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by quercus 6y ago
I am a workaholic who also loves his mother and has tormented himself with guilt for not calling her enough. Now 42, I've sort of come to terms with that guilt and realized there's a reason I keep mom at a distance. Talking to her
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by quercus 6y ago
This sort of thing is why I stopped open sourcing my work (I had several successful open source projects a decade ago). I realized that it was the responsibility of an open source maintainer to put the community first, but I was only intere
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by quercus 7y ago
A friend is an MD at a large Bay Area hospital. He actually quit his job over this situation, just didn't feel safe going to work. I can't imagine being put in that position by an employer.
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by quercus 7y ago
Don't fix it, own it. It's human to think the world revolves around you because in your life it does. Try to change and you'll wind up like all these fake people whose words project humility but whose actions show they only c
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by quercus 7y ago
There we go, the condescending attitude towards sports.
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by quercus 7y ago
Exactly. It's totally subjective. My speculation is that the personality type that is drawn to moderating a public forum like this is low on the kind of self-awareness that could distinguish personal bias from the written rules of the
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by quercus 7y ago
I noticed it too and it definitely took my respect for this community down a notch. There is an unfortunate air of condescension towards "sportsball" in the tech world. Pity, there was an interesting discussion to be had about the