the_only_law

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by the_only_law 3y ago
I wouldn’t count out the thought that there are many brainless people who convince themselves what’s “VCs will like” is “what they wish would exist”.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
This is my biggest blocker to leaving software. Anything else that interests me, STEM or non-STEM is pointless without a PhD or a decent masters program at least. I don’t even have an undergrad degree. I was more or less willing to bite the
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> IIRC his time in the industry ended after he ran his studio into the ground by making an overwatch clone with boring characters, then trying to pivot to a Fortnite clone Tbh this kinda just feels like the industry playbook.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Maybe people should start overturning their busses again.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> You can justify horrible atrocities if you strongly believe in extreme outcomes. Yeah.. that’s the goal.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I regret not coming in my original post armed with evidence. This site is full of liars and sophists, among other scum. It frankly doesn’t matter whether you bring evidence or not.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Tbh I wasn’t paying attention, but in retrospect the signs were obvious: 1. We were owned by a PE company. I should have been more alert if no other reason, but this. 2. Company was banking on a strategy that wasn’t working. Not to go too m
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I've never had an upper class life, quite the opposite. What's a shithead? You mean someone privileged like you are now? Notice how they always accuse others of what they themselves are.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> 2x WFO/week is actually quite comfortable for me. Just started a new job a few months ago that was 2x WFO. Worked out fine, didn’t mind. Of course upper management is now planning for a full RTO. While also worrying about potentia
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Not when they can fight another culture war battle!
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I'm looking at leaving tech. I was planning on leaving tech before the layoff. In fact, I was hoping to use my last job to fund my education in something else, and then had to piss away my savings while out of work. I was telling
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Fine now, but I was out of work most of 2023. I was not prepared for this market. > And if you're doing okay - what advice can you share to help those out there who may be struggling? I hear the market isn’t doing much better. I was
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by the_only_law 3y ago
As with other accelerations manifestos I’ve read, I’m still not unconvinced e/acc isn’t a shitpost at best, and drug induced psychosis at worst.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Ah yes, another fine example of the retardation of HN. Tell me again how this place has so much better discussion than [site you cry about constantly].
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Seems like the Nintendo consoomer shills are in full swing here. Will you clowns mind explaining what guidelines were violated by posts such as: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39215568 https://news.ycombina
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I think that the admins outsource most of the censoring to "senior" users though by giving more weight to their flagging. Nah even easier, it’s mostly outsourced to groupthink. Doesn’t involve anything nefarious, just inactio
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Yeah I have a few basic puzzle games and solitaire. Fine for wasted time and absolutely infested with ads. I also have Civ6 on my phone, rarely play it though, the Ui on PC is much nicer. I bought it because I thought it would be neat to ha
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by the_only_law 3y ago
You’re getting really close to understanding.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Guess a good number of people think they're stupid. My guess is it's mostly feigned humility and midwit cope.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
We need more bullying.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised, lots of AAA companies giving up on legendary IPs, thinking that they need some new parasitic business model like micro transactions. This is what I’m seeing a lot of, along with the general creative bankru
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Thank the lord he has white knights like you to defend his honor.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Sadly this seems to be getting much more difficult. I was out of work for a year, but I would have found something much sooner if I had compromised on remote (which I ended up having to do anyway).
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> or the lack of demand or immediate utility (eg. academia and research). The problem with academia for me (at least here in the US) is the amount of money I have to piss away to even get a fraction of a chance to work in it. You could c
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Unfortunately, this site is testament to the opposite.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I went through some comments, and they give the worst advices. Those are not advices, those just lost opportunities. Or simply regrets. L OP wasn’t asking for “advice”, but for things you would do if you could start over, so why the we
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I would probably have gone to school, gone into a different field entirely. Later on if I decided I hated it I could always shift over to software, but the opposite is not as feasible. It would have also probably helped my social life as we
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Spain and Portugal didn't have those and the average person there remained bitterly poor until deep into the 20th century. It’s mildly controversial, but I really like Buñuel’s Tierra Sin Pan ( https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Jobscan really killed any spark left in me when it dinged my resume for not having useless vague phrases copy/pasted from job descriptions like “business solutions”.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> One company's I looked at asked me "what is the most impressive thing you've worked on?" I get this one a good bit and I despise it because the answer is always something I did outside of work.

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