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New comment by chrisdbanks in "Optimizing your career for happiness"

chrisdbanks — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 07:55:03 +0000

I would also add to this.

Aligning your personal goals with your company's mission can be a game-changer in achieving both professional success and personal fulfillment. When your values and objectives resonate with those of your employer, every project becomes more meaningful, and motivation naturally increases.

Your personal goals become much easier to achieve, and you have more fun achieving the company goals because they're also helping you.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Writing a book in the age of open source"

chrisdbanks — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 04:01:45 +0000

Probably Obsidian. It's popular for this because of the linking ability.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Ryanair wins screen scraping case against Booking.com in US court ruling"

chrisdbanks — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:51:46 +0000

Vueling doesn't even comply with GDPR on their marketing sign up. It's a singularly terrible experience.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

chrisdbanks — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:36:34 +0000

I would say then you have chosen the wrong employers. If you're working for someone who doesn't see your value then you're unlikely to be properly recompensed for it. Choosing a company with less hierarchy and more of a meritocracy would help.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "As an Employee, You Are Disposable (2023)"

chrisdbanks — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:52:31 +0000

Employees are more likely to quit than get made redundant. Therefore it would seem that employers are more disposable than employees. You can't quit a job for another job with a higher salary and then moan about being made redundant. Generally I think you hope for the best and plan for the worst. If you're a good employee then employers won't want to lose you. If you're not then what do you expect? You wouldn't stay with a shitty job.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative"

chrisdbanks — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 04:38:29 +0000

Makes it accessible to non-devs. Markdown may seem simple to you, but too many people it isn't. Got and it's concepts are beyond many people.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read"

chrisdbanks — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:32:46 +0000

Emotional maturity, physical maturity and intellectual maturity are definitely different things. I was a year ahead at school but struggled because I wasn't emotional and physically as mature as my peers.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct"

chrisdbanks — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:33:06 +0000

Unless we hit another AI winter. We might get to the point where the hardware just can't give better returns and have to wait another 20 years for the next leap forward. We're still orders of magnitude away from the human brain.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Engage your audience: get to the point, use story structure, force specificity"

chrisdbanks — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 18:16:27 +0000

Most story structures start with exposition, i.e. the background info. However this is quite boring normally so to get you through that they often add a "hook". That's what's being suggested here. So normally a story is hook, exposition, conflict, resolution. That's what's being suggested here, just not very clearly.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes"

chrisdbanks — Sat, 04 May 2024 05:32:15 +0000

My gym membership seems pretty reasonable, as do my Netflix subscription, and HBR subscription.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud"

chrisdbanks — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:39:08 +0000

This applied to a friend of mine who held copyright on music. Apparently this is non transferable in Germany and it was worth quite a lot. He had to pay a significant amount to move to another EU country.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "The business of takehome assessments"

chrisdbanks — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:37:08 +0000

If you spend 40 hours on this and it only gains you a 1% increase in salary then you earn that back in 2 years. I would say that it will generally earn you much more so personally I see it as a good investment. If you enjoy the take home you're also more likely to enjoy the role so it's also a filter for you. If you're not enjoying the take home then stop, but if you're finding it interesting then it's well worth it. These things are also for you to assess future Jon opportunities. The best take homes are as close to actual work as possible for a reason.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud"

chrisdbanks — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:22:42 +0000

Even Germany which is an EU member has an exit tax when moving to another EU country. This is theoretically against the EU's principle of free movement of capital. According to EU law, any restrictions on the movement of capital or payments—either within the EU or between EU and non-EU countries—are generally prohibited. However, somehow Germany gets away with it.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Lessons from building nine startups in 2023"

chrisdbanks — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:52:05 +0000

Sounds like you're building products in lieu of doing user research and product discovery. You can often prove or disprove something is a good idea with some market research and some mock-ups. Even just building the landing page as a fake door can work. Spend more time on product discovery and less time building and you'll save time overall.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content"

chrisdbanks — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:42:36 +0000

For comparison, I taught myself Spanish with paper flashcards I wrote, and a grammar book and I was at a similar stage after 5 months. 3 hours effort per week approx so a bit more than you.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "iPhone that fell from hole in Alaska 737 MAX flight is found, still open to Mail"

chrisdbanks — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:22:41 +0000

What about when someone drives by on a motorbike and snatches it from your hand. A common way to steal phones.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "First do it, then do it right, then do it better"

chrisdbanks — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:51:39 +0000

New comment by chrisdbanks in "What happens in the brain while daydreaming?"

chrisdbanks — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:54:22 +0000

Picture an apple in your mind. What colour is it?

...

Most people say red or green.

If you don't see a colour then you have aphantasia.

New comment by chrisdbanks in "Ask HN: Modern equivalent to Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software"

chrisdbanks — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:11:25 +0000

Waterfall is less common. The cloud exists. Some pretty major things.

Ask HN: Modern equivalent to Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software

chrisdbanks — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:17:36 +0000

I love Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects. But it's 20 years old now. Is there a more modern book that helps to explain to software teams all the risks inherent in software projects and gives advice on how to avoid them? e.g. scope creep?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38651526

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