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by wwwater 2y ago
Good post, thanks for sharing it and the author for writing it! I liked very much the observations in the first half of the post, however I don't agree with the conclusions. For me the reason for the state of software engineering (and
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by wwwater 2y ago
Wow, great piece, thanks for sharing it! While reading it I was absolutely sure I've already heard it. For the first part I thought it's the transcript of the text they read in Vipassana retreat, and for the second I thought it mu
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by wwwater 6y ago
Thank you very much for writing this! It's very well formulated and expressed. I especially liked > Unfortunately, it's very difficult to convince suffering patients that they have some control over their situation without also
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by wwwater 6y ago
A star like Sun is in a state of an equilibrium between gravitational forces that want to collapse the star and the fusion energy. Gravitational pressure helps atoms to collide and fusion takes place. But it doesn't sound right to say
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by wwwater 8y ago
There is a very good movie about Duchenne. It's called "Inside I'm dancing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_I%27m_Dancing
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by wwwater 8y ago
Hey, great answer, totally on the same page with you. But at times the boredom voice is just so loud, that even understanding that this voice is also just a part of grand happening does not help.
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by wwwater 8y ago
Although I do agree that the percentage of people on the spectrum is higher in tech industry than in other industries, I think it's not higher than some 5-15%. When you ascribe to every introverted person being on the spectrum, you neg
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by wwwater 8y ago
On one hand it's true and people will apply their preconceived interpretations, on the other hand if nobody talks about it these interpretations and biases will never change. People have these biases because they don't know anybod
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by wwwater 8y ago
Your work sounds interesting. I also live in Spain, what is the company name?
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by wwwater 8y ago
what's your timezone?
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by wwwater 8y ago
I have a specific question: do you hire remotely? :)
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by wwwater 8y ago
I think it's hard to explain why the things it does are cool, because it's related to the aesthetic sense of beauty and it's very difficult to explain that one. It's like you take a person who is doing number theory, and
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by wwwater 8y ago
I totally agree here, that 'culture fit' in team work is a real thing. Usually a thing that you discover some month later, after the person feels they can be "themselves" and don't need to pretend being nice. If the
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Ask HN: Working as programmer in science?
4 points by wwwater 8y ago|3 comments
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by wwwater 8y ago
> When I interview candidates I attempt to engage them in technical argument where I purposely make some questionable statements. How do they attempt to correct you? Do they leave the door open for their opinion to be incorrect. You can
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by wwwater 8y ago
I like programming languages much more than natural ones, therefore what usually makes me happy, is to see a language-for-humans to resemble a programming language, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban . But thank
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by wwwater 8y ago
This is an absolutely amazing course! It's also about how Buddhism actually guessed so many things correctly about how our brains work. The author explains about Buddhist ideas and almost for every of them, there is a scientific experi
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by wwwater 8y ago
> I can't wait to teach It seems that you don't actually want to become enlightened as much as you just simply want to be helpful to other people and teach them a valuable skill. I personally think that enlightenment and teachi
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by wwwater 9y ago
That's a very stupid decision to make from her side. She had small children, so every additional year she lives is immensely important for her children. To die in the next year is just 0.05% probability, to die now - 5%. Even if she di
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by wwwater 9y ago
Thank you for sharing! > When I behaved this way in the past, a strong mentor or manager would have helped me immensely. Instead I had managers who were scared of me because I was more talented than they were and just wanted me to go awa
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by wwwater 9y ago
Last summer I've been in Austria and Italy, was relatively full with people. Tell me where these secret uninhabited places are and I'll go there :)
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by wwwater 9y ago
Yes, I guess the US has a lot of uninhabited regions, while in western Europe I often have a feeling, there is not a single hectare of land without a village.
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by wwwater 9y ago
I really like to hike in Alps, but I don't know how to find these uninhabited places. For sure there are things for more experienced mountaineers, but on these routes there are also people, just more experienced ones.. Besides, I don&#
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by wwwater 9y ago
I like very much how you describe this thing with words like "triggers" and "disappearing into network", that feels exactly this way for me too. Where is this place, where you can hike for a week without seeing any other
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by wwwater 9y ago
There is an amazing TED talk by Johann Hari on that topic https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...
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by wwwater 9y ago
> is a personal choice It is, in the sense, that your personality determines it. But you can't determine your personality. If you are born curious and independent, you'll probably find your way. You cannot chose your genes. Thi
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by wwwater 9y ago
I have never heard of Ferdinand von Schirach, but since the two other books of Feynman are really good, I would also like to know, why you recommend the third book. Could you tell more why his autobiography is worth reading?
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by wwwater 9y ago
This article massively exaggerates the positive attitude Russians have towards women in tech. My Russian mother keeps telling me time to time that there must be something wrong with me that I have this genuine interest in tech things being
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by wwwater 10y ago
You are from the expats, aren't you? You sound very bitter, as if you hate almost all people around you. But why is that so? I can understand the antipathy towards some tourists to some extend, like for example it bothers me, that peop
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by wwwater 10y ago
Would be interesting to hear your story. It sounds like a very good description, this "voluntary but compulsory". Would you mind to share more?

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