GreenJelloShot

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by GreenJelloShot 6y ago
People "vacation" in radically different ways. For some people, a vacation is just spending all week at home playing video games. Others will just sped time at a B&B or visit family. For them, checking email is not a big dea
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by GreenJelloShot 6y ago
I don't think the problem is how many emails you will receive. It's how often you will be expected to check your email and how quickly you will be expected to respond. I mean, if I an on vacation in Hawaii, what if I want t
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Imagine having only ever used Windows as an OS. Then one day someone hands you a Linux machine. You try it for a day or two, but then go back to Windows. And then you wonder why your coworkers keep saying how great Linux is.
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
If it is simple as copying from the government, then why aren't you doing it too? Why not take the existing medicine and resell it to the public for half of what everyone else is charging? You would simultaneously be making a fortune,
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Suddenly forcing non-remote workers to switch to remote work overnight is not going to produce great results. By the time the workers get the hang of working remotely effectively, their bosses will have already decided that it is a bad ide
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
If you don't know your own calendar, then I do not want to talk to you. I would rather talk to the person who knows and controls your calendar. They are the true source of power and they are the one who can actually get things accom
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
“We’d love to partner with Steve on getting his frameworks and templates from his books – The Four Steps and The Startup Owner’s Manual – onto our product. Can you connect us to him?” That sounds to me like the start of some sort of relat
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
The title should be changed to: "You can only be a [mediocre, full-time] writer if you can afford it"
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Completely misleading title. Retiring has nothing to do with it. The real point of the article is this: "Too much time spent with no purpose is associated with unhappiness."
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
I had this happen early on in my career. My entire department was unified and clearly articulated the problems we were facing and how we could improve things. The only result was that our manager was told to get us under control or we wou
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
> Srsly stop working for shitty startups. I guess 99.9% of all startups are "shitty" then. > we would like the core team (first 3-4 hires) to share our passion to some degree. Perhaps naively we'd like them to become pi
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
There is a difference between "encouraging" and "forcing". Should we force people to exercise?
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
> People don't always make the rational choice for long term benefits when there are short term gains to be had. Individuals, thanks to bounded rationality, tend to seek satisfactory solutions, not optimal ones. It takes coordinated
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
> However, if it makes most people better off, and makes society as a whole better off, then maybe it's worth it for the government to force their most-successful citizens away from their selfish instincts to the betterment of the n
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
In 1900, the average life expectancy for an American man was 48.3 Today, the average life expectancy for Americans is 78.7
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
If sharing wealth leads to greater wealth, then why is it necessary to try to take wealth (by force)? Why don't people willingly give up their wealth so that they can make more? If it is possible to make more wealth by giving up some,
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
> Taking direction or orders from a manager is only ever stressful if that manager doesn't take accountability for their decisions and directions. This right here. I will lead if you want. But then stop second guessing my decisions,
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
There are many, many people that love solving problems, but have no desire to get mired down into politics and power struggles.
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
I have never seen a "bad" manager exist under a "good" manager/director. Every single "bad" manager was able to survive and thrive because the environment was set up to encourage and reward the "bad&
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
> It's driving me insane. It is sucking the joy out of life. Seek therapy. > If you aren't learning, or getting better at the craft, then you're falling behind, becoming irrelevant, and certainly you aren't going t
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Here are just a few: 1) All day interviews. Seriously, I've had an 8 hour interview. They served me breakfast, lunch and dinner. This was after several other rounds of interviews. 2) Expecting me to perform "free work". I
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
I don't know about that. I have been in the industry for decades, and it definitely feels worse (more abusive) today than it did 10 or 20 years ago.
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
> And yet here we are A two sentence post on HN is "making a fuss"???
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Title of the article: "You don't need Libraries for internationalization (i18n) of Dates" Actual content: "... you might not need any of these libraries [moment, dayjs, date-fns] to have some basic Formatting and Localiz
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
There is a difference between a "scam" business and a "failed" business. The scam business never had any intent on doing what they promised. The failed business planned on doing something, but for whatever reason, was
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
I think it at least debunks the claim that "Lambda School was a scam". It may have a lot of faults, and it may not be the best way to get training, but it's not a scam.
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Wait, really? Do you have family? Do you have friends? You don't have anyone to talk to at all??? Join a club. Pick up a new hobby. Join a church. Attend local events. There is probably a hundred things you could do to meet and
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
Seems like it actually would delete any tweet containing the word "Lambda". https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillManidis/GoodbyeLambda/...
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
I thought they only had to pay if the students actually landed a decent paying job.
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by GreenJelloShot 7y ago
What? Web farms are automatically expensive? A web farm can literally be two Raspberry Pis behind a simple load balancer. What if this isn't "my company"? What if I run a web farm at home for fun? Besides, your argument c

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