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by sotojuan 9y ago
There's an interesting dichotomy on the "women in tech" question between "SV tech" and non-SV tech. I briefly worked at a tech company making oil industry software in .NET in a Houston suburb. Not trendy, cubicles,
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by sotojuan 9y ago
My view has always been that after a day of work or school, the last thing most people want to do is engage in a deep discussion. Instead they want to scroll down funny content (I do this myself or just play video games, just in case I soun
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I think the point of the slides (and college in general) is that you don't necessarily have to stress out yourself to be an all As student with a double major to get a good job. Instead, relax a bit more and build software.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
We put a lot of emphasis on grades in high school. Makes sense - that's what colleges want. But in college, as the slides show, there are so many non-strictly-academic opportunities that a lot people miss out on because in their mind t
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by sotojuan 9y ago
This slideshow points at some key problems high achieving people face post-high school - how to stand out when everyone's as smart/hard working as you when all you know is getting good grades? I knew a lot of people who double maj
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> it's as if Google can't find good frontend engineering talent, i don't get it :/ They can. Addy Osmani, Paul Irish, the PWA people, etc. They just don't seem to employ them to actually make user-facing products
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by sotojuan 9y ago
IDK about DHH but Jason Fried, also a writer in this blog (and co-founder, I think) makes similar points about growth, startups, etc. I do agree with them that the "we must be the biggest!!!" attitude of SV/NYC startups is ha
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I like this argument a lot more than "I want more money". In my experience, programmers sadly do let their superiors walk all over them with regards to salary and work hours.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
This is what I feel when I see people complain that developer salaries have an upper limit in the mid 100s. I mean, I kinda get it, but honestly $100k is more than enough for me, let alone $150k.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
People like him may be bored of using money as a means to get girls (no need to resort to prostitution for this even). Instead, they probably get off from methods like these.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Honestly it depends on you and your group. My group doesn't care for Netflix or podcasts, but we watch a lot of YouTube channels revolving around video games. As others have said, YouTube is huge with people around ten years younger th
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by sotojuan 9y ago
appear.in has worked fine with me too.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I don't how how it affects "original" stars but the "adpocalypse"[1] + the move to "punish" infrequent uploaders[2] are sure to have interesting long-term effects. [1] https://redd.it/6cyuv
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Never liked the idea of karma myself - most people _do_ care about it (particularly in HN or reddit where low karma posts are hidden) so they will either not speak their mind or parrot some popular opinion to reap rewards. Combine that with
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> I do complicated stuff, daily. Multithreaded communications patterns. Cross platform code. Memory / performance optimizations. Etc. All syntax from plain C to C++14 plus extensions. When I have to do a basic data structure operati
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> Yet there are plenty managers, politicians, doctors, lawyers, salespeople, engineers, etc. who are over 40. If anything, these careers (aside from doctor maybe) hit their peak in their 40s or early 50s. I would say our culture thinks p
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by sotojuan 9y ago
He was great in Boardwalk Empire!
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by sotojuan 9y ago
OK, ready to get out of my bubble. How true is this? The only people I know that work more than 40 hours a week still work less than 60. This is in "office", food, and service jobs.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> Why should he "control" his hormones to begin with? Because he's in a work/professional setting. > What's so inappropriate in being confident enough to tell another person that you're attracted to them?
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by sotojuan 9y ago
There's nothing humane or real about that line. It's just a creep who can't control his hormones.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Ah got it, now I'm a bit embarrassed. I didn't even know that existed until a few weeks ago (a sign that I'm getting old?). Thanks for the clarification.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
I'm no entrepreneur, but I really don't think sites like Tumblr or Reddit (or 4chan) should be VC $$ backed startups or bought for a billion dollars. I've never seen them be able to monetize past maybe their server costs.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
OK, gonna put my internet nerd hat on. That frog has been around 2008, when a 4chan user uploaded part of a 2005 comic by Matt Furie[1]. Then it was photoshopped around to its various moods and forms and a couple of years ago hit the mainst
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Yeah same back home in Texas (Houston, not Austin). NYC and SF are different stories :-)
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by sotojuan 9y ago
A lot of our industry hires based on buzzwords. For web developers, it pays to have React experience in their resume. Doesn't matter if the app they built didn't need it at all.
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by sotojuan 9y ago
> How would you go about learning-by-doing something like particle physics or advanced chemistry without access to labs? You can't! That's what makes computer programming so special - no lab needed. Anyone wishing to learn phys
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by sotojuan 9y ago
The thing that is unique about JS is that most people see it as unnecessary and detrimental. No one cares about Joe's brilliant idea if it's used to render text (where a server-side template would've done just fine) or serve
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Correct. I'm quite happy about this - just surprised!
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Yes. It's not as bad as back in the PSOne with a CD, but compared to the SNES versions, it will feel slow. There's YouTube videos of it. If you've played it on the SNES before it's really annoying. For what it's wor
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by sotojuan 9y ago
Yeah not a problem for me. CT has a great DS port already. I was just surprised! FFVI's ports have always had a negative (worse sound quality for GBA, awful art work for iOS/Steam, horrible load times on PSOne). The only negative

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