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by parpfish 2y ago
I wish I could take this advice, but my imposter syndrome is just too strong and you cant just turn it off with logical explanations. By the time I get an offer, I already feel like I’m already uncomfortable about all the bragging I’ve had
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by parpfish 2y ago
I spend too much time thinking about all the stuff that can go wrong on generation ships. You take off for your destination, but when you get there you find out that humans back on earth made a faster ship 100 years after you left and beat
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by parpfish 2y ago
> I don't want constant "riotous color", as the article puts it, in my home, or my workplace, or while I'm driving. It's visually exhausting. could a factor driving current monotone style be less about aesthetics
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by parpfish 2y ago
or maybe it'll help highlight how dependent we've become on credit cards meditating almost every financial transaction. i distinctly remember ~20 years ago a that a friend bought a cup of coffee using a credit card and we all made
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by parpfish 2y ago
my code became much easier to maintain once i stopped thinking of it as writing "algorithms" and "processes" and started thinking of it as a series of type conversions. structuring what lives where became easier, naming
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by parpfish 2y ago
in the grand scheme of things, it's true that tech workers have very cushy nice jobs. but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to make our jobs better. tech workers should be at the vanguard and come up with imaginative ways to
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by parpfish 2y ago
i've recently been thinking about when in a start-ups lifecycle should employees consider unionizing. it'd be great if a worker-friendly culture was instilled in the company from its earliest days, but i'm not sure if a) ther
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by parpfish 2y ago
this is a great example of the kind of things unions should talk about when doing tech organizing. too often, unions pitch themselves on fixing problems that are low on the hierarchy of needs in a particular job (e.g., will this job kill&#x
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by parpfish 2y ago
i'm a big union advocate, but i worry that the traditional messaging that unions use doesn't work for tech employees. things like more pay/better hours/safer working conditions are appealing to people working low-paid, d
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by parpfish 2y ago
And the frequency with which you have to take one of the 168-hour shifts is inversely proportional to how many colleagues you have in the rotation. if somebody leaves, the amount of unpaid work you have to do increases. So if on-call isn’t
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by parpfish 2y ago
sure, i see cars where maga and greatful dead bumperstickers coexist, but overall this narrative of hippies becoming selfish seems a bit like a fallacy where we're attempting to understand the aggregated group behavior as if it were a
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by parpfish 2y ago
five years ago, i was hopeful that widespread WFH would result in a great geographic population redistribution that would alleviate housing competition in popular cities and revitalize smaller impoverished communities by bringing in good-pa
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by parpfish 2y ago
Stock and equity just aren’t great at motivating employees. If you’re at a small and pre-public startup, your decisions and effort can directly affect product success BUT the equity is only theoretically valuable someday in the distant futu
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Ask HN: How much do salaried full-time devs *actually* work?
9 points by parpfish 2y ago|20 comments
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by parpfish 2y ago
Even if “you” are perfectly clean, there’s the angle of “what do we have to hold over other people that affect your life?” You might be clean, but if your competitors aren’t they can be bribed/blackmailed You might be clean, but if you
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by parpfish 2y ago
another contributing factor is that in psychology (and possibly other fields), it's very hard to make a career doing rigorous, incremental science that results in confident outcomes because each step along the way, people just way &quo
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by parpfish 2y ago
I had a ton of fun in my PhD. It probably wasn’t the best route if I was trying to maximize total lifetime earnings, but I’m happy with the route I took. In fact I liked it enough that I often joke that my retirement plan will be to get int
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by parpfish 2y ago
If you’re doing a PhD in anything other than the highly paid field of “computer stuff”, the opportunity costs look much, much different. When I did my PhD, I was making roughly the same money as all of my friends (none of whom were in tech)
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by parpfish 2y ago
I often think of Marr's "three levels of analysis" from cognitive neuroscience when thinking about technical communication and different audiences. there's the "computational level" (poorly-named, focused on hi
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by parpfish 2y ago
And people have different caffeine sensitivities. Im one of the people that can have an after dinner espresso late at night with no effect. In fact, too much caffeine (like a large energy drink) often has the effect of knocking me out and I
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by parpfish 2y ago
I like to differentiate between “bugs that stem from a recent code change” (easy to fix) and “bugs that suddenly appear out of nowhere” (hard to fix)
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by parpfish 2y ago
generalisms are fine as long as you don't try to turn it into a hard and fast rule. generalisms contain knowledge that generally applies , but i think it's well understood that there will always be times where it doesn't app
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by parpfish 2y ago
discussions about emotional labor/kinwork always talk quite a bit about the gender imbalance in where this labor traditionally comes from. but as a dude living with a chronically depressed spouse, i just want to take a second to tell l
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by parpfish 2y ago
the last three entries are great and need to be drilled into folks head. too much of CS training (and leet-code driven interviewing) encourages people to get clever. but reading somebody elses clever code sucks. write code that's meant
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by parpfish 2y ago
all the apocalyptic stories about Detroit’s decay after the ‘08 collapse and one thing that stuck with me was that there were serious discussion about razing entire empty neighborhoods to deal with the fact the city was a lot smaller than i
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by parpfish 2y ago
> i think a lot of value is the context of the art itself I agree. The enjoyment I get out of a good piece of art isn’t just the piece of art itself, it’s that experiencing the art is a way to kind of connect your mind with the human tha
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by parpfish 2y ago
“Small LLM” means “Small Large Language Model”
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by parpfish 2y ago
Employees start leaking when they feel like they can’t advocate for change through proper channels inside the company AND they care about the work that they’re doing. So to stop leaks, you either need to let employees drive some decisions (
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by parpfish 2y ago
so... not the Barry Diller IAC that owns all the dating apps?
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by parpfish 2y ago
Wait… you’re saying she went to urgent care and that urgent care did a cancer screening? Urgent care is great, but they usually don’t have MDs. There are nurses that can give you stitches or a course of antibiotics but a cancer diagnosis is

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