Hacker News: robertcorey

New comment by robertcorey in "Diary of a first-time on-call engineer"

robertcorey — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:17:40 +0000

This person is straight-up brainwashed, lol.

New comment by robertcorey in "Two custom React hooks"

robertcorey — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:55:36 +0000

good to see mark fighting the redux fake news in the comments as always.

New comment by robertcorey in "Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever"

robertcorey — Wed, 13 May 2020 00:07:07 +0000

false equivalency - there aren't slot machines in the office kitchen.

New comment by robertcorey in "Show HN: Set with Friends – A Real-Time multiplayer online card game"

robertcorey — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:07:36 +0000

I'm making a trivia game using angular/ firebase, thanks for sharing your code, it will be great to look at!

Ask HN: How Did You Get Your First Developer Job?

robertcorey — Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:09:31 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20385204

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by robertcorey in "Developer Survey Results 2019"

robertcorey — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 15:30:02 +0000

I think they really dropped the ball by grouping Angular and AngularJS together.

New comment by robertcorey in "Why we built our core engineering team outside of the SF Bay Area"

robertcorey — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 23:10:57 +0000

What about the LDS influence. I'd be worried about moving here to start a family.

New comment by robertcorey in "Thousands of New Millionaires Are About to Eat San Francisco Alive"

robertcorey — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 18:52:33 +0000

sounds right for a real estate agent hoping to drive market action.

New comment by robertcorey in "The creeping IT apocalypse"

robertcorey — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 19:26:15 +0000

Read my response to this article here: https://medium.com/@robertcorey1/hey-moron-you-better-start-...

New comment by robertcorey in "Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas"

robertcorey — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:43:06 +0000

Or you think to yourself "I spend all my time on the computer, it doesn't really matter where I live, I should go somewhere warm and cheap"

New comment by robertcorey in "Ways to Bring Tech Jobs to Rural Areas"

robertcorey — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 19:40:35 +0000

Well you could live in Bangkok or you could live in some shithole in florida for 3x the price...

New comment by robertcorey in "[dead]"

robertcorey — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 17:21:24 +0000

50k a year in a city with similar cost of living as San Fran wow

New comment by robertcorey in "Market Moves Suggest a Recession Is Unavoidable"

robertcorey — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:42:17 +0000

if you think the market will go down you should short it...

New comment by robertcorey in "Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons"

robertcorey — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 04:42:46 +0000

XD I'm in providnece and I'm hungry right now and its 12:42

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

robertcorey — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:28:51 +0000

I am 25 so I grew up online during the golden age of internet atheism. r/atheism was still a default sub, 'The God Delusion' was released in 2006 when I was 14. What I came to realize is that I was essentially worshipping my logical analytical mind and believing that if I had a enough processing power I could think my way to any solution. Eventually what I came to realize is that the logical conscious mind we are always aware of isn't necessarily making the decisions, nor does it ever have a complete picture of reality. Once I believed that my logical mind was n't capable of truly capturing reality I felt comfortable training myself to believe in things that weren't "true" since nothing as perceived as the conscious mind is really "true".

And there you are lighting incense to an action figure with a mustache on it to help contemplate doing your own bike repairs (: .

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

robertcorey — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:50:22 +0000

I would recommend reading through the entire blog archive, all together it's about the same length as a book. You can skip over articles on things that aren't interesting to you, for example I don't care about real estate.

My personal philosophy is a combination of all the different sources I have been exposed too. My main influences would be the mustachian thought sphere (MMM, The Magic of Thinking Big, Stoicism), secular western buddhism (Buddhism Plain and Simple, In the realm of hungry ghosts, The magic of tidying up) Game theory probabilistic thinking (Poker background).

When I first started reading MMM I was already a very tribal person. The us vs them mentality really appealed to me because I was used to strongly identifying with minority tribes (atheist, vegan). After I started studying buddhism I've been able to let go of some of the tribalism of mustachianism , but the frugality and the powerful self belief have remained. This is an example of my personal philosophy forking from a monolithic belief system.

I also have a couple dieties I worship. MMM is the god of frugality and not being a wimp. RNGesus is the god of accepting random bad stuff. I'll spin up/down dieties to put on my altar depending on my current priorities/ needs.

I know recommending you a bunch of books isn't really a proper response, but a proper definition would be the length of a book and I haven't written that yet.

What I would recommend to everyone is to study different belief systems and roll your own religion. Our brain is designed to consume faith-y belief systems. It's arrogant to believe those mechanisms in your brain won't latch on to something. It should be something your consciously decide on and design.

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

robertcorey — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 15:32:51 +0000

Mr. Money Mustache started me down the path of exploring my own personal philosophy. I now worship MMM as a diety (MMM !== Pete Adeney in my religion). Thanks for the teachings Pete.

New comment by robertcorey in "“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work"

robertcorey — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:56:47 +0000

that's really sad. it's like they've been domesticated.

New comment by robertcorey in "[dead]"

robertcorey — Wed, 31 May 2017 14:23:26 +0000

$47 an hour inflation adjusted for unskilled labor, that's incredible.

New comment by robertcorey in "Widening Gap in U.S. Life Expectancy"

robertcorey — Tue, 16 May 2017 20:58:56 +0000

We could just stop our _massive_ subsidies for these industries instead of taxing them.