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by trilinearnz 5y ago
For me, a week off work combined with the following: 1. Seeing my GP and going back on antidepressant medication (burnout may be a symptom of an underlying condition). 2. Taking up the offer of set of six free counselling sessions offered
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
The anxiety about constantly reporting non-progress triggered my episode as well. For me, I had offered to help a colleague with a task that turned out to be much more overwhelming than I had originally anticipated (12 hours of reviewing le
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
You may take some solace in this older article by Joel Spolsky, who speaks of the same issue: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ On a personal note, this exact thing happened to m
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Ask HN: Good reference books on Azure?
3 points by trilinearnz 5y ago|3 comments
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this, in all sincerity.
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Ah that makes sense. A quick Google establishes that USB 2.0 only came along in 2000 (G4 Powermac first introduced '99), hence why you'd still rely on traditional expansion means for peripherals. I guess that also helps explains w
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Ask HN: Why did PowerMac G3 and G4s have 64-bit PCI slots?
4 points by trilinearnz 5y ago|3 comments
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
My 2cents: 1. Tight software/hardware integration (MS have this also). 2. Premium segment positioning in the market, motivating differentiation on quality. 3. Apple brand overall is strongly identified with providing a quality user exp
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Something I ignored for a long time was relaxation and adequate sleep. I also have a tendency to obsessively deep-dive into rumination and rationalisation about my career path, which was keeping me up nights. I would come to conclusions off
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Ah that's useful to know that it was conventional up until then, thanks. It was my first exposure, personally :)
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Clever and logical. It reminds me of when John Carmack used a precomputed table of Sine values for fast lookup in Quake, rather than running the actual function on the CPU.
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
That workshop does miss out on acknowledging the "because I want to" aspect which is driven by passion / high interest. Although in that case it still sets a bad example, and I would say also perpetuates a single point of dep
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
We have a similar situation at my work, but we have all since standardised on using Miro individually on our laptops (even for the people in the physical meeting room). It's just easier, everyone has the same amount of control over wha
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
There's an old(ish) tool by the name of NoteLiner, no longer maintained. If you can find a copy which isn't too buggy (3.3 is the best), I've never found a better outlining tool for methodically breaking down a task or concep
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Very interesting ideas here. A similar one that has stuck with me is my notion of "personalisation" in a game. The idea is that your experience with the game is a combination of two things: a) the game itself and what it chooses t
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Pragmatic Programmer (importance of plain text) and How to Solve it (set of logical steps to get to grips with an otherwise overwhelming problem / situation). Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns was the book that made me fall in
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
I also got the feeling there was some role justification going on here, with the level of detail employed (and what seems at first glance to be relatively arbitrary levels of skill differentiation). It reminded me a little of the SFIA Frame
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Whilst I applaud this effort in transparency, I can't help feeling like there is a lot of weirdly specific prescriptive expectations and jargon in place here, with questionable practicality. I wonder if a looser, more broadly-defined s
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
> This in and of itself makes me want to quit, because it's disingenuous to say that I'm one of the most valuable engineers, then talk about firing and rehiring me when I want to take this leave. I agree that this is a red flag
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Friend, I feel for you. I was in a similar high-pressure environment several years ago, and it manifested in what was almost a serious accident on my commute. As a result, I sought help via counselling and medication. This brought the anxie
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
This is a wonderful contribution to the software development community, in the vein of Why's Poignant Guide and Land of Lisp. I fully support such combinations of artistry, whimsy and technology - true to the core hacker spirit.
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
A delightful read. Certainly my most elative moments have come from personal projects, mostly games. Something I struggle with is gaining traction on subsequent projects when my burnout is at it's worst, as it's obviously a mental
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Truly heartwarming. Hope in humanity is returned!
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Same with me and my wife. Getting two Tiles was a life-saver, and good for the relationship ;)
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Can vouch for the monochromatic UI, a friend put me onto this. More details here: https://betterhumans.pub/how-to-make-your-iphone-black-and-w... Have also had good experience with deleting apps, which forces you to login t
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
My first thought was "Yeah, but I bet it's not really printed, just transported printed prefabs to the site". Nope, it's actually printed on-site! Second thought is that the interior looks very Star Trek / Star Wars
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Cheers for the clarification :)
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Learning a bit about this in my MBA classes. Cost + Margin = Selling Price. Apple have the capacity to be more of a cost leader now, since they are not subject to the same bargaining power forces of CPU suppliers. As a result, they have the
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by trilinearnz 5y ago
Another good example is the events leading up to the Challenger disaster (from the notion of 'Groupthink', which is related to Psychological Safety): https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2020/10/07/how-g
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by trilinearnz 6y ago
This was a big issue when the likes of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom came out (in fact, one of id's own staff members would regularly have to lie down on the floor to catch his bearings after a burst of play). I think it's just a case o

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