minusthebrandon

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by minusthebrandon 4y ago
I received a message from a recruiter there last week. I mentioned that I wasn't interested because of the crypto market right now. Her response was basically to say "just found out the position is no longer being filled", wh
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by minusthebrandon 5y ago
For me, I notice that I get most engrossed in the code when there's a problem and I need to figure out how to solve it.
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
This is the strangest and most satisfying discovery in a bit.
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
Flirting and speaking a foreign language are a false equivalence to not knowing how to e-mail or use social media. Whether using your definition or another, my point still stands that social media does not lead to GREATER social skills than
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
Once again... not knowing how to communicate via a particular medium does not equate to a lack of social skills. To your point, if a telegraph operator handed me a message I didn't understand, I could just say, "Hey, I don't
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
I will still say that lacking the ability to communicate via a particular medium is not the same as lacking social skills. My inability to send messages via Morse code over telegraph lines doesn't mean that I lack social skills.
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
My parents struggling with e-mail is no way the same thing as lacking social skills. That just seems a lack of technology skills. My point was that saying Snapchat or social media leads to greater social skills than what previous generation
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
Yes, she is 8. But even if she were 10 or 11, we'd probably keep similar restrictions. She does have access to FaceTime and our time restriction will probably grow as she ages.
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
She's 8. I'll grant that this works for us now. As she ages, we'll give her more responsibility for handling boundaries on her own.
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
She interacts with her peers at school and with her family... by that same token, ANYONE who grew up before Snapchat or the Internet had or has lacking social skills. Also, she CAN FaceTime. I would not consider Snapchat or TikTok to be &qu
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
My wife and I both work full-time and we still stick to my daughter's iPad restrictions: only an hour a day, no Instagram or TikTok or YouTube at all, and she only gets it after homework and chores and other things are done. We never t
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
There is an obvious difference between disagreeing with what someone says and believes and circling a petition that harms their livelihood because of said disagreements.
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by minusthebrandon 6y ago
Brilliant.org?
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by minusthebrandon 10y ago
http://brandonburning.com/warmup A simple warmup calculator for my workouts. Use it multiple times a week. https://safe-savannah-8578.herokuapp.com When Turntable.fm folded, I was sad. I wanted to learn sockets,
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by minusthebrandon 11y ago
I'll be impressed when breakfast machines can do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWd5D8wUc88
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
I totally get it. It's a complete mindset change and those are a little hard to get started. Definitely appreciate the advice.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
Yeah, you're totally right. I completely missed the "instead of sitting in the car" part. Thanks. Sorry nikanj.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
Honestly, the mornings and the evenings are the time I get to spend with my wife and daughter. I value time with them infinitely more than I value listening to audiobooks/podcasts in rush hour traffic for 15 hours a week.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
He still works there and can probably vouch for the agreement, but he's no longer my direct supervisor.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
The move has already happened, just now the new manager wants me to come in more. You hear about things like "negotiation tactics" but I've never experienced this, so it's hard to recognize. Thanks for the advice.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
This is how I'm starting to feel. I love the team. Part of me thinks I'm blowing this out of proportion and ascribing nefarious motives to the higher-ups when they don't actually have any... but I also think I'm telling
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
I tell myself I could, but it's rough. A good 3+ hours in the car every day.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
It was just an oral agreement. Nothing on paper.
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
Yes, but many involve a commute nearly as rough as the one I'm facing now. But I suppose in that situation, I could negotiate a higher salary from the get-go.
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Ask HN: What should I do in this situation?
29 points by minusthebrandon 12y ago|45 comments
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by minusthebrandon 12y ago
Location: Phoenix, AZ, USA Remote: Totally willing. Willing to relocate: Sorry, but no. Technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandon-burning/99/314/b65
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by minusthebrandon 13y ago
American Gods by Neil Gaiman is an amazing book.
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Ask HN: Innovative way to help education?
1 points by minusthebrandon 13y ago|0 comments
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by minusthebrandon 14y ago
They probably couldn't find a designer in SF that charged LESS than the designer in Germany. A company that doesn't pay invoices tends to go for the cheapest option.