salixrosa

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by salixrosa 5y ago
I strongly disagree with this "both sides are the same" BS. One side has made it illegal to refer to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a war, the other has not. Yes, it's virtually impossible to reports news without some b
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by salixrosa 5y ago
Thanks for the reading recommendation! Learning about the Cynefin framework and thinking about those kinds of problems led me to James Scott and to Hayek, but I haven't come across Sanford's work before.
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by salixrosa 5y ago
Sadly, from what I've read the commission-based approach often leads to worse long-term results, especially in software engineering. It depends on the kind of work, of course. The metric I use (and in this case I have no idea how other
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by salixrosa 5y ago
I don't really have enough information on the specific's of OP's job and what they're doing with their spare time. Reading tech books sounds like learning to me, but otherwise I don't know. I think that it's re
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by salixrosa 5y ago
This sounds like it might be good thing for the company. Having employees who have extra capacity is incredibly important for an organization that wants to get things done; if you're constantly hard at work on something important, when
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by salixrosa 5y ago
I think these things are important to have as tools in your life, regardless! Life can get overwhelming in all kinds of different ways; knowing how to put your head down and take care of yourself in these ways is incredibly valuable. Unfort
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by salixrosa 5y ago
lol I was just sitting here thinking I miss my Python job and not having trouble with IntelliJ detecting changes in dependencies and how frustrating it is to invalidate caches and reindex the whole project multiple times before I can run te
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by salixrosa 6y ago
What I've found recently is that the thing is impossible within the scope of the bureaucracy we're working in. For example, it's impossible to get this 3rd party hardware working in another 3rd party's network because no
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by salixrosa 6y ago
Setting aside all the imposter syndrome, confidence, etc stuff... The only devs I've known who I thought were legitimately bad were the ones who thought they weren't. The devs who couldn't accept that their code was overly co
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by salixrosa 7y ago
It's always... interesting... To look at SF on Zillow. There are a few nice-looking options in the ~1.5M range, mostly foreclosures, and it seems mostly in not-so-great areas. I don't know if there are any great areas in SF proper
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by salixrosa 7y ago
I strongly disagree with your opinions on premed students, but that's based off my experience as a Biochemistry major at a large state school. So much partying, so little reading of assigned materials.
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by salixrosa 7y ago
It's super hard for me to not respond too strongly to this, as I'm currently having trouble with a particularly junior dev who just cannot wrap his mind around maintainability issues... But really, I feel if "you" are sp
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by salixrosa 7y ago
It's easier to hit the ceiling of how successful you're going to be when you're working on your own. If you're someone other people want to work with/for, there are a lot more opportunities that can be taken advanta
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by salixrosa 7y ago
I've often thought that if everyone, or even a majority, said "no", then we could have better policies. As it is, I've been the only person at my last two workplaces to object, and there's no way they're goin
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by salixrosa 7y ago
> If you try and peel back a layer of what you think is most important, but they don't care about it at all, you won't find anything worth hearing. I came looking for someone who'd already said this. I think you hit the na
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by salixrosa 7y ago
I don't think any amazing programmer is immune to every bug. Just imagine a programmer who, when confronted with a bug, is always like "oh, that must be X or Y, we can test that real quick!" (And is right.) What a crazy wor
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by salixrosa 7y ago
Oh, I definitely agree, though I think the problem might even be worse than just sprawl. A lot of Americans really think cars are awesome. Not just enjoyable to drive, but the best primarily form of transportation, no matter the public tran
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by salixrosa 7y ago
That's actually what I ended up doing most often (albeit w/o a trailer)! I was living somewhere where it wasn't too dangerous to bike to the grocery store. I've also lived places where it would be an extra two miles to g
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by salixrosa 7y ago
I think I can answer #3 for you! Preventing deforestation isn't generally (primarily) about preventing more carbon from being released. The wood probably isn't go to end up in the atmosphere any time soon regardless -- it'l
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by salixrosa 7y ago
$10 in off-brand lucky charms is breakfast for a month. $10 in dried beans is lunch for a month, but it's damn inconvenient, and yes, difficult to make taste good. These are both extremes but yes, I am very confident that healthy food
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by salixrosa 7y ago
"Hey, you poor people can't afford to eat healthy food! We're going to tax the cheap food, so now you can choose between unaffordable off-brand Lucky Charms and unaffordable broccoli! Now it's your fault, not the job mar
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by salixrosa 7y ago
As someone who was without a car for a while... Have you tried using public transit for grocery shopping? Where? Oklahoma City has 20 bus routes, which seem to run every 30 to 60 mins. Unless you're lucky enough to live right on a bus
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by salixrosa 7y ago
A city center isn't required for public transportation to be convenient. I've taken public transit through suburbs and tiny towns and out to the countryside. It just so happens that most of the public transit in the states royally
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by salixrosa 7y ago
Can you give me an example of the immense freedom and flexibility that cars brought? Can you give me an example that doesn't involve driving to the middle of nowhere, that isn't solved by a good public transportation system, and d
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by salixrosa 7y ago
To add to your list, the SeaTac area has a lot of amazingly gorgeous yards, and I'd say the majority of them are not your standard grassy yard. Maybe it's because enough people have realized how nice their yard could be, maybe
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by salixrosa 7y ago
I literally had this conversation yesterday as a "why I'm not sure web development is for me, long-term." The level of familiarity that can be achieved with a tool in the timeframe allotted before the "oh no, we're
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by salixrosa 7y ago
You and I must have worked for the same company. Did the owner's wife also get "employee of the year" at the annual Christmas party?
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by salixrosa 7y ago
I recently spent a day in Vancouver, unfortunately in / near what I guess is "Downtown Eastside." There were blocks of major streets we just did not go down, but even skirting the edge of it was incredibly unpleasant. Did I f
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by salixrosa 7y ago
A few years back, I had a job which required me to write up science-sounding short articles to support my employer's prescription-only supplements. I have a background in biochemistry, and an absurd desire to do a job the Right Way, s
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by salixrosa 8y ago
I have to point out something that I haven't seen anybody say here -- there is a huge amount of variety in the difficulty of these sorts of interviews. I assume that all FAANG interviews for entry-level software devs are akin to the st

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