teeceetime2 (u/teeceetime2)

teeceetime2 commented on We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them trytapioca.com/library-of... · Posted by u/alexyang21

SketchySeaBeast · 3 years ago

I've never run into someone who that is their career - do you work for companies that are trying to take the competitions stuff apart, or legacy hardware, or is there some other stuff that's obvious that I'm missing?

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

Think more along the lines of "bad guys" vs "good guys" rather than corporate competition. Perfectly harmless systems are built everyday. But, the consumers of those systems may not always be harmless. Understanding - and eventually controlling - the inner workings of these custom systems [covertly in some circumstances] is often necessary to stop the bad guys.

teeceetime2 commented on Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone else's domain via helpdesk twitter.com/NamecheapCEO/... · Posted by u/deletescape

sph · 3 years ago

Or perhaps a Runescape fan.

"buying gf, 100 gp"

I wonder if they also have an armour trimming service.

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

I became overwhelmed with osrs flashbacks after reading this

teeceetime2 commented on Namecheap CEO offers $10k bounty for changing someone else's domain via helpdesk twitter.com/NamecheapCEO/... · Posted by u/deletescape

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

I'm way less upset by this than a large number of people in that twitter brawl. I can agree that this probably isn't the best way to go about things, but in the end, all I see is a CEO taking a firm stance of confidence behind his products - let's just hope this doesn't turn into a real bad situation for namecheap customers. Ballsy? Yeah. But pitchfork and torch worthy? Not really.

teeceetime2 commented on We compiled a library of realistic engineering take-home tests and ranked them trytapioca.com/library-of... · Posted by u/alexyang21

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

Hardware Reverse Engineer here. Would love to see some more tests geared towards my field. (Either reverse or hardware engineering)

teeceetime2 commented on HN is up again · Posted by u/tpmx

joshstrange · 3 years ago

I don't think I had ever fully internalized how often I open this site throughout the day. Finish a task? HN. Got frustrated/stuck on a problem? HN break. Waiting for something to install/upload/compile/etc? HN.

Needless to say I opened a new tab, typed "n", and hit enter countless times today before my brain caught up with my muscle memory.

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

went out of my way to leave lurk mode and log in just so I could say "100% same experience for me"

teeceetime2 commented on Music for Programming musicforprogramming.net/... · Posted by u/Group_B

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

If the task at hand were considered to be bowling pins at the end of a lane, and the ball rolling down the lane is me working towards completing that task, music is the lane bumpers that keep me focused and working towards the objective. Otherwise, every noise, conversation, and item on my desk would throw my focus (the bowling ball) into the gutter.

teeceetime2 commented on Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking? · Posted by u/aruanavekar

d_sc · 3 years ago

If the laptop is company property, then depending on your country/where you live .. yes it’s legal.

Outside of legality, you need to ask yourself if you are okay with your company going to that level of monitoring & inspection on what you are doing. Remote Access Tools remove all amounts of privacy that you may have.

I would ask your employer why they want to install the program on computers and also get clarification if they are doing it to all computers (including their own) or just a subset of people’s computers.

By the way, I personally recommend having a secondary device whether it’s your phone, tablet or additional computer and keep that on your desk to use during the work day as your personal device. Whether you want to look up a recipe for dinner, show time for a movie or send a personal message to a friend.. do it on that device. Never use your work computer for anything personal. Ever.

Ok, so if the employer says that everyone’s computers are having it installed.. and they want to install it so they can better see when people are working.. you can still dig in and ask whether they can’t see if people are working today by work activity and what they deliver.

Ultimately though, if they want to do it.. they’ll do it. You agree and allow it, or you disagree and either they don’t install it or you’re looking for a new job.

Determine what your boundaries are for personal space & privacy. If this crosses your boundaries (I’m guessing it likely does or will) then start looking for a new job. Be a model employee in the mean time but find a new place that trusts & respects you.

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

Want to add - the T1 helpdesk guy who has the ticket to install some rando software on some rando employee's computer is not going to know why. If you do intend to go this route, ask a decision maker, not the messenger (installer).

teeceetime2 commented on Ask HN: How is the remote vs in-person trend looking? · Posted by u/aruanavekar

marcus_holmes · 3 years ago

I think it's more the trend of companies being scared of litigation. They can't be sued for discrimination if they never actually turned you down.

teeceetime2 · 3 years ago

Serious question - Isn't the company opening themselves up to more litigation by ghosting? For instance, doesn't a hiring company have to have a legitimate reason for not hiring someone, otherwise they're opening themselves up to a discrimination lawsuit? "Because you gave me no reason as to why you didn't hire me, I'm now left to believe it was based it was on my ethnicity, which is illegal. So here's a lawsuit."

teeceetime2 commented on Lapce – Fast open-source code editor lapce.dev/... · Posted by u/maximilianroos

teeceetime2 · 4 years ago

I'd be more inclined to give it a try if there were videos demonstrating it being used. Either on the project's website or YouTube. Otherwise, this looks like a great idea + project

teeceetime2 commented on Launch HN: Optery (YC W22) – Remove your personal info from the internet · Posted by u/beyondd

teeceetime2 · 4 years ago

Seems very useful. However, I am not a fan of a subscription-based model for this sort of thing. I would hands down sign up if it was a one-time transaction. If that were the case I would also likely be a repeat customer every year.