Hacker News: burade

New comment by burade in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

burade — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:50:38 +0000

So you admit you had support. What about the people who don't?

New comment by burade in "The Birth and Death of the Office"

burade — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 22:05:51 +0000

As someone with lots of weird quirks, and who is very likely on the autism spectrum, working from home may have literally saved my career.

New comment by burade in "I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore"

burade — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 00:56:48 +0000

what would you say is big bucks?

New comment by burade in "How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016)"

burade — Sat, 23 Oct 2021 12:27:30 +0000

If you expose yourself to macro-harms... you tend to... die.

New comment by burade in "Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change (1929) [video]"

burade — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 02:21:23 +0000

We don't really have it good though, simply because the universe doesn't work like that. There's no such thing as a free lunch and you're paying a price for all this "goodness".

New comment by burade in "San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears"

burade — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 15:26:30 +0000

The difference is: you can understand a drunk driver, you can arrest them, and possibly feel some sense of "closure".

What are you gonna do when a car goes rogue and murders somebody?

New comment by burade in "Once an Addict, Always an Addict?"

burade — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 20:10:31 +0000

That's not where health is though...

Health is balance.

New comment by burade in "Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home"

burade — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 01:51:30 +0000

Leaving home at 18 is really mostly an american thing.

Go to a place like Italy or India or Pakistan and you'll find 30+ year olds living with their parents and it's no big deal at all.

New comment by burade in "Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home"

burade — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 01:36:55 +0000

29 here, living at home. I do have somewhat of a career though.

I Honestly don't know when I'll leave. I have the skills to live alone, but my self-esteem is so low and my social life so limited that it gets really scary to leave.

New comment by burade in "Why People Feel Like Victims"

burade — Fri, 07 May 2021 02:35:48 +0000

These types of books are made to sell, bro, not to be completely truthful.

You got duped.

New comment by burade in "Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia"

burade — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:43:16 +0000

Sleep is in there, trust me. I'm 29 and look 40.

New comment by burade in "CUPID – the back story"

burade — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:14:35 +0000

>When you're writing a library

99% of developers are working in boring business software with 2-3 other developers.

99% of codebases will be touched by maybe a dozen developers in its entire lifetime.

New comment by burade in "CUPID – the back story"

burade — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:00:05 +0000

It's a good point though. Who decides what "one reason to change" is? a 10-line method could easily have hundreds of reasons to change.

New comment by burade in "We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus"

burade — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:05:44 +0000

It's called being young. They're emotional and inexperienced.

50 years ago this used to be normal. Now for some reason everybody expects perfection out of everybody at all times.

Insanity.

New comment by burade in "Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study"

burade — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 18:53:08 +0000

Mental health is waaay more important than anything you could ever possibly learn in school.

New comment by burade in "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index"

burade — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:16:34 +0000

Gold is a real thing that has value though. Bitcoin literally stops existing if you stop believing in it.

New comment by burade in "Talent Is Largely a Myth"

burade — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 23:53:08 +0000

Lol What??! You think Tyson went out and looked for a trainer?

No. He just happened to be an explosive beast who could knock out grown men at age 13.

New comment by burade in "When You Know"

burade — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 22:01:05 +0000

No, that's not the argument. That argument is that the global bitcoin network is slow as shit, and it would take 5 entire months just to process 140 million US citizens' taxes. Meaning that it's not really viable, unless some technological breakthrough happens.

New comment by burade in "What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry"

burade — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 16:40:38 +0000

Hum... maybe it's because they have so much technical expertise that they are able to have insights into other things?

Technical knowledge is still very important, and it's the basic foundation of being a software engineer, and maaaaannyyyyyy people out there don't even know the basics.

New comment by burade in "GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran"

burade — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:05:43 +0000

>2. Then there's the geopolitical aspect. Is it fair to impose sanctions on Iran.

Yeah. Nobody else should be allowed to have nukes, or else the U.S. is gonna take his ball and go home.