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by topkai22 5y ago
I read the deck not the videos, but their is a section on “nice” versus "kind" slice that is the complete opposite of your straw man. Direct feedback about your work that covers both the good and the bad is considered kind and enc
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by topkai22 5y ago
YouTube is amazing for the sort of tacit knowledge the author is talking about, as well as things that actually transfer pretty well in well written manuals, like auto repair. I use YouTube to find tacit information on household/auto r
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by topkai22 5y ago
Are you able to do the homework (without aids) but not the test? You might have some form of diagnosable learning disability. If you get that diagnosed and then take it to a college's office of disability support services (or whatever
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by topkai22 5y ago
My wife’s business has a number of self taught engineers. As management (everyone management started as an engineer), they have full faith in these people and love them. However, it causes them no end of pain that they never got their degre
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by topkai22 5y ago
Work, like college, provides directed activity and identity to bond over. Just having shared space isn't the same. Finding/developing institutions that provide that and aren't work is difficult and will take time
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by topkai22 5y ago
Even if you aren’t looking for a job it can be useful to control your public profile as you meet interact with new people. As I work across groups, I definitely see people who I’m meeting for the first time check out my LinkedIn profile. It
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by topkai22 5y ago
"90s" programmer only by the skin of my teeth, but I didn't the internet centralizing. It just seemed like every company and person would have their site (and possibly domain) and they'd use that to communicate in their
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by topkai22 5y ago
This article is talking about electronics and integrated digital-mechanical systems, but right now there is also a big financial premium on ownership in real estate as well. Not sure if these are linked, but I wonder if long term low inflat
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by topkai22 5y ago
First off, it sucks to feel trapped and anxious. I’m sorry. Your story sounds somewhat common on HN- lack of formal education credential, degree of isolation socially, and emotional/mental health problems. Do you have a mentor/coa
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by topkai22 5y ago
Yup! Not everyone will jump at it, but most will. I let some connections lapse for 10 years and then reached out. Ended up with some great conversations, good advice, and two job leads (from the hiring managers themselves.)
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by topkai22 5y ago
I agree that pay stability is new, but that doesn’t mean they were in a contracting relationship. For most of recorded history, most people were engaged in some form of subsistence food production. Many were enslaved. Generally speaking, ne
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by topkai22 5y ago
While the article is overly combative and goes off the rails at times I’m glad to see it on the front page of HN. Remote work changes the nature of first line/ middle management and the many of the players that were well suited to the
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by topkai22 5y ago
I’ve been doing fully remote teams for years and one thing that took about 2 years to get used to is how to utilize meetings differently than in person. Some of the biggest disadvantages of remote work is that it is harder to “just grab som
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There is a well established principle that retailers bear some responsibility for what they sell. I doubt Home Depot would get away without liability if they sold a dryer that caught on fire and burned down a house if it was found they had
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It's actually the spotifization of pop music- spotify pays per song not per minute, so artists are incentivized to make shorter songs.
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by topkai22 5y ago
This article reminds me that A) Most philosophy writings sounds like the ramblings of cranks B) There is still a lot of value in thinking about them. I think that this article is missing a few insights that I value. One is that I’ve come
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by topkai22 5y ago
Some states in the US have variations on this type of law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filial_responsibility_laws
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Their are authors I generally enjoy that sometimes write terrible pieces. They just tend to do it less often.
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Oh the Ballmer peak definitely exists for POCs, school work and side projects. A couple beers in and then you lose the fear of doing something stupid and start cranking out code. Not sure about producfion code though, the values are diff
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by topkai22 5y ago
That’s not the entire truth. At some point marginal cost versus other options comes into play, especially if I’m in a business with generally fixed rates for work (like outsourcing/contracting.) The OP should negotiate up (especially i
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by topkai22 5y ago
So I saw a UFO a few years back (2017)- it was a circular object that stayed largely stationary. My in laws saw it to, so I wasn’t imagining it. Obviously I took a picture, but it was so small and far away that the photo is just a white dot
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by topkai22 5y ago
Yup they even stated this statistic but miss its significance: > the number of software developers aged 55 to 64 years increased from 87,000 (8.3%) in 2011 to 195,000 (10.7%) in 2019 in the USA. The number of older software developers
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by topkai22 5y ago
I did this for years. During the pandemic it became a 1 room schoolhouse. Seems like a viable solution for most people in a SFH or even many townhomes. Only thing I might do differently in the future is get an RV instead of fixed buiding, b
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by topkai22 5y ago
Following up late nights working by expecting people to attend an after-work event is not a benefit to the worker. As others have said, having a big team lunch and then sending them home is a benefit.
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I’m not a Dave Ramsey fan and I’m only passingly familiar with his work, but as I understand it his core tenant is that debt is bad, period. Understandable for a guy who went through a very bad personal bankruptcy. That being said, I don’t
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My problem has always been that Apple is both the gatekeeper and a competitor in its app store. I'd have a lot more trust in Apple as a consumer if they didn't offer up first party products such as Apple TV and Apple Arcade. It ma
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by topkai22 5y ago
While I agree real estate transactions are ripe for innovation, the problem is that real estate law and title can be complicated, with legal encumbrances on a property and title that are not digitized in any way. Some (such as traditional r
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> Education is inaccessible Full-time undergraduate tution at University of Washington is $11,745 for residents. Washington State University's online program is $10616/year for residents (and only slightly more for non-resident
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I know Intel already has plants down there as do a few other semi conductor companies. That means a ready workforce. I’d guess AZ also throws tax incentives their way as well, but that’s just conjecture.
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Also with the legal precedent from the Supreme Court that telecom metadata IS not protected by the 4th amendment? It is NOT clear from the article that what is doing is legally unconstitutional, as much as I might personally disagree with t

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