Readit News1. Empathise about effect of menstrual cycle in women.Its so well hidden from boys (at least Indian). They wonder why girls behave erratically ( sex education needed much earlier at least in India as more kids are exposed to adult content)
2. be very careful when using rm command (use alias rm='rm -i' )
3. Have backup of backup of backup.
4. keep checking if backups restore correctly. (can have a very rude awakening if it does not work someday )
5. People who report to you are different on different days . Dont judge them on few events. (20+ chances at least be given before giving them negative feedback privately )
6. Friends are more useful than family. ( because you have similar priorities in life) They are a lifesaver after 50 so be in touch with school buddies and college buddies esp as its so much easier now. ( Lost few classmates in Covid who had less family support)
7. Learn to cook all your favorite recipes ( of your mom/wife/grandmother). You will never be sad. Make them at least for two people, share it.( right size the utensils you use regularly. not too small not too big)
8. Meet Reality as it is by using Vipassana. It is a super power to counter the unethical AI use. (just finished 10 day course in Bhopal, India New courses are across world ) * They are not paying me anything for this.
I genuinely believe #Vipassana works. BTW Yuval Noah Harare (Wrote Sapiens and Nexus) has endorsed it as well.You can find course near you in this link. https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/courses/search?current_state=Ne... (Its free and runs on donations)
9. Keep a water bottle and flat tiffin (empty is also ok but can keep biscuits/leftover for later in day)
10. Remember to have fun. (we often forget) (kk.org has advice on how2)
> 4. keep checking if backups restore correctly. (can have a very rude awakening if it does not work someday )
Your backups are only as good as your ability to restore them (under pressure).
I didn’t get a job at a company that anyone has heard of until I was 46 (AWS). My career before then was a journeymen enterprise developer until 2016 when I started leading projects. Now I still do hands on coding. But it’s now strategy cloud consulting specializing in “modernization” (ie app dev) with 50/50 client facing post sales architecture and coding and leading larger implementations.
Now admittedly, one of my secrets is that I keep completely clean shaven of all facial hair so there is no signs of balding or grey and I’m in decent shape. No one can tell my age.
According to Bill Burr it’s probably the lotion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sSSrtbujO4)
Glad to hear this isn't just something I'm encountering in isolation. My role at a BigTechCo (and I'm barrelling right through my mid-40s) could be summed with exactly that same word.
> No one can tell my age.
My beard finally started to grey and after about 2 years of that steady progression I shaved it off and now people treat me so differently. Even people who already knew me treat me differently. It's been quite the experience.
I'm now a successful, self-employed indie developer. One of the main reasons I stuck with indie development through the hard times—the maxim that it takes 5 years to become an overnight success was true for me—was that I became practically unhireable. There are multiple strikes against me: I'm middle age in an industry rife with age discrimination, I don't have a computer science degree, and I experience brain freeze during live coding interviews.
I would note that not all stress is the same. Firefighters rush into burning buildings for a living, and what could be more stressful, yet many of them would panic at the idea of giving a speech to a non-burning roomful of strangers. I have no problem with stress on the job, and I've successfully navigated many work emergencies during my career, but something about strangers standing over my shoulder judging me, determining my financial future by providing or withholding a job, like the sword of Damocles, turns my stomach inside out. And like the article author, I can revisit the coding problems and solve them afterward, as soon as the interview is over. Interviewers must think I'm a fraud who can't code, yet all evidence from my career, now almost 2 decades long, suggests otherwise.
A lot of commenters causally speak of "false negatives" as if they were random, but some people, myself included, are always the false negative. I am consistently filtered out by audition-style interviews. I'm not a stage performer.
[Edit:] I didn't expect my comment to rise to the top of an already crowded discussion. I feel a little self-conscious about it. ;-)
I don't like it when people I do know do it all that much, either, to be completely honest.
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There is a perception out there about GenAI and water that goes surprisingly deep. I was told we are will be living in a drought-stricken hellscape, and AI is to blame.
I'd like to know the equivalent energy consumption of a single TikTok video, but that is probably arguing the wrong thing. My bigger question is ... where do they think that water goes? Steam? The assumption is that it is gone forever, and I can't get over how people could just take that at face value.