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by wnolens 5y ago
Great short read and book recc. I find myself often trying to articulate this idea (sometimes to myself, often to a friend) - starting with the map and building a territory from it --> generally bad. While reading this article I wasn&#x2
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by wnolens 5y ago
Same, 8.5-9 is the thing. I did a sleep study and technically have very mild sleep apnea (<5 apnea events per night).
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by wnolens 5y ago
The same has happened to me. It's been almost every 1-2 years for the past 10 that I experience another great loss. Most recently was my mother. That one was/still is tough.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I'd love to have a reading list well-managed and with minimal friction to add and track (without buying yet). I use both 1. Amazon shopping list, and 2. a custom chrome extension -to- airtable action. The second lets me track who recom
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by wnolens 5y ago
Gotta add Refika to the list. She's way more natural and earnest than most of these bros. Weissman is insufferable.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Cool, styling is slick. A good friend of mine has pretty much everything you built, but as an elaborate excel sheet (he's quite the wizard). I for one don't care to track individual transactions. I'm building something simila
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by wnolens 5y ago
As a c++/java guy, my side project is in typescript (as it was meant to be a web app). I.. don't love it. I often am using the ! operater to say "yes, I'm sure there will be an object here" in an array and having to
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by wnolens 5y ago
Wouldn't that be nice.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I haven't yet. But it would be to live among the people I love the most.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I'm a bit of a pessimist here. Finding open minded people has been very difficult. I've got a set, they are my oldest and best friends, spread across the continent now. What is your reading list and hours per week spent? If you ar
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by wnolens 5y ago
In r/Canada every day there is a similar post (though usually from mainstream news outlets) about how housing is broken. And every day it gets several hundred replies. The despair is real. Very depressing as my family is in Canada and
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by wnolens 5y ago
But you're not truly informed, at best you know the opinions of others. Or more typically, you're informed as to what media outlet publishes to get eyeballs for advertising revenue. Your conversations with others are only more int
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by wnolens 5y ago
They hire. I interviewed for a role once, they were looking for C++ expertise.
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by wnolens 5y ago
> Move somewhere.. let me translate.. "Quit your job and leave behind everyone you love"
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by wnolens 5y ago
I think he's implying that it means those houses are underpriced, to be snapped up at 100k over asking so easily. By comparison, a GTA home with a sale price of 1.5M regularly sells for 1.5-1.6. But last year it would have only cost 1.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I really enjoyed adjusting the different knobs in 'Modify' mode to achieve something that 'felt' good to me. I don't know anything about color (as represented by computers or otherwise) but it was fun. I also love t
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by wnolens 5y ago
I, too, fantasize about leaving IT and just working behind a bar. But just like in engineering, every path has its own set of trade-offs. And part of the pay trade-off is that while I can live comfortably on smaller pay, I can earn my finan
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by wnolens 5y ago
Wish I read this (with preface) before I "dropped out" and experienced the descension he outlines. > Do not drop out. Instead, try to stop yourself from committing suicide until you can find a job that is so non-hellish that it
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by wnolens 5y ago
Agree. In the last few years I've tried to shift from seeking happiness to seeking meaningfulness as the first order pursuit. Happiness is like a red herring for meaning, or it's a side effect of a meaningful activity. Or it'
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by wnolens 5y ago
This is my experience too.
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by wnolens 5y ago
> you're going to get hired I disagree. The hiring process is never interested in your version of the hardest engineer to find. It's 1. pedigree then 2. "pass this coding challenge" then 3. some soft assessment of how
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by wnolens 5y ago
It's not a cop out it's just a way out. If video games, side projects, promotions, rock climbing, travel, etc. work for you, then go for it. But I think for most, those fade. Kids are an investment that pays dividends forever.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Bless you. A makerspace let me use a sewing machine for a few bucks to fix a shirt. Began a multi-year foray and let me express myself more truly than my job ever could.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Biking is a pillar of my mental health. It instantly transports me to feeling 10 years old again, when I lived in a state of joy and acted on intuition.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Thanks, I've felt the same thing. I've even seen therapists who claimed that I could completely 'heal'. But that's a perfectionist attitude itself, which had me banging my head against the wall for too long. I think
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by wnolens 5y ago
I'm impressed most of the projects got to the point of functional application and the problem being lack of customers. That's a wild success for a side-project IMO. My side-projects average about a long weekend length in commitmen
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by wnolens 5y ago
I would love to know this from the inside. My gut says: no. I've never seen a manager face any sort of criticism. They just lead with impunity. Often they are promoted for miserably failed projects because they took a risk, and in larg
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by wnolens 5y ago
There is something truly wonderful about waking up and knowing that this entire day will not involve some set of responsibilities. For about a year I did 20h weeks (independent contractor) as 4hour days. Compared to 40h+ weeks, it was aweso
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by wnolens 5y ago
"Internal dev tools at the worlds largest dev shop" I'll take 'problems no one else wants to go near' for $500
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by wnolens 5y ago
Hm.. It might be largely a numbers thing: higher density (more interactions), and more diversity. But can't ignore the general willingness to connect (ex: going to a bar solo in NYC yields me a lengthy convo 50% of the time, and I almo

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