mcrwfrd

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by mcrwfrd 1y ago
8 years ago I graduated with a bachelors degree in pure math and theoretical physics. 2 years later I settled down and decided to just become a software engineer building CRUD apps. Since graduating I've consistently looked for a job t
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by mcrwfrd 2y ago
This morning I started to stir when my Casper Glow light turned on. But what really got me out of bed was when I heard the faint gurgle of my timed coffee machine auto brewing the first cup of the day.
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by mcrwfrd 3y ago
Hundred Rabbits[0] have been an inspiration for me for a while. They work from their sailboat! [0] https://100r.co/site/off_the_grid.html
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by mcrwfrd 3y ago
There's no surfing in BC ;)
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by mcrwfrd 3y ago
You make a great point about finding remote work. I lived in the Victoria area before I left Canada and found that a lot of my peers worked remotely for US-based companies. During the pandemic, some were even able to get a US market rate sa
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by mcrwfrd 3y ago
Canadian software engineer here. About a year ago I moved away from Canada specifically because cost of living was too high compared to Canadian market-rate salaries in the software industry. Many of my Canadian peers have done the same. Ca
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by mcrwfrd 3y ago
100% really hope Andrew Jervis is able to keep his show going. So much of the music that I keep coming back to is music that I discovered through his show!
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by mcrwfrd 4y ago
Another vote for bandcamp. Definitely higher effort, but also higher reward in my opinion. One of my favourite things to do is sit on the sofa with my headphones on and actively listen to a few new bandcamp discoveries. It's really fun
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by mcrwfrd 4y ago
> Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty, and I Heart Huckabees satirized the dreary emptiness of white collar life. Didn’t my coworkers realize how ridiculous it sounds to use this jargon? Fight Club had an enormous influence on me d
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by mcrwfrd 4y ago
I completed a four-year honours level program at a research university. Math has always been one of my biggest passions, but I wanted some real world work experience before heading into grad school. Fast-forward four years: I now work in so
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Ask HN: Which industry roles actually require daily use of CS knowledge?
3 points by mcrwfrd 5y ago|11 comments
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by mcrwfrd 5y ago
I also experience Deuteranopia. I am usually only impacted if I'm trying to read a chart which requires that I map the colors in a legend to the colors on the lines/bars. This is usually impossible for me to do if there are >2
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by mcrwfrd 5y ago
This is Water by David Foster Wallace
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
I'm also getting a timeout. Your mirror worked for me.
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
> Also lots of Math is involved in what I specifically do. I’ve always dreamed of using my math skills in my day job. What kind of math do you work with? Any tips on finding positions like this?
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
I’ve always wondered if jobs like this exist, but I’ve never actually seen a job posting for one. As a developer with a math degree, these kinds of jobs have always been something of a dream for me. Any tips on where to look?
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
Another whole-album-listener here, but I'm the minority among my peers (millennials). I find looking for complete albums where all of the songs are high quality really guides my taste when I'm looking for new music. If an artist&#
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
More and more employers these days offer access to workplace giving software that enables people to donate money to causes of their choice and get matching from their employer. There are also a lot of employers matching volunteer time for t
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
100%. You picked up on something that I thought about but didn’t write in the post in the end. All through undergrad I had one friend in my program who was laid back but also interested in math. Trying to find more people like this. I don’t
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Ask HN: Where to find online mathematics community?
4 points by mcrwfrd 6y ago|2 comments
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
I'm about to embark on building a tiny house this summer. We have done a lot of planning and a lot of learning so far (this is our first major building project). The more I think about the space, the more I realize how minimalist I wil
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
A notification seems like it would be a great idea. Users could ignore it and carry on with with the free listening premise. But the very existence of the platform seems to be based on the fact that listeners will choose to support artists,
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by mcrwfrd 6y ago
> Listen to your favorite music for free on any device. Do you plan on adding a paywall when a listener has heard a song a certain amount? I’m a huge fan of Bandcamp, and I love that I hit a paywall when I’ve heard an album a certain num
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by mcrwfrd 7y ago
Build and launch a small SaaS before you start your PhD. Then while your PhD is in progress, offer support and small feature improvements that don't take up too much of your time.
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Ask HN: What did you do with your PhD in Math?
6 points by mcrwfrd 7y ago|1 comments
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by mcrwfrd 7y ago
I love the idea of taking sabbatical. If I were to take time for one, I think the structure would look more like what you're suggesting here. Expanding network of people to learn from and contributing to OSS. As introverted as I am, I
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by mcrwfrd 7y ago
Another vote for Fastmail. I've been using it with my own domain for the last couple of years with zero problems.
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My First OSS Contribution(crawford.io)
2 points by mcrwfrd 7y ago|0 comments
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Dear Microserfs(crawford.io)
2 points by mcrwfrd 7y ago|0 comments
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The Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers(nytimes.com)
6 points by mcrwfrd 7y ago|2 comments

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