sevagh

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by sevagh 2y ago
People here post a lot of dumb shit. Somebody has to correct them.
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by sevagh 2y ago
My ratio of non-flagged vs. flagged/downvoted comments is still rather high. I don't control why other HN users dislike what I have to say but I'm consistent.
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by sevagh 2y ago
Because you'll buy one regardless.
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by sevagh 2y ago
Interesting. I feel like I can consciously choose to like or dislike people. Once you get to know people better, your image of them evolves, and the decision to continue liking them is made repeatedly every time that image changes. When you
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by sevagh 2y ago
>Maybe there are some weirdos out there that feels unconditional love isn't love, but I have never heard anyone say that. I'll be that weirdo. Dogs seemingly are bred to love. I can literally get some cash from an ATM, drive ou
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by sevagh 2y ago
It's exactly as hidden/opt-in as the Stripe crypto settings, where Stripe was completely shit on in 20 comments about scams, scamming, and scam currencies. Downvoters hate having their double standard revealed.
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by sevagh 2y ago
>As an expat I’m really sad to see how spineless my fellow Canadians are You ran away, you spineless coward?
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by sevagh 2y ago
You're all not getting it. They only want to see somebody who can get working code and a glimpse of their thought process. But from 100s of mediocre examples, the better coder will have a "better thought process." Same goes f
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by sevagh 2y ago
It means that he created a tool, with his skills and capabilities, that is a force multiplier for other Google engineers. This is a straight up undeniable example that his capabilities _already_ brought value to Google and their stacked dec
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by sevagh 2y ago
Am I missing something or is the use of "GitHub" weird here? Are they GitHub employees? None of the creators seem associated with GitHub. They're _users_ of GitHub, nothing more.
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by sevagh 2y ago
I love open source. My cynicism isn't about open-source, but about the OP's first post being "these docs suck, snaps fingers maybe one of you non-devs can work on it."
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by sevagh 2y ago
In Canada big metro cities (Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal), the spreadsheet will most likely tell you that you should have bought on sight instead of making a spreadsheet.
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by sevagh 2y ago
This sounds made up tbh. I mean, I agree it's common to feel this "pressure" but the day you discover the pressure isn't real is the day you level up. And I charge plenty for fixing peoples' software pains. I do ope
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by sevagh 2y ago
Tangentially related. I was trying to describe to a friend of mine how being discerning after a few years of experience means I do less work (or toil) for a better outcome, and why it's worth the higher salary I command. Young me would
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by sevagh 2y ago
This is what Triplebyte pretended to be. Then companies who got your resume from Triplebyte just whiteboarded you again anyway.
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by sevagh 2y ago
Passing one significant whiteboard interview once is all you need, that's your "licensure." Flip a coin whether I'll ace or fail a random leetcode question but after the one and only time my little monkey dance successfu
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by sevagh 2y ago
>MMA fighters, for example, put themselves at tremendous risk because they're chasing their own personal ideas of "greatness." And there are many examples of "struggling artists" throughout history that gave up o
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by sevagh 2y ago
Every dev here loves throwing unglamorous volunteer work to non-developers, acting as if it's a favor.
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by sevagh 2y ago
So is the feature missing or is your support ticket open?
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by sevagh 2y ago
Seconded, happy Proton customer for years since de-Googling my life. Par for the course at HN to have a "vaguely dislike-ish" relationship with Protonmail. Fastmail is the poster child of HN on the other hand. I would guess the gi
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by sevagh 2y ago
Which non-Western utopias have avoided addictive substances? List them.
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by sevagh 2y ago
My personal rule is to rewrite specific solutions many times (all similar to each other) until I have "learned enough" to start thinking about an appropriate generalization (versus generalizing from the beginning).
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by sevagh 2y ago
>The publishers wish to somehow capture the players with their own launchers, but this is never going to do them any good and is widely hated. Nah, if it was possible to sign up for PSN accounts, people would have hated it but done it. L
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by sevagh 2y ago
Unrealistic book where people around him were willing to change and didn't dig their heels in to protect their fiefdom.
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by sevagh 2y ago
> I don't understand why more adults don't have awesome hobbies... most of my childhood friends don't seem to do anything fun now as adults. I get more enjoyment whole-assing one thing than half-assing many, in my case. No
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by sevagh 2y ago
>Traditional ASR systems struggle when English (or any language) is spoken with a heavy accent, often confusing it with another language. Humans also have difficulty with heavy accents, no?
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by sevagh 2y ago
>kinda worked less during the pandemic (especially at the start). I wouldn't say I specifically overworked for any one employer, but during lockdowns I was definitely spending way more time at a computer overall.
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by sevagh 2y ago
Elaborate?
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by sevagh 2y ago
No, just wrong.
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by sevagh 2y ago
>You can also do the legwork yourself. The person who makes the claim must justify it, not the readers.

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