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by the_greyd 5y ago
That's Cory's whole schtick - he critiques big corps. I follow him a bit and most times his analysis is good and other times he dismisses things that don't fit in his ideological viewpoint.
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by the_greyd 5y ago
As someone from India, "tor-toys" is what you would hear from most Indians. For most words of the kind, in india they would be pronounced in exactly the way that would make you remember the spelling of the word (since you are grad
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by the_greyd 5y ago
Overall I like yuval noah harrari's point about our systems, that liberal democracies and free market are based on the assumption that we have rational individuals making decisions in their self-interest. Which is not true at all, in t
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by the_greyd 5y ago
You make a good point. In a state of pandemic, the population IS in some sense similar to livestock, bodies to be managed, since the virus has weaponized our bodies. Wouldn't you say?
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by the_greyd 5y ago
College sounds fun! Do it!
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by the_greyd 5y ago
Anyone interested in declining birth rates, just take a look at the statistics in South Korea. 42% of the women in their 30s are unmarried ( https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pxotg9/over_42_o...
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by the_greyd 5y ago
Now that you can sit in inside spaces without a mask, I feel libraries and cafes are a real alternative for me! And this is me typing from a desk at a public library 10 minutes from my apartment. Can't express the amount of relief and
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by the_greyd 5y ago
Kudos to the team, they've done an amazing job with the elementary ecosystem, considering they are just a handful of people!
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by the_greyd 6y ago
I don't think those are the defining factors of why they got famous or successful out of all the highly intelligent and hard working people out there. The fact that they got famous brings light to their ideas, which makes you think the
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by the_greyd 6y ago
If I understand, we are talking about a very narrow definition of success and failure here, professional success which is recognition, fame and riches? That seems to be a rare product of being lucky; where what you like doing and what you h
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by the_greyd 6y ago
I'm surprised, personally I would put software engineer akin to a new-age factory worker, but worse for multiple reasons. This is taking into account how many new software engineers are joining and where the field is going in general,
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by the_greyd 6y ago
RedHat is not a "product" company but a "service" company, so comparing it to other big tech companies is an apples to oranges comparison. The nature of big tech is scalability (product), whereas Redhat is more of a sust
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Cool project! Love the autocomplete feature. Just my 2 cents about the custom commands, hiding the complexity of git commands is not something I'd like personally (not accounting for alias, aliases are cool). In most cases you'd m
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Drawing a parallel to Nassim Taleb's "don't hide the risk" (or atleast what I understood from his talks), working for a big corp hides risk (and reward). If you or the team do a shitty job, the feedback and the results a
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Was expecting visuals but all I got was a bunch of paragraphs..
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by the_greyd 6y ago
I get the sense of "relax", but I'm trying to get the essence of it. Is it to be more mindful, stop obsessing/stressing about the thing that you are doing while still putting action in? I still struggle sometime because
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by the_greyd 6y ago
+1 I'd also recommend sending the author a note to take their ebook elsewhere in the future.
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Well said! I agree and I'll say there's a whole world of difference when moving from programming to software engg. IMO working an average software engineering job, things are messy and the problem domain is not exact. In my experi
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Systems thinking as a general concept might be what you're looking for, pair it up with mental models.
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Speaking as a young, single and lives in an apartment person. As an introvert I've often relied on being present among people to kind of substitute for my social life. With that not being present, it really puts focus on the presence o
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by the_greyd 6y ago
Google Plus Meet? Huh. Did somebody tell Raed667 our plan? We are supposed to be a secret until we kill the normal Google Meet and release our superior chat product Google Plus Meet.
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by the_greyd 6y ago
That makes sense since we all have exactly 12 friends, that's the official friend cap for the year 2020.
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by the_greyd 6y ago
I would have loved some actual questions. I've been reading some of Google's Project Rework "What makes effective teams", and it revolves around psychological safety. It is very accurate in terms of my experience as well
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by the_greyd 7y ago
https://www.notion.so/Fundraising-c5092becfe074069b8252fb866... <- tl;dr it's a startup teaching stuff to other people/companies/startups.
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by the_greyd 7y ago
My code editor does a fair job of finding things for me, I know I won't use ripgrep/fzf that often :shrug: On the other hand I would recommend fish shell (replacement for bash) with z plugin and http (replacement for curl).
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by the_greyd 7y ago
Thank you for sharing that. Your dessert analogy perfectly captures my personal experiences. I've been a loner most of my life. I recognize the bad experience I had in my childhood and the coping strategies I developed during my teenag
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by the_greyd 7y ago
Self-reflection when taken to the extreme becomes ruminating and dwelling on the past. I'd say bound your self-reflection time as well. And part of the mindset I guess is that you are imperfect and it's okay making mistakes. From
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by the_greyd 7y ago
I don't think everybody has the capacity to be reckless. I think we are bounded by our temperament (nature + nurture). Some of us have exact perfectionist tendencies, and some of us have creative tendencies, and more. This is very much
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by the_greyd 7y ago
I've never really understood "Go with your gut", because my gut is still my brain.. I would be curious if individuals have a process for thinking. A kind of structured thinking, instead of all abstract. I've noticed that
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by the_greyd 7y ago
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. It reminds me of Sylvia Plath's fig tree - [ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7511-i-saw-my-life-branchin... ] which I always think about. I've observed that it's useful to

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