zeroxp's comments

zeroxp | 2 years ago | on: The Never Married, a New Normal

Yes, marriage is about trust. Trust makes you vulnerable, but it opens up a lot of life that just isnt possible otherwise.

zeroxp | 2 years ago | on: 85% of jobs are filled via networking

The idea is that bringing on a wrong candidate will cause more damage than missing a right one.

There's definitely a balance to strike, some companies would rather bring on everyone and find out who sinks and who swims, others hate firing and will do virtually anything to avoid hiring someone who needs to be let go.

zeroxp | 2 years ago | on: Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead

Most arguments I've had about this take on a totally different tone when you ask the person if they believe there is more to human consciousness than what is inside the brain. I.e, is there some spiritual element animating our consciousness.

Often, people say yes. Those people almost universally cannot be convinced that a machine is intelligent. But, if they agree the brain is an organ, its not hard to convince them that the functions of that organ can be simulated, like any other.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Meta Plans Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as This Week

Why do people want to be a part of something successful?

Becuase its frustrating to put effort and energy into building something only to see it discarded or destroyed.

Yes on the big timeline we're all building castles in the sand but most of us would like to be able to stand back and look at it while its finished before the ocean washes it away.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Video games for dogs aim to help aging canine brains

Man, you need to go find the wizard of oz because I dont think you have a heart, tin man.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Keanu Reeves Says Deepfakes ‘Scary,’ Confirms His Contracts Ban Digital Edits

Not one for action movies?

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: The Market for Lemons

I completely agree react/angular/vue have a place and there are instances where they are essential, but too many programmers are reaching for them as the "only" way to build a web app.

And old, boring framework like rails or django can absolutely provide an adequate ux, especially for smaller projects.

There is still a need for straighforward crud apps modifying business data for internal users, and rewriting these apps in a js framework will introduce a lot of complexity that is simply not needed.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: How to Paint Like Hayao Miyazaki

It is so easy to burn ten or fifteen minutes a few times a day just futzing with your development environment.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Rails on Docker

Dockerized applications can still reach services on the localhost, but you may want to take a look at docker compose so you get your application and backing systems in one place.

It makes your local development environment incredibly resilient.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?

Some products dont fit well with a one call close and are centered around building long term relationships with your clients. This is especially true in b2b. Maybe you were trained too narrowly.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to build F-You Skills

"Programming other people to be better" sounds like a really egocentric way to approach people skills. If you only see others as objects who can either help or hinder you get what you want, its going to catch up sooner or later.

Maybe its better to work on developing empathy? Leadership and Self Deception is a decent book on people skills that really emphasizes this approach.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Does anyone else finds AWS and other Amazon services overly complicated?

Because heroku has limitations.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Shortcat – Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse

Im reading about tridactyl rn and think I might propose to whoever wrote this plugin.

"yy — copy the current page URL to the clipboard"

YESSS

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Replace the “very” in your sentence

When you say very different, you could have just said skittish. "It's skittish from what you intended". Isn't that much better?

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Mastodon.technology Shutdown

Social media inevitably becomes a reflection of the users, and humans all have a thread of toxicity running through them.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

You have to align the long term growth and wellbeing of the company with the long term prosperity of the employee. This is why stock options with a long term vesting period have become an attractive choice.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Using your phone as a software development platform

Gitpod is a wonderful thing. I find myself reaching for that more and more, the whole ephemeral workspace concept is really fabulous.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you give advice?

This is the only good answer I've seen in this thread. If you're thrusting advice on someone who isn't asking for it then you might as well go learn some sales because that's what you're doing.

zeroxp | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you give advice?

Advice is not an attempt to control someone, it's sharing your perspective, which may be incomplete, and trying to provide additional useful information for making a decision.

Persuasion on the other hand is certainly an attempt to influence someone's behavior.

Persuasion and advice are not the same thing.

zeroxp | 4 years ago | on: Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering

I mean, recruiters get paid sizable commissions for each hire they make, and they really dont care where you went to school as long as they can sell you to the company. If you can sell yourself to a recruiter (low bar) then you can get an interview.