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Haul4ss commented on On loyalty to your employer (2018) medium.com/hackernoon/on-... · Posted by u/Peroni

agubelu · 8 months ago

I dislike the word "loyalty" when talking about employment. Loyalty is for your spouse, friends and family. Your relationship with your employer is a contractual one.

When it comes to my job, I believe in doing your best possible work, being professional and acting in good faith. I expect to be paid fairly and treated with respect. If this relationship is mutually beneficial, it can go on for a long while. But it's important to remember that, as soon as it stops being beneficial to one party, it will be unilaterally rescinded.

Haul4ss · 8 months ago

This is a very rich-world view of work. Most people can't just "unilaterally rescind" their employment if they decide they don't like it anymore.

I don't disagree with what you're getting at, just understand that loyalty is a necessity to a lot of folks, and I don't think it is because their values are misplaced.

Haul4ss commented on Freetar – an alternative front end for ultimate-guitar.com github.com/kmille/freetar... · Posted by u/kmille

adrianh · 2 years ago

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Example: https://www.soundslice.com/slices/txqfc/

It's a "BYOM" (bring your own music) situation as opposed to a library like Ultimate Guitar. But it's reasonably easy to import stuff. You can import a Guitar Pro file from Ultimate Guitar, Songsterr or wherever — our MusicXML and GP importers are excellent, seasoned by nearly a decade's worth of development and edge cases.

We've also recently launched a PDF/photo scanner, using machine learning to extract the musical semantics (in case you have some music on paper or in PDF). https://www.soundslice.com/sheet-music-scanner/

We've also got a full-featured notation/tab editor, and lots of musicians use it for transcribing source recordings. https://www.soundslice.com/transcribe/

Also relevant: we've never had ads, we've never taken funding and we've been profitable for years. Sustainable, product-driven and musician-first.

Haul4ss · 2 years ago

I've seen this software used on a couple different video lesson platforms (I am currently subscribed to Open Studio). It works really well. Occasional browser funniness, but otherwise a really solid tool for learning music. Great work!

Haul4ss commented on Ask HN: What to Do After Burnout? · Posted by u/burnedouteng

Haul4ss · 2 years ago

> Getting a different job in a startup or an agency sounds like the last thing I want right now. From what I’ve heard big tech is not all that much different, and a non-tech programming job sounds like it’d be boring/horrible in a different way.

Here's the thing. Every job is a job. Even "doing what you love" comes with days when you really don't feel like doing it. There is no perfect job that will contain all the things you like about work and none of the things you don't like about work.

Furthermore, you will never ever get the first years of your kid(s) life back. You should be present for those years. Being burnt out and hating your job does not leave you the mental bandwidth to be present.

Taking a less glamorous job to make space in your life for other pursuits is not bad. Even if it's just for little while to reset. And have some perspective: you can enjoy some aspects of a job without enjoying all aspects. Pick what is most important for you and optimize for that. And the most important aspect is not fixed; it will change depending on your season in life.

I don't think I've ever been actually burnt out, but I have experienced the gamut of job satisfaction. You break out of it through self-reflection and understanding what you actually like and dislike about a job, and what really matters to you in life and how to build around that.

Haul4ss commented on Ask HN: What benefits are important to you when choosing a job? · Posted by u/altdataseller

Haul4ss · 2 years ago

We used to have unlimited PTO, and even in my interview I chided them that it's obviously not "unlimited".

For a small, organically growing firm like my employer, unlimited PTO is just shorthand for "we don't have the back office staff to track this, so just don't abuse it". Yes, totally subjective, but the point is when you're scrappy you don't have time to make Policy all the livelong day.

As we've grown and evolved we ditched the messaging of unlimited PTO because of the negative connotation it has that everyone here has rightfully pointed out. "Does unlimited mean none?" is a verbatim question I've fielded in an interview.

