How could I immediately tell that you worked at Amazon?
indeed haha
Readit Newsrvn1045 commented on Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job? · Posted by u/boredemployee
rvn1045 commented on Ask HN: As a dev, what made (or almost) you quit from a job? · Posted by u/boredemployee
Worked at a faang for several years. Some things I didint like:
- They make team members compete with each other
- creating false narratives about peoples career progress
- people don’t want to share key and useful information even with team members
- false promises of verbally giving you a project and taking it away
- invalidating impact of a project because you don’t fit the narrative for a promotion just yet
- people get credit for work they didn’t do etc
A good way to remember what you read is to become a domain expert and read everything about some particular domain you are interested in.
When you read in clusters around the same topic the same concepts will get reinforced over and over again.
Kim Stanley Robinson's recent book The Ministry For the Future starts with a very disturbing scenario: A heatwave with a "web bulb" temperature of 35 Celsius.
It turns out, in those temperatures, even young and healthy people can't survive. Combined with power outages, as happens in the book, everyone living under such a heat wave will likely die.
It's looking increasingly likely that such heatwaves are possible in the future, and possibly quite deadly. This could result in the mass deaths of many people, especially in poor tropical countries that don't have a stable infrastructure to cool most people during such a heatwave. I hope a mass death event from a "web bulb" 35C heatwave never happens, but I'm losing hope, especially with the increasing global temperatures, and the very lackluster progress being made on carbon output.
A lot of new technology could potentially solve this problem.
There are certain types of roofs being installed called cool roofs that reflect heat and don’t absorb it that keeps the inside of building a little cooler.
rvn1045 commented on Once an Addict, Always an Addict? deprocrastination.co/blog... · Posted by u/vitabenes
Here is what helped me kick two major addictions in my life:
I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 6 years straight. It started to take a huge hit on my health and I quit.
I smoked marijuana every night for 4 years then quit and have just smoked it occasionally.
I started doing vipassana several years ago, everyday a little bit of a good chemical balance accumulates in my brain and body to the point where a lot of cravings start to disappear and you feel good in your head and body even without drugs like caffeine.
I wouldn’t say I’ve beat all my cravings but they’re 90% better ..
As a non-American person living in the US, I fail to understand one thing about its society. When I walk around town I see tons and tons of places advertising jobs, for simple stuff like kitchen, moving stuff around, etc. I even recently saw a store with a "talk to the manager and start working right now" sign. And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless. It seems like a paradox to me, but I am obviously missing some important detail here.
Of course I understand some drug addicts may not want a job or simply know they can't last more than a few days in one, but I would imagine a lot of these homeless people I see on the streets would actually like to have an income and be able to live anywhere that's not the streets. How do you reconcile that with the fact that there are so many simple jobs with open positions everywhere?
This is not supposed to be a sarcastic or politically loaded question. Where I come from, jobs are simply unavailable and at the moment you advertise it, even if it's just flipping burgers, there are lines and lines of people competing for it. I fail to understand why the US is so different. Anybody would please be able to point me at what I'm missing?
Edit: also, people who can't afford housing usually live with their families for a long time (or the whole life). Tiny houses with entire generations of families living in it are common. I guess this is still miles better than living in the streets.
Another thing you have to understand about the us are weak family ties.
If you are unemployed in another country you could easily stay with some family member - cousin, uncle etc
This is not the case in the U.S
rvn1045 commented on Why is China smashing its tech industry? noahpinion.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/exceptione
I think that's overstating. To be sure some real tech challenges in distributing work horizontally, but I don't think it's created anywhere near the amount of value that's come out of e.g. space race research.
You don’t think map reduce, tensorflow and the countless other systems that have been open sourced haven’t had huge impact outside of their original use cases at these companies?
rvn1045 commented on Why is China smashing its tech industry? noahpinion.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/exceptione
I think it's because they want their best and brightest working on physics, materials, technological breakthroughs, etc., instead of ad tech.
The scale that these companies operate on requires huge innovations in software engineering and computer science. Think about all the distributed systems that have come out of places like Facebook and Google over the last 2 decades.
rvn1045 commented on You can be shy and still be a CEO thecut.com/2021/07/how-th... · Posted by u/stonlyb
The real problem is that we don’t have good examples of leaders. A lot of the examples we look for in terms of whom to emulate comes from the pop culture view of corporate America and startups. At a previous company I worked at far too many people were trying to behave like Steve Jobs and give that as an excuse for being an asshole.
I'm a solo developer writing a fairly complex mobile application with watch integration and while some bits of the setup might be frustrating, however I would urge you to persist for more than a day if possible.
Indeed I had a huge amount of trouble porting my project from my previous mac to a new M1 but after the frustrating setup I just returned to writing JS and swift code and things have been perfectly fine.