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by why5s 2y ago
Mistakes Were Made by Carol Tarvis and Elliot Aronson. It's a long discussion on the mechanics of cognitive dissonance and self-justification. -- "A man travels many miles to consult the wisest guru in the land. When he arrives, h
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by why5s 2y ago
I don't regret staying at my last role for 5 years but I do regret not spending more time looking and getting a better understanding of my value on the market while I was employed there. I wasn't underpaid but I certainly could&#x
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by why5s 2y ago
I gotta be honest: I aspire to create something as valuable and as cool as lichess one day.
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by why5s 2y ago
I've been asked this (on a scale from 1 - 5) and have had some success referencing previous performance reviews (i.e. meeting expectations or exceeding expectations). YMMV obviously.
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by why5s 2y ago
Some thoughts (from a very biased fan of the original article and book): > If you own a copy, consider reading it an act of meta-anthropology, exploring why a professional anthropologist could be so relentlessly, aggressively incurious a
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by why5s 3y ago
Anecdote: I attempted to volunteer with the Microsoft TEALs Program at a local school. I'm not sure what we did wrong but the instructor never really utilized myself or the other volunteers. For about a month, he asked us to "revi
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by why5s 3y ago
> but I consider relying on people's own answers to be a methodological error in the research. Line employees often do not have a big picture understanding of the work they are doing. Is it not problematic that so many people feel t
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by why5s 3y ago
From personal experience: no it is not. This mentality leads to nothing but frustration and burnout as upper management sends you to tackle your "staff"-project. Titles are all based on organizational politics and the macroeconomi
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by why5s 3y ago
it doesn't have the same $1500 aesthetic though..
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by why5s 3y ago
Don't landlords more or less already have access to this via credit scores, background checks etc? I don't think there's a reasonable equivalent to this for tenants.
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by why5s 3y ago
Various things: - Non-technical explanations. Useful for the pointy-haired boss. And his boss as well. - Stack Overflow (but on steroids). - Summarizing long-form articles my friends send me. - Generating rudimentary programs/scripts I
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by why5s 4y ago
Enlarged font sizes and periodic breaks where I get up and walk around do wonders for me.
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by why5s 4y ago
For work-related stuff: I disagree. We're not even at Uber's scale at my company and I hate having to manage the ever-changing set of dependencies that I have no control over.
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by why5s 4y ago
> I just can't imagine not wanting to explore a new area and have distance from your parents. I love my parents, we talk a couple times a week, but I don't need them physically close to me. (last couple years being the exceptio
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by why5s 4y ago
> Computer programming work only counts at half the normal rate because debugging isn’t quite the same as deep thought. This mentality is the reason why most software originating from academia is awful. Productivity is measured by resear
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by why5s 4y ago
I get the sentiment here. But I can understand why someone would want to optimize towards writing more code than dealing with organizational politics. I guess the tradeoff would be to go to a smaller company.
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by why5s 5y ago
I’ve learned something new today. I guess I’ll have to try one of these out.
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by why5s 5y ago
Based on the comments in this thread, I’m guessing the majority of HN doesn’t cook. The switch from an induction stove to a proper gas stove changes the way you cook. No more waiting for the coils to warm up, being able to dynamically adjus
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by why5s 5y ago
I can relate to this. Often times, my notes don't serve as a reference but rather as an append-only stream-of-consciousness intended to reinforce my understanding of something.
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by why5s 5y ago
I’ve been looking for a decent alternative to Quora. Maybe this fits the bill?
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by why5s 6y ago
"Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing... After all possibilities have been exhausted" - Somebody that's not Winston Churchill
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by why5s 6y ago
My old company used a mix of Slack and RocketChat. Functionally, it's fine but I was never a big fan of the UI and how attachments were handled. Also, cross-channel search was kinda bad. Mind you, this was well over a year ago so I&#x2
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A thread for well-intentioned engineers about how to navigate big tech(twitter.com)
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Predicting Depression via Social Media (2013) [pdf](course.duruofei.com)
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by why5s 6y ago
I don't think it's a waste. A good chunk of my reading involves content unrelated to my job (software engineer). Not every hour of the day has to be spent chasing "productivity". Unstructured free time outside of work is
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by why5s 6y ago
Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs https://www.amazon.com/Gig-Americans-Talk-About-Their/dp/060... It's basically a series of interviews with people across various industries talking about their jobs. Not e
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by why5s 9y ago
Not a list of exercises, but Julia Evan's pandas cookbook has been incredibly helpful for me.
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by why5s 9y ago
I don't think that there's anything wrong with wanting to find meaning in your job. The time has come to stop sidestepping the debate and home in on the real issue: what would our economy look like if we were to radically redefin