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by somethingsimple 8y ago
On HN, etc: 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.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
About #3s - read this comment I just posted about my wife: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17060366 I didn’t mentioned it there but the only reason she got into Software Engineering is because it pays well.
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
That’s my wife (and she actually works at one of the big tech companies). Try and talk to her about tech and you won’t get much out of it. At home she watches Netflix and does her nails. No HN, Reddit or anything. No conferences. Tell her s
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
> There are plenty of boring corporate jobs where you can put in your 40 hours a week and go home. Where does one find those? And how well do they pay? I’ve been at points in my career where I felt overwhelmed by the need to learn a new
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by somethingsimple 8y ago
I resisted buying for years, but last year my wife convinced me we should buy a condo and I don’t regret it. We bought a unit with the same square footage as the place we rented, in a better location, and mortgage + property taxes + insuran
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Which doesn’t make sense to me. How can you lose something if you don’t have anything?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Do you work in IT like most people on HN? I though most tech companies were flexible about work hours.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
What extension is that?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I would be willing to bet that that couple lives in an RV because they want to, not because they need to. It’s the kind of thing my wife and I might have done if we didn’t have a kid.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Bus commute from Shoreline is 1h each way. Manageable but quite far. Tacoma is really freaking far though. I’d be in a world of misery if I had to commute from there every day.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
One of the few things I miss about Brazil is how much more protection I had there as a worker compared to the US.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Agreed. In my team I am known for being extremely meticulous about this, and some people don’t like it. If I see one or two typos or spacing issues, I understand that’s an honest mistake. But if I see typos, spacing issues, bad indentation,
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Software is the currency that we pay to solve problems, which is our actual goal. We should endeavor to build as little software as possible to solve our problems. Amazingly well put. I’m gonna try and not forget this so I quote it whe
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Did you have issues with Kafka? Curious to hear because I’m about to try and start using it for something at work.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Never heard of it, but I have a weird one too: my left ear pops when I crack my upper back.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
What do they do to their employees?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Forget it if you ever have a kid. I used to do the exact same as you, but realized it was impossible to keep it up after having a kid. Unless you’re willing to wash your hands literally every five minutes.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
For me the joy has been fading over the years. I was super excited about it as a kid learning BASIC, and C later in high school. College was exciting but the frustration started there. I’m frustrated most of the time working in the industry
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Agreed. I think the data structures part of an interview doesn’t require a whiteboard coding puzzle. If someone knows what a graph is and can describe a well-known graph algorithm like Dijkstra’s or topological sort, that’s more than enough
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I understand what you're saying and I generally agree that algorithmic/coding interviews are broken. But you know what? Sometimes you need the fancy stuff. I once stumbled upon a problem at work that, after some thinking, I realiz
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Yes. Overly positive comments can have a negative effect as well, if not accompanied by the reassurance that it's ok not to be good at everything/screw up sometimes. Also, a positive comment for consolation purposes ("but you
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Don't tell a kid she's bad at math, tell her she's good at math and you're surprised she doesn't get good grades I think one must be careful with this. I'd use that approach if my kid got a single bad grad
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> This thought is usually followed by a small voice which sheepishly admits "So that's why they said that to me!" It’s amazing how a lot of my childhood memories started making sense after I had a kid.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I don’t think tough love makes children lose respect for their parents. Anecdotal, but my parents were pretty strict when it came to discipline and habits, and weren’t really warm people, and I have tons of respect for them. Children lose r
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> my role as parent is not necessarily to be liked I wish more people understood/accepted this.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Nice! What usb dongle are you using for Wi-Fi, if you don't mind me asking?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
How much of a hassle was it to set it up? Are all peripherals working?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Yet, I’m on a MBA3,2 (late 2010) and it’s great. Still running Yosemite. It’s got 4gb ram but handles running 10 JVMs with modest heaps for development no problem. Stable and runs for months without issue. I’d love more RAM and more co
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I interviewed at the Google Kirkland office a while back, and I doubt any of that applies in my case. It was the coldest interview experience ever in my life. All but one of my interviewers were either aggressive, dismissive, or seemed to h
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Port Townsend? :)

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