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mustardgreen | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)

As someone around the telescope a few years back, I would absolutely recommend applying! Frossie is legit and is an excellent engineer and boss

mustardgreen | 3 years ago | on: How to Do What You Love (2006)

That’s exactly how I would put it. I read his article on Philosophy yesterday at 30 after reading his essays at 20 and admiring him. It’s crazy how impressionable my mind was at 20

mustardgreen | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction

I worked at a BigCo after a bunch of small ones, and got totally stressed about the friction as well. Took me a couple years away from the experience to realize that slow processes can be a great thing in their own right because it gives you a lot of time to think about your own interests in and outside of coding.

mustardgreen | 3 years ago | on: Hume's Real Riches

Hume’s Wikipedia page is really funny where it describes his life post breakdown. He certainly enjoyed the merry life and a good port. I thought it would be a funny idea to do a “day in the life” video following Hume’s lifestyle and just end up stone drunk on port.

Also, there’s a statue of Hume in the center of Edinburgh where he looks emaciated and serious like the ancient philosophers looked, and I’ve always thought it was a funny statue, because it completely gets his character (and stature I’m guessing) wrong.

mustardgreen | 3 years ago | on: Not Another MFA Essay

The author of this essay assumes a familiarity with the MFA v. PHD debate that might not be right for the HN crowd. If you're curious about this topic though, I would recommend Elif Batuman's Get a Real Degree: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v32/n18/elif-batuman/get-a-r...

It's very funny writing, Batuman has a PHD in Russian Literature and she does a good job of giving a high-level overview.

mustardgreen | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which books in your field do you think are perfect for self study?

Yes

mustardgreen | 3 years ago | on: Mental speed is high until age sixty

Thomas Hobbes was in his 60’s when he wrote Leviathan. I think about that a lot when I get discouraged.

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: An album art-based Wordle clone called UNCVR

I agree with others about the clicks. I weirdly got it on the first guess and thought it would be revealed after. Or more of the squares would be revealed per guess a la wordle

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What Books Do You Recommend Reading for 2022?

I’m reading The Critique of Pure Reason right now. If anyone else is interested we can start a book club, it’s slow going.

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: Why Musk’s biggest space gamble is freaking out his competitors

Ashlee Vance's biography, 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future'

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books have you read that have changed your life?

I would put On The Nature of Things on my list of life changing books as well. Its sublime

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: Freud's nephew and the origins of public relations (2009)

The first episode of Mad Men alludes to Bernays work. They are trying to come up with a new campaign for Lucky Strike and he rejects an idea to base the campaign off of Freud’s research.

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review

The Starlink fleet has been a huge problem for the field of astronomy entirely do to this "move fast and break things" ethos.

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: MH370 pilot made many turns and speed changes, new report reveals

Does Ukranian Airlines have a bad reputation besides the incident in Tehran? I rode it once, and besides it being a particularly rowdy flight, I found it to be a very strict and safe airline.

mustardgreen | 4 years ago | on: ‘Things’ in Fiction Shape the Way We Read

This was a very interesting essay. I learned about Material Culture at design school but had never considered it through the lens of literature before. The physicality of the written word is itself very ephemeral, which is something I spend too much time worrying about

ayacoe | 5 years ago | on: Dante: Our Medieval Contemporary

They talk a little in the article about how the Inferno was more based in earthly things than the the later two books, and that makes it easier to approach.

I think the reason why the Inferno is solely taught is becaue it's just so long a text, and the characters Dante interacts with in his descent are more familiar to an early student of the classics than the later volumes.

I would absolutely recommend reading Purgatorio and Paradiso if you have a chance. Though it's long, it's quick reading, and sublime is an understatement.

ayacoe | 5 years ago | on: Virtual Cybersecurity Escape Room

I think it's nice. I'd defintely play another one if you made it. I completed the first part of the puzzle, but wasn't able to figure out where Anne went.