kyoob

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by kyoob 6mo ago
Whether or not your manager is capable of helping you shape your career is an open question, for sure. But 20 people, over an 18-year career, and not a single one of them bring it up in a 1:1? And, oh okay, all those managers have worked at
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by kyoob 11mo ago
From a game-theory perspective, if players rush the field with AI-generated content because it's where all the advantages are this year, then there's going to be room on the margins for trust-signaling players to advance themselve
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by kyoob 11mo ago
Who will take the coal from the mine? Who will take the salt from the earth? Who'll take a leaf and grow it to a tree? Don't look now, it ain't you or me
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by kyoob 11mo ago
This reminds me of the American Science & Surplus catalogs we used to get in the mail. Hand-drawn pictures of each product along with cheeky copy for almost all the little motors and breakers and push buttons and on and on. Sad that the
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by kyoob 1y ago
Starts so strong with "governance structures, accountability, how their data is used, jobs being lost, etc," refutes that what we mean is some sci-fi scenario when we ask about ethics, and then ends with a sci-fi scenario: ".
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Disney to invest $1.5B for an equity stake in Epic Games(businesswire.com)
14 points by kyoob 3y ago|1 comments
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by kyoob 3y ago
Sectoral unions are a key to this kind of strength in labor. But the political landscape in the US, both in the form of laws already on the books and the "us vs them" mindset that polarizes workers along political lines, would mak
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by kyoob 3y ago
Not every day you click a link on HN and see Minutemen in the header image on the article. Chalking that up as a win and a sign to go do something splendidly useless with the rest of my day.
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by kyoob 3y ago
“You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.” - The Dude
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New York Times ends daily collection of Covid data(nytimes.com)
4 points by kyoob 3y ago|0 comments
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by kyoob 4y ago
I built automated tests and frameworks. You can get pretty far in a career in test automation while still learning and getting better because people perceive the code as important but the whole company doesn't (usually) fall apart if y
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by kyoob 4y ago
Great, now I can feel inferior comparing my work to other people's failures in addition to their successes.
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by kyoob 4y ago
This person worked mornings, evenings, and weekends for a year for (optimistically) a $2400 USD annual raise and calls it passive income.
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Epic will now let developers self-publish to the Epic Games Store(theverge.com)
4 points by kyoob 4y ago|0 comments
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by kyoob 4y ago
It's overlay ads, for folks who don't want to click through.
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by kyoob 4y ago
I think you’re finding arguments in what I’m saying that I’m not actually putting in there. That’s fine! I respect your point of view.
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by kyoob 4y ago
Advocating for laws that promote reasonable childhood independence benefits families where all the adults have to work more hours to get by, leaving their kids in safe but unsupervised situations more often.
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by kyoob 4y ago
I think it's smart to frame this as an anti-poverty issue. People often imagine "suburban" families falling victim to overreaching child neglect laws and enforcement. In fact poor children are separated from their families fo
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by kyoob 4y ago
> She, like many of the independent workers we spoke with, was also lucky enough to maintain health care coverage through her spouse. Gotta think that if coverage wasn't set up the way it is in the US, this trend of freelancing woul
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by kyoob 4y ago
Take improv classes. You’ll learn how to listen and how to carry on conversations about other people’s deals. You might even find more confidence about your own sense of humor. You’ll also make new friends, and those friends have friends an
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by kyoob 4y ago
dibs
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by kyoob 4y ago
I use Weather Strip, which has a unique and slick interface for the upcoming week’s forecast. I’ve never seen another weather app quite like it.
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by kyoob 4y ago
LastPass, which can’t be spelled without a-l-a-s.
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by kyoob 4y ago
Half day!
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by kyoob 4y ago
HN comments tend to have an anti-leetcode tone, but that’s rooted in resentment at the reliance on those types of problems in the hiring process. The problems themselves are benign - fun, even! The contention is that your livelihood often d
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by kyoob 4y ago
Dam!
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by kyoob 4y ago
Good on Tyler for pressing on the advantages of Web 3.0 for artists. I didn't really find MA's answers satisfactory.
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by kyoob 4y ago
Counterpoint: Proud Boys disrupt drag-queen reading event, prompting hate-crime probe https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/13/proud-boy-d...
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by kyoob 4y ago
Given the lower odds of something terrible happening after you contract Covid if you’ve gotten your shots, isn’t it completely rational for people who’ve been boosted to take more risks? Did we expect boosted people to limit risk forever?
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by kyoob 4y ago
Tesla and SpaceX workers, if they had a union: "Nah."

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