watermelon59

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by watermelon59 6y ago
To me it's the fact that it's an alright language to build stuff in, but the tooling is hard to beat. The fact that you can "go <command>" so many things so easily (build, run, test, etc.) beats almost every langua
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by watermelon59 6y ago
But it’s full of little games. And a lot of people date for fun, not necessarily because they’re looking for someone to marry.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Yeah, that's true. But there's a difference between typical dating and being upfront about what you want. Usually people look for "the spark" and all that when dating.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Whoa, that's really cool. I had no idea. Thanks for this!
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I would love it if that became more of a thing - arranged marriages organized by first parties. Personally I don't need the flirting and dating and romance and all that stuff. What I need is someone who shares my values and is willing
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted for pretty much having your priorities in life clear.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I think that approach is great in theory, but in my personal experience I have never been able to put it in practice. Not caring much about the business and "just doing work" is predicated upon being given the tools you need and c
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I'm exactly the same as you, but I just don't see how I could get a job doing the low-level stuff that really "clicks" with me. I'm 15 years into my career and it feels like it's impossible to make such a chang
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I would LOVE to work in that capacity. Didn't know it was possible. I thought everyone working in academia was either a professor or a PhD candidate, or students working as TAs and RAs. How does one go about finding that kind of job?
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by watermelon59 6y ago
How do you get a job in academia without going through a soul-shattering PhD program though? All my college friends who took an academic path are miserable.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> That or they use something but clearly don't understand the thing they are using. You know, I feel like this has bled into backend development too. And it's not entirely the fault of engineers... or so I like to think, to exc
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by watermelon59 6y ago
That's my experience too. Recently had to deal with some Slack bot written in js at work, and my coworkers had to deal with me ranting about that crap for a whole afternoon. The way I put it was, this code was written in the most compl
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> When a heterosexual couple divorce, the wife typically takes a big hit financially and the husband typically takes a big hit emotionally and socially. I had no idea it was that common. Always thought the husband took a big financial hi
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> There were several factors to account for that scenario including fragility of the software product, fragility of the work requirements, challenge communicating tasks, and so forth. This definitely plays into why I'm feeling overw
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Sorry, this isn't helpful at all, and I feel the need to address it. > I have zero interest in anyone who changes jobs regularly. I've been on this job for several years. I don't change jobs frequently. > Grow up, focus
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Ask HN: I need help finding a job that fits my current mental situation
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Ask HN: What is a good source to master Gradle?
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> including weekends I sometimes tout that even freaking Brazil has federally-mandated vacation time, and then I have to remind myself that it's kinda idiotic and includes weekends and any overlapping holidays (which is meaningless
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> In the first few months of Nubank, I asked everybody to be here by 8:00 a.m. every day. > One of my co-founders eventually came to me and encouraged me to rethink the policy. I realized I’d been hiring all these great people and the
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by watermelon59 10y ago
> Have some exposure to outside of the US markets. This is the part that kills my ability to "set it and forget it". So many things bother me about this. I know I have to do it (because Japan), but how much and on what marke
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by watermelon59 10y ago
Tangential, but why do people support Erdogan? From what I hear he's a terrible leader and moving towards a full dictatorship.
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by watermelon59 11y ago
Critics of index investing always overlook the fact that there are many different indexes out there. The criticism always hypothesizes that everyone will put their money in an S&P 500 or a total stock market fund, while the reality is t
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by watermelon59 11y ago
I live in the US and there's no close (as in commute distance) consulate to where I live. I have the option to justify my absence from voting. Edit: it's actually pretty neat BTW. My state offers and online system and I can get do