DeadReckoning | 4 years ago | on: Youth suicide attempts soared during pandemic, CDC report says
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DeadReckoning | 4 years ago | on: Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips
This is really great. I especially like the morning questions. Thank you!
DeadReckoning | 5 years ago | on: Cabal: A peer-to-peer, off-grid, community-first, hackable chat platform
Why would anyone care about using a p2p nonstandard messenger except for free speech? This app implies it will moderate certain groups. If you’re saying something uncontroversial you can just use a bigtech app.
DeadReckoning | 5 years ago | on: Stripe bans Trump campaign
This is the start of antitrust against big tech. They’ve made enemies on both sides
DeadReckoning | 7 years ago | on: Harvard University is fighting to keep its admissions process under wraps
I support affirmative action but not people lying that they're unbiased.
DeadReckoning | 8 years ago | on: Truffle: Ethereum Dapp Development Framework
I feel the same way. I find it hard to get started even with truffle. I wish there were more blog posts and examples
DeadReckoning | 8 years ago | on: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”
I have horrible sleep wake and external monitor problems on both my new macbook pros
DeadReckoning | 8 years ago | on: Diminishing returns of static typing
Optional typing has not failed in Clojure, it's growing with clojure spec
DeadReckoning | 8 years ago | on: Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
I am an ambitious employee at a large tech company and I think about this a lot.
I am living my dream life. I'm 26 and about to break 200k base salary. I have been programming for fun since I was 13 and I enjoy most of what I do every day. I feel myself growing both technically and in soft skills. I rarely work more than 40 hours a week but I still feel very productive. I'm receiving excellent feedback and am being groomed for engineering management. I walk to work, the grocery store, and the weed store. I have time outside of work to focus on self improvement, fitness, and side projects.
But then my acquintance tells me he bought a house in cash after earning XX million from their startup and I feel I'm completely off track.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?
I was in a very similar position as you a while ago and was equally despondent. I thought I was a good engineer, I had a good track record and experience, lots of open source, etc but my interviews were a dice roll. I would either answer the question easily or fumble quite a bit and not get the offer. I would get extremely nervous during these high pressure interviews and the more I was rejected the more nervous I got.
My saving grace was finding a place that didn't haze the shit out of with whiteboard coding but gave me a very involved take home project solving stuff similar to their real world problems (I did do a timed online coding screen and some high level technical discussions as well). Obviously there are some downsides to doing a take home project in terms of the time investment, but see if you can find a more enlightened place that gives you this option. Maybe someone on HN knows of companies who are open to this.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Megaprocessor – A micro-processor built large
Watching the guy play tetris made me cringe
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
You guys take yourselves too seriously. I think this article is funny as hell.
"You briefly use mobile Safari to browse for Vipassana retreats — you hear a 10 day retreat in Soquel may be the ticket to shake things up. You realize it’s not going to be possible. You download a meditation app. You turn it off. You don’t have time."
TOO REAL
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are good reads for designing APIs?
Why are they versioning using dates? I know you probably wouldn't want to deploy a public API change more than once per day, but if version numbers are equally good why not give yourself the option? It also could lead to confusion about which API is newest due to UK vs US date formatting whereas a version number is unambiguous.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Functional Programming Jargon
It is by far the best mainstream language for functional programming.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Functional Programming Jargon
I also found that comment incredibly ironic :P
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Functional Programming Jargon
People want to feel like they're smarter than everyone else, basically.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Functional Programming Jargon
Why on earth are people complaining about using Javascript to illustrate functional programming language concepts? The whole point of this is helping non FP programmers to wrap their head around these terms. Javascript is by far the best mainstream language for doing functional programming.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Functional Programming Jargon
It's not an odd choice. I've never heard of anyone learning Chinese as a second language who doesn't use pinyin at least for the first few years.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it difficult for non-Chinese to work in China?
4 years ago a VPN worked perfectly. When I visited recently multiple VPNs and VPN providers would become blocked as I started using them. Even though the traffic is encrypted they use a heuristic to identify VPN usage. If you're moving a ton of traffic (streaming, torrenting, etc) forget it.
DeadReckoning | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: New calendar app idea
This is an excellent point, give priority to unique events over rare events when choosing what to display over a longer time interval
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I wish I hadn’t tried to “tough it out” for so long and being scared away from medication after hearing things like they would numb you or make you feel like a robot. I don’t feel that way at all now that I’ve experienced a number of these medications firsthand.