search functionality which is hardly insp
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by orzig 4y ago
Companies are complex systems, operating in a complex economy. It’s something of a tautology to say that a broken hiring system would be bad for the company. If the company has rapid turnover, I could imagine it single-handedly spelling doo
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by orzig 4y ago
Evidence for the claim? Here’s some counter-evidence: I just did an HN search and found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33838556 Seems like it got plenty of attention. If you think a different take on the issue d
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That is a great point. It’s also worth remembering that most stated beliefs have negligible impact on actions (e.g. my personal opinions about foreign policy). So it’s pretty rational for most people to just take the easy way out of echoing
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https://ooh.directory/ ? Whether or not, it is what you were thinking of, I have found it super fun in general
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I have heard great things about the “scratch” programming, language, though it was 10 years ago.
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by orzig 4y ago
I haven't done a whole survey, but Carbon Collective sounds like a fit: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CCSO:NASDAQ?window=5Y https://www.carboncollective.co/
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by orzig 4y ago
Meta idea: who do you know that does not interact with very many other tech people, and what is their domain expertise? Talk to them about their needs, and throw together at least 10 prototypes, preferably while you’re talking. Trying some
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by orzig 4y ago
I used a SaaS app called You Need a Budget (often abbreviated YNAB). It did not make sense for my situation, but seems perfect for yours. The two primary ideas it is organized around our: 1) Try to only spend money that is “more than 30 day
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by orzig 4y ago
Go to the closest library, get as many completely different books as catch your interest. Go home and spend at least 10 minutes with each book, of course going longer if you are enjoying it. Take a break every once in a while for a light e
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by orzig 4y ago
I suspect that the more palatable path would be “normalize resume gaps”, with the first step being public data on just how damaging they currently are. It’s plausibly zero if you are technical and spent a (even small) fraction self-learning
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I suspect it depends strongly on what you will do with the extra time. I started consulting, which would have been impossible at just one day per week, but it is totally legitimate to use it for non-revenue pursuits and going “one step at a
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Anecdata: I worked at a large non-FAANG tech company, and went down to 60%. There were many fewer issues like that than I expected. There were downsides (A project failed because I didn’t have time to fill in the shortcomings of a teammate,
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by orzig 4y ago
I want to highlight that this opens with > based on […] some quick reading I’ve done on the topic and is dominated by a quote from Hitchhiker’s Guide. There are much better considered critiques of effective altruism than this article.
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by orzig 4y ago
Make a sandbox repository and just break it repeatedly. Within the realm of basic commands, I bet you already know how to do most things (including recovering from small mistakes), but it feels too scary so you revert to non-– GIT methods.
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by orzig 4y ago
This isn't a great article, but for Box Breathing and many other zero-risk wellness activities: Just try it. There's huge variation between people, so obsessing over the impact on the average person will take more energy than gett
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by orzig 4y ago
This is incredibly important if you want to understand healthcare. Every little thing is expensive in a way that is hard to imagine before you get into the field.
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by orzig 4y ago
I do freelancing. Any one person‘s advice is going to be from a pretty low sample size, but here is mine: the specific industry and the geography you have contacts in matters a ton more than “the economy“ that you read about in the headline
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by orzig 4y ago
I’ve got you: https://youtube.com/c/megabotsinc They only did one real fight, but still 190k followers
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I think the ball is in your court when launching an ad hominem attack (before we even get to the question of whether it is relevant) It seems like that should be easy enough to provide some evidence for, if it’s true. https://ww
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I read as much of the site as I could, but could somebody explain: how is SAFe different than the original agile manifesto?
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That is a totally fair question, and I have to admit I did not - nuanced stories don’t fit in an online comment! The Great Recession hit and Obama’s climate push failed[0], so I went into healthcare (as another thing that needed fixing, and
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The value of advice comes from arriving at the right moment to the right person, not some platonic, universal “goodness“. For example, I wanted to drop out of college to work on climate change, and an adult in that community who I respected
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Maybe the root cause is different for different people?
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AI is a big field, you will have to choose a specialty. Don’t stress about it too much, you can change later, but think whether you would rather do images, text, etc. I would focus on whatever you might be able to work into your day job, as
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Tons of internal stuff; think of anything that is minimum wage knowledge worker does, some fraction of it is probably obvious enough to be automated. For example, categorizing PDFs (which go through OCR) into broad buckets so that the right
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Ask HN: [Over 30s] What makes you more effective than your early 20s self?
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There is so much complexity here but I do not know where to start but I just want to throw in that the first few months of parenthood are supposed to be difficult and zombie like so don’t get down on yourself if you make some progress in th
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An assumption I bring it to most questions like this: The world, including the tech world, is much bigger than you think. Though I have only seen a tiny fraction of it myself, here’s where I’ve had reliably contained workdays: 1) Machine le

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