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Advancing tech promised to reduce workload, instead it's leading to my burn-out(maelys.bio)
2 points by fruzz 3y ago|0 comments
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by fruzz 3y ago
> Men aren't impervious to sexism either. Men aren't impervious to sexual harassment, that's true. But in my career women have been overwhelmingly on the receiving end. I've seen a woman not be hired by a male intervi
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by fruzz 3y ago
Retain rockstar programmers at all costs, even if they push everyone else to quit over being mistreated. Give them fancy job titles. Have upper management crack sexist jokes, and HR laugh with them, so that women at the company who are sexu
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by fruzz 3y ago
The policies that hurt minorities aren't any policy he's personally affected by, thanks to his wealth and age. His wealth also insulates him from experiences that would foster empathy in others. Meanwhile, conservative policies fa
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by fruzz 4y ago
Ask yourself to define "interesting" using concrete terms. Are there specific fields you want the company to be in? List them. Are there specific roles you want to be in within the company? List them. How much of your time do you
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by fruzz 4y ago
I understand that they have Reasons, but it sucks that my Core i3 laptop with 1TB SSD and 24GB RAM is deemed "too old" to run Windows 11 (by one CPU generation), when the current lineup of laptops at Best Buy have way worse specs.
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by fruzz 5y ago
It informed some questions I'd ask in interviews, informed some push back I'd give following crunches, and made contemplating subsequent departures seem less unsurmountable. Best of wishes to you. :)
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by fruzz 5y ago
There's no right answer for those questions. I've burned out twice. Both times I quit. Took a year off between the two. I travelled both times, and then just had my own routine at home. I had no problem finding another job when it
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by fruzz 5y ago
Congrats on all of these, but especially #4 :) As a fellow Ontarian, what attracted you to Florida? The weather? Job opportunity?
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by fruzz 5y ago
1. I spent time with my bff. I spent time with my dad. Time with loved ones is what I value most in life; I'm glad I got some good memories. :) 2. I got a job as a backend senior eng; I went from making $65K to $102K a year. 3. I did t
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by fruzz 5y ago
I think learning the fundamentals is a worthy pursuit, but in terms of getting stuff done well, you realistically only have to grok one level below whatever level of abstraction you're operating at. Being able to glue frameworks togeth
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by fruzz 5y ago
I think you're right, but I don't think this organizational discomfort with remote work will be true of the next batch of hip companies to work at. So you may yet get your chance. :)
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by fruzz 5y ago
Honestly, I don't get this debate. If you were to take the pain points of debug by print, and address them, you'd come up with a debugger. Being able to put those "print" statements anywhere without recompiling, being ab
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by fruzz 6y ago
What's considered cheap is relative. $12 a month is more accessible than lump sums of $500. It may be cheaper to have your own hardware in the long run, but not everyone is able to afford seeing that through. As for laggy, Cyberpunk ru
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by fruzz 7y ago
Yes, it's a different problem with universal health care. Here (Canada) the problem isn't oriented around the question of are you rich enough but there's a trade off in wait times. From the Fraser Institute[1]: > There i
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by fruzz 7y ago
I use a typewriter and write letters. It's distraction free and produces a hard copy. I use a cast iron pan daily and use a French Press/Aeropress to make my coffee. I use candles for soothing light.
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by fruzz 7y ago
I mean, as a Canadian consumer using American social media platforms, we're subject to American censorship policies. Tumblr / Facebook / YouTube being most notable in their filtering of LGBT content and suspending accounts of
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by fruzz 7y ago
I was 17 when I chose my undergrad. I got a degree in a field I didn't care about for the sole purpose of being employable. Then the 2008 recession wiped out entry-level mining and then oil sector jobs (my field). I jumped into softwar
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by fruzz 7y ago
Two women, but yes, agreed - we don't have confirmation on the motives. To be clear for others, that interpretation isn't in the original article. It's only on this hacker news link title.
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by fruzz 7y ago
For a partial list of other actions that contextualizes this latest development: https://transequality.org/the-discrimination-administration Including yesterday's apparent proposed roll back of protections for trans pe
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by fruzz 8y ago
As a trans person, Tumblr was the best place to find other trans people, having shared experiences talked about, negativity processed, and where I was able to post pics of myself as I shifted seeing myself from ugly (as reinforced in me in
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by fruzz 8y ago
Manual typewriters. I have two that I use every week, and they're wonderful distraction free devices that don't require power. Seems like the the best manual typewriters were made in the sixties.
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by fruzz 8y ago
The news feed feels like a stream of PR releases, people I've never met keep asking to add me presumably to help them find jobs, and the mobile website experience is inhibited by multiple disruptive banners / pop-overs to use the
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by fruzz 8y ago
It thrives, but with a subset of the people it could have. I'm reminded of both the low proportion of women (commits on the Linux kernel are 94-96% men) and kernel developer's like Sarah Sharpe citing the toxic culture for leaving
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by fruzz 8y ago
I agree, you can't talk about web development history without bringing up jQuery. That said, the moment was right for something like it to come up. The amount of boiler plate code needed to enable rich web experiences of the time went
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by fruzz 8y ago
For what I was referring to, it was Tumblr putting NSFW warnings on content. Also censoring content outright. One video I did covering how I did estrogen injections, for example, was auto-removed for being obscene. There was no nudity.
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by fruzz 8y ago
It meant trans content disproportionately faced a barrier to access. It hurts trans youth in particular, who are less likely to stumble on content, but could really have used seeing it there.
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by fruzz 8y ago
Was on there from 2009 ~ 2016. Being queer & trans, it was the first online social platform where I could be exposed to new narratives and interact with others. Previously it had been forums and YouTube, but neither felt as personal. I
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Show HN: List of transphobia in movies/tv(transphobic.media)
2 points by fruzz 8y ago|1 comments
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by fruzz 8y ago
I don't understand. Don't we already pay according to the bandwidth we use on the server side, and don't clients already pay according to the bandwidth they use, everyone paying more if we use more? And don't backbones a

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