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by wnolens 5y ago
Yea. I can probably move to a more chill team, but I wouldn't work on anything nearly as cutting edge. I mentally check out for weeks at a time, then get back into it and deliver something large. I'm low key job hunting, but don&#
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yes the console UI is mind numbing, and was just made 10x worse in a recent redesign. But i like the python boto3 library https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guid... Build yourself a
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by wnolens 5y ago
I view it like a single subreddit with a community of pretty decent folks. Reddit is a large wasteland, and comment interactions very often turn sour.
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by wnolens 5y ago
> Customers care about the outcome, not the internal process Additionally, the business cares about the outcome, not the internal process. Ostensibly, the business should care about process but it actually doesn't matter as long as
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by wnolens 5y ago
this is the answer. source: currently being burned out on an adjacent aws team..
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by wnolens 5y ago
I took the thousand dollars and went to spend a week with my best friend.
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by wnolens 5y ago
> you have to just decide that you are always willing to meet them where they are. Its not always where you want them to be Wise, thanks. That very concisely captures what I've been coming around to understanding about having relat
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by wnolens 5y ago
The whole thing has been out of touch as long as I've known about it (10y). I won the lottery one year but sold my tickets out of conscience. Rich folk pouring in from all over with thousands of dollars in disposable stuff bought from
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by wnolens 5y ago
I always thought it was kind of silly to live your life so that for 1 day at the end of 80 years, you have some pleasant thoughts (assuming you are know you will die and aren't absolutely in miserable pain anyway). I get that it's
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by wnolens 5y ago
I had the same opinion and tried to do this. Spent a decade in big tech surrounded by dysfunction, pushing truly innovative tech through the muck to release and expending significant effort to clean the muck as I went for myself and others.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Lol that's pretty funny to view as a cultural difference.. in my experiences it's mostly unwillingness to take responsibility.
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by wnolens 5y ago
I worked for a medium size payroll software company. Payroll is highly regionalized problem - every state and city has different rules/taxes and very unique ones as well. Its often not so simple to generically describe a payroll tax an
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yes, the "we" in place of "you" is a meaningful difference I've noticed in code reviews. Having to participate in a development team has made me a bit of a nicer person, as my default reaction is to blame. But that&
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by wnolens 5y ago
I think there's a cost to constant striving, and it's insidious.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. It really does make a difference. Most people's guess as to the rate of occurrence of this kind of abuse would be off by an order of magnitude or more. In the past 5 years I've become privy to so many dark expe
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by wnolens 5y ago
I love this. Added to my home screen.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Not sure if this is similar, but my janky setup: Atom (editor) + Hydrogen (Atom plugin). I like Hydrogen over more notebook-like plugins that exist for VSCode because it's nothing extra (no 'cells') beyond executing the line
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by wnolens 5y ago
Perhaps my tone was lost, but I was describing the typical American tech company, not what I think is right. I'm agree with your values, but I don't think the economy is setup to support those values. Looks like Henry Ford discove
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by wnolens 5y ago
> YMMV Precisely, different people are different. I was once like you. It felt amazing. But then it stopped feeling amazing, and suddenly I could relate to the other 99% of the world.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Yea, I like reading him but his suggestions are myopic. He's an idealist and has clearly never faced the full-time profit driven work world that the majority of us inhabit.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Main idea: we should be tasked with less volume of work. And the author suggests that since less volume -> less stress -> higher efficacy, there won't actually be a drop in net productivity. He's not necessarily wrong, howev
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by wnolens 5y ago
Interesting, you just helped me possibly connect something in my own life. When I was a kid I used hate using school toilets. And I was a highly anxious kid which would present as stomach butterflies. I dealt with constipation as a kid, whi
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by wnolens 5y ago
Hm that's weird, is that recent or 10+ years ago? I went to an old man gastro doc and he said the first thing on the checklist nowadays with IBS is low FODMAP diet.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Damn, sounds like the place you work at sucks. Any risks to a switch? You can at least guarantee the pay thing before leaving (i.e. they tell you the salary, but can't promise respect)
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by wnolens 5y ago
What would it take to not 'hate every minute'?
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by wnolens 5y ago
I agree with some of your points, and yet offer that maybe nothing is "wrong". When engrossed in the tech world, everything about it seems so important. Money has a way of making it seem that way. But most of it is inconsequential
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by wnolens 5y ago
Off topic/meta: I really really love this question, and appreciate so many good replies. <3 HN
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by wnolens 5y ago
Because it sounds terrible. Plain hot water? Hmm
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by wnolens 5y ago
Personally glad to be free of complex taxes and insane health care costs on individual market. Being a developer is too cushy a job full-time.
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by wnolens 5y ago
Most US tech companies, except the trick is that you have to put up strong boundaries to overworking and be okay with level stagnation. Most folks I know in FAANG/equivalent are not that stressed once you give up the race for promotion

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