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baseballMan | 4 years ago | on: TheNFTbay.org – The Billion Dollar Torrent (All NFT's from Ethereum and Solana)

I'm not an NFT fan by any stretch of the imagination but you can buy a reproduction of the Mona Lisa or a fake Mickey Mantle card.

https://www.amazon.com/DECORARTS-Leonardo-Davinci-Classic-Re...

Obviously, the real mona lisa or the mickey mantle card has value because they were painted by famous artists, or signed by a famous baseball player... But at the end of the day they only have value because someone says they have value.

baseballMan | 4 years ago | on: I ruin developers’ lives with my code reviews and I'm sorry

Yeah this can be quite frustrating.

I've had the same thing the other way, where I feel that I usually give kind and fair code reviews (no nitpicking, etc) but have had former colleagues that get genuinely upset and push back really hard when I make any sort of comment on their PR.

baseballMan | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Canada for tech jobs?

Damn man.. I really need to just suck it up and try and get a job in the US when COVID wraps up and we can get across the border again. I don't really want to work there and be so far away from family but it just doesn't make financial sense to keep doing what I'm doing.

I make really good money for my 3 years of experience (compared to others in my city with my level of experience) but it's just such a hilariously large gap at this point that it'd be dumb for me not to at least try and get a job.

baseballMan | 6 years ago | on: Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (2015)

Yup! I got started with this book and automated a bunch of things in one of my internships about 3 years ago. I was in a network administration focused program in university. I decided to automate a ton of the repetitive tasks that people on my team had to do (creating config files with specific line endings for finicky cisco devices, creating an inventory of all our network connected devices, parsing and comparing large spreadsheets, etc).

Looking back, my code was absolutely atrocious and I was on a team of 1 (just me) but this book and that 4 month co-op is essentially what got me to transition from applying to network admin roles after graduation to applying and getting a platform engineering focused role and focus on software development. It's what I've been doing ever since!

baseballMan | 6 years ago | on: How I automate my home

Yeah I think that it's more of a hobby for a lot of people than something that significantly improves their daily lives.

baseballMan | 6 years ago | on: Office noise bothers some people more than others

My biggest gripe is by FAR interruptions. I can deal with a noisy office. I can't deal with people that constantly and endlessly interrupt me because they know I know the answer to their question. Take 5 minutes and try to figure it out for yourself.
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