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by wnolens 4y ago
Precisely. He likely had a revelation about himself, and writes about it with the language, "people are mostly xyz." What a joke.
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by wnolens 4y ago
> Why not build a society where everybody is building their own business, and we connect them all together? Because most people are not capable of that, or they would not want to. > Why does Google have to build their own browser? Why
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by wnolens 4y ago
> Too many of our smartest minds are working on trivial tasks I find this a bit condescending. Too many people act like entrepreneurship is something everyone has the stomach/personality/capacity for. Too many people write blog
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by wnolens 4y ago
I felt like this before. Now it feels more a matter of time. I got significantly better by observing talented colleagues and picking up their strategies, some like: Have a hypothesis and try to prove otherwise. Start cordoning off parts of
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by wnolens 4y ago
1. Inner dev loop (build, run test suites) took about an hour when it worked, and was constantly flaky. Every dev had to just suck it up and cope, while still delivering their own work. I went to the director (boss' boss' boss) an
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by wnolens 4y ago
The Giver. It was the first fictional novel I read as a kid that made me think "books are cool". So I've read it a few times out of nostalgia (it's also good!).
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by wnolens 4y ago
> At some point, you stop calculating because you can’t do everything by calculation and planning. At some point you’re not “off task,” you’re just “living your life.” Advice I need to figure out how to take.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I just now am understanding this. I usually do a leetcode per week. But now I'm straight up booking interviews. They created the game, I'm just playing it.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I'm in the same boat. Been interviewing for 3 months now. More than half of interviews are ego exercises for the interviewer. I've had a few where I could barely get to my point before the interviewer was finishing my sentences, o
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by wnolens 4y ago
You: > My parents are very family oriented and were somewhat upset when I left my home country Also you: > It's just incredible to me that someone would act against their own economic interests so blatantly It appears you didn&#x
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by wnolens 4y ago
Haha.. hard agree. But same principles apply to soft boiled, which I love. It's all too much effort though. Cook time, ice bath, and I cannot stand peeling.. just crack and cook it on a nonstick. I can be eating bacon eggs and toast be
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by wnolens 4y ago
I guess you can feel less obligated if the question hasn't been fully asked yet. Still.. the question is out there. At least when it's written out, you can know if it's a worthwhile question. Or ask some quick follow-ups that
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by wnolens 4y ago
I don't like this. You're demanding a sync interaction from someone who is probably very busy. If you have a question, just ask it. If you want to have a 5, 10, or 30 min, discussion, ask for that. I'd prefer a long form ques
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by wnolens 4y ago
Aha.. like an engineer who's never supported the product they shipped. Lotta talk. I agree in spirit with everything he wrote. Except that it's just not real life, even when I've worked for businesses FLUSH with cash to &quot
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by wnolens 4y ago
I would love to share my experience of release management at MSFT but it would out me. In the ballpark of 20ish engineers chasing build errors and test failures for a month to bump a version number (one line change).
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by wnolens 4y ago
Interesting, yeah I had one or two good moments after spending a few hours wrangling my interfaces. But the frustration left a worse impression than did the benefits. Perhaps if I was being paid to do it and had mentors around to ask for he
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by wnolens 4y ago
Any software design of any significance I've ever done has occurred while writing my half baked thoughts. I didn't even know they were half baked until I started to write it down and felt the struggle to plug all the holes. The de
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by wnolens 4y ago
I'm sorry I didn't sufficiently entertain you.
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by wnolens 4y ago
Good for you.
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by wnolens 4y ago
HN can be conversational, not always a well researched debate. Most of us are over-involved with these debates with coworkers at our day jobs, where we HAVE to spend the energy having productive disagreements. I appreciate the high quality
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by wnolens 4y ago
Thanks. It's definitely not obvious to me coming from Java/c++/python. I think I went into the deep end with some non trivial generic functions. It's been a few months, but I remember ditching interfaces for classes so I
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by wnolens 4y ago
I'm literally paid not to.
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by wnolens 4y ago
Did a personal web project and chose TypeScript to see what the rage was about. I spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to design types. At some points I couldn't figure it out, or I ran into some limitation of the language to expre
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by wnolens 4y ago
Yes, I'm also quite an emotional person. I need to laugh and complain and work closely with others who can be vulnerable. Too many 8-10h days without and I get depressed.
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by wnolens 4y ago
Thanks for the inquiry, I'd love to be convinced otherwise as it would really lower my requirements. I might not even want to leave my current gig! I think my original comment made it sound like I'm trying to have fun and get drun
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by wnolens 4y ago
It usually is, but not until you commit. I want it instead of a recruiter convo. Which is useless.
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by wnolens 4y ago
Doing a job hunt right now and im trying to assess "what's my day to day like" and it comes down to two factors: what are the people like, and what is the actual work. I want to really like the people, as I've discovered
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by wnolens 4y ago
I'm sorry. Is there anyone you don't feel like that around?
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by wnolens 4y ago
Voice messages between more than 2 people? Oh interesting. I do this with a friend in England that I met and became ultra fast friends with years ago. We traveled Asia together for 2 months. Haven't seen him in years and honestly might
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by wnolens 4y ago
> The reality of this type of art is that it’s really easy to make This is such a shallow statement. Was it difficult to hit the keys which make up your lines of code? You're too much a reductionist to appreciate this.

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