Anyway, I explain OP's question as what I call the career trifecta:

1. You are working on things that have meaning to you

2. You enjoy working with the people around you

3. The pay and benefits give you space to pursue life's other interests

Most people in the world don't get one of those, much less all three. I have all three and now I'm a spoiled brat and don't want to give up one of them to get more of the other (i.e., more salary doesn't make life better if you lose one of the other pillars).

Haul4ss commented on Apple supports right-to-repair bill arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/travisgriggs

javajosh · 2 years ago

Apple's attitude about repair is a HUGE knock on the brand, at this point. There is no justification for it, apart from greed. Even if they are right and the repair isn't great, which does happen of course, a rational person will blame the repairer, not Apple. So for them to make these paternalistic claims is another HUGE knock on the brand - not only are they greedy, they lie to justify their greed. I don't care how good their products are (and the M1 based laptops are damn good) I'm not giving Apple a dime until this changes (and the batteries are no longer glued into everything).

Haul4ss · 2 years ago

> a rational person will blame the repairer, not Apple

Assumes facts not in evidence. My experience has been people tend to blame the platform supplier first and foremost.

1990s OEM computer maker loads a bunch of crapware on your PC? You're likely to blame Microsoft Windows.

SimCity doesn't run on Windows 95 because of a bug in SimCity? You're likely to blame Windows 95. Microsoft at least understood that dynamic.

iPhone acting weird? Apple's fault, obviously, no questions asked. It's the default position of consumers.

I agree with your assertion that this is a knock on the Apple brand for a certain subset of their audience. I don't think it matters to the lay user as much as it does to the power user.

Haul4ss commented on Ask HN: Should I take a step back in Seniority? (Sen-Mid) · Posted by u/positionPanic

Haul4ss · 3 years ago

Rather than looking at titles, I would focus on what you want to do.

"Software dev" encompasses a wide variety of work. As a simplified example, if you were a senior frontend JS dev who wanted to get into writing kernel modules, you might have to take a job title and/or pay cut since you're less senior in that niche than your current one. But if you really want to be a kernel dev, it might be worthwhile.

So, what do you want to do? What kind of dev do you want to be? Will the new gig get you closer to that, regardless of title? Thinking beyond just tech stack to how you want this arc of your career to progress, will new job be better?

Also look at non-tech stack things. Do you like your team? Do you like your industry? Has your boss treated you well? Do you have equity opportunities at current or new gig? Which stack/niche has a higher ceiling of potential opportunity?

Haul4ss commented on Progress Quest progressquest.com... · Posted by u/vector_spaces

Haul4ss · 4 years ago

My coworker and I used to run this on our work PCs (which were generally left on 24/7 and rarely rebooted).

It was a delightfully simple "game" and we enjoyed comparing stats.

That coworker has since passed away, and I think of this game every now and then as I reflect on our friendship.

I don't know why it's on Hacker News's front page today, but it brought a smile to my face.

Haul4ss commented on Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar boze.app... · Posted by u/dannyaziz97

nindalf · 5 years ago

For those who don't get it, this is a reference to the greatest HN comment of all time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863.

Haul4ss · 5 years ago

I was afraid my reference was too old, and people would just downvote not understanding what the heck I was on about.

Haul4ss commented on Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar boze.app... · Posted by u/dannyaziz97

berdon · 5 years ago

Can confirm. I made the first unofficial Dropbox client for Android years ago called "Droidbox". Different name, different logo, explicit labeling of "unofficial" and they still wanted to sue the pants off me.

Haul4ss · 5 years ago

Did you tell them you could build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?

Haul4ss commented on What If You Could Do It All Over? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jonas21

Haul4ss · 5 years ago

You can't, so don't bother thinking about it.

You can make changes today that will pay dividends in 10 years, so maybe focus on that instead.

I was widowed pretty young (as widowers go), so I have done my share of playing the what-if game with the past. Ultimately it is not a productive exercise, and I try not to do it. If I catch myself dwelling in unlived lives, I try to refocus on the one still in front of me.