- Good counterpoint. Throughout my rather long career I've known a few overachievers. The majority of them did not get promoted, and the ones who did get promoted were actually up-titled -- new title, miniscule pay rise.
Then there are those who do the bare minimum, have frequent unplanned absences and then have the gall to ask to be promoted to a senior level simply because they've been employed at a junior level for 2 years. (I heard this from a particularly gossipy manager. People usually never disclose these things.)
One thing is universally true. If you develop a reputation for being the person that regularly gets things done, somebody somewhere will notice. And that will improve your career prospects in the long run.
- Good job pointing out the logical inconsistencies so succinctly. That article is yet another case of a solution looking for a problem.
- I was struck by some of the responses. "No I don't want to talk on a call, just read what I typed." If that's how you think then you're part of the problem.
- Just in case one of them asks for a divorce
- The alternative to CI/CD pipelines is to rely on human beings to perform the same repetitive actions the exact same way every single time without any mistakes. You