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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
Location: Phoenix, AZ Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes? No covid, please. Technologies: Generalist, non-dev Résumé/CV: Upon request Email: psmithsf@gmail.com Going to finish a contract early as a SRE supporting co
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
i'd guess you're like most programmers. we start doing it, get better, and then stop getting better. and that's it. if i had to do it again and actually get better? man, tough. i would guess by 'better' we actually
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
Telsa, Gates Foundation, etc. Ugh. Please stop 'helping' us. My general guess is that anything actually worthwhile will have little to no private funding behind it. Global heating. Racism. Soil extinction. Fascism. Disenfranchisem
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
Damn Sending money thru gmail was the best way to send money.
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Ask HN: Does your company Zoom or nah?
1 points by psmithsfhn 6y ago|2 comments
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
i was hoping for something at least semi-interesting. not so much. airtable, with a google aesthetic. eh. i feel like Anvil is on the right, almost perfect, track -- except for their choice of Python over Javascript. They chose self.Python
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
qualifier: i don't know anything about anything. that said, here is my _expert_ advice: * no, you do not need to prepare. if you have a heartbeat and a tiny bit of common sense, you can do this role extremely well. and most other roles
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
It sounds like burnout Which seems kind of boring But nonetheless I got out of it a couple times by being unemployed for months Found new jobs and realized after the first couple of days that Even though the "don't care" stil
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
This was written by a robot The language and thoughts are jumbled and nonsensical Prob a ML experiment
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
I worked at an AR startup that got rid of their very smart and charismatic CEO eventually. Guess what happened?
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
to start, i would see if you can switch to 30 hours/week. so, you stay full time, keep the bennies, take the 25% pay cut, done. if you can actually get there, that alone would be a huge win. if you're not too worried about losing
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
Has anyone besides me tried the "I will work for less than the other guy!" routine? Never worked for me Never even thunk about working for me I actually think salaries for people should follow the bell curve In part to help olds l
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
I got a job after 18 months of looking I'm doing some bullshit specialty software i hate but that I happen to know pretty well The lesson there, to me, is think about specializing. Why? Because...why not? Outside of that My advice to o
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
I think it's pretty common, as a developer, to be told, effectively, "Get back in the corner and do what you were hired to do -- not think -- just code -- leave the grown-up things to the grown-ups." This is just an extension
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
Vitamin D as a supplement might be useless -- best to get your daily sun instead (probably): https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
I won't pay you, but I'm guessing somebody would. I guess you would have to establish credibility. e.g. If someone wants to be a great actor, but you have no acting experience. I guess you could play the matchmaker role. I know th
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
Being mostly stuck inside, having no outside relationships (har), for the next three years while Trump tries to kill us all off with covid.
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by psmithsfhn 6y ago
I will check this one out (the Hoover one), but I'm skeptical. I could see, in theory, reading or listening to some conservative stuff, but it just never seems to be honest. Or...lacks basic human decency. Is outright racist. etc. I do