seankimdesign

10 ms·

1.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
In case it wasn't absolutely clear to you, I'm in full agreement with you on how ridiculous the decision to suspend the gifted program is. Speaking of racism in the U.S., however, nothing you say will change the dozens of firsthan
2.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Did you miss that part of the article or have you intentionally excluded the presence of Asian students in your reply because it makes your argument stick better? I don't think it meets the definition of segregation when a subset of mu
3.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Another day, another Asian gets the raw end of the stick. "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" they said. "Reach out and grab that American dream" they also said. So many of us listened and found a tiny slice of success
4.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Is your ultimate goal to break into the tech industry? If so, I'd spend a bit more time getting some actual working pieces of code on your GitHub. Editing documentation is a noble deed, but as an interviewer it wouldn't do much fo
5.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I've been dealing with a similar condition for a while. I've learned that it's impossible for me to "not think". Any attempts at emptying my head will only invite more anxieties and problems to be solved. Instead, I
6.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Can you please elaborate on bad actors absuing the appeals process? Is your point about how everyone will automatically appeal, making it difficult for genuine queries to receive the human attention they need? Or is there another vector of
7.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I wouldn't jump to that conclusion so fast. It depends on what you're looking for in your career. I too have made a similar move from UX designer -> Junior engineer a few years back. The paycut hurt at the beginning and it took
8.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Right, and given HN's policy towards preserving the original title when you can, it's especially puzzling as to why the title was edited to introduce this shade of negativity.
9.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I love this story. I can intensely relate as I too have made the pivot from being a UX professional to software engineering a few years back. Sure I hadn't achieved anything close to being the director of design for a known tech firm;
10.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
> Google has already decided to cancel Stadia I believe you were going for hyperbole, but it reads more like misinformation instead. Please reconsider saying misleading shit like this, especially on HN.
11.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I found My old gmail account placed under a flagged status one day. It would not allow me to purchase anything on the play store. Turns out, it was because I used an old Google service called Google Checkout(?) or something more than a deca
12.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I'd argue that if anything, people who have difficulties paying bills and buying groceries have even less capacity to perform daily online searches for COVID deaths.
13.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Believing that the virus is real means considering the possibility that the virus might be fake (manufacfured, overblown, non-existent, etc) and then discarding them based on critical thinking. I don't have to believe the US government
14.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Maybe. But even in gaming circles, people often cite "Google may discontinue it" as one of the main reasons for avoiding Stadia, which is a Google gaming service. I believe their reputation goes well beyond the HN tech circle.
15.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Here's a quote from Robert Redfield, the director of CDC. > We are not defenseless against COVID-19. Cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we have to slow and stop the spread of the virus -- particularly when use
16.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I think she still uses it when there's no alternative. I don't know much about it myself, but from what she tells me it's a fine service for when she needs to go to the library on a lazy day, but meeting a friend or having to
17.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Kudos on that moral victory California. You robbed my mobility-impaired younger sister of her legs without providing any alternative. Fuck your sorry excuse of public transit filled with gawkers and requiring her to wonder whether there wil
18.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
You mean the same taxi-service market that Uber has been notably unprofitable and bleeding investor cash for years in? But smaller and more niche? With more legal hurdles regarding accessibility and mobility requirements? Operating with onl
19.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I guess that's one theory: Uber, purely by existing, somehow managed to significantly reduce the number of secure employment opportunities available in the US and lured happily employed people onto a life that's inches away from h
20.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
What a tasteless and tortured analogy. I'm sure the slaves hated being freed as much as my brother will be when they tell him that he needs to drive X minimum hours a week to keep his employment status with Uber/Lyft. More realist
21.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Let's replace the term "billionaires" with "rational actors" then
22.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
That's exactly my point. Almost nobody, when debating under mutual good will and faith, would have much to disagree with any of the topics I've touched on. These are sensible, human-centered talking points that have somehow become
23.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Thank God for people like PG who are brave and wise enough to be able to craft such beautiful and timely essays. McCarthyism may be fashionable again, but we'll endure unscathed as long as writings such as these continue to be written.
24.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I doubt a high percentage includes outright bigots and morons. The way I see it, it's opinions such as disagreement with ACAB movement, viewing looters as fundamentally doing more harm then good, and other sensitive topics such as affi
25.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
Care to elaborate? I get that gun control is indeed an issue worthy of its own debate, but how do you go from discussing police brutality to legally armed civilians being the root of evil?
26.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I do think that software engineering is setting a very good example of knowledge sharing and helping others grow their skillset. However, we definitely aren't alone in this effort. For example, I've been learning woodworking exclu
27.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
I think I read something a while back from the point-of-view of a Google recruiter or someone that described their reasoning for this. The reality is that most companies are okay with the possibility of rejecting a good engineer who has all
28.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
That's more of a failure for the ux and product vision than it is a failure of project management. The trick isn't to just roll out new changes slowly, but to involve the users and figure out what needs to change and how.
29.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
No, the lesson is take a hard look at yourself before casting stones at "others". We can sit here and say that people who work at Google are so amoral, so are those at Twitter, at Apple, at Uber, at Microsoft, at Amazon, etc. The
30.
by seankimdesign 6y ago
No, your conclusion is flawed. If the goal is solely to fix the economic divide, why are we even bothering with race as its proxy? It's a terrible indicator for that purpose, especially when much clearer-cut numeric factors exist such

More ›