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by timeagain 3y ago
Can’t be bothered to watch the whole video at work so I apologize if this is in TFV. If you can’t find one technically minded person who believes enough in your vision to drop everything and help you make it, that is not a good sign for you
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This is a little bit more true in the world of online reviews by random strangers. But if you find a reviewer that you “know well” they can be a godsend. You know their quirks, you know what you liked and they didn’t, etc. then a new review
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by timeagain 3y ago
If you sincerely want to connect, then any attempt will not feel forced, even if it is out of your usual social repertoire. If they see you putting in work, it will show. After all the only way we can grow to accept more kinds of people is
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by timeagain 3y ago
Counterpoint: living alone isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A good roommate is as hard to find as a romantic partner, but living with people you like is one of the greatest joys of life.
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by timeagain 3y ago
For those not in on the joke, here’s the April fools RFC it refers to [1] “Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)” [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2324
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by timeagain 3y ago
On the other hand, sometimes you just have to do what feels right. I quit tech to work in a cafe, and you could definitely paint my story as failing to make it in tech. But from my perspective I was just tired of burning out pouring my hear
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by timeagain 3y ago
At a deeper level, that site presupposes that quantitative data is a good way to interpret the world. (I don’t disagree, mostly!) Of course some things are easier to turn into numbers than others.
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by timeagain 3y ago
I understand the need for such a thing, but the wild amount of indirection that is needed in microservices world is astounding. Hmm, that request didn’t make it through! I wonder if it was dropped by the database, the business logic, the sp
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by timeagain 3y ago
It’s easy to have a labor utopia when the vast majority of the rest of the developed world is far behind. But just like with the recent rate hike you see what was actually a solid business model once the free money dries up.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Let’s see how that software is in 2050. That’s what is stopping me from getting a new car—my current car is a 2001 Pontiac and I think I reasonably have a few years left with it before my maintenance bills eclipse a car payment. What are th
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by timeagain 3y ago
Well you’re just a battery and you don’t seem to mind!
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by timeagain 3y ago
Somehow I find it harder to imagine what it “would be like” to be even simpler creatures. As a crab I can kind of imagine having more legs and probably having a great sense of smell. I can imagine the excitement and urgency of spawning. How
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by timeagain 3y ago
There is in the sense that there are robust black lists you can put in your `/etc/hosts` file, but that only blocks known senders of advertisements. But how can your OS know that this `div` is an ad and that one is content? Since
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by timeagain 3y ago
My favorite Daniel Dennett quote: “People don’t build ships, the ocean builds ships.”
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+1. You would give an interior designer “creative license” to redecorate your living room. The opposite of creative license is micromanagement.
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by timeagain 3y ago
> Writers overuse commas. What is it about writing that drives people to write lists of imperatives for writing? As writers we all start somewhere that is some distance away from our taste. As we progress we learn what little tricks we n
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by timeagain 3y ago
The D in ADHD is “disorder”, which normally means you can’t function socially, at work, and/or take care of yourself. Normally I don’t consider scatterbrained knowledge workers in the top 5% of the income distribution to be in that cat
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The reality on the ground for a doctor is that they don’t always have time to do fancy microscope/lab testing. Skin sore looks infected? Antibiotics. If there’s a 30% likelihood it is a bacterial infection and a .0000000001% chance tha
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by timeagain 3y ago
I guess this is the logical continuation of Citizens United. We should be able to put corps in the psych ward!
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In my experience poor people are way friendlier than rich people and more likely to strike up a conversation. It is in fact the well-off who have the privilege of not getting along with their fellow humans—they can just pay them to do stuff
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I love Taos writing and I love a good mental model for abstract math, but he somehow seemed to make inequalities more complicated for me. I think based on talks with others that I have a great ability to imagine 2d and 3d spaces. Did this e
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by timeagain 3y ago
Founder: I have figured out a way to automate the interpersonal interaction out of another core human experience! VC: Well that woman was mean to me at Starbucks once… here’s $1B
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by timeagain 3y ago
I was going to write these points but in reverse. I’m an outgoing engineer in Seattle and I find myself to be a bit of a lightning rod for “just hear my app idea out” types. Invariably every bar-top pitch I hear breaks down on just the poin
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by timeagain 3y ago
No link?
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Anecdotally most of my friends are now quick to attribute their (mostly benign) behaviors to various mental health shortcomings. This is new, the same people ten years ago were not doing this. My narrative (based entirely on hunches) is tha
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by timeagain 3y ago
Often those closest to the problem are most apt to describe it. Lots of people become disillusioned with their work.
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by timeagain 3y ago
Subjective it must be, if my boss talked like that it would give me flashbacks to entitled customers I had working in food service. Edit: to expand, the “I need” language has an implicit imperative. Since it is implicit, the listener/e
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> Western classical music is one of the human race's greatest achievements No other art style in any medium has as many people with this kind of entitlement. Most working artists have to make things people actually like, but classic
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As one myself, all the time. When it’s busy obviously not, but there is lots of downtime. The reality of the situation though is that if OP were to run a shop he would be very busy with logistics, hiring, keeping up with market changes, coo
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I’m sure they bring this mentality to work and make it miserable for everyone else too

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