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by rzazueta 4y ago
3. The willingness to egregiously exploit others for personal gain. You touch on this a bit with the privilege answer, but the truth is those who come from privilege often see themselves as "above" others. And they encourage this
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Been going through something similar. I still enjoy technology, though my passions have cooled into what I think of as "useful technologies" as opposed to "toy technologies" (basically - is it useful, or is it just enter
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by rzazueta 4y ago
My beard's not even grey yet, c'mon!
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I feel like that's part of the point of the Fediverse, though - it;s not a centralized social media platform like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. - it;s really for creating interconnected communities that are mostly self-supporting a
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I also used to enjoy coming into the office. That shifted, though, when the company I was working for got bought out twice by two major companies. When it was just the folks from the original startup - we'd grown to about 190 people by
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Agreed - all of the things said below, plus: depression; less activity due to cars, sitting at desks all day, and other non-active activities; the absolute contant confusion about what foods are healthy and aren't; the complete confusi
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Same boat. I've spent a lot of time learning about permaculture, soil science, etc. I found "Teaming with Microbes" by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis to be right at the level I needed - not so deeply into the weeds that it;s
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I'm not a smoker, but know many, many people who are legitimately addicted to tobacco. What is it about the content of this book that made such a change in you? I'd love to hear about your experience - it sounds like an extraordin
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by rzazueta 4y ago
> 1. Some substances that are detrimental to human health need to be controlled. I'd rather the law be more around information than control. If one believes in the idea of freedom and liberty in the US, then one should support a mod
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Depends on how you ask the question. "Is it fair to incarcerate individuals for their preference of intoxicant in a free and liberal democracy?" "Should drug users and other junkies be taken off the streets to keep them safe
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Or creates and reinforces those class lines.
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by rzazueta 4y ago
My town in the Bay Area has always been considered one of the more "affordable" options (which is why we live here). The estimated cost of living to do more than just survive here is roughly estimated to be about $96,000/yr.
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by rzazueta 4y ago
We rely too much on money as a determining factor for things. Money does not accurately reflect value, nor does it accurate reflect contributions made to society. So, in that vain, I agree with another poster who said this should all be fre
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by rzazueta 4y ago
There's an old saying in journalism - "If it bleeds, it leads." There are positive news sites out there - Upworthy being one notable example - but they don;t seem to do as well as fear based journalism. The core of the issue
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Not a loss, per se, but if you were told you were receiving $200k in compensation as RSUs, and they drop in value to $50k, you could argue that's a $150k loss. It's absolutely a loss when you factor that in as compensation for the
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I consider myself a "consultant", which is just a fancy way of saying "freelancer" in many ways (I do more consulting that actual producing of code, though). I usually rely on the company;s PMs - in my role, I'm hel
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by rzazueta 4y ago
A lot of the "inflation" is straight up corporate profiteering at this point. How else do you explain the record profits many companies experienced during and after the pandemic before the threat of rate hikes? The answer to the w
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by rzazueta 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ Edit: Sorry, that was probably not polite. But I've been here before too many times. IO Docs, RAML, Blueprint... I guess the question is - why should I adopt this if I'm already committe
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I agree with the poster above this one - 2020 and now are basically one big event, but I still mark 2020 because it was the point when I finally decided enough was enough with this hiring BS these companies put us through. You spend weeks i
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by rzazueta 4y ago
You need to spend a lot of time thinking about your product and who actually wants to pay for it. Who are your ideal customers? What are their challenges? How does your product solve those challenges? How high a priority are those challenge
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by rzazueta 4y ago
If you were looking for a job at the time, it absolutely did. It recovered in 2021, but I was very far along - at the stage where they were ready to make an offer - with at least two major companies and a handful of small ones, and had the
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by rzazueta 4y ago
This will be at least the fourth such downturn I have seen in my career: - the 2000 Dotcom Bust - the 2008 recession - the 2020 pandemic recession - Now The short answer is that no one really knows what will happen. A lot of companies are r
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I have experienced this feeling at numerous low points throughout my career. It took me more than 20 years to figure it out - hopefully I can help you get there sooner. Let's take work and debt and money and all that out of the equatio
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by rzazueta 5y ago
I'm with you. I was unemployed through most of 2020, due partially to the corruption at the highest levels of a company I was working for in 2019 (you've heard of them) and then due to the response many companies had during the in
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by rzazueta 5y ago
I feel like I just gave the marketing side of the answer... completely forgetting the advocate side. Sorry. On the advocate end, as a developer, you already know how your peers work, what frustrates them what delights them, etc. Expand your
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by rzazueta 5y ago
Work on your communication abilities. As I said above, start a blog and start writing about the things you find interesting in tech. Write tutorials, commentary, introductions to new things, etc. within your topics of focus. For public spea
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by rzazueta 5y ago
I work as a full time consultant helping companies build their developer experiences and put together solid developer-focused strategies while also helping them transform their infrastructure to support a platform-focused development approa
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NARWHL – A Practical API Design Framework(narwhl.com)
2 points by rzazueta 12y ago|0 comments
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Help heart failure patients and hack for $40,000 in prizes this weekend in SF(novartis-mhealth-challenge-sf.eventbrite.com)
3 points by rzazueta 13y ago|1 comments
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by rzazueta 13y ago
This is fantastic advice. I appreciate it. We were looking into setting up some kind of proximity location and communicating that way but, in 24 hours, settled on what we knew. Long term, though, this is a good idea. Thanks!

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