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by sotix 2y ago
It reminds me of accounting systems. Asset accounts are 1000. Liability accounts are 2000. Stockholders' Equity are 3000. Revenue are 4000. Expenses are 5000. Then the second digit differentiates which specific category of account it i
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by sotix 2y ago
> Josh Saltzman, owner of the DC sports bar Ivy and Coney. Ten years ago, Saltzman charged $3 for fries; now it's $6 – and Saltzman's margins have declined. Saltzman has a limited number of suppliers, and they all get their pot
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by sotix 2y ago
I really want a modern BlackBerry where I can make phone calls, send messages, check emails, use maps, use NFC payments, and occasionally play brick breaker. I don’t need the entire internet in my pocket. I can sit down at a computer when I
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by sotix 2y ago
She also had a screen on every wall to watch content everywhere she looked. Fahrenheit 451 was prescient even if it was reacting to the times.
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by sotix 2y ago
I wish we could return to a Wii U like functionality where the switch could be used as a second screen when undocked. That was a really nice feature in games like Zelda where the controller in your hands displayed the inventory or a map.
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I'd be interested in reading more literature (e.g. from Carver) if you have any links!
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Oh your comment is so clever because now I’ve gone to correct you that it’s actually Cunningham's Law.
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Yeah I thought the t-shirt move was ridiculous, but it's genuinely a very high-quality shirt. I'd like all my company shirts to be made by them. It's still a bizarre unrelated business decision, but at least they nailed it. A
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by sotix 2y ago
One of the more intense things I pulled off was greatly reducing my calories when I made my career switch into software engineering. I saved up enough money (and sold my car) to take a year off from work to study computer science full time.
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Many of these suggestions are ridiculous. I think either eliminate the three pointer or allow goaltending on three pointers. Gregg Popovich was right in pointing out that it was a gimmick introduced by the ABA and makes the game worse. Ever
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by sotix 2y ago
I’m approaching a year of unemployment, although I took a deliberate four month break. Don’t have a CS degree but am a CPA. Have been primarily targeting accounting and fintech companies, but I’m getting passed up for software engineers wit
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by sotix 2y ago
I was laid off in January and have been having a hell of time getting hired again, so I did a batch at Recurse Center (RC)[0]. It was a truly great time where I got to hack away at all sorts of ideas alongside people much more capable than
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It certainly stinks as a software engineer laid off in January who has struggled to find work. The hiring bar is too high at every company. They’re actively looking for reasons to eliminate you rather than reasons to pass you. That mindset
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A standardized test is considerably more standardized than a leetcode interview though. Not to mention you take it once and then provide the scores to everyone. My process with taking the cpa exam a single time was a much better experience
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> How else do you find out about new stuff, or recommendations, or things you never considered before? Personally, I chat with friends over a beer and talk about new things. More often than not, my friends have great recommendations on t
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by sotix 2y ago
Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Metaphor: ReFantazio seem to go against this.
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I’m a general backend dev. I’ve used python, rust, and TypeScript to varying degrees along with SQL and noSQL databases. I’m pretty comfortable learning new stacks I haven’t used before.
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A Basic Introduction to Accounting[0]. [0]: https://www.winstoncooke.com/blog/a-basic-introduction-to-ac...
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by sotix 2y ago
I’m a software engineer and a CPA, so I’ve got the domain knowledge. However, I’m not sure how to find a gig where I can apply that. It seems everywhere I look vastly prefers someone with twice my experience as a software engineer and zero
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by sotix 2y ago
> Many people are perfectly happy to enjoy a story in a video game which isn't driven by the technical, interactive bits. The entire JRPG genre is like this, for example, as are visual novels. This wasn’t always the case for JRPGs[0
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by sotix 2y ago
Ghost jobs are certainly problematic, but I’ve been getting actual interviews where the technical bar feels too high. There’s extraordinarily little trust in previous job experience and interviews assess for test taking anxiety rather than
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by sotix 2y ago
I switched to an iPad plus cellular Apple Watch, and I’m finding it more convenient than a straight up dumb phone. Biggest downside is no ride share apps work on it, but otherwise it has everything I need.
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That’s great! There’s an even more polished version of my game made by someone else on the catalog called Core Fault.
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by sotix 2y ago
Under $1000: A Playdate[0] for $200! It got me to finally make a game[1], which is the entire reason I got into programming yet kept putting off. The restrictions of actual hardware with a slow processor, 1 bit graphics, and 16MB of RAM for
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It was a difficult problem, and I was genuinely interested in the solution. So I searched online after the interview and found that leetcode called it a hard problem.
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It’s hard to extrapolate to the whole market, but I can provide my personal experience. I was laid off, and my unemployment benefits have stopped, so finding a job is a bit more desperate for me than it has been in the past. Now I’m dealing
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This sort of makes me sick as a software engineer with licensed code on GitHub. Am I understanding correctly that they have trained data on my code despite my license? Do I receive monetary payment from the deal? Or have I misunderstood thi
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by sotix 2y ago
Getting ready to release a big Halloween update for my survival-horror game for the Playdate, Plight of the Wizard[0]. I just added a spell that targets the closest enemy, which was a fun challenge to implement. Performance optimizations fo
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by sotix 2y ago
Everywhere I’ve been interviewing at recently has told me upfront that they expect a 50-60 hour workweek with a few outright stating they work half the day on Sunday. I’d love a four-day workweek, but right now I’m just hoping for a five-da
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> I see an ocean of startups doing things like ‘AI accounting systems’ that scare me a little. I’m a CPA and software engineer currently interviewing around for dev positions, and most of the people I’ve encountered running these compani

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