vanusa

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by vanusa 5y ago
If it were just 1 or 2 assholes, years apart, it would bounce off your skin. But the integral of having to deal with these assholes over the years (both in the hiring process, and when you start to actually work there) -- meanwhile having a
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The CDC is hoping you'll figure out Covid on your own(nytimes.com)
6 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
But what if you need to compose a symphony? Then the software industry isn't for you. I'm definitely not saying it doesn't require dedication and brainpower and (in the right places) formal methods. But the overall creativ
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by vanusa 5y ago
Let's just say Cupertino is in my blood. I wasn't thinking Atherton-scale window cleaning. Just to say -- if you move our of your ratbox and into the land of modest and frumpy, then this is what you should expect.
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Silicon Valley Can’t Escape Elizabeth Holmes(nytimes.com)
1 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
I think what the post is trying to say is that you should let your exception bubble up. Usually, but not always. That is, for the classic "exceptions should only be used in exceptional cases" scenario, this is usually what you
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by vanusa 5y ago
This post is full of holes and simplistic reasoning; I'll just pick one instance: Logging is a side effect Right -- inside of a pure function, logging is probably not a great idea. But in other parts of your code (that are already ge
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by vanusa 5y ago
You nailed it, friend.
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by vanusa 5y ago
Which is part of the reason why the LC process exists -- to prop up the illusion that there's some kind of objective skill measurement happening. And thereby distract us from the very central fact you have articulated.
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by vanusa 5y ago
No. I'd say it's more like a "Yes and no." But it's definitely not a binary. Your "No" characterization is partially valid. But only partially. And what's a great what to introduce mistakes and f
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by vanusa 5y ago
I'd say it's a signal for a rather mediocre kind of conscientiousness -- that is, for someone willing to put in long hours to achieve a certain goal, for sure -- but for a goal they almost certainly believe to be fundamentally poi
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by vanusa 5y ago
It is indeed, by my own subjective observation. But that doesn't mean it's the fault of the engineers - and most likely it isn't. Rather, the product people (who are also not dummies) basically realized that "dumber&quot
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by vanusa 5y ago
If everyone is different, how will you decide whom to pick? Remember those "thinking outside the box" skills we're supposed to have? This is what we need to start using them on.
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by vanusa 5y ago
But probably 95% of commercial work is styling and wiring buttons. We're in agreement that algorithms as such probably make up about 5 percent of industry work. But the other 95 percent -- and I am talking engineering work, not produ
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by vanusa 5y ago
What we do is a craft. But it's an extremely narrow slice of this "craft". Right?
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by vanusa 5y ago
It's kind of beautiful the way they paint the glorious future where every man and woman is in control of their own destiny. "When Sir Isaac Newton was asked about the continuance of the rising of South Sea stock... He answered &
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by vanusa 5y ago
Why should I care if the teenage son of a wealthy banker in Switzerland wants to blow his Dad's money speculating on NFT's? How about the sons and daughter of wealthy Arabs in the oil countries? Surely it doesn't matter if I
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by vanusa 5y ago
I've been at it intensively for a couple months and my mind simply refuses to cooperate. If anything, after having done 400+ problems I seem to be worse at them than when I started. Yup -- brain fog, paralysis and negative performanc
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by vanusa 5y ago
"The possibilities of NFTs are endless, since they can be used to log ownership of any unique asset," Alex Atallah, co-founder of OpenSea, said in an email. "We're already seeing early use-cases of NFTs being used as ev
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by vanusa 5y ago
Being poor introduces a number of problems. Among them being perpetually under (palpable, physical) stress, and pretty much always living under heavy cloud of self-doubt. And not just about why you haven't been promoted at FAANG yet
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by vanusa 5y ago
Probably not explicitly racist stuff, and perhaps not to the Gov directly. But it's a safe bet he was probably sending out lower-key versions of this kind of stuff to an ever-expanding circle of people. Until he felt, you know, "
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HB Hosted Surge of Misinformation and Insurrection Threats in Months Up to Jan 6(propublica.org)
3 points by vanusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by vanusa 5y ago
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29803073
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by vanusa 5y ago
He's probably been saying only slightly less unhinged things for years and years and years, to pretty much the same people. Yet none of the people now "outraged" every said anything about it, or acted like anything was amiss
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by vanusa 5y ago
But hey, that must have been what you moved to Cupertino for, right?
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by vanusa 5y ago
Afterwards I feel smashed with depression as I go back to my shit rental house that I’m ashamed of. It may sound like pat advice, but -- maybe you need to start looking for new friends. The kind who wouldn't think twice coming over t
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by vanusa 5y ago
My point was usability. And being (effectively) forced to join / legitimize their hive to get anything done. It's absurd how HN users in general are so dismissive of anything cryptocurrency. It's quite reasonable actually,
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by vanusa 5y ago
Great - now I'm forced to be on some blockchain somewhere to get anything done. This is progress?
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by vanusa 5y ago
Gabriele Diewald, a linguistics professor at the University of Hanover, disagrees. "The generic masculine is not a grammatical must," she says. "Claims to the contrary are deliberate attempts to continue marginalizing women
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by vanusa 5y ago
feed two birds with one scone Tone deaf doesn't begin to describe the people who come up with these not-so-voluntary, thought-crippling "guides".

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