javajosh

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by javajosh 1y ago
I have 25 years of experience, including at prestigious places like Blizzard and JPL. However I've worked for a variety of startups, none of which succeeded.
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How do you search for jobs?
2 points by javajosh 1y ago|1 comments
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What can I do differently to find employment?
7 points by javajosh 1y ago|12 comments
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by javajosh 1y ago
What are some of the most impactful/eye-opening lessons you learned from biome?
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by javajosh 1y ago
They used to call this "peer pressure". Admittedly this is a narrower form of it where you harness the power of vanity and shame for purposes of good, not evil.
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by javajosh 1y ago
That's a very unhelpful link if you want to buy or comparison shop. Online walmart sells over 300 different styles of countdown timer, including ones shaped like a tomato. Note that the Pomadoro Technique recommends a timer that ticks
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by javajosh 1y ago
Yes. I'd be curious to know how resistance movements deal with this problem in other regimes. How do (did?) Navalny or İmamoğlu supporters organize, for example? Is it simply Telegram & Signal? How does one spread a message to the
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by javajosh 1y ago
I agree that anonymous speech is an important right in free societies. A novel attack on such a right in the Internet Age is to allow so much speech, anonymous or otherwise, ensure that most of it of is of very low quality, that thoughtful
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by javajosh 2y ago
Yeah, I've been disappointed in a lot of code generation within my field of expertise. However, if I need to whip up some bash scripts, AI works very well. But if I want those bash scripts to be actually good, AI just can't get th
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by javajosh 2y ago
What better way to "own the libs" than to openly transgress against sacrosanct values? There is a certain power when you demonstrate that shame, consistency, or principle has no hold on you. To avoid the internal backstabbing this
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by javajosh 2y ago
Sidenote: Voidzilla did a 6 minute video about this interview [1]. Tucker focused on injustice, but not the billions SBF stole from people, but the fact that the people who took SBF's political contributions didn't get him off. Th
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by javajosh 2y ago
There are two big error modes that we need to look out for when reacting in anger. First is to not jump from the frying pan into the fire by adopting a browser that makes nice sounding claims but really has no way to back them up. Installin
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by javajosh 2y ago
That only captures your output, not your input. The best people to simulate in this world would be so-called terminally online people virtually all of whom's input is itself online. So for those who've read a lot of paper books or
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by javajosh 2y ago
But the comment you're replying to doesn't say Java doesn't have any downsides. It just says that Java has a great story for doing shared types between client and server, which is true. It's also true that Java as a lang
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by javajosh 2y ago
Complex philosophy has a way of devolving almost inevitably into a kind of "four legs good two legs bad" sort of way a la Animal Farm. In the same way dei seems to inevitably devolve into white people bad non-white people good. It
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by javajosh 2y ago
Testimony is not evidence, and using the passive voice ("given explicit authorization", by whom? why does this matter?) is an explicit argument from authority. Physical evidence or nothing. There are no shortage of credulous peopl
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by javajosh 2y ago
>If a particular function doesn't fit anywhere, create a new module (or class or component) for it and you'll find a home for it later. It's better to create a new independent construct than to jam it into an existing mod
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by javajosh 2y ago
I think it is safe to say that few if anyone actually understands the common American voter and what they actually care about. Anecdotally, the prevalence of cyber-security plot points in action thriller movies/games/books indicat
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by javajosh 2y ago
Actually, I think an abacus ring is a great idea or it could be multiple rings on the same finger where the main benefit is you could keep keep count of something. If you had three rows of small beads, you could theoretically keep track of
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by javajosh 2y ago
Love the book but I always thought this needed a little bit more explanation. It seems in our world people seek power for many reasons and only a small minority seek it simply to make people suffer. For example, people seek power to increas
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by javajosh 2y ago
>Also, the wood frog's ability to withstand freezing may help researchers discover how human organs used for transplants could be frozen and thawed without damage. This would increase the allowable time between removing an organ fr
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by javajosh 2y ago
There needs to be a word for when someone does something bad in their own interest, and as a result the wider society degrades far more than the individual profited. Corrupt anti-corruption officials, yes, but also college professors issuin
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by javajosh 2y ago
Upvoted for Shoegaze reference. Suggest hosting a demo with My Bloody Valentine "Loveless" as the default musical selection. I will also echo the other commenters who believe your communication needs to improve; it is unlikely tha
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by javajosh 2y ago
>The fact that persistent storage has to happen at the same place to be reliable is only incidental, not a defining attribute of a relational database. Persistence happens to processes who's state is expensive to reconstruct. Meas
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by javajosh 2y ago
>having a very thin skin is not a good trait to have It is if you get leverage from it. There is a perverse incentive to have thin skin - in fact, you can get flak for not having thin enough skin, these days. I once heard someone call
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by javajosh 2y ago
Tempting to write a response piece, "Get me into data hell, I need the money."
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by javajosh 2y ago
I wish this was a link to the original Oxfam audit. It's strange to me that an audit would say that there's somewhere between $23 and $41 billion missing. If the audit really knew what it was doing, wouldn't it have a more pr
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by javajosh 2y ago
I think you missed a tense. Was atrocious, we got jquery, which got folded back into javascript. If the last time you worked with vanilla js was when jquery was hot, you're views are outdated.
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by javajosh 2y ago
The problem is within that gray area. For enjoyers of vanilla js, like myself, I'd hate it if "core" js got so small that I now started to require a compiler for my ES6 code. If I was in charge I'd say "fine, but th
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by javajosh 2y ago
I wrote something similar, but for the web. I call it "Literate Markdown" ( https://simpatico.io/lit.md ) and you write markdown and your html/css/js/md code blocks are both exposed as text and as cod

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