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hoborama | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Old CS lecturer looking for advice from current and recent students

See David Malan @ CS50 https://youtu.be/y62zj9ozPOM

hoborama | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft acquires Github

"You don't always geeeet what you wa-ant..."

hoborama | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How is GDPR affecting your business?

I work for one of the biggest (non-tech) companies in the world, and in many countries we've been storing user data in spreadsheets all over the place and often without consent. So it's been pretty frantic.

hoborama | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I learn math/physics in my thirties?

..s.

Maths.

hoborama | 8 years ago | on: Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?

Reading your comment is reassuring, as I sometimes feel like I'm the only sane one at work. Farcical training sessions, management-speak with zero content..I could go on. I don't so much mind all that - I accept it as part of working for a large organisation - but it drives me crazy when I joke about it later and nobody has any idea what I'm on about.

Maybe it's me..

hoborama | 8 years ago | on: Child's play

I would put security experts and networking experts in the "technically-skilled" category. However, my experience of most people who have something like "IT security" in their job title, is that they're just the guy who updates a spreadsheet that has a list of security policies in it, and they send emails out to people who have breached one of those policies. Admin.

hoborama | 8 years ago | on: Child's play

Yeah, it works both ways. "No, Auntie Susan. I have no idea how to fix your printer. Never call me again."

hoborama | 8 years ago | on: Child's play

> "I hate being called 'IT'"

Oh man I hate this. An "IT" job to me just means an admin job where the subject of the admin tasks happens to be computers.

It's worse when "IT workers" try to lump actual technically-skilled roles in with them, like it's just another task to be performed.

hoborama | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Would you pay to have a penpal?

You think he should build it for free? How is he supposed to pay his bills or eat while he's making it? Profit is not necessarily a dirty word.

hoborama | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the big differences working at a startup, bigco, old smallco?

Slightly off-topic, but I can't believe the long hours you guys in the USA work as standard. In the UK, most jobs these days are 37.5 hours. Only a few do 40.

Of course there may be (rare) occasions where you need to work overtime, but 40-60 hours on a regular basis seems crazy. 80 hours is insane. People here simply wouldn't do it. I doubt anyone gets any more productive beyond around 30 hours a week.