overgryphon

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by overgryphon 12y ago
Because half the population doesn't have front pockets that fit phones, and sometimes your purse is slightly out of reach.
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by overgryphon 12y ago
Which is another good reason for in person communication- you can see if your coworker is intensely focusing and give them space. Pinging them on IM is distracting and interrupts them regardless of what they are doing. Pinging an entire tea
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by overgryphon 12y ago
Library hours strongly conflict with 9-5 job hours.
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by overgryphon 12y ago
For many small businesses, increasing the minimum wage would increase the cost of their employees but not increase the income of their customers. These businesses would see an increase in expenses but none of the benefits of a consumer base
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by overgryphon 12y ago
"It clearly runs fine since Apple is using it." This doesn't mean it runs fine, it means that in the particular cases that Apple uses the API for it runs fine. Apple may not have tested the API sufficiently for broader usage,
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by overgryphon 12y ago
Health care is generally included on top of salary in the US, so Canadian health care wouldn't be a consideration for engineers working at established companies. Even significant health costs per month are ignored in a corporate enviro
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by overgryphon 12y ago
I went vegan for a few months and abandoned it because everyone else was unable to have a conversation with me about anything other than meat. Everyone felt an unprovoked need to justify their eating habits to me. Social groups were uncomfo
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by overgryphon 12y ago
I've dropped my Nokia 521 down stairs, into water, all over the place. It's incredibly durable.
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by overgryphon 12y ago
A lot of the tech employees that are being protested are young, single, and much more willing to move for economic reasons than families. The ability to buy a house in the future, not deal with protesters, and probably make more money overa
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by overgryphon 13y ago
The article specifically picked someone whose problems were clearly his own making and avoidable. I'm going to guess that the majority of people that will be affected by this new law didn't have successful careers in software deve
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by overgryphon 13y ago
When something isn't right a long period of time, it's easy to lose perspective on what being well looks and feels like. It may be well worth it to explore your options now while it isn't urgent, until waiting until something
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by overgryphon 13y ago
This can depend more on the particular product group and manager you work for than which company. All big companies have less than perfect managers, and some people have a hard time accepting work/life balance choices that are differen
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Who shows up to the career fair may have more to do with the university you happen to attend than a lack of hardware related internships. Cisco, Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, and Nvidia all hire college interns, and all go to college career fairs.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Perhaps if all of your friendships are shallow and aloof, a change of city wouldn't solve your problem? I love Seattle, and do not find people here passive or unfriendly.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
From a manager perspective, you wouldn't want an employee working 60+ hours on a regular basis. When actual crunch-time happened, that employee wouldn't have room to work more. You likely wouldn't be able to meet expectations
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Why did fashion come up in this article at all? There is no reason to believe that a woman who wears heels and makeup can program any less well than a woman who doesn't. Or that girls that read fashion magazines aren't interested
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by overgryphon 13y ago
That term really put me off in the article. Just about everyone uses technology to some degree, and I've never heard of someone separate people into "technologist" and "not technologist". It seemed very us vs. them.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
It's humbling not to be chosen, but to look at the task set out before you and realize how small you are in comparison.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
My experience is that people who consistently overwork and choose work over their family life feel that those who don't are lazy. The inability to have reasonable expectations of others, and tendency to look down on coworkers can under
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Yes, which of course she attributes to men's problems with needing attention from women who understand them.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Woah there, software development is a very collaborative field. You can be the best programmer on the team, but if you go around putting others down and name calling you are going to sabotage your product. There are ways to criticize people
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I'm not trying to say that she should "just deal with it". These are legitimate feelings and struggles, but they have nothing to do with sexism. Her attributing these problems and feelings to sexism prevents any actual discus
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Are we supposed to conclude that men never feel isolated, alone, or struggle to mentor others? She describes very common feelings and struggles related to working in a corporate environment, and then blames them on her gender. This made lea
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by overgryphon 13y ago
None of the problems she describes have to do with sexism. She felt isolated, alone, unseen, unappreciated, and unable to teach others. These feelings have less to do with being a woman in tech, and more to do with her own social habits and
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by overgryphon 13y ago
How someone conducts themselves in response to rejection can affect future opportunities. It isn't uncommon to be reject a candidate for one job, but approach them about a different job that better fits their skillset. This can happen
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Not being able to focus is quite a bit different from simply being bored. Distractions are a problem not only because of the sheer number of them, but because you don't really notice you aren't on task anymore. It can take 30 minu
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by overgryphon 13y ago
So they released an unsupported publicly accessible API?
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by overgryphon 13y ago
There are many ways to express emotions.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Your perspective changes when you need to find that extra 15 hours of time while also working full time. Apply to 2-3 companies at once, and all of a sudden 30-45 hours are added on to your normal work week.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
She moved to Germany to provide housing, health care, and education for their younger children. Divorce came later.

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