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by thunkle 3y ago
You've been reading Guns, Germs, and Steel?
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by thunkle 3y ago
The animals there evolved with humans.
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by thunkle 3y ago
404
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by thunkle 3y ago
Why are uncle Bob and clean code bad solutions?
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by thunkle 3y ago
Learn about the concept of diffusion as explained in ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy) best taught by the book: A Liberated Mind by Steven C Hayes. Basically following a set of practices to distance your thoughts from yourself so you
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by thunkle 3y ago
I type Dvorak all day at work, and Qwerty everywhere else, my brain can switch freely between the two no problem. I have no idea why this is possible, but it is.
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by thunkle 4y ago
Is this like chatGPT?
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by thunkle 4y ago
After 15 years of engineering... I'm still insecure. So are most engineers. I wouldn't tell someone to stop being insecure. I'd let them know it's totally normal to feel insecure.
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by thunkle 4y ago
This analogous to the "grim reaper paradox"
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by thunkle 4y ago
How do they know the galaxies are connected?
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Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off)
290 points by thunkle 4y ago|318 comments
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by thunkle 4y ago
Yes
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by thunkle 4y ago
I just got laid off from Stripe on Thursday. Our team was up to it's neck with work that needed to be done. Other teams as well we're in disparate need of more engineers. They didn't do layoffs because they had excess employe
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Ask HN: Laid off from Stripe. How do you prep for tech interviewing?
5 points by thunkle 4y ago|1 comments
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by thunkle 4y ago
Ya'll are hyper focusing on the nights and weekends. That was my personal decision, not part of the culture.
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by thunkle 4y ago
I work for Stripe and got laid off this morning. Sucks because my manager was only told this morning, and didn't have a chance to talk about how well I was doing or take any part in the decision making. We'll at least I'll ge
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by thunkle 4y ago
I'm currently interested in roguelike game development, but I probably couldn't justify that as helping my current job.
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by thunkle 4y ago
Anything in particular?
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by thunkle 4y ago
We actually already have access to O'Reilly learning, but I can't say I take advantage of it. How would you approach learning via O'Reilly Learning?
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by thunkle 4y ago
I'd prefer not to travel. I've been to a few conferences, and haven't gotten as much out of them as I'd imagined I would.
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Ask HN: How should I spend my companies $500 education budget?
10 points by thunkle 4y ago|17 comments
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by thunkle 4y ago
You can tell it's old because it is some derivative of "java".
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by thunkle 4y ago
Ha. Did you make your name for this comment?
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by thunkle 4y ago
After playing brogue for a couple of years, I'm really intrigued by rogue like development. I haven't started yet, but something seems more approachable about having a bunch of ascii characters as the gui.
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A new browser with note taking and whiteboarding(arc.net)
2 points by thunkle 4y ago|0 comments
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by thunkle 4y ago
I realized this one evening driving under the stary sky. I had a full-blown panic attack. It's been 15 years and I still have trouble driving under the sky. I guess I'm basically agoraphobic, but after some googling it's prob
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by thunkle 4y ago
I really like the idea, but the effort required to boot up a server is holding me back.
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by thunkle 4y ago
Maybe this is helpful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_belief
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by thunkle 4y ago
Hannibal and me. I love the way it combines selfhelp/strategy with history. It uses Hannibal, Scipio, and Flavius as kind of architypes on how we can act at different points in our life, etc... It's fasinating.
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by thunkle 4y ago
I've always had a sensitivity.

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