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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Left a job that was sucking my soul dry. It was at one of the big tech companies, in a high-visibility, very popular project (lots of people here on HN follow it), but I just couldn't stand working there anymore, in part because of the
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> There is a myth of exceptionalism in America that prevents it from looking outward, and learning from the world In my experience, this is not exclusive to America. It seems to be a feature of very large and diverse countries. I’m an im
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Getting abducted on the way to school isn't. I’m not so sure about that. I live in an affluent part of WA where there’s close to zero crime. A couple times a year we get emails from the school district with descriptions of cars an
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
It seems that the Seattle public school district gives out public transit cards to kids in middle and high school, depending on circumstances and school bus availability. I’m not sure how the system works, but I’m about to find out since I’
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Do you mind sharing in what state you live? I wonder if there’s a cultural difference between the West Coast and other parts of the country when it comes to calling CPS on people. We live in WA and our 9 year old daughter walks back from th
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Pretty much this. A personal anecdote: a few months ago we realized our daughter was waking up very tired in the morning, so we figured she wasn't getting enough sleep. When we told her that bedtime was moving earlier, her initial reac
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Thanks!
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> There have been less than 50k CS pHd's conferred in all human history and less than 500k master degrees. Do you have a source for those figures?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Seattle should look to a city like Vienna +1 on this. The Vienna transit system is so fantastic that I was able to get around the entire city without even speaking German. I remember one day I was riding the U-Bahn with a local friend
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> many waiting areas have no cover -- so you'll stand in the rain waiting for a late bus. This is something I don't get about the Seattle area. It's like people here are in complete denial about the fact that it rains for
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
QBASIC Visual Basic Delphi Pascal C I don't remember the order of everything that came afterward :)
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Sounds like you were asked a ridiculous interview question.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Oh, sorry. Yeah, I've heard about it. I don't like using services like Mint or Personal Capital because they indeed run into connectivity issues sometimes. I find it not to hard to keep track of things using a simple spreadsheet.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Not really, but I haven't updated the package version in a while. What is Mint (I assume you're not referring to the Linux distro)?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I used Nightmare ( https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare ) to automate logging into my 401(k) provider's website and fetching my current balance (no public tickers for the funds). It uploads that number somewhere a
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
If this happened because of a single person's mistake, that's an organization flaw. No individual should be punished for this. Instead, the process (or lack thereof) that led to such an awful bug being shipped should be identified
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> The software stack running on it is second to none. Can you elaborate on that? I thought ChromeOS was just a stripped down Linux with just enough to run Chrome and whatever other Google stuff they have on it.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I was in a very similar situation until recently (in fact, I wonder if we're co-workers :P). I decided to interview at a few places, and one of those made me a great offer for a position with more responsibility than I currently have,
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
> Her: But restaurant B has X. Classic. I sort of hate that kind of statement, because it doesn't state what the person wants to do. Are you saying that because you want to go to B, or because you want me to consider going to B? It&
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
My first industry job back in my home country (I live in America now). The company did outsourcing work for a large multinational technology company, and for me it struck the perfect balance between having to be too emotionally involved wit
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Do you have a source for that?
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Further down: "One can only imagine the zilch level of concern for a compound like chloroprene by President Trump, who had at his side when he signed an executive order in February stipulating the roll-back of government regulations th
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
I'm sorry but I don't buy it. The problem is that a lot of people think like that, so they don't do anything. It's sort of self-fulfilling. It's like people who say that their individual choices won't help figh
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Every piece of data lives somewhere in memory. A pointer is a piece of data containing the address of another piece of data. int a = 42; // puts the number 42 somewhere in memory int* p = &a; // gives you the address
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
call/cc. I understand what it is and what it does, but I don't understand how it's actually used in a practical way (all I've ever seen are synthetic/too abstract examples).
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
If you implement your own awaiter with INotifyCompletion [1], you get the continuation as an Action that you can invoke as you will. TBH I haven't done it, but I believe you could use that to implement something akin to call/cc. [
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
Of course. Both my wife and I have taken our kid to our respective offices and it was fine. She just sat there drawing and playing on her tablet. This was when she was 6-7 years old. Not all kids are brats.
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by somethingsimple 9y ago
At Amazon they are like a religion. I don't know if every group is like that, but someone very close to me works there and they tell me those leadership principles are a part of daily work and are explicitly mentioned in day-to-day act
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by somethingsimple 10y ago
> So now you can take my money if I keep it in cash and travel with it What do you mean by that? Just curious.

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