theparanoid

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by theparanoid 9y ago
Step 1, for success, is moving away from the Bay Area.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Show incompetence in the testers and get them fired.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Remote contracting is place to be for that guy, now.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Code is a liability. A light bulb went off when I first heard that.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Specialize. It doesn't have to be an esoteric domain. Something like Go server apps or Docker is enough.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
She still is from the snide comments about her ex.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
The increase in medical costs is mostly not because of physicians, https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/do-doctors-sal...
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by theparanoid 9y ago
SSE2 introduced integer instructions.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Hello Big Brother.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I had the same experience with their code hosting products (CodeCommit). It was better to just setup an EC2 instance and manage it myself.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
When applying for consulting gigs people have looked (sometimes closely) at my Open Source patches/commits. Recruiters never ever look at patches/commits. They might read the bottom of a resume's first page.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Where I'm at that's about $1000/month plus health insurance. Minimum wage is $1700/month.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I freelance part-time and actually enjoy life. It's not difficult, with remote work, to make Silicon Valley wages and pay cheap housing.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Recent studies indicate genetic load is the leading cause of cognitive disorders. For schizophrenia it's about 50% genetic defects (including de nova mutations) and 50% environment.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I programmed on a TI-89 calculator, so it's possible. But not for passing classes.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I free solo'ed small stuff, mostly 5.6/5.7. It's a rush, the desire will always be there.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
No
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I have never regretted leaving a job. The only regrets are not leaving sooner.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
It's easy to ignore red flags. We're rationalization engines.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Not sure why annabellish's comment is dead. It's not wrong. One of the Darknet markets raised their min product price to $3 because of the transaction fee problem.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I wish more companies offered less than 40hrs/wk. But, hey, most places don't like even giving vacation. I'd rather commit seppuku than go back to a 40hr office.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
Seems they had a pretty good idea of the field. 90% of the time is spent staring at a computer screen.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
The interviews for the big five (Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, FB) are disguised iq tests. It's like taking the SATs to get into college.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
I think you went to a bad school. Good CS programs go into the math behind cryptography (e.g. the prof. invented the crypto algorithm). Processor architecture, caches etc. I saw the quality difference in the two schools I attended. One had
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by theparanoid 9y ago
It'd be a plus if they sell specialty beans. The similar UCD Meat Lab has excellent meat (in my opinion).
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by theparanoid 9y ago
For one coffee plants take half a decade to produce.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
"There are roughly 800 coffee farms in the Hawaiian Islands producing as much as nine million pounds of unroasted beans a year; California produces only hundreds of pounds." California coffee production would have to increase by
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by theparanoid 9y ago
People really are concerned about /jobs/. Most of the US is exactly zero percent richer than 20 years ago. Wages are stagnate. Nobody knows a solution.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
People upvote persuasive writing. Which matters, to me, as a writer.
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by theparanoid 9y ago
If you want to get ahead, write persuasively. Cialdini's book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" is good for technique.

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