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by xor1 8y ago
>I cannot for the life of me figure out how people smart enough to work at a FAANG company would subject themselves to this kind of psychological dog and pony show. $300k+ total comps are a big part of it
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by xor1 8y ago
What are creativity and leadership classes?
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by xor1 8y ago
>Generally, I don't see a lot of these "snakes" out in the real world You don't seem to understand why the term is "snake" in the first place. Of course you don't see them. They're hiding in the gr
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by xor1 8y ago
I went to Hong Kong earlier this year, and I was amused by how there were luxury watch shops seemingly everywhere. My first assumption was that they were for laundering money out of the mainland.
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by xor1 8y ago
Technically there are no intrinsic human rights and it's up to us as a society to define them.
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by xor1 8y ago
>a senior developer, by definition, will hit the ground running with mostly anything you use. that's the senior part in senior developer. a senior developer also gets to be picky in what stacks they want to work with. usually it&#x2
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by xor1 8y ago
>Yes. Because mainstream is what you should select for when choosing your tools. Ease of hiring experienced developers should absolutely be a part of selection criteria, but of course it should not be the only one. What good is it going
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by xor1 8y ago
>As I said, smart people are everywhere (on the Internet), just reach out and they'll help you. Well, maybe it was easier in the 90s - or maybe not, I don't know - but I'm 100% sure that not all the smart people of the wor
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by xor1 8y ago
>As you said, I am sure some people dont need this though, and somehow just have limitless time or already somehow know exactly what they should learn next, when, and in what order and never need to ask any experienced people any questio
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by xor1 8y ago
The most brilliant and successful engineers I know don't have degrees, and they accumulated their vast CS knowledge on their own. They all dropped out of college within the first two years and started working at 19-20. Two of them now
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by xor1 8y ago
Tech has been a profession longer than you or I have been alive.
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by xor1 8y ago
Soccer is a huge deal outside of the US.
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by xor1 8y ago
>Yet I don't feel guilty saying negative things about my life or being depressed on occasion. I do, especially after traveling. Holy shit do we have it good here.
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by xor1 8y ago
23%
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by xor1 8y ago
I wish everyone felt like we do. Most people with comfortable (or better) lifestyles who have never endured suffering could never imagine themselves homeless. For the record, I've had as pampered a life as any, but I still empathize wi
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by xor1 8y ago
I paid $1200 for a maxed-out 2015 13" MBP at the beginning of this year, and I would recommend that in place of a new MBP for most people. It was unopened/brand new, from a certified seller. The one I bought it from is out of stoc
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by xor1 8y ago
Not to mention access to amphetamines if you're someone like me who burns out easily without them. Fortunately it's completely trivial to get them legally in the US.
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by xor1 8y ago
The primary middleman ethnicity for restaurants where I live (Southern California) is Korean. There's lots of Korean-run places for the following non-Korean cuisines (in descending order for the quantity I've seen): Japanese (sush
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by xor1 8y ago
>Just the thought that through a few twists of fate I could have been born in some totalitarian nightmare state is enough to give me chills. I'm curious about this line of thinking. Do you think your specific consciousness was being
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by xor1 8y ago
We won't. I'll see you all in Western Antarctica. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/future/images/3/39/%21.j...
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by xor1 8y ago
I know someone currently doing a CS MS so she can get into tech. She is good at math, so all of those classes are free As for her. She has other people help with her programming homework assignments, sometimes even having them do the entire
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by xor1 8y ago
Sooo doing some exercise 2 hours before sleeping and not spending my last waking hours on my laptop did it. I got more than 7 hours of sleep for sure, and...also woke up feeling very tired. I know I have a huge sleep deficit built up, so th
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by xor1 8y ago
I don't exercise regularly, and I really should. My issue is I always feel too tired to exercise in the morning, and I feel like I have trouble falling asleep if I exercise in the evening. But I'm starting to think that exercising
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by xor1 8y ago
How much do you take? I was regularly taking 3mg and 1.5mg regularly for most of the past 4 years. I recently tried 0.3mg (as recommended in another recent HN discussion about melatonin, I think it was a week or 2 ago), and I had terrible r
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by xor1 8y ago
It should be illegal. I had a prescription when I was 20. The first three times I took it, I had no issues. Swallowed, immediately laid down in bed, then knocked out ten minutes later. The fourth time, I had to deal with something after I h
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by xor1 8y ago
>Project management, etc. It helps to spend a few years as a programmer before you move into this field. It doesn't matter if you are the worst coder on earth before you move. If you write on your CV, "I've been a programm
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by xor1 8y ago
Thank you!
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by xor1 8y ago
I (and I imagine many people on HN) would be extremely interested in some sort of basic guide to your process.
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by xor1 8y ago
What resources did you use to master SQL?
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by xor1 8y ago
>"New research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact" Not nearly as much impact as not having kids.

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