overgryphon

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by overgryphon 13y ago
His nest egg may not have included his retirement accounts.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
This is a story of a family's financial decisions and hardships- there isn't room in a few hundred words to also include all of the compassion and love that they hold for each other. It wasn't foreseeable that demand for writ
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I think you read the wrong message about why his marriage ended. Rather than separating over the lack of paycheck, he and his ex-wife chose to forgo his paycheck initially because the demands of his high-stress job did not leave room for hi
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I wonder if Google has trouble with college hires for this reason- people near the end of college are often interviewing with multiple companies at once and timing is critical. Many people I graduated with would have taken a job offer from
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by overgryphon 13y ago
But it will. The "cloud" will eventually replace corporate IT departments. Most companies don't want an IT department, it's a necessary headache and cost center that they only deal with when it gets in the way. Moving wh
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by overgryphon 13y ago
University math departments really should reconsider their approach to real world applications. Most math professors don't seem to consider it a part of the curriculum, and that can be really detrimental. My largest college regret was
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Except Microsoft doesn't stack rank people based on peer feedback- it's based on all the leads getting into a room and stack ranking their directs. It's very possible to have a bad stack ranking but excellent peer feedback. W
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Is it so important that the individual components of a person's performance be evaluated individually? What about someone with exceptional technical abilities who uses those skills to ensure that blame for potential failure is always a
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by overgryphon 13y ago
This is a false choice. You can love your work and find it meaningful, but still go home at 5:30. Work complements life in a meaningful way, but isn't the only significant component.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
That's because the newer tech companies haven't had enough time to build a catalog of patents to rival older Microsoft, Apple, and so forth. Do you really think Google won't do the same to younger tech companies a decade from
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by overgryphon 13y ago
This is more than side work though, this is a week of being a salaried employee of two companies. This would certainly violate the terms of employment of any standard salaried employment contract.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Which is often a breach of your current employment contract. How do they handle that situation?
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by overgryphon 13y ago
So they only hire college students? I couldn't see anyone with a current job willing to do this. Not only does it cost a week of vacation (difficult to justify to a spouse), but how much advance notice can you give your current managem
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I really wish people focused more on allowing women to build careers after their children are raised. Stop judging women who do leave work as somehow less mentally capable once they're done.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Women can be pushed out before they even get to begin on the path. Lots of people asked me if I was "sure" when I decided to study CS in college, whether I was worried about making friends with other women, or to share their negat
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Gender discussion on HN can feel like men coming together to discuss their observations of women like a group of biologists. It can be a little dehumanizing.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I don't think the comment was intended to be derogatory towards web programmers, so much as annoyed at the "you can create a website in an hour without writing a line of code" oriented features. Some of the web-oriented stuff
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I think you may have selective memory with regards to VS6 (understandable over 15 years). Having recently worked at a company that for silly reasons did not upgrade beyond VS6, it was not lightning fast, took several minutes to open, and cr
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by overgryphon 13y ago
It doesn't matter if it's NVidia's fault or the WiFi chipset manufacturer's fault that Linux doesn't work well out of box on OPs computer. I've had similar experiences with Linux, and all I cared about was that
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Never smoked, but for people who have smoked and quit- Would short term stimulant usage (eg Adderall) for a few weeks have helped quit smoking? It seems possible that stimulant medication could prevent common symptoms like weight gain, prob
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by overgryphon 13y ago
If you have a chance you should try out a touchscreen laptop some time. It is a much more compelling experience then gestures on a trackpad.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
You talk about technological progress and innovation as something contradictory to any sort of predictable process iterating on an existing product. This isn't always the case. A lot of new innovating ideas are incorporated into existi
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by overgryphon 13y ago
I'm surprised iPhones don't survive been dunked in water. I've dropped my $150 nokia smartphone in water numerous times with no problem. I would certainly expect a much more expensive phone to have the same level of durabilit
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by overgryphon 13y ago
It is better to have a higher salary in a higher cost of living area than a correspondingly lower salary in a lower cost of living area. The price of many many things are constant regardless of where you live, especially with online shoppin
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by overgryphon 13y ago
But he thought it was acceptable to kick her. That's abusive.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
No, it's not. A partner's monogamy is a gift, not an entitlement.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
This sounds almost exactly like how traditional management is done at my job. Each "circle" has a lead "point" who distributes roles, but each person is able to make decisions about their particular part.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
The website comes off as shady, insinuating that the service is an equivalent or valid alternative to therapy with a professional therapist. The way the 'listeners' are referred to as trained many times (which amounts to an online
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by overgryphon 13y ago
Somewhat off topic, but would you mind sharing a little about what volunteering for a hotline was like? I'm considering entering a training program to volunteer for one in my area, but am not sure I am prepared for this.
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by overgryphon 13y ago
For 99.9% percent of people, this is exactly what will happen. A few shocked moments, quickly followed by returning to all of the important things in their life. No one has time to protest all of the hundreds of wrong things we supposedly s

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