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by hn_asker 5y ago
I'm glad you cut back and realized that your health is more important. I haven't had a TV since I was in high school. I don't really play video games. It's the notion of "work" in western society that is a dist
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Jobs are just one way of living. I feel like there are more efficient ways to implement prosperity. Or have less suffering keeping the level of prosperity the same. What is a job? Is it really beneficial? This reminds me of David Graeber&#x
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Reminds me of a documentary called "Medicating Normal". Try being self-compassionate when you have unholy side effects of benzos, anti-depressants, and anti-psychotics prescribed to you. Normal by "western" standards is
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Feels like we live in a society where self-compassion is not tolerated. How can we be kind to ourselves if there are mechanisms in society that keep us distracted from ourselves?
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Keep Austin weird. If you don't like it, leave.
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Big Pharma uses this heavily to bias research in academia for their marketing purposes. It used to be that academic research was rigorous and objective. An academic title had prestige and respect. Now it's so watered down.
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by hn_asker 5y ago
This heavily biases in favor of lone wolves in college. I was one myself. I'd say we are rare. Most people are social and learn by collaborating with others. It's the more natural approach. Evolution has groomed us to be social af
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Yes, this is what backlog grooming and sprint planning are for.
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by hn_asker 5y ago
Agreed. How consensus is achieved varies. As an engineer, I am biased towards numbers because numbers are easy to compare. Use data to guide you on what the desired state is and getting to it.
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by hn_asker 6y ago
State the basics about the person. It can often help to give context about who they are in the time they're in.
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by hn_asker 6y ago
gRPC docs do need some tlc. Cloud providers providing support for gRPC also need to do better documenting their support for gRPC. AWS Application Load Balancer is advertised to work with gRPC but we've been seeing sporadic errors. Keep
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by hn_asker 6y ago
Before you judge it, I implore you to ask whether your organization is actually doing Agile/Scrum correctly. I doubt most orgs are and I suspect most negative opinions come from doing it incorrectly/ineffectively. I think the core
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by hn_asker 6y ago
Yet somehow Pharma can prescribe drugs that affect the brain's functions. How do they get away with that knowing so little about the brain?
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by hn_asker 6y ago
The obligatory Beej's suggestion: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/ .
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by hn_asker 6y ago
To be fair, it is sometimes not our fault we are "condescending assholes". It's the environment we are in. It could be from management and/or HR not hiring for the right skillset, to underspecified design details from ev
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by hn_asker 6y ago
I wonder how well this idea translates to other engineering disciplines and if there is something about software that makes this idea easier. What kind of liability is there for engineers asking for help and working in FinTech for example?
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by hn_asker 6y ago
> Devs constantly hammered as not doing things quickly enough by the same people who don’t do actual work other than above checklists. I can relate to this. There's no one qualified to lead engineering teams where I work. Each team
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by hn_asker 6y ago
The decriminalization wave helped me find minds like Paul Stamets, Hamilton Morris, and Will Hall. Then I started asking more questions and found writers like Johan Harri, Michael Pollan, and Robert Whitaker. Following Whitaker's work
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by hn_asker 6y ago
A bird learning to fly flaps it's wings even though it can't fly. We don't call them imposters. Just keep learning.
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by hn_asker 6y ago
Nope
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Ask HN: What are some red flags at work that make you want to leave?
4 points by hn_asker 6y ago|7 comments
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by hn_asker 6y ago
So this must be why Bitcoin has no inflation.
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by hn_asker 6y ago
Go is much easier to learn and get up and running compared to Rust in my experience. It's great for writing servers and multi-threaded applications. Rust can be used to optimize but you'll probably get a lot of mileage out of gola
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by hn_asker 6y ago
There's a growing industry of therapy clinics that are happy to continue charging patients for endless sessions. Some offer anti-depressants and anti-psychotics. However, repeated treatment isn't quite as effective as the wrong mi
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by hn_asker 6y ago
strict medical supervision is sometimes a terrifying experience. Set and setting matter but so does any drugs they are currently on. I would say that your experience is atypical.
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by hn_asker 6y ago
The anti-authoritarian tone is typical with this subject matter during the Nixon era. The manual ultimately advocates for self-reliance. It uses MDMA as a tool. The current model for healing is still one of dependency in our society. I wond
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by hn_asker 6y ago
We're all in the Cuckoo's Nest. If those reviews weren't legitimate (i.e bots) then fine. But if legitimate users want to express their reviews they should - even when they are misinformed. Google should at most put an asteri
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by hn_asker 6y ago
An expert is an expert whatever their title claims.
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by hn_asker 6y ago
You mean their investors?
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by hn_asker 6y ago
> The best-performing stocks this week are brands familiar to anyone who used to hang out in malls as a kid in the mid-2000s. Ah nostalgia for Spencers, KB Toys, Toys R Us, Hot Topic...

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