watermelon59

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by watermelon59 7mo ago
> As someone who taught kids in person and fell into a deep depression with how Kafkaesque that job was Would you mind elaborating on why that was the case? I’m super curious because I’ve considered switching careers to become a teacher.
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by watermelon59 7mo ago
As a father of a still very young boy who might be getting into sports later in school (who knows), reading that terrifies me. I’ve heard the same, in person, from friends who have kids on their school’s soccer team and whatnot. Why don’t s
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by watermelon59 7mo ago
Were you able to get into that role without the expectation that you’d still be functioning as an IC i.e. holding two jobs at the same time? I had an awful experience as a lead because the massive mental context switches between leading and
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by watermelon59 3y ago
Goodness, I totally misread the post lol. I somehow read it as “Mazda has a process to help their engineers deal with that.”
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by watermelon59 3y ago
Can you elaborate on that? Sounds interesting. I’m exactly 35 and in the same situation as the OP.
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by watermelon59 3y ago
They essentially eliminated the SDET role across the company. There may be a few left here and there, but it used to be a whole thing of its own. The book How We Test Software At Microsoft describes in detail what the SDET role was about an
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Ask HN: Is the quality of American customer service degrading sharply?
4 points by watermelon59 3y ago|5 comments
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by watermelon59 3y ago
Am Brazilian, can personally confirm. I used to do that too. I actually left the country with the explicit goal of shedding my Brazilian identity and becoming someone else entirely. I think Brazil suffers from being a country where some seg
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by watermelon59 3y ago
The ecosystem is nowhere near as mature though. I don’t work with either anymore but back in 2017 I made the switch from C# to Java and it felt like a breath of fresh air when it came to the maturity and capability of JVM tooling compared t
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by watermelon59 3y ago
> Working on something with unrealistic confidence, even if that project itself is completely doomed to failure, is probably better for you than watching Netflix. As someone who’s heavily biased towards just sitting on the couch (but rea
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by watermelon59 3y ago
I don’t have an answer to your specific question, but I just want you to know you’re not alone. I’m also quite excitable and love talking not just about technical stuff, but all sorts of things. I’m quick to smile and laugh, and I probably
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by watermelon59 4y ago
I’ve been learning it for over a year because I want to be able to speak to my wife in her native language. So far I’m loving to learn it for the exact reason you said, the way sentences are pieces together is outright fun to me. I’m also a
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by watermelon59 4y ago
Seattle has so many intersections that are completely bonkers. They’re not only poorly walkable, they also make driving extremely stressful.
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by watermelon59 4y ago
> My experience in this world of embedded chips, is that many of the tutorials you read do not deal with power consumption really. They assume that you're playing with a dev board. Or that your application has copious amounts of pow
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Ask HN: What are some dev jobs with quick feedback loops?
1 points by watermelon59 4y ago|1 comments
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by watermelon59 5y ago
> I do not care about being competitve. > I work so I can draw a salary to fund my life. That's it. I don't care about constantly climbing a ladder. I don't care about advancing my career for the sake of advancing my ca
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by watermelon59 5y ago
That’s hasn’t been my experience at all. Worked at Microsoft and now I’m at one of the big AAA game companies (working on their online services side, not games directly) and both were/are very stressful. High expectations of commitment
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by watermelon59 5y ago
How old were you when you went back to university? I’ve been wanting to do something like that but I feel like at 33 that’s too late.
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by watermelon59 5y ago
Not OP but Dropbox for example was unique and game-changing when it showed up. I agree with OP that nothing interesting like that has shown up in years. It's all "we're gonna make your kubernetes better" now and hardly a
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by watermelon59 5y ago
> Has anyone seen what it takes to run something on AWS? I've given up every time I've tried it on personal projects. It's just a complete poorly document mess indeed. At work we host our stuff on AWS but we have an ops te
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by watermelon59 5y ago
Brazil.
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by watermelon59 5y ago
My own anecdote as an immigrant is that I've always felt welcome here and have always been well treated, respected, and valued. Totally different route of course, but same deal in terms of falling in love with the country. This is real
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by watermelon59 5y ago
I’m from Southern Brazil (very close to our hermanos in Argentina) and yes this is very true. I really look forward to eating steak when I go visit family and friends down there.
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by watermelon59 5y ago
The best! It actually helped me take a more moderate view on the HN crowd. I'll admit I used to put people's opinions here on a pedestal.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Brazil has a similar system called Registrato, run by the central bank. Honestly though, I’m not a fan of such all-encompassing federal systems. I live in the US but I’m in Brazil right now (yes, at the worst possible time for one to be her
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by watermelon59 6y ago
That sounds far from trivial. Now in addition to your application you also have to maintain your minimal JVM to keep up with the latest developments in the mainstream ones.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
For me, programming has become largely unappealing since the advent of cloud computing (which happened shortly after I entered the market). I really miss the first years of my career.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Speaking of details: your usernames. Lol. Awesome coincidence.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Sorry for going off a tangent here, but when you say you got a CS degree after being a mechanical and energy engineer, do you mean you went back to university for a full undergrad in CS? Or was that a Master’s? I’ve been thinking of going b
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Crap, that didn’t occur to me at all! And now I realize that that’s what they probably meant facepalms

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