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by wnolens 4y ago
Thanks. Sounds like a ride. Glad you're able to have space to do work well-aligned with your values. I'm finding it really hard to do. Even if I wanted to make the personal sacrifice (and thus sacrifice my future children's s
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by wnolens 4y ago
> But I did them for no money And I assume you acquired the means to do that for free by.. doing the opposite for long enough to buy you freedom to do so? Or marry/born rich?
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by wnolens 4y ago
> How can I even find a part time job at this point? > Everything points in the direction of companies wanting more of my time not less. You'd have to look for smaller companies without the clout to pick up FANG engineers. They d
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by wnolens 4y ago
11 years in, took an 8mo sabbatical a few years ago but once I ran out of juice just having fun, got back into working again and hate it more than when I left. But I forced myself to take the job to get out of a depressive hole after attemp
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by wnolens 4y ago
I'm not sure what my boss does. He could be a deep-fake AI Zoom bot, only existing for our weekly 1:1 calls and I don't think anything would be different. Also the principal engineer on my team insists on well optimized solutions
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by wnolens 4y ago
Cool. I guess I was wondering if it's so good, slack could build it in a single 2 week sprint (or a third party could just build a slack app/plugin). Creating a near-clone of a well-funded product to tweak one thing is existential
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by wnolens 4y ago
> Nobody outside these structures cares Oof. Is that how you determine what is worth doing? I think it's more accurate to say that nobody cares about anyone else OUTSIDE of personal relationships. > Meanwhile some people are buil
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by wnolens 4y ago
Given the 'tour', it's slack with named threads (that can be pinned). I like that feature. But it seems a pretty small thing. What are the other things that stand out about it? other than being open source.
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by wnolens 4y ago
Zoning laws seem like the easiest single lever here. Government can change one thing and get out of the way (yes I'm naive here..) The cities of the world that don't feel like they're enveloped in a housing crisis have oppo
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by wnolens 4y ago
I did try this. "happy" is complicated for me. I'm perhaps pricing in too much of the future into this decision, but it's pretty life-constraining over the longer term so I think less about the day-to-day and more about
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by wnolens 4y ago
Easy trade-off to get scalability. Writing log off-host is fast with 10G network and nvme on the other side (see Amazon Aurora, Microsoft hyper scale, etc)
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by wnolens 4y ago
I did something similar many years ago. It is going to feel even better than you think. "Hey boss, I've decided to leave the company" "Oh.. to where?" "No where" "What are you going to do?" &quot
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by wnolens 4y ago
> Today, us second floor teachers pooled our personal money.. > If you're well-off, or even not as much, understand that your profession is (wrongly or rightly) valued more than ours It's some weird science fiction reality w
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by wnolens 4y ago
The collective trauma to kids in the USA who don't feel safe at school is heart-breaking. Trauma doesn't evaporate, it warps you. Especially at that age. The statistics of it being improbable to die at school are no salve.
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by wnolens 4y ago
I've felt very much in limbo for a few years. I'm facing some one-way doors about where I want to spend the next chapter/decade of my life. My reaction is mostly of fear. Move back to my home country where my friends and fami
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by wnolens 4y ago
> But a part of my brain says that I can't spare the 3+ hours that it takes to go to the theatre. That it would be unproductive. This kind of thing invades my decision making daily. I "blame" the high-demand for excellence
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by wnolens 4y ago
This is really interesting, but given the price discrepancy I almost find it hard to believe? lol A colonoscopy in NYC could cost me as low as $440 or up to $11k - cash price. Same providers with insurance are 1500 or 9000. For some folks i
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by wnolens 4y ago
While I was touring Zion National Park a few years ago, I spent a lot of time thinking how it all needs to be captured in both: 1. a high res VR experience for the less-able folks to experience this beautiful place, and 2. an AR glasses exp
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by wnolens 4y ago
Yep, I'm in that bunch now. I used to be intense into research and DIY. BUT now I've got more money than time. So if it comes to my door in 2 days and/or can just be returned.. I don't flinch at $50- 100 premiums.
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by wnolens 4y ago
A lot of effort is put into the customer experience, however often it's by the feature devs. So it's good once you grok it. But obtuse to start and not good across products. It really needs some love from a higher level thinker wh
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by wnolens 4y ago
> You'd need to be completely, utterly clueless to go to Logitech for a mechanical keyboard. The faintest of Google searches would lead you to established products which are both cheaper and better. Not clueless, just not someone wh
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by wnolens 4y ago
How did you value another enough to enter into marriage with them? What was that decision like?
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by wnolens 4y ago
Awesome, what a great effort. Thank you. Bookmarked to read on my next vacation!
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by wnolens 4y ago
This also describes me so accurately I'm embarrassed. The only solution I've found that isn't an impossible uphill battle against my lizard brain is... Be around people. I'm not deep in an internet rabbit hole when I&#x2
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by wnolens 4y ago
I think we have completely different brains. What you said hits me like someone telling me to "be happy" when I'm depressed. It's not a matter of rationalization. I am jealous this works for you. Life would be so much ea
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by wnolens 4y ago
The first year I spent on Reddit I thought so too. But those funny comments are often themselves memes, repeated in reply in similar contexts. Reddit has become one big circle jerk to my eyes. It's why I'm on HN, because I'm
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by wnolens 4y ago
Advice from others is mostly to serve them. You've learned a bunch of things which feel very real to you. Makes sense to live in accordance with your hard earned lessons. (Which I think any reasonable person would assess and determine
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by wnolens 4y ago
Latency and audio quality are wayyy more important than video quality. Optimizing for that would have me downgrade the video resolution being received by the 8-10 people on my calls. Also what are the folks on the receiving end actually see
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by wnolens 4y ago
Damn that is a lot, I'm sorry. I can imagine it's hard to find peace with those circumstances. My sister is experiencing these symptoms too and puts it on MS, but doctor can't confirm and in the meantime basically medical sys
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by wnolens 4y ago
Strange, I haven't used a merge tool in 2-3 years. old job: Changes staged locally for 2-3 weeks sometimes. Team-specific branches, integrating into the mainline periodically.. eventually moved to several hundred devs committing to m

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