Hacker News: 3maj

New comment by 3maj in "New Dementia Prevention Method May Be Behavioral, Not Prescribed"

3maj — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 22:01:20 +0000

pretty much, or if you're put in an extremely quiet room you'll start to lose it.

New comment by 3maj in "New Dementia Prevention Method May Be Behavioral, Not Prescribed"

3maj — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 20:23:26 +0000

I thought this too until I learnt what tinnitus actually is. Tinnitus isn't your ear ringing, its you losing hearing from loud noises and the loss of said hearing fucking with your brain and then due to that your brain creates that ringing noise.

Ask HN: What are some companies you refuse to work for?

3maj — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:07:34 +0000

Saw this question on the reddit r/cscareers subreddit so I figured I would ask it here to see what the HN community has to say.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31827826

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by 3maj in "FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics"

3maj — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:56:06 +0000

Couple of comments.

Hedge Funds don't invest in trailer parks, if they did they wouldn't be hedge funds they would be PE firms or REIT's.

While the US Industrial Complex is a cancer to the system I don't think they're to blame for Russia invading Ukraine. Instead, the US government needs to stop non-bid contracts and paying these companies "cost + Percentage" contracts.

Also the FP article misses out on a lot of nuances in the futures markets but thats a bit too much of a pain in the ass to get into.

New comment by 3maj in "FTC acts against private equity firm’s acquisition of veterinary clinics"

3maj — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:46:16 +0000

For the last 5-10 years one of the most popular strategies for mid-sized PE firms has been the dental clinic roll up.

New comment by 3maj in "The state finally letting teens sleep in"

3maj — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 02:16:24 +0000

Laughs in Northern Canadian

New comment by 3maj in "Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories"

3maj — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:56:18 +0000

Looks at wahoo kickr in corner

Hello old friend, we meet again.

New comment by 3maj in "Ask HN: What are well-paying alternative jobs to being a software developer?"

3maj — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:50:47 +0000

Project/Product Manager.

New comment by 3maj in "Hackers disrupt payroll for thousands of employers, including hospitals"

3maj — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:05:02 +0000

There is a lack of cybersecurity investments in almost every industry. The issue is that the executives making the decisions 1) Usually aren't knowledgable about CyberSec and 2) don't justify the investment because it's not something they can physically point at and take credit for. .

New comment by 3maj in "Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?"

3maj — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:17:59 +0000

I generally suggest that all dev teams send at least one person that's in the trenches daily to the steering committee meetings and any other decision making meetings.

This way, there's always someone that can keep expectations in check and can relay any minor/major changes back to the team. Ideally, these would be the tasks of a competent PM/Sr.BA but it doesn't always work like that.

New comment by 3maj in "We created a new programming language just for our interview process"

3maj — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 04:02:59 +0000

I agree.

If they sent me a home test with a custom programming language I would laugh and tell them to withdraw me from consideration. I'm busy, I'm not learning a new language so that you can pat yourself on the back, others might, but I won't.

New comment by 3maj in "Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?"

3maj — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:49:45 +0000

I'm looking at this from a PM's perspective and not a devs perspective so take it as you will.

>he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long >>Sounds like a manager with a MBA and lack of hands on technical experience.

>he says I probably just misinterpreted an offhand comment of hers as a hard requirement >>The problem isn't you not understanding her requirements, its a lack of documented well defined requirements - and any changes to said requirements should be noted and tracked.

>no longer necessary due to changing requirements >>Once again, this sounds like your manager is deflecting the fact that they didn't have well thought out and well defined requirements before the project began.

New comment by 3maj in "Quit Your Job"

3maj — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 03:31:06 +0000

Shoutout to the Slavic Homie Nikola Tesla, was one of the greatest inventors of all time but died in poverty.

New comment by 3maj in "Indiana life insurance CEO says deaths are up 40% among people ages 18-64"

3maj — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:53:40 +0000

Probably a big one. Drug overdoses have killed more 18-54 year olds in Canada than Covid has.

Hell, in British Columbia there have been more drug overdoses than Covid deaths across all ages.

New comment by 3maj in "Risk of myocarditis following sequential COVID-19 vaccinations by age and sex [pdf]"

3maj — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 04:20:36 +0000

Government of Ontario (Province in Canada) published data months ago showing that young men were at higher risk from heart issues. Nobody cared and the all the local and federal news outlets refused to report on the numbers.

New comment by 3maj in "Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immunity after Covid"

3maj — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 18:53:55 +0000

This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v...

In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual under the age of 19 has died of covid.

Stop fear mongering.

New comment by 3maj in "Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg"

3maj — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:05:15 +0000

Worse, FB doesn't care about the facts and neither do journalists anymore. All that matters is clicks and political leanings.

New comment by 3maj in "Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors"

3maj — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:09:00 +0000

Happens in manufacturing allll the time, especially if you're contracting our work to companies in India/China/Vietnam/etc.

New comment by 3maj in "Reddit files to go public"

3maj — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:52:18 +0000

As far as I'm concerned they're recreating Club Penguin.

New comment by 3maj in "Reddit files to go public"

3maj — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 13:51:50 +0000

Here's a wild idea, meet in person.