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by qqj 6y ago
In a world of space architects and ignorant cargo cult practitioners, this post is a breath of fresh air. While some might find the style vitriolic and “toxic” it’s nothing but honesty peppered with salty experience. Having said that, the g
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by qqj 6y ago
It is an amusing example of cynical exploitation on behalf of advertising agencies, leveraging the expected controversy on social media fueled by PC culture.
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by qqj 6y ago
Assuming the majority of hn is US-based, you folks have to understand that PC culture is often seen as a joke at best and an extension of typical American hypocrisy at worst (i.e. the usual double-speak and fake politeness that covers actua
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by qqj 6y ago
Started off wonderful, went into nose dive, now picking up again. It's hard living with someone during lockdown, especially when you're used to getting "alone time". You start feeling trapped. But that's something y
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by qqj 6y ago
Why oh why do people abuse twitter to post entire blog posts. Do they also drink from plates, and shower in the sink? Write kernels in Javascript? smh
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by qqj 6y ago
i found that at least in relation to tech and software engineering, procrastination happens when you need to do mundane work, or worse - work on code you know is ultimately meaningless. another factor is stress, which is usually generated b
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by qqj 6y ago
at the previous company i worked for, we were developing several products that either no one wanted or were so bad you wouldn't use even if you could for free (i didn't even install the app thing on my phone because of how moral
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by qqj 6y ago
companies like github should remain apolitical. this is pure nonesense, merely a show of force by otherwise impotent and misguided liberals. take your outrage somewhere else.
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by qqj 6y ago
companies like github should remain apolitical. this is pure nonesense, merely a show of force by otherwise impotent and misguided liberals. take your outrage somewhere else.
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by qqj 6y ago
excellent, you've provided another great life lesson: seemingly benign but nonetheless false assumptions can have disastrous consequences. so much talent and potential has been lost to hubris. remember: don't ever rely on intellig
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by qqj 6y ago
don't. http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html do what you can to not work for anyone but yourself. even if it means reducing the scope of what you can work on and earning less. and the hardest thing of all: find people yo
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by qqj 6y ago
a rule that comes to mind is that a bunch of 8/10 scores make a 10/10 bottom line. it comes from Santa Monica Studio, developers of God of War series, where their strategy to achieving a "perfect" game is to have a minim
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by qqj 6y ago
4-5 hours of quality thinking time sounds about the right limit to me. if anything, it's impressive. I can churn out 10 hour days but about 7 hours will be mostly "operational" stuff i don't need to think deeply about.
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by qqj 6y ago
i want to counter all the sensible people offering you to save money and such while you're young. let's say you want to spend a decade building your reputation, expertise, and saving money. and lets say you have to compromise in o
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by qqj 6y ago
Seeing it like this kills all mystic notions I had regarding these tombs. And I don't mean this in a negative way, it sort of opens your eyes to what this thing actually is - a conglomeration, made by many artists and engineers, pourin
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by qqj 6y ago
It's larping.
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by qqj 6y ago
Politics. You better brush up on your social engineering, learn when to smile and when not to, and watch your back. Rationality and intelligence will not get you far on their own, because the game isn't about who's the smartest or
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by qqj 6y ago
~/notes/ folder for org-mode notes (and other text based notes) ~/notes/journal.org dumpster for my personal day-to-day. from random quotes, to bizarre thoughts i had, and even code snippets (e.g. extract all image links
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by qqj 6y ago
You agree pharmaceuticals should be administered judiciously and yet find the energy to disagree on... what exactly? Throwing around terms like "misinformation" in an attempt to discredit what amounts to essentially a common sense
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by qqj 6y ago
I qualified that statement with "most of", and if anything comments like yours promote laissez faire attitude towards pharmaceuticals, the consequences of which are disastrous - as can be seen by the opioid epidemic etc. Look, dru
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by qqj 6y ago
David Lynch truly is the most successful troll of all time, ironically achieving artistic depths through deliberate obfuscation and random ramblings. I think it says far more about people, and what they are willing to accept as profound (or
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by qqj 6y ago
I would caution against using any sort of chemicals, try to exhaust all other options first. You don't want the sort of problem where you feel unlike your own self without some substance, not to mention that most of them basically redu
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by qqj 6y ago
It used to be that everyone on the internet were a Dog, nowadays it seems like the internet became a cesspool of stagnant hyper centralized services catering to the lowest common denominator (twitter, youtube, linkedin, facebook) with moral
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by qqj 6y ago
dunno about the others but 27$ Win10 is OEM license that is locked to a single machine. Seems legit.