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by psyc 5y ago
I honestly just take it as a somewhat more extreme version of Sturgeon's Law. But because of how much money there is to be made, we not only have creators who aren't up to the task, we also have so many who are, but perverse incen
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by psyc 5y ago
No, you're not the only one. It's just generally not advisable to say so here (or worse, on Reddit) because the bucket-crabs will getcha. FWIW, I did write atrocious code when I was 16. But I'm in my 40's now.
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by psyc 5y ago
I’m trying to imagine modern medicine converging on circumcision as a best practice, in the absence of its ritual origins, and in the absence of cosmetic concerns. But I’m still convinced it’s a retcon.
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by psyc 5y ago
The vast majority of my favorite authors - ergo the ones I'm interested enough in to go looking for their opinions - have explicitly recused themselves from public interpretation.
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by psyc 5y ago
> Why should this be discarded? Well, it's a restatement of the Gambler's Fallacy, but I'll taboo using that as an argument because it begs the question (but for reals!) I thought about this for a while, and here's th
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by psyc 5y ago
HH is less likely than H (.25 vs .5), but HT is also less likely than H and by the same amount. HH and HT are equally likely. This extends to HHHHHH and HHHHHT, and so on. There’s no way to frame the gambler’s fallacy that makes it a better
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by psyc 5y ago
TL;DR: Google used to reach into the World Wide Web and deliver what I asked for, now it sells me what it has on hand in its stockroom. If I type terms that map unambiguously to a result into 1998-201x Google, I get a well-regarded exemplar
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by psyc 5y ago
Someone once advised me that I should do this when so moved. Since then I have emailed various luminaries, and I don't think I've yet failed to get a helpful response. Anything from a URL, to a sentence, to 2 paragraphs.
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by psyc 5y ago
> the problem they're gonna face is how to sustain their connection to the well of geek joy, in a trade that is systematically bent on simultaneously exploiting that connection while denying it exists and refusing any and all access
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by psyc 5y ago
I'm finding out just in the past two years that the days when you could count on Corp. Entity A in Tallahassee not knowing about a prior transaction with Corp. Entity B in Portland, are pretty much over. Everybody knows everything. Ev
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by psyc 5y ago
It took me a long time to learn that it can be very valuable to stay in the loop with PMs and planners. Once, I was tearing my hair out over a huge task, and literally on the verge of quitting in shame, having realized it was beyond my abil
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by psyc 5y ago
1. Don't have kids 2. Work at one or more MAAAMs for 10-12 years, while living on $40k/yr 3. Retire, maintain lifestyle If you somehow run out of money, just pull a Michael Jordan or a Jay-Z Variations include working 3 years on,
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by psyc 5y ago
Sorry. I couldn’t decide which of these comments to respond to and did not mean to single you out or attack anybody. Obviously I find this frustrating and I feel slightly attacked myself.
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by psyc 5y ago
Will one of you please just get to the damn point, and explain to us garbage Nazi-lovers exactly what language you'd like us to use to distinguish different levels of impairment/functioning, given that we want to discuss differe
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by psyc 5y ago
I don't think tech managers should be taking management lessons from Full Metal Jacket in any case. But I sat at a lunch table with this guy every day for 3 years, and I know he was not trying to motivate me. He was trying to keep me i
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by psyc 5y ago
https://www.howardbloom.net/howard-bloom-isolation-the-ultim... He was Gladwell before people talked about Gladwell, so expect science-y conjecture, not science.
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by psyc 5y ago
This was my reaction as well. The skip-level should not be the first person to let them know they're perceived as under-performing. OP: Schedule a 1 on 1 with your direct manager and have a conversation about all of this. My skip-level
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by psyc 5y ago
But then the real person functions like a bot because they’re following a script.
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by psyc 5y ago
Actually, the opposite. Always cold. Edit: Oops, sorry, that's not true. 2002 was network. Everything since has been cold.
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by psyc 5y ago
The last time I did more than 2 interviews during a job search was 1999.
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by psyc 5y ago
I've always had side projects, but they've made very little money. Like, less than $1500 total, I think. I have no fucking self-discipline whatsoever. None. If I'm working on something, it's because I'm so into it t
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by psyc 5y ago
https://youtu.be/T8SWmlQU1pU?t=34
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by psyc 5y ago
I drank to drunkenness most nights throughout my 20s and early 30s, and then quit entirely. I wasn't really drinking to have fun. Mostly, I was drinking because it sort of made the tedium of hanging around with "friends" in b
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by psyc 5y ago
I stopped reading at "almost succeeded". Maybe the rest of the article is good, but I'm so turned off by sophistry.
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by psyc 5y ago
I've barely paid any attention to web1, and I'm still in high demand. Thanks to mobile and XR, native code has even made a comeback. And somebody has to build all the browsers, OSes, databases, games, drivers, firmware, etc.
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by psyc 5y ago
Very similar. Reading in the bound paper manual for DOS 2.11: "BASIC is an interpreted language that allows users to create their own applications." Twelve year old me: "CREATE. THEIR. OWN. APPLICATIONS."
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by psyc 5y ago
All you need is a passion for apartment complex resident portals.
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by psyc 5y ago
Seems to me that people have become allergic to anything that seems elitist or undemocratic. The only acceptable opinion is that anyone with a minimum of privilege and hard work can do anything. I was just talking about this with my therapi
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by psyc 5y ago
Competitive with somebody. Just not with FAANG.
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by psyc 5y ago
Well, when I left in 2010 it was extremely true. Not even remotely in the ballpark. According to Levels.fyi they pay about 50% more now, but still less than any FAANG.

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