izzylan

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   by izzylan 20d ago

   I took a similar ADHD test. It seemed so easy and simple that I always wondered how it was actually supposed to catch me. Good to know that neurotypical people mostly likely test differently than I did.
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   by izzylan 3mo ago

   I don't see those career opportunities. AI is really incredible but in my personal projects it can one-shot things. I'm trying to figure out how I can get to the point where I have hard problems that AI can't solve, at least
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   by izzylan 3mo ago

   I don't think the job is just writing code. But my career has mostly been about getting a ticket and writing a solution for it. I would really like to solve novel problems, but I don't get many novel problems to solve. I can archi
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   by izzylan 3mo ago

   I've been testing this out and I think my SWE career is dead in the water. Genuinely wondering what value I bring to my employer right now. What value I will bring in a few months when this gets cheaper. I think we're screwed. I m
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   by izzylan 4mo ago

   Scrolling is a bad habit. It's hard to kill habits outright, so you need to replacement. Step one is figuring out what triggers the habit. Step two is finding a replacement. Something that worked for me is keeping certain websites to t
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   by izzylan 8mo ago

   Labor unions align themselves well with Marxist thought and both are pretty based. I'm not a SWE because I like money. I'm an SWE because I love programming.
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   by izzylan 9mo ago

   Given that I recently joined a leatherworking Discord comprised of individuals pretty much the exact opposite of my demographic, I believe this is just plain wrong. My guess would be near half, probably a 60/40 split.
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   by izzylan 9mo ago

   Firing someone for being opposed to same-sex marriage is political in the same way firing someone for robbing a bank is.
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   Ask HN: How do you do things outside of work?

   5 points by izzylan 10mo ago|4 comments
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    by izzylan 10mo ago

    Nah, this is just HackerNews. We're Redditors who think we're better than Redditors. Most people don't care.
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    by izzylan 10mo ago

    Thanks for your response. But I think you've misunderstood. I'm pretty well aware of the deep well of cuisines offered by various cultures, but my issue is not finding recipes -- it's the time I and effort spend cooking. My c
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    by izzylan 10mo ago

    That's interesting. I tried vegetarianiam for a while and I found that it incredibly limiting and difficult. I don't have the time to cook and ready-to-eat or frozen vegetarian meals just aren't a thing around here. I think i
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    by izzylan 11mo ago

    What makes Linux not fun?
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    by izzylan 1y ago

    You're unfairly extrapolating from your own experience here -- everyone's body has different chemistry. I have to eat breakfast in the morning in order to feel energetic during the day. But specifically, I need a high-protein, hig
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    by izzylan 1y ago

    This isn't actually a sob story, and I'm not saying he's entitled to labor of others. What I am asking is how your proposed system handles a case such as this. And while it may be an edge case, these are large, broad systems
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    by izzylan 1y ago

    So then lets say a healthy 22-year-old graduates from college at the top of their class. Life's looking up for them. They've already got a job lined up that starts in two weeks and they're excited and energetic about entering
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    by izzylan 1y ago

    I was trying to port Cap'n Proto to modern C# as a side project when I was unemployed, since the current implementation years old and new C# features have been released that would make it much nicer to use. I love the no-copy serializa
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    by izzylan 1y ago

    I don't see the value in making it even harder to build software. I want to make things. Downloading a dependency manually and then cursing at the compiler because "it's right there! why won't it load!!" is just gon
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    by izzylan 1y ago

    Hope your surgery goes well. Once you feel better, would you mind sharing anything more that could help locate what you read? It sounds like a really interesting read.
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    by izzylan 2y ago

    Location: Seattle, Washington Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: C#, .NET, Python, F#, Rust, Typescript, SQL, Postgres, Node.js, PHP, React, Svelte Resume: Available on request via email Email: izzy lan fox at gmail dot com
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    by izzylan 4y ago

    I also have ADHD and I made the mistake of downloading TikTok once. It ended up costing me a lot of time, money, and a significant chunk of my attention span. It became so bad that I couldn't focus at work because all I could think abo