waylandsmithers

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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I recently watched the movie 9 To 5 where Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton rebel against their boss at work, and ultimately fix the workplace by allowing people to job-share, where sets of two people each work half a day, and by op
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> elective dictatorship where the Prime Minister of the day effectively exercises all the powers of the sovereign, without any real accountability or separation of powers (As an American) this is a more pessimistic view of how it appears
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
My problem with the car analogy though is that there is no "car developer" who can buy a 2002 Lexus and make it new again. In my hometown the "working class bargain" doesn't exist because those 50s and 60s homes are
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
My thoughts exactly... I'm not sure if you can call it a reddit for podcasts if there's no logged out view
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Well it definitely makes me feel less bad about the bitcoins I lost back when the price was around $100 :)
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> People saw the meteoric rise of Bitcoin and got a serious case of FOMO. Something about the chance of life changing returns in intoxicating. Personally I'd be thrilled with a 20% annual return in "normal" investments, bu
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Not an economist but majored in economics for undergrad, including macro, international, and public economics. I think it's great for people to learn about macro but I don't think you're going to get what you are looking for
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
My observation from my brief time of being a spectator in that world was the second tier or lower first tier players would train specifically to beat the strategies of the top players. I think the game generally is too hard to be all-around
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I've had some interesting experiences with exit interviews but generally agree with the canned politically friendly response strategy, "I'm just moving on; need to make the best decision for me and my family" etc. If you
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Not that long ago conference or regular phone calls with no video at all were the norm and we seemed to get along fine
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I think you are describing is what the radical candor crowd would call “ruinous empathy”, ie lying to avoid hurting their feelings. There is a difference though between a conversation among friends and a founder seeking advice from a mentor
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
In my experience most paywalls are bypassed with Reader mode in Safari or Firefox.
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Ask HN: What should I look for in a Windows PC for my parents?
5 points by waylandsmithers 5y ago|9 comments
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I had the pleasure of being forced to use in SSE due to working with a proxy that didn't support websockets. Personally I think it's a great solution for longer running tasks like "Export your data to CSV" when the clien
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
> But Tim got it immediately—he liked the quirkiness of the animals, thought it would help to make the books stand out from other publishers’ offerings—and it just felt right. Definitely preferred to the weird down blouse portraits on th
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Would you mind going into your experiences with Toptal more? I’ve been curious about them but it’s hard to tell whether it’s any different from the other freelance sites.
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
> “Screen-Free Week,” for example — which invites participants to put down “entertainment screens” for seven days in May — was formerly called “TV Turnoff Week,” and was initially championed by an organization called TV-Free America. I h
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
In my most recent job search: 1) Acting surprised I wasn't going to do the coding exercise in Java, when Java wasn't on my resume 2) Not believing that JavaScript doesn't have some of the string functions that Java has 3) Gho
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
My side project tries to address this! by replacing the habit with a real book. It's a little half baked but personally I've read 20 books this year, which is the most I've ever read as an adult. Won't self promote beyon
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I've done it with 4 people on a team where occasionally there would be one blocking story before anything else could move forward, so we'd all just jump on zoom. I was never the one in control. It was really hard to keep focused,
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Yes to LinkedIn, but also reach out to people you know. If you've been with the same company for nearly 10 years there must be a number of people you worked with who have moved on to other companies that you could consider applying to.
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I think recruiters are great, as long as they actually work at the company they are hiring for. My policy has always been to respond to their linkedin messages saying thanks for reaching out but i'm not interested right now. One of tho
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Wow. Maybe I'll actually try this. I've wanted to subscribe at various points but knew it would be basically impossible to cancel so never bothered
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
I wasn't a dev when I used it but I remember OS 9 being very very crappy most of the time and OSX feeling like a massive leap forward
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
This would support the theory that Facebook can listen to you and serve ads on things you talk about even if you haven't given it microphone access right? I'd assume they have enough data to be able to translate vibration patterns
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Maybe I'm just old or out of it? I've never used WhatsApp and don't see why I would need any chat apps other than just normal texting on my iPhone.
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
Here's something tangentially related: how much information would you disclose about other companies you're interviewing with? Personally having just gone through a job search, I wanted to be transparent and when asked did tell co
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Ask HN: Have you ever tried to teach someone how to program? How did it go?
3 points by waylandsmithers 5y ago|1 comments
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
This is definitely one of the downsides- but also possible that Google for example gets bored of one of its products and shuts it down, or acquires a product just to shut it down. Personally I think one of the upsides is that the semi-solo
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by waylandsmithers 5y ago
On point 3: > I likely don't even know what "working" means in the context of your app. I think both sides can do more to reach into the domain of the other. I get it- we don't want to deal with blinking lights and th

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