legerdemain

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by legerdemain 1mo ago
These tips are offered often and are presumably working for someone. As someone who has followed or tried to follow them for most of my life, there are lots of ways these tips might fail to serve: - Places you visit often might be funda
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by legerdemain 1mo ago
> I'm curious to hear if you can think of a better way to make friends irl with a decent chance of success. Any environment where you can meaningfully help each other: a group for new parents, a study group at school, joining a non-
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by legerdemain 1mo ago
That's advice to meet activity partners, not friends. Think of your closest friends. Did you set out to meet them by looking for people with their exact interests? Maybe you did and you and your friends are part of a scene, but I'
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by legerdemain 2mo ago
You mean like mittens, but with separate fingers? What would that accomplish exactly?
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by legerdemain 3mo ago
Notably: > here in Switzerland
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by legerdemain 4mo ago
This is ostensibly a think piece by the CEO of a software startup building a product for human-AI collaboration, ostensibly describing that same process. And it starts out pretty focused, but then it just goes on... and on... without really
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by legerdemain 4mo ago
This... doesn't explain anything about the song. Not its writing, not its production, not the music video. It's just a list of platitudes. Even the Atlas Obscura article has more content. https://www.atlasobscura.com&#x
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by legerdemain 4mo ago
Bay Area, but not SF. Mostly dead. Multiple organizers I've talked to pointed to companies no longer wanting to host. There are a few exceptions, but the number of events is much, much lower than it was before 2020. Lots and lots of we
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by legerdemain 4mo ago
From 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019226 > I work on Bun and this is my branch > > This whole thread is an overreaction. 302 comments about code that does not work. We haven’t committe
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by legerdemain 4mo ago
Go back to school for what? In the last few decades, schooling has been one of two things. The first is certification for high-growth jobs that exist as short-term accidents of history and policy-making. Think of the droves of people doing
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by legerdemain 5mo ago
This author assumes that workforce development is a first-order priority for businesses, or at least for the health of the industry. Why make this assumption so confidently? The arrival of the electronic computer did not turn human computer
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by legerdemain 5mo ago
This is absurd. The author misrepresents the type of "abstraction" that people mean. This abstraction ladder goes as follows: - contributing individually - contributing as a tech lead - contributing as a technical manager
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by legerdemain 5mo ago
"SF" = science fiction?
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Ask HN: How did you specialize as a software engineer?
2 points by legerdemain 5mo ago|3 comments
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by legerdemain 6mo ago
I have seen this perspective a lot and I don't understand it at all. When I meet a stranger, I don't wonder if they exercise enough for me to befriend them. Same for their clothes-shopping habits, past some very basic threshold. S
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by legerdemain 7mo ago
I'm at Paris Baguette, a Korean lower-end coffee shop chain common in the Bay Area. The guy next to me has headphones on and his laptop on a stand. Or it's four middle-aged Latino women celebrating a birthday. Or it's a bunch
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by legerdemain 7mo ago
There's a reason they call them Caucasian.
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by legerdemain 7mo ago
From deep within the essay, another restatement of praise for East Asian street food culture. > That is because there is an abundance of inexpensive and delightful street food/casual dining establishments (carts, izakayas, takea
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by legerdemain 8mo ago
The author shows a tendency to give colorful, but opaque names like "gutterballing" to things that can themselves be explained in a short phrase ("working on something that is similar to, but not exactly what you actually wan
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
With posts like these, I always wonder how much comes from statistical observation and how much is regurgitated cliches.
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I Tried to Make New Friends in My 30s(theguardian.com)
6 points by legerdemain 9mo ago|1 comments
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
Yes, WeWork sold Meetup to a series of increasingly awful holding companies. I've never been to a meetup hosted at a WeWork office in the bay area, and I used to go to quite a few. Most were at company offices.
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
A $10 pizza from Costco a hundred times is a thousand dollars. Coworking space fees for a couple of years is a sum of money. Meetup organizer fees add up.
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
I'm surprised Yemeni cafes have already built a reputation. We have several in the area, and they are indeed open very late, although they attract a customer base that seems less open to interacting with strangers.
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
Yup, your second paragraph describes the place I'm talking about pretty accurately. Nothing wrong with Etsy trinkets in isolation, but not if that's the limit of what the tools are used for.
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
This is backwards. You have the privilege of curating who's not there, by not inviting them. The fascinating people you do invite aren't obligated to show up.
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
Meetup isn't a victim of Covid and WFH, it's a victim of being sold to WeWork years before Covid.
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
Historically, social clubs were a thing! You've got gentlemen's clubs of the kind that Phileas Fogg from "Around the World in 80 Days" belonged to. They were leisure spaces where the rich could socialize with each other,
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
A different take: joining one of these spaces (in the bay area) has exposed me to a weird and unpleasant underbelly of society that I barely knew existed. It's like the worst of Reddit, but in real life. People who want you to work on
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by legerdemain 9mo ago
This has absolutely never worked for me in cafes, not in decades of trying across multiple states. Cafe regulars either bring their own company or "laptops open, headphones on, heads down." Amusingly, the rec league pinball people

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