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jozzas commented on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview youtube.com/watch?v=3f6XM... · Posted by u/zniturah

golergka · 2 years ago

Not working for a whole month just sounds awful. I have a lot of hobbies outside of work, but it is still the most interesting and fulfilling part of my life. Even though I need breaks for it now and then doesn’t mean I won’t miss it.

I get to spend time with wonderful people, solving interesting puzzles, building something that people love and that makes their days better. I used to work in game dev, so it brought people joy, but now I make developer tools, and it using better tools makes them love their jobs more, and makes them more effective. Some of the people who use the tools are literally doing cancer research or other very meaningful stuff.

How could I get the same feeling of fulfilment from the most amazing vacation?

jozzas · 2 years ago

> How could I get the same feeling of fulfilment from the most amazing vacation?

If you can't answer this, you are going to have a very bad time when you retire.

jozzas commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jozzas · 2 years ago

Amazon Grocery Tech | Full Time | ONSITE Hybrid (in-offce 3 days p/w) | Brisbane, Australia

I'm a developer in grocery working in Brisbane. We're currently hiring for grads / recent grads (<24 months exp, with some flexibility there). We mostly write software for outbound grocery (delivery + pickup) worldwide, for both Amazon and 3P brands. We have fun and exciting challenges to suit all interests. Feel free to email me if you want to learn more.

The office in Brisbane is a beautiful place to work (there are flexible working options blending at home and in office), and I can personally vouch for the teams in Brisbane being awesome to work for, with interesting and fulfilling work.

From our job ad: > ... The features you build have direct impact on customers lives. You will work with scientists and engineers to optimize fulfillment processes, reducing costs and improving quality. You will experiment with new ideas, turning the successful ones into full production systems whilst failing fast and learning from those which are not. We obsess over reducing the time and cost in fulfilling a customer's order.

More here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2676748/2024-software-develo... any questions shoot me an email: jhlyon at amazon com

jozzas commented on A journey to the medical netherworld (2016) hazlitt.net/longreads/jou... · Posted by u/EndXA

smeej · 2 years ago

It seems like as a culture we have a lot of weird baggage around dealing with doctors. It makes me wonder if it has something to do with our fear of our own mortality and unwillingness to talk about death or something.

I remember my classmates who went on to med school and became doctors. They were bright, but I don't remember their being extraordinarily so. Their classwork mostly seemed to involve a lot of memorization of facts, following rules and procedures, not so much thinking creatively or solving problems.

But now that they have MD after their names, we expect them to be familiar with a thousand different kinds of possible nuance? While operating in a system that only gives them 15 minutes per patient to hear what's going on and come up with a plan?

It almost seems unreasonable and unfair of us, but they expect that of us too. If we dare to question their assessment (again, after 15 minutes with the patient), we're "questioning their authority," even if we're advanced degree holders ourselves, and a stay-at-home parent who has spent nearly every waking moment with the patient or reading about research relevant to the patient's symptoms.

I know for every one medical research journalist like the author of the article, there are 10,000 exhausted working single parents armed with Doctor Google and a story about Kim from Accounting's niece's best friend's little brother who had a similar symptom one time, but it really seems like there should be a way to communicate when there really is something unusual going on.

Maybe it needs to be like customer support, where there isn't just one tier of doctor. Maybe there should be a system to filter actual complex cases up layers of specialty. But the customer support experience normally sucks, so maybe the model just doesn't work. I don't know.

There just has to be something that could make it better than this.

jozzas · 2 years ago

> Maybe there should be a system to filter actual complex cases up layers of specialty

I mean, this is normally your GP referring you to a specialist, and 99% of the time that works. But when your specialist doesn't even know enough to know where to refer you next you end up in a weird space that is incredibly challenging to navigate. It would be good if there was an "expert diagnosticians" group that you could go to when even specialists are stumped. They could help navigate referrals to specialists, tests-of-treatment and enrollment in trials (which is a whole other minefield).

jozzas commented on We need to rewild the internet noemamag.com/we-need-to-r... · Posted by u/robin_reala

jallmann · 2 years ago

My Twitter feed has a bunch of people doing extremely niche deep dives into Cold War weapons systems. For example, on the design of MiG-23 air intakes: https://twitter.com/BaA43A3aHY/status/1753715489686057384

jozzas · 2 years ago

This is literally the point of the article. That's all posted inside the twitter walled garden. Great content, wrong platform.

jozzas commented on Ask HN: What movies changed your perception of reality or life? · Posted by u/metadat

jozzas · 2 years ago

Ikiru

jozzas commented on Trunk-Based Development trunkbaseddevelopment.com... · Posted by u/DLion

edgyquant · 2 years ago

Seems strange. Sometimes we’ll have feature branches that are made up of different parts, with different devs collaborating to build those parts out. For this I don’t see a way around having some staging branch with two devs sending PRs to before you work out all kinks and merge the staging branch back into main

jozzas · 2 years ago

This is the hardest part about trunk based development - changing your way of thinking. Everything needs to be decomposed into much smaller changes, and you need to think about the impact of each of them being deployed into production (since that will happen). New features should exist behind some kind of feature gating or dial-up capability, or a new API version with restricted access, etc.

That seems painful but it's less painful than merge hell or deploying a change with a massive delta to production and needing to roll it back and unpick what went wrong.

jozzas commented on Amazon acquires Fig fig.io/blog/post/fig-join... · Posted by u/fatfox

politelemon · 3 years ago

> Within Butterfish Shell you can send a ChatGPT prompt by just starting a command with a capital letter, for example:

This is a dangerous assumption. Not all commands are lowercase. Interaction with an external service should be a deliberate, discrete action on the user's part.

jozzas · 3 years ago

agree, nothing wrong with something like an `llm` prefix

jozzas commented on Amazon acquires Fig fig.io/blog/post/fig-join... · Posted by u/fatfox

dangoodmanUT · 3 years ago

The telemetry was the exact reason I never tried it. It looked amazing, but wasn't keen on fig getting every one of my inputs

jozzas · 3 years ago

It actually makes sense for Amazon integrating this with the whole browser based shell thing (which is a sensible secure default for a lot of people).

Having something with autocomplete that works seamlessly with their services seems like a better idea than a plain prompt if you're going to use their shell. Hopefully they do something sensible and customer-centric with the telemetry stuff, that seemed to be the big drawback for many.

jozzas commented on Compound pejoratives on Reddit colinmorris.github.io/blo... · Posted by u/bryanrasmussen

tl_donson · 4 years ago

depending on the tone, “mate” can be way more aggressive than “cunt”.

jozzas · 4 years ago

"Oi mate. You havin' a good night?"

(This implies that you are not mates, and may in fact be about to start having a not-good night)

jozzas commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jozzas · 4 years ago

Amazon Grocery Tech | Junior + Senior Software Development Engineers | Brisbane, Australia | Onsite, WFH friendly | Full-time

My group (Grocery Tech Team based in Brisbane) is growing at an exceptional rate to create software that will delight customers worldwide. We're currently hiring for junior and senior roles. We mostly write software to assist with outbound grocery (delivery + pickup) worldwide, for both Amazon and 3P brands. We have fun and exciting challenges to suit all interests. Feel free to email me if you want to learn more.

The office in Brisbane is a beautiful place to work (there are flexible working options blending at home and in office), and I can personally vouch for the teams in Brisbane being awesome to work for.

Job descriptions:

Junior: https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/jobs/2006937/software-develope... Senior: https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/jobs/1988644/software-develope...

Questions? email me at jhlyon at amazon dot com