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New comment by no_wave in "Technology holy wars are coordination problems (2020)"

no_wave — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 02:47:18 +0000

It was pointless. The python core team decided to obsolete every existing line of python code in exchange for basically nothing. On top of it a few features were changed in ways that felt outright vindictive (division, the u'' convention being the ones that affected every single codebase).

New comment by no_wave in "Technology holy wars are coordination problems (2020)"

no_wave — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 01:45:56 +0000

More people SHOULD have refused the python3 transition plan (the most common example in the piece). It was absolute garbage and the eager adopters were the ones responsible for it becoming permanent.

New comment by no_wave in "Job switchers are earning a lot more than those who stay"

no_wave — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 12:04:33 +0000

>A few people from my team who left for other companies have already come back within months.

Ask them if they got a pay bump when they came back.

New comment by no_wave in "Open offices are a dead end"

no_wave — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:29:14 +0000

Expecting your neighbor to be ok with two people talking to each other for 7 hours straight is just plain rude regardless of your office preference.

New comment by no_wave in "Open offices are a dead end"

no_wave — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:11:51 +0000

Yes? It's easy to feel productive in an open office. There's activity and buzz and you can accomplish nothing for four hours and still feel like you did something. You can't do that in a more private setting, what you're actually getting done is staring you in the face.

New comment by no_wave in "FAA Bans Recalled Apple Laptops from Flights"

no_wave — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:03:40 +0000

I own an xps 15. It gets mega hot and can't run anything without having to slow down performance because it is too hot. Whatever the optimal battery solution is XPS15 is not doing a good job of it.

New comment by no_wave in "And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake"

no_wave — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:44:56 +0000

There are also compromises made on the frosting so that it doesn't melt at room temperature. Fake cakes let you serve cakes that actually taste good.

American cake is in general very good - I'm not sure where you're comparing it to - it's the cupcakes that are bad.

New comment by no_wave in "The Amazon-Ification of Whole Foods"

no_wave — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 21:53:57 +0000

I haven't used them in ages so I didn't believe this. It seemed too ludicrous. I logged in to check and actually laughed out loud when I saw it. How much trouble must this company be in?

New comment by no_wave in "Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders"

no_wave — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 20:24:15 +0000

What's the irony, really... there's probably a reason innate IQ settled around where it did over the thousands of years since civilization started and not higher.

New comment by no_wave in "A Dark Room: From Sabbatical Year to $800k"

no_wave — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:11:35 +0000

Many programmers hit their peak salary very fast. Making $140k a year for 35-40 hours of work a week <4 years out of college with no graduate school is pretty insane.

Continuing to make that $140k 20 years later is also insane, but in the opposite direction, but that's not the situation the post was describing. As a programmer you're fantastically highly paid at the beginning of your career but often not at the middle and end.

New comment by no_wave in "Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel"

no_wave — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:30:23 +0000

But without baking in a 30 minute wait on a train platform how would the parent have been able to make their point?

New comment by no_wave in "Jackie Chan’s Plan to Keep Kicking Forever"

no_wave — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 17:15:03 +0000

Drunken Master 2 has one of the most depressing endings I've ever seen in a movie. After the final fight (which involves his drinking industrial grade alcohol to power up enough to win) the movie flashes forwards and it turns out that Jackie's character is severely and permanently mentally retarded because of the alcohol he drank.

This was taken out of the American release of the film.

New comment by no_wave in "Interview with Mr. Money Mustache"

no_wave — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 16:34:45 +0000

He had more than enough money in the bank to do nothing given his expenditures. Turns out he likes making money on his own time.

New comment by no_wave in "How BuzzFeed’s Tasty Conquered Online Food"

no_wave — Sun, 30 Jul 2017 18:39:10 +0000

Asking if Kenji stole recipes is like asking if Modernist Cuisine stole recipes. You'd have to be unfamiliar with either to ask.

New comment by no_wave in "What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates at top tech companies"

no_wave — Thu, 25 May 2017 17:24:48 +0000

When I had a Google interview I was told (or it was at least heavily implied) that I wouldn't be evaluated by the people I was having lunch with. I didn't really believe that, and looks like I was right not to.

New comment by no_wave in "Where will UX Design be in 5 years?"

no_wave — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:59:32 +0000

I'm convinced that flat got popular because it was cheaper than creating textured graphics. The endless fawning over flat on HN was extremely obnoxious - back in 2013 you couldn't go a day without a "flat design is good design" post ending up on the front page.

Glad to see that there are other people out there who hate it. If there's one example of comically dumb flat design patterns right now, it's that "filter" icon you see around the web that looks like a solid-colored upside down triangle and nothing like a filter.

New comment by no_wave in "MBAs as CEOs"

no_wave — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:17:43 +0000

When people use the phrase MBA on HN they usually mean MBA from one of the top 20 or so programs, which answers your first question.

New comment by no_wave in "Germany Tries to Catch Up with Startup World"

no_wave — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:32:40 +0000

Yo got 1.5 million dollars fwiw.

New comment by no_wave in "Programmer Competency Matrix (2016)"

no_wave — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:50:06 +0000

When is it preferable to composition?

New comment by no_wave in "We like impostor stories because we’re afraid we’re impostors (2016)"

no_wave — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:23:47 +0000

That list made think about what would make you feel impostor syndrome. I think it often happens when the rewards you get are disproportionately large compared to the amount of effort you've put in.

No doubt Tom Hanks put in a lot of effort, but fifteen years into his career he was being paid tens of millions of dollars and getting nationally feted to go onto a movie set and do his thing. All of those people, simply because of the scale of the US and how the economic/legal structure operate, were at some point just way more rich or influential than it's natural for anyone to be, often too soon.

The people I've personally known most subject to impostor syndrome are programmers early in their career who slacked off a bit in college who are suddenly making close to or more than a hundred thousand dollars a year to do something they didn't have to work all that hard to be able to do. The sort of people who put in 70 hour weeks even in college never seem to feel it. (Neither do cooks)