annoyingcyclist

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by annoyingcyclist 3mo ago
If you're senior or have opinions about things, you know the feeling of falling into a rabbit hole of stuff you want to fix when you look at certain parts of your system. "I was going to rewrite this 3 months ago", "oh w
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by annoyingcyclist 3mo ago
To me, if "you are responsible for what you write" is to mean anything in an org, it needs to come with teeth. If you are demonstrably _not_ responsible for what you write, that needs to be recognized and treated as underperforman
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by annoyingcyclist 5mo ago
I don't think either of you is necessarily wrong (or good/bad here). They prefer to work the way they work (glaring issues and all), and are apparently successful working that way. You don't want to work that way, and want a
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by annoyingcyclist 5mo ago
I kept reading and reading to find the part where the author took responsibility for any part of this, then I got to the end.
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by annoyingcyclist 8mo ago
Organize professionally and/or advocate for ourselves with our elected leaders so the consequence of AI/LLM advancement isn't a bunch of people having to individually ask themselves this question.
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by annoyingcyclist 1y ago
I've been building an app to replace a long-suffering Excel sheet I've used for retirement planning. Started off as a calculator, eventually turned into something like ProjectionLab, though with a focus on what-if scenarios (e.g.,
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by annoyingcyclist 1y ago
I've been slowly migrating logins off of a @gmail.com email and onto an email at a domain that I own/control for this reason. It's tedious and feels a little like an overreaction (presumably the odds of this happening to indi
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by annoyingcyclist 1y ago
A founder who commits to 996 is as a side effect building a brand of "grit", "hustle", etc with their investors. That gives them options, regardless of whether 996 is actually useful for productivity and regardless of wh
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by annoyingcyclist 1y ago
Don't be silly, you have 0.01% of the company until they dilute you in their next raise.
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by annoyingcyclist 3y ago
I had this happen with an iPad that I received as an exchange when I sent one in for a repair. I booted the new unit up and was prompted to enroll the device in MDM for a school district in Florida. Kind of a frustrating experience, but App
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by annoyingcyclist 3y ago
Do you have a stake in the company – options, RSUs, golden handcuffs that you'd be walking away from, or whose value these decisions may be jeopardizing? If not, what are you getting out of staying? It sounds like you're not align
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Ask HN: Can you recover from burnout without switching jobs?
5 points by annoyingcyclist 4y ago|1 comments
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by annoyingcyclist 4y ago
I have a year of living expenses in cash, several more in low-risk investments. I've been practicing interview skills (but I was doing that anyway). Making sure I have local copies of any personal creds from my work machine – 401(k) lo
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by annoyingcyclist 4y ago
I've been this in jobs, and am one of these people in my current job, so I can relate to what you wrote here. There's a lot that goes into switching jobs, so it's hard to offer as general advice – it's much easier to do