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Bruno-Simon.com

joebadmo — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 20:11:33 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28777808

Points: 1

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New comment by joebadmo in "It’s time to break up the Ivy League cartel"

joebadmo — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 05:39:14 +0000

Hi, I'm Asian, graduated from a state school with a humanities degree, worked my way from tech support at a tiny startup into engineering, and now (several jobs later) work as a software eng at Stripe. I've met plenty of other engineers here with non-traditional backgrounds.

I think you're: 1. way too hard on yourself. If you broaden your scope just a bit, you'll see that Amazon is an elite engineering organization. 2. buying way too much into phony credentialism. I don't make a big deal out of it, but personally I consider being able to hold my own engineering-wise while having gone to a state school as a badge of honor. 3. giving way too much headspace to comparing yourself with others in envy. There's always someone better, smarter, etc. I find them around me all the time. I choose to see them as mentors and role models, rather than rivals or competitors.

> I should have done research in high school and I should have gotten at least two first author papers to a top conference in undergrad - instead I got 2 2nd author papers to medium tier conferences because I could never come up with any compelling research ideas. All of my work is ultimately meaningless because it just wasn’t enough - it’s extremely depressing.

I don't think you're ever going to be satisfied if this is your definition of success. You should try to find meaning in the work itself, not in the recognition or status that comes from it.

Good luck!

Soundness Pledge

joebadmo — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:06:39 +0000

Article URL: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/2020/01/18/soundness-pledge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22089590

Points: 3

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New comment by joebadmo in "America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births"

joebadmo — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 00:28:14 +0000

I grew up in suburbs, and couldn't go anywhere without a car, so I was very bored and watched a lot of television (though I read a lot of books, too).

Currently raising two kids in an urban center, and I'm excited for them to have way more opportunities than I had.

New comment by joebadmo in "Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America"

joebadmo — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:42:57 +0000

Pulling the ladder up behind you.

New comment by joebadmo in "Google employees reportedly quit over military drone AI project"

joebadmo — Tue, 15 May 2018 16:54:29 +0000

seems like a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17074148 which has more comments

New comment by joebadmo in "Earning Your Stripes: An Interview with Patrick Collison"

joebadmo — Fri, 11 May 2018 03:53:22 +0000

Former Marine Corps NCO checking in. I'm about to start at Stripe in a few weeks. You're not wrong, but we do show up now and again.

New comment by joebadmo in "Chinese tech giant ZTE ceases operations after ban on using U.S. components"

joebadmo — Wed, 09 May 2018 23:36:57 +0000

Given that this is about Iran/N. Korea sanctions, why does it get conflated with "tech cold war"?

New comment by joebadmo in "Keyboard latency"

joebadmo — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 23:31:39 +0000

> when the key bottoms out is probably the best way to go

I disagree. One of the greatest benefits of mechanical keyboards is that they actuate before bottoming out. With some practice you can learn to type without bottoming out, which can greatly increase your typing speed, and decrease the amount of stress on your fingers and wrists.

Brand New Model F Keyboards (reproductions)

joebadmo — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 02:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14715697

Points: 1

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New comment by joebadmo in "Company creates bicycle airbag to replace helmets (2014)"

joebadmo — Fri, 15 May 2015 16:06:11 +0000

June 26, 2014

IPFS is the Permanent Web

joebadmo — Mon, 11 May 2015 04:47:52 +0000

Article URL: http://ipfs.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9522759

Points: 3

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Welcome to fundraising (startup podcast)

joebadmo — Fri, 08 May 2015 16:41:27 +0000

Article URL: http://gimletmedia.com/episode/another-side-of-the-story-season-2-3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512649

Points: 1

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Modularise CSS the React way

joebadmo — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 18:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@jviereck/modularise-css-the-react-way-1e817b317b04

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9312415

Points: 2

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No Indictment in Ferguson

joebadmo — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:02:11 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/ferguson-cop-not-indicted-shooting-michael-brown-n255391

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8656420

Points: 4

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New comment by joebadmo in "Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end"

joebadmo — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:12:56 +0000

You've correctly identified a guarantee that you don't have with npm. In practice, anecdotally, I've never run into this issue, while I have many times and with much pain dealt with conflicting deep dependencies using bower and bundler. Which may explain the blank stares. It's a tradeoff I am personally happy to make.

New comment by joebadmo in "Show HN: Duo – a next-generation package manager for the front end"

joebadmo — Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:46:43 +0000

The problem is here: "(accepts a 1.0 object but depends on 2.0)"

This case actually has nothing to do with nested dependencies. Your time zone lib is returning a datum with one type, which you're passing to a formatting lib that expects a datum with another type. This can happen if your libs have dependencies that are totally different libraries instead of the same library with different versions. It can also happen if your libs have no dependencies at all. This is not an issue of dependencies but of you not understanding your libs' APIs.

New comment by joebadmo in "How to Test Private Functions in JS Modules"

joebadmo — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:22:36 +0000

I think I just mean that a testable unit is a good heuristic for when a piece of code should be pulled out into a separate module. Put another way: when there's enough functionality/complexity in a given function that it needs to be tested independent of the public methods that use it, it's modularizable.

This probably isn't categorically true, but it's served me pretty well.

New comment by joebadmo in "How to Test Private Functions in JS Modules"

joebadmo — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:02:45 +0000

If you really want to buy into the module pattern, it seems like anything that's enough of a unit that you'd want to test could be in its own module.

In the example given, the sum function could be its own module that you require into the stats module. That way you could test them independently, and the stats module could simply expose its own appropriate methods.

This has the added benefit of making the sum function reusable.

Personally I prefer this approach to introducing environmental concerns into your code.

New comment by joebadmo in "Open Name System: Extending DNS with the Blockchain"

joebadmo — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:27:01 +0000

At the bottom:

"currently maintained by the team at onename.io"

https://onename.io/about

There's also links to the github repos.