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by pksebben 4y ago
well, it won't be. Matter of fact, I haven't made a perfect thing yet! Loads upon loads of failures, though. I get prouder of them every time. The way I try to look at it is that it's all practice. Every scrap of code I write
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by pksebben 4y ago
> In general, wealthy people make up a small proportion of the population and tend (though not always) towards greater intelligence, or at least education, than the average What makes you think this?
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by pksebben 4y ago
It's a different beast, for sure. My primary role is the resident Ansible/terraform guy. There's overlap but it's less about knowing the best algorithms and more about being able to piece together a broad swath of dispar
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think what they meant by asymmetric warfare is that it's already not a supply issue; that's just not where the bottleneck is. The whole reason it's called asymmetric is that you're not going blow -for-blow, so you have
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by pksebben 4y ago
mmmm. ah dunno bout that. I'll take pax Europa a lot quicker.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Yeah, it's weird, but the more I think about it the more I realize that if it weren't for the social skills I built at the bar, I likely wouldn't have made the friends I did who gave me the support I needed along the way. The
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by pksebben 4y ago
You know, I hadn't even considered that. I appreciate that perspective. Thank you.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Thanks! Didn't think of myself that way but feels good to hear it
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by pksebben 4y ago
to add to this; do your job hunting Monday-Wednesday between noon and 5. That's when you'll catch the manager with the time to talk to you.
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by pksebben 4y ago
Buy the bar. No joke, this is how you turn bartending into a career. I have friends that did it from bartender -> manager -> owner, all at the same dive. Oh, and you want it to be a dive bar. Or craft beer. Food is a pain in the ass,
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by pksebben 4y ago
> (minimum wage) to £300 / day. It was utterly life changing. so much this. I read other folks around here talking about how low the pay is at a startup and just think how it's all relative. I'm not buying Porsches or anyt
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by pksebben 4y ago
Yup, there's really something to the jack of all trades thing in the ops world, isn't there? it just feels natural to wake up every day with a totally different class of problem than yesterday.
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by pksebben 4y ago
That's so cool. It's stories like yours that kept me going when I started to question my sanity.
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by pksebben 4y ago
that same problem has gently corralled me into mostly working on projects that are useful to me. Some lisp to make my editor do better things here, a mnemonic keychord database there. It can really help to motivate when you have a deep and
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by pksebben 4y ago
What sort of startled me about my experience was that the connections were important, but not in the way I had always assumed they would be. I had this model of cronyism in my head, where you make the right friend and you get a job because
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by pksebben 4y ago
that "underachiever" thing .. I've begun to see how woefully inadequate our systems for learning are for leveraging the potential in some folks, like me, and I imagine yourself. Because I'm not dumb. I'd bet you are
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by pksebben 4y ago
what I meant by that was, I had a friend who was hitting Rock bottom and I had him stay with me for a bit while I coached him to learn to code. he's continuing the journey on his own recognizance at the moment. Will it work out? only t
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by pksebben 4y ago
remote. it was during quarantine, so everyone was remote.
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by pksebben 4y ago
they went remote for COVID and afaik they still do remote. was all remote last I checked but it may be hybrid
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by pksebben 4y ago
Man, I can feel it from here. I had that same feeling when I was in the service - moral hazard is real, y'all. at the risk of sounding like a plug, there were a bunch of folks at recurse who were in your position and specifically went
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by pksebben 4y ago
Apply for a batch! There's a bunch of folks there who specialize. There's a running cryptopals group IIRC
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'll reach out when I'm back at a keyboard
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by pksebben 4y ago
I deal with imposter syndrome by asking tons of questions and being totally up front about what I don't know - it helps that I have a sense of pride for what I know I can do - I'm a better lateral mover than most and that's h
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by pksebben 4y ago
I always thought computers were super cool, but tbh I don't think I really knew enough to have that passion until I learned what code really was . Maybe I was lucky that it fit into my interests, or maybe I sniffed out what was under
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by pksebben 4y ago
OP here; I remembered that I had asked a relevant question on HN before. For those figuring stuff out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24325548
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by pksebben 4y ago
It is amazing. My batch was a mixed bag of incredible insights from brilliant people and awkward social dancing over zoom. I worked really hard because I felt like I kind of owed it to the others in my batch to give it my all, and that
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by pksebben 4y ago
Holy crap, three of us so far! Maybe there's more to restaraunteuring than I give it credit for...
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by pksebben 4y ago
Sort of. I get my fill of what bartending gave me by attending social gatherings, mostly. I don't miss the hours, and I don't miss having to deal with the more inebriated patrons. Also, it's a thing you can always just sort
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by pksebben 4y ago
People skills. I can hold a conversation about a topic I know nothing about without bullshitting - it's all about asking the right questions to get the other party talking about something that fascinates them. Also, and I don't t
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by pksebben 4y ago
Honestly, get good at doing a quick sub-rosa google to find a drink recipe when you don't know it, practice making a few until you figure out that most drinks are variations on like, three, and the rest is being personable. You could b

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