somethingsimple

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Ask HN: How can I learn to better command people's attention when speaking?
83 points by somethingsimple 2y ago|94 comments
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I don't know if it's been translated to English, but the book on which those movies are based is a great read as well.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
> If you can't stand for your values because of "social anxiety" then maybe you don't value your values that much? I’m not going to downvote you, but if you don’t suffer from social anxiety, you have absolutely no ide
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I've been considering getting a budgie for a long time. Is it ok to keep a single one? How much attention to they need every day? I'm out all day for work, but I could give it attention for hours in the evening and early morning.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Sort of tangential, but what was work/life balance like at Google for you?
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
How hard it is to access it as an adult with a career? I'm an immigrant software engineer but I'd love to work in research (I think). Is there a path other than a PhD at this point?
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I don’t disagree. But when your deadline is often tomorrow , what can you do?
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
It’s not about perception. I have to stay late because the work itself is insane. Crazy deadlines, dependency on other people/teams, that sort of thing.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Before immigrating to the US, I actually looked into Sweden. It seems nearly impossible to immigrate there :/ Everything I hear about your country sounds amazing!
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Seriously, I need names. I have daily daydreams about the “comfy, 9-5, well-paying corporate job”. Maybe it’s the Seattle area but I’ve never heard of one here. Every job ad no matter the company always has the subtle wording that indicates
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Having worked at Microsoft and being now at another big tech company, that hasn't been my experience at all. Those companies seem to be trying to mimic startup culture internally, so they promote the "entrepreneurial employee&quot
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Thanks for explaining :)
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
> You know how to tell when the economy is in the last 25% of an economic expansion? When everywhere you turn is another white collar professional under the age of 30 in the middle of an existential crisis. Can you elaborate on that? I f
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Yeah, it's something akin to the Peter Principle. Except I'm not being promoted. I'm still in the same position, except I always get assigned to do stuff I have no clue about, while there are a thousand other areas in the pro
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I’m always afraid of letting me consider I have it, because I always seem to be put in positions where I’m incompetent. It’s been a pattern in my career so far, and I don’t know how to break it. I join a new team, learn fast, do good work,
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I can relate. I work in the US by the way. I don't slack off, but I feel like there's a position as a Software Engineer past which I wouldn't want to be promoted. I see folks in the higher levels and the stuff they have to de
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I wish everything was so simple. At a past job a very technically strong coworker spent months on a problem and eventually threw the towel and handed it to me. It took me another couple months to find a reasonable solution to it. Some probl
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Been advocating this for months at my company with no success. Our standup is of the worst kind: conference call.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Sorry for not answering your question, but how do you get a job like that? I miss that stuff so much. Did it from my late teens (yep, professionally) to mid twenties, then moved to America and all my jobs here have been services related in
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
> From a religious perspective, I think our purpose should be contributing something to the world as long as we live. I agree in principle, but what motivates me to be financially independent is not having to deal with all the bullshit t
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Which implementation do you use?
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Does anyone here on HN have experience running NetBSD as their desktop OS?
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
That is correct. I’ve recently had a chat with a friend who used to be a manager, and according to him managers are very well aware that people do that. You may end up getting flagged for it.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
> awful yearly physicals I’m too curious not to ask what those encompassed.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
We have a kid and also favor urban living. If we lived in the suburbs we’d be miserable, which wouldn’t be great for our kid. So we live in the city in a “small” (by modern American standards) condo and we’re super happy with it.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
A friend of mine who lives there told me rents cannot be increased by more than the current inflation rate for years. It’s only every x years that landlords are allowed to adjust to market rates or something. Can someone from Berlin confirm
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
Wow, things have gotten really bad since I left the country. Mind if I ask in what state you live? I never had trouble finding a full time programming job in Rio Grande do Sul.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
> This will be an unpopular opinion here, but I feel we've (collectively) failed. Between ORMs and the dynamic language du jour, we have become so far removed from how computers work that most software development is a waste of elec
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
At Google an interviewer expected me to come up with topological sort on the spot. I could solve his problem conceptually (figured it was a graph, and that the solution relied on performing a topological sort on it), but no way could rememb
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I was just illustrating a point. She’s not an enthusiast at all. Software is strictly her job and she’s doesn’t care about it outside of work. It baffles me because my initial reaction to someone like that is to think they’re not good. But

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