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by syndacks 4y ago
Hi, any interest in working with someone on this to help the parts that stressed you out?
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by syndacks 4y ago
This is why San Francisco sucks.
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by syndacks 4y ago
Why not simply execute the criminals?
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by syndacks 4y ago
Talk to your manager and find alignment on what the team needs and how you might fit that. If your manager sees/acknowledges what you do and is in favor of you mentoring more — and you want that — figure it out, put it in writing, etc.
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by syndacks 4y ago
Me me me me. Virtue signal, virtue signal, virtue signal. I don't understand these pieces ... like, quit your job. I don't give a shit that you make a lot of money at a bank and you aren't fulfilled, what did you think was go
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Tell HN: LinkedIn is giving out my phone number without consent (?)
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by syndacks 4y ago
So…you’re a rich kid?
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by syndacks 4y ago
I spent several years writing a book. It hasn’t been published or anything, but creating something from nothing and having it be 100% mine is an accomplishment no other compares to.
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by syndacks 4y ago
What's so hard about selling tickets? Is it a technical challenge? A sales challenge? An operational challenge? I'm having a hard time understanding how selling tickets to a concert is so hard.
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by syndacks 4y ago
Don't forget Zlib!
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by syndacks 4y ago
What is a “gift link”?
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by syndacks 4y ago
Most missions: - get to some location (after a cut scene dialogue) - do the task (with some unique element ie kill the character who was fucking someone’s wife) - return to the original location
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by syndacks 4y ago
Hi Ahmed, I want to read your piece, but your opening sentence needs some work: >Us denizens of the Internet have become familiar with concepts that were foreign more than a decade ago, one of the most that causes the most influence is g
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by syndacks 4y ago
Infinite Jest reads like See Spot Run compared to Gravity’s Rainbow.
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by syndacks 4y ago
People have rights because they are citizens*.
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by syndacks 4y ago
Figure out something useful you can do that other devs do today that isn’t strictly the hard tech ie pulling data and analyzing it. Next time this is asked of your team, say “I’ll do it” even if it requires you to ping the dev who usually d
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by syndacks 4y ago
Hey, I appreciate you asking this question. I identify with some of this minus the rejection by women (I’m married) — but if I replace it with something else, I think my advice to myself would be: what’s worse, staying at the local minimum
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by syndacks 4y ago
“I don’t drink, thanks. I just do hard drugs.”
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by syndacks 4y ago
I rode from CA to NYC and wrote a book about it. The writing was much harder than the riding! If anyone wants to read it lmk how to contact you and I’ll send it.
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by syndacks 4y ago
Because a lot of people on HN are unable to process sarcasm, social nuance, and many other forms of non mathematical type thinking.
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by syndacks 4y ago
Cool, thanks. Any Master’s or one in CS?
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by syndacks 4y ago
Yea, the existential dread is real. I don’t understand all the people who are like, “just rest and vest, do side projects, etc” I can’t do that, it makes me feel like a worthless human faking my way through life. Extrapolating on this threa
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by syndacks 4y ago
Any tips on how to find gigs teaching web development to students?
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by syndacks 4y ago
Is the LSD story real?
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by syndacks 4y ago
I tried reading this, and all I could hear was “me, me, me, me”.
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by syndacks 4y ago
I'm convinced there are some savant-level writers out there who have written the worlds greatest novels, and we will never get to read them. I'm thinking of the person who is so enlightened that they feel no need to share it (for
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by syndacks 4y ago
Bean counters trying to drive product and in turn, engineering.
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by syndacks 4y ago
A lot of drivel here from old Knuth “Be original” “Happiness is not constant” “Find solutions to problems” “Humanize the thing to figure it out” Am I missing something here with ole Knuth?
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by syndacks 4y ago
I lost all respect for him when he seriously posited that life is a simulation.
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by syndacks 4y ago
>That’s a problem for Wired to solve. Yea, they solve it with a paywall that results in X% conversion.

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