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by watermelon59 6y ago
Your first example is about something that’s very nuanced. I have that complaint right now. I was asked to build something using technology I don’t understand well. I made that clear. I wasn’t given time to learn it, so I feel like I’m doin
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Going through that right now and the anxiety is awful. I’m glad I have a therapist.
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Ask HN: Good library for a web-based REPL?
2 points by watermelon59 6y ago|5 comments
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> I really enjoy this kind of low-level stuff, which I guess makes me an outlier, but on the other hand it's been good for my career to carve out a niche doing stuff that a lot of people don't want to do. That’s me, except I’m
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Not the person you're asking, also not an expert, just someone who enjoys lifting weights (Olympic style!) and has spent a lot of time around people whose livelihood revolves around fitness and strength sports. Rounding your back is on
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. I acknowledge they're great for you, but it's hell to do even just five of them in a set. I don't know anyone who enjoys them other than for the challenge of being able to do a ridicu
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Do you think Clipper/xBase is a niche one could get into at this point in history? Or is that market already fully taken by old timers?
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Ask HN: Good library for a web-based REPL?
2 points by watermelon59 6y ago|0 comments
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by watermelon59 6y ago
To everyone here feeling bad about their southern accents, I'm just gonna say this: as an immigrant, I LOVE those accents. I wish I could just adopt one, but that would sound fake as hell, unfortunately. So I'm putting my accent r
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Ask HN: Good library for a web-based REPL?
1 points by watermelon59 6y ago|0 comments
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I thought so too, but doesn't seem to be the case.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I wonder if this is what contributes to the instability of most software though, especially SaaS. People do just enough to get by and "get things done," which always looks great at the time it happens. And then things break, and n
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Not exactly that, but when reading Coders at Work I was surprised to learn that a lot of big names in our field use "printf debugging" and don't like actual debugging tools. Made me feel less bad about it :)
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> You will need to copy the link and paste it into a new tab, as it blocks HN refers. I love that website and didn't know about that until now. Now I love it even more.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I knew someone who was really good at their job but started being actively mediocre at work. Realized it led to less stress and he was still rewarded the same.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
You know, I actually wouldn't mind being a small cog if I could exercise the skills I consider to be my strengths. What I'm fed up with is being given task after task where I have to learn whole new technologies each time, with no
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I feel like I'm in your friend's position right now. I absolutely hate working on services. Hate having to muck around with AWS and Kubernetes. I like writing code, period (that excludes Terraform and YAML in my definition). I als
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I've never done it so I could be wrong, but what appeals to me (at least in theory) about contracting is that there's no emotional investment involved. When you're an FTE there's an expectation that you're invested
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Oh wow, it's so great to read this because it validates that I'm not crazy. I've been programming professionally for 15 years, but started as a kid too. I feel like this pivot you're talking about happened somewhere in t
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Thank you for the kind words and support :)
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Did you get tested?
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Sex work is largely illegal (at least in the US) so there won't be any sort of official data collection on it. There's no legal entity/association/etc. representing them to do that kind of work.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Yeah, it hasn't been easy. But I still count myself lucky, since a lot of people everywhere have had it much worse. Regarding work, I was a dumbass actually. I didn't share with any superior what was going on, spent months both ha
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by watermelon59 6y ago
No, haha :) See my sibling post. I've recently done some cat sitting for a neighbor who was away for a week and that was a huge boost to my mood.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
True!
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by watermelon59 6y ago
After cat sitting for a neighbor recently, I've been seriously considering adopting a pair of cats :)
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Unexpected detection of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in the prepandemic period in Italy(journals.sagepub.com)
27 points by watermelon59 6y ago|17 comments
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Well, let's see. My wife left me shortly before the pandemic started. I tried leaning on alleged friends for emotional support and they bailed on me. I don't have any family here in the US. The pandemic hit and I had to stop pract
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by watermelon59 6y ago
What is Portuguese then? Take all of that and introduce a bunch of irregularities. Ship it across the Atlantic, tack on a number of things borrowed from multiple other languages, and you've got one hell of a mess to deal with :D
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Ask HN: How can I overcome anxiety over dealing with infrastructure?
15 points by watermelon59 6y ago|4 comments

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