sadcodemonkey

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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
OP's blog post also rang false to me. It feels like it was written by someone who works in HR trying to promote a culture that inhibits real interactions, under the guise of being "a good human being." Being a good human invo
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
I worked at a university library for a few short years in the 2010s. Reading your comment helped me make sense of some of the experiences I had there. I still try to keep on top of some of the trends, with the vague hope of working in that
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
I've found that there's greater range among CS graduate software engineers. Of course there are some truly excellent thinkers who know how to bring their training to bear on all kinds of problems. But some of them, well, you wonde
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
This site has been posted to HN before, but it's definitely interesting to revisit in light of drastic cuts to federal agencies like the FDA, USDA, and CDC. Independent efforts like PlasticList are probably going to be more and more im
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
Yes! I have to do front-end work occasionally but have been bad at staying on top of trends, so I would resort to jQuery if the requirements aren't super complex. Discovering querySelectorAll() and fetch() eliminated 75% of what I used
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
Anyone know the story behind the release of this repo? It doesn't look like an official IRS organization account.
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
Thank you for writing this, and for your previous comment too. You are the rare type of HN user I look for whenever I read the comments, which is not very often these days.
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
I love this. My most satisfying side projects are often not necessarily my "best" work, in terms of code cleanliness, best practices, efficiency, etc. They're ones where I had a particular creative itch I wanted to scratch. I
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by sadcodemonkey 1y ago
I love the wisdom in this comment!
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
For myself, while the learning curve is "longer" as I've gotten older, it also shoots sharply upwards as the time spent on the skill acquisition increases. Age has a magnification effect at the tail end. I'm in my late 4
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
Yes, this needs to be pointed out a lot more. The hero worship is one aspect of a much larger problem, I think, which is that technology culture is almost entirely defined by trends in the startup and VC spaces. It's been that way for
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
Same here. LinkedIn is the labor market masquerading as social media. It isn't really "social" in any meaningful sense of that word.
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
I went back to Sublime Text after trying VS Code for a few months. VS Code is very nice, when it works. My main problems had to do with the extension ecosystem. It felt very chaotic: it was hard to figure out which ones to install to get th
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
I found your post extremely touching and humanizing. We need more of these perspectives right now that highlight the complex feelings of lived experiences. This is literally what makes us human, and has the potential to reach people in ways
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
Yes! I've found this to be true too. Early in my programming career, work was a mix of repetitive, somewhat mindless tasks (implement this webpage, fix this bug, etc) and more intensive, thoughtful activities (figure out a better algor
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
Look up the book titled "I am not sick I don't need help! How to help someone with mental illness accept treatment" by Xaviar Amador. In a nutshell, the key is not to insist that your friend recognize that they're parano
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
Both your neutral tone and the fact that you want Yelp and other big companies to treat developers better were very clear! That's what's crazy to me about all these comments. What does it say that so many developers have glossed o
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by sadcodemonkey 2y ago
For a site that caters to a startup and entrepreneurial crowd, it's hilarious the number of comments here that amount to "tough cookies, bud" and "Yelp can do whatever they want, and because they can, you should just shu
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by sadcodemonkey 3y ago
thank you for saying this. the archives of HN comments are going to make a fascinating case study for the next civilization explaining why this one collapsed.
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by sadcodemonkey 3y ago
I agree that social media is a huge factor, but I suspect other generations dealing with the crises you mentioned had high rates of mental illness as well, but it wasn't tracked, or wasn't tracked the same way, or there were diffe