Haul4ss

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by Haul4ss 2mo ago
99 percent invisible did a whole episode about this! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/658-the-em-dash/
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by Haul4ss 7mo ago
Didn't he used to say "concretely" all the time as well? That was such a cool course. It seems ancient now, but I remember enjoying it at the time.
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by Haul4ss 1y ago
This is a very rich-world view of work. Most people can't just "unilaterally rescind" their employment if they decide they don't like it anymore. I don't disagree with what you're getting at, just understand th
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by Haul4ss 3y ago
I've seen this software used on a couple different video lesson platforms (I am currently subscribed to Open Studio). It works really well. Occasional browser funniness, but otherwise a really solid tool for learning music. Great work!
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by Haul4ss 3y ago
> Getting a different job in a startup or an agency sounds like the last thing I want right now. From what I’ve heard big tech is not all that much different, and a non-tech programming job sounds like it’d be boring/horrible in a d
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by Haul4ss 3y ago
We used to have unlimited PTO, and even in my interview I chided them that it's obviously not "unlimited". For a small, organically growing firm like my employer, unlimited PTO is just shorthand for "we don't have t
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by Haul4ss 3y ago
> a rational person will blame the repairer, not Apple Assumes facts not in evidence. My experience has been people tend to blame the platform supplier first and foremost. 1990s OEM computer maker loads a bunch of crapware on your PC? Yo
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by Haul4ss 4y ago
Rather than looking at titles, I would focus on what you want to do. "Software dev" encompasses a wide variety of work. As a simplified example, if you were a senior frontend JS dev who wanted to get into writing kernel modules, y
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by Haul4ss 5y ago
My coworker and I used to run this on our work PCs (which were generally left on 24/7 and rarely rebooted). It was a delightfully simple "game" and we enjoyed comparing stats. That coworker has since passed away, and I think
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by Haul4ss 5y ago
I was afraid my reference was too old, and people would just downvote not understanding what the heck I was on about.
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by Haul4ss 5y ago
Did you tell them you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?
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by Haul4ss 6y ago
You can't, so don't bother thinking about it. You can make changes today that will pay dividends in 10 years, so maybe focus on that instead. I was widowed pretty young (as widowers go), so I have done my share of playing the wh
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by Haul4ss 6y ago
> Meanwhile, everything interesting/challenging I might have liked to work on is already being worked on by someone else, who is probably doing a better job than I would have You may be surprised to learn how false and limiting this
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by Haul4ss 6y ago
Lots of great sentiments in that article. You don't have to love every day of a job to love the job. You can love the organization even as you need to let it go (or it needs to let you go). He's proud of the arc of his career and
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by Haul4ss 6y ago
My kids will be in 9th and 7th grade. My school district is starting 100% distance learning. I did opt for hybrid when it's available. I'm setting up study areas in the house for the kids that are away from each other and me. I&#x
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by Haul4ss 6y ago
This is a good question to ask regardless of your career. It's a combination of factors: specialization narrowing the range of possible jobs, experience tending to command a higher salary, and flat-out age discrimination. You will like
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
Stay private. I don't think publicly traded companies can be values-driven, but if you maintain control over the ownership of the company, you can. Here I'm thinking of something like Wegman's grocery stores. If Wegman's
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
I'm sure someone trying to survive on $10/hr in America today would be heartened to learn it's better than living in the Middle Ages.
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
I slogged through it. I appreciate the sentiments expressed in the book, but it was not a breezy read. I found it to be dry and long-winded.
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
The chip is nearly 100% reliable (absent any manufacturing defects). It's the network in the U.S. that is stuck in the 1970s. Even with the supposed requirement to move to chip terminals, I still come across so many merchants who eithe
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
And Garmin is welcome to create an API to host your data and integrate with other services. Uploaded Garmin data isn't originated by Strava, but since they're hosting it they are setting the terms. I am a former Strava user, empha
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
> But the problem is those workout files are actually your data. I'm a long-time fan of DC Rainmaker, but here he is just wrong. Once you put that data into Strava, it's not yours anymore. This is the fundamental conflict with
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
Amazon is so much more than a "web shop"... its logistics infrastructure alone is worth actual money, to say nothing of AWS, Prime lock-in, etc.
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
I enjoyed Joey Hess's interview on there. https://usesthis.com/interviews/joey.hess/ An interesting juxtaposition of working on technology in a decidedly austere living arrangement.
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
I'm convinced that almost nobody is good at the whole cycle of creating/maintaining something. Some people are great at coming up with new ideas but quickly bore with the implementation. Some people can relentlessly improve on an
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by Haul4ss 7y ago
A big part of this is just how you see the world, and perhaps how well you understand yourself. Not sure which term to use: attitude, personality, outlook, frame of mind, perspective, etc. I have definitely had times in my career when I dre
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
Depends. On weekdays 6-7, I try to eke out 8 on weekends. To be honest, some days I just nap on the couch for 20 mins before I have to make dinner.
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
Midlife single parent, so my answers are going to look a lot different than the average HN reader. I average 40/week. Some weeks I need to surge, rarely I need to work weekends, but my ability to put in long hours is capped by my home
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
You're probably still trying to do too much. Another user recommended The One Thing, and I'll second that. You have to always be prioritizing. Figure out what you really, REALLY want to do, and you will make time for it. I definit
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by Haul4ss 8y ago
Since I was an intern in college, I have seen older technical folks become harder and harder to employ. I've had good friends lose their job and because they're older/more expensive, they get rejected with all sorts of creati

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