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nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: We Lost Our Ability to Mend

this!

It's almost my story as well.

My microwave I had for 8 years (and I got it second hand) stopped working. A quick inspection + watching a couple of YouTube videos revealed that a plastic latch inside the door got broken.

It would have been very easy to replace it if only it was still being sold. Extensive search on the internet showed it was not :( :( :(

If only I had some time (well a LOT of time) to reverse engineer the existing latch and 3D-print a new one... But I did not.

So, I had to put the microwave outside on my curb. I attached a note to it saying it works well if the latch is fixed and also attached the broken latch.

I was happy to see it was gone in a few hours. I live in a city (Montreal, Canada) so I guess it helped my microwave to not be wasted.

I wish 3D-printing technologies - or more precisely, a technology that helps to create 3D specs out of an existing object - would be more advanced. Well, I did not do an extensive search about it so I may be well mistaken :)

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: Sears Files for Bankruptcy

thanks for the link, it was so interesting to read about these houses!

It felt to me that ordering kit houses was such an American spirit! Building a house with your hands, there is something special about it... and ordering a kit from a store to build it is a bit mind blowing :)

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi

all this did not make a woman equal to a man unfortunately

as a female dev who started her career in Russia about 15 years ago and whose mother was also a dev programming aviation radars, I can tell there was a he-e-ell of sexism and predjudice against women in the society back then, despite all these pretty numbers.

Collapse of the USSR opened up huge opportunities for discrimination and I still remember the job ads for devs where it was explicitly specified "men only" :( I was a subject of sexism, my mom was a subject of sexism.

(there is even more sexism in the modern Rusian society but we are not talking about the modern days)

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: Free-range parenting outside the US

> you cannot deny that the influence you have as a parent

for sure, I agree with you.

It seems to me that it is better to make conclusions looking at grown adults and families in total - like you did with your in-laws.

I just wanted to say there might be a tendency to look at screaming (or in this case, it would be anxious) kids and generalize and criticize their parents for bad parenting skills / inability to deal with kids / whatever; meanwhile, it's not their fault. Just good to remember that.

(Edits: minor formatting)

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: Free-range parenting outside the US

> other kids could fall over and scream for an hour over the smallest of falls. Why?

From what I have learned so far by reading various parents' comments etc, all kids are very different and making general conclusions like this one seems to be pointless / incorrect.

Your first kid may be calm and chill and your second one can be agitated (or vice versa) while your parenting style stays the same. Why? Because these are two different humans and not something else.

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: Employees who practice mindfulness meditation are less motivated

I do agree with the conclusion of the article to some point. I think it (mindfulness as the result of the meditation) must really depend on each person and each character.

Anecdotally, in my case, mindfulness as a result of meditation and similar mind-calming practices (like jogging, stretching) helped me to advance my career from a dev to a team lead and eventually helped me to get a courage to pursue my dreams of being an entrepreneur.

I can conclude that in my case, it did not decrease my motivation but helped me to:

1. overcome my anxiety and become a better employee

2. see what I truly want and get rid of the mental stuff the others (meaning the corporation) imposed on me (following the said corporation's goals)

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: US Births Dip to 30-yr Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level

feels to me like you do not want children bad enough... there are infertile couples out there who have to pay quite a lot of money to get to the position where you are now (I assume you both guys are fertile) [0]

Apart from the examples in the article, I am also judging from my own experience and I personally reached the point where the money simply does not matter compared to the possibility of being a parent.

0 - https://www.self.com/story/the-cost-of-infertility

Edit: Also agree with others about potential relationship problems you guys may be experiencing

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: Children of the Opioid Epidemic

> but it was still, somewhere in their past, a matter of choice

what about people who were just obediently following their doctors' prescriptions?

nadezhda18 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What makes you happy in life?

well, not sure about others, but for myself, I know what makes me happy after paying attention to my feelings I have after doing various stuff and reflecting on the circumstances in which I have had them. I do it pretty often.

Sometimes, though, I do fall into a trap of mixing up causality and correlation.

I may feel happy after talking to someone... and only after concluding a thorough analysis of my feeling and the timeline, I may realize that the fact of _finishing_ the talk with that person makes me happy and not the talk itself 8-( )

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