neuroticfish

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by neuroticfish 3y ago
I wasn’t really looking for pity, just sharing the perspective of a person who has dealt with moderately severe ADHD. I’m doing just fine now and am enjoying my work again. Medication was a critical part of that journey, but attention disor
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by neuroticfish 3y ago
> Picking up bits here and bits there, is not learning. It is just being lazy and clumsy. This is at best a lack of understanding of how attention disorders work, at worst a lack of empathy. Some people are only able to commit things to
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by neuroticfish 3y ago
>So you see that every base reality can contain a vast number of nested simulations, and a simple counting argument tells us we're much more likely to live in a simulated world than the real one. >But if you believe this, you bel
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by neuroticfish 5y ago
>Every time I explain that, in roll the fans telling me I'm somehow doing it wrong. "Wrong strain, bro" I started experiencing cannabis induced panic attacks first year of college and quit after the second time. People we
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by neuroticfish 5y ago
>I wonder if there’s an opportunity to teach a “how to search” class in schools. We did this in a public middle school around 2002-2003 with boolean searches. Was this unique to my experience or has this been a common thing for awhile?
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by neuroticfish 5y ago
>What’s the practical alternative? Single payer healthcare, not that your question is sincere.
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by neuroticfish 5y ago
what do you use now? i find that there are almost no alternatives to niche communities.
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Ask HN: What are the ramifications of quitting a job before finding another?
11 points by neuroticfish 5y ago|27 comments
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by neuroticfish 5y ago
guess it depends on where you land. i'm in academia now and it's absolutely horrifying. understaffed, constantly dropped into new projects while other ones are on fire, tons of overtime, professors don't respect your standa
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
The only way to learn is to practice. Use practice problem sets in textbooks.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
SF and NY are already competitive enough but remote positions make it 10x worse. If you're really insistent on remote work for a startup try to focus on Nashville, Charlotte, and Atlanta.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
Most of the apply links soft 404. Shame because I like the concept :/
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
What sorts of companies are you applying to? And where? I consider myself to be about average in technical skill and I don't have much trouble passing interviews at good companies in the US South. I know I wouldn't be able to m
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
>Blog about each topic/micro topic/learning. Any recommendations for this? I've always wanted to make a blog but I never have anything to write about. What I work on is trivial so it doesn't seem worth the time to w
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
If Firefox had better dev tools I might. Chrome's entire development environment feels first class, whereas Firefox's feels like an afterthought.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
How are iterators functional language features? They're not unique to functional languages and they don't require function composition to implement. They're present in most popular imperative languages.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
>Then today morning my favorite blog closed because of an attack by cancel-police. Isn't this still speculative at this point? Last I read about it (on Reddit) there was no actual evidence that NYT was cooking up a hit piece.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
Can I ask what field you went into?
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
I enjoyed working in restaurants in my formative years but I don't think I'd be happy owning one. Honestly I think my dream job would be working on a cargo ship or something but sadly I'm well past the age cap for breaking i
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
You and I are in the same boat, except I've grown to hate not only the culture, but programming too. I've not heard of former devs breaking into other technical fields, but I have heard of them getting into stuff like farming, co
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
If in order to get a job as a senior architect I have to have experience that I can only get by having access to come inside your house, then yeah I kind of do.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
> Developers should not need direct production access. Then stop telling me I need years of experience with Docker, K8s, AWS, etc. on dev job listings.
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by neuroticfish 6y ago
Sometimes I'll highlight things but I'm a terrible note taker I think. Do you know of any good resources for taking notes while reading?
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Ask HN: How do you read books like 'Clean Architecture' or 'Clean Code'?
3 points by neuroticfish 6y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: How do you read books like 'Clean Architecture' or 'Clean Code'?
2 points by neuroticfish 6y ago|0 comments
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by neuroticfish 7y ago
Please stop. We are in the middle of a global crisis. Can HN stop obsessing over opportunism for one minute?
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by neuroticfish 7y ago
Also requires an account to read the article. No thanks, I'll just move on.
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by neuroticfish 7y ago
Why would a company and a person ever have aligned values, unless that person owns/runs that company? Companies are ultimately tethered to the will of its stakeholders and the stakeholders only hold stake because they expect a return
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by neuroticfish 7y ago
Genuine question: why is DevSecOps a thing? What is the difference between it and DevOps? Or separate DevOps and SecOps teams? Or InfraOps? At what point does it become systems administration with inflated titles? I've even seen
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by neuroticfish 7y ago
>A whole food, conservative, omnivorous diet of your ancestors instead of becoming vegan or carnivore. Not sure how that's low tech or ancestral. Veganism is quite sustainable and many peoples of the past have practiced it.

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