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by wnolens 3y ago
I did window cleaning in the 2000s and went inside many rich folks homes. It was my favorite part of the job. But I had a much different experience. They were kind, more humanizing than middle class housewives, and very proud of their homes
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by wnolens 3y ago
It's not even just FAANG anymore. Plenty of places pay over 350k for a senior. And Seattle is probably a much better place with respect to taxes and cost of living. Most other cities where FAANG will employ are fine. Don't have to
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by wnolens 3y ago
You at least get to see what's out there, and how to do it wrong. Perhaps role model has too positive of a connotation to use here.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Cousins are a really great way to be around role models who are in a next phase of life. Siblings are usually too close in age (or younger), parents are many many steps ahead and experienced your current phase in a different world. But if y
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by wnolens 3y ago
Decent analogy. A carpenter solves problems with wood. Sure, they communicate with customers, measure and draw, sometimes say "it can't be safely done"... But if you remove the part where they make a product out of wood, I do
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by wnolens 3y ago
It often IS your job to write code though, so saying it's not is false. The code has to be the right code however. More generally, "you are solving business problems by applying software systems" That's how I describe th
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by wnolens 3y ago
It was the language you chose and the implied purpose - for academic performance. I agree its really important to learn how one's physical body and habits shape their felt experience and to truly realize you have a lever to change it.
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by wnolens 3y ago
What does the experience of being close to an attempt feel like?
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by wnolens 3y ago
> kids today aren’t being taught about their brains as performance muscles I feel the opposite - kids are being treated like machines, with their performance judged at every step. Treating a kid's brain like a "performance musc
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by wnolens 3y ago
How about the person who needs the info to do their job should go get it.
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by wnolens 3y ago
Have you tried decaf longer term? I started getting panic attacks about 10 years ago and narrowed it down to coffee, so I went from 2-3 cups per day, to 1 cup before noon only and that helped. Then my life got a lot harder and panic attack
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by wnolens 3y ago
I did. It was terrible for my mental health.
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by wnolens 3y ago
> The RTO is being entirely driven from the top by institutional investors > The return to office has nothing to do with productivity I agree for many big tech firms, but I'll present the other (or my personal) side. I'm a
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by wnolens 3y ago
This is really cool, and right out of my dreams. Since the move to full remote work at my company, I've been longing for whiteboard sessions. The best I could conjure up was to use an old iPad and load up a shared whiteboarding webapp
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by wnolens 3y ago
Awesome thanks for the reply. I definitely love that feeling of building just for myself. In the past year I've adopted emacs in hopes to achieve the sort of agency you have to define the experience you're having on your computer.
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by wnolens 3y ago
What do you do? That all sounds like so so much effort, I'm very curious. I'm in a terminal most of the day but never have I ever thought of once writing my own. Installing ohmyzsh was a huge step - I'm good for life now.
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by wnolens 3y ago
As someone who worked very hard for 10y and was paid in some top percentile, the incentives still ran out. I'm bored of the meaningless high paid work, single and likely socially stunted and emotionally blunted from workaholism. But a
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by wnolens 3y ago
Your take is from a tech worker perspective or you're a boomer. You're assuming it's still possible to buy when saving 5k/year (what my median friend is able to do). It really isn't, or requires complete sacrifice o
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by wnolens 3y ago
I was offering that simplification to compare monolith single host to multi-service single host. No network hops. But yes, you proceed to explain (some of) the complexities of RPC over the network. Security concerns make this even worse. I
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by wnolens 3y ago
My first Q was re: monolith on one host to many services on one host. And yes, when going off-host, you'll have these issues. One should not employ network hops unnecessarily. Engineering is hard. Doesn't make it not worth doing.
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by wnolens 3y ago
If a monolith is well-factored, what is the difference between it and co-located microservices? Probably just the interface - function calls become RPC. You accept some overhead for some benefits of treating components individually (patchin
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by wnolens 3y ago
Many people I know who have converted a match to a stable relationship (at least one side) were completely green to the apps when it happened. For many it was one and done. And my best experiences were with completely green folks. I think t
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by wnolens 3y ago
I think this is actually a great idea, and not just a vector for attack as some are seeing it. I'm undergoing an intense security review process right now while designing a new service. A broad stroke definition of the process might be
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by wnolens 3y ago
Know of any companies innovating technology that compensate well without any of these issues? I'd like to apply.
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by wnolens 3y ago
They'll burn out because that ask for 50% code review time is often 100 + 50% time. In the playoffs you don't tell your star player to stop shooting and pass more. In my experience, software projects are always lead to accomplish
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by wnolens 3y ago
This advice is meaningless
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by wnolens 3y ago
I don't know. But I would prioritize any job whatsoever, regardless of location. If you're in a hotel paid by family, then you can swing a bus ticket/cheap flight. While there is higher cost of living in cities, there's
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by wnolens 3y ago
Where did you go to? Asking for a friend. 30-40 mins away from downtown isn't better to me (in fact, so much worse. But to each their own..). Maybe Uxbridge or something?
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by wnolens 3y ago
That would help the startup scene (at least in the form of less risky VC), but real estate I'm not sure. Canadians are mortgaged up to their eyeballs. That 5y due date is coming up for a many folks with 2-3% mortgages, and will add a $
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by wnolens 3y ago
> I don't even know why I'd live in Toronto, it's just become a bad deal now. Doesn't matter who you are. For a lot of Canadians/Torontonians (everyone I know), family and friend bonds keep them there. Canada is

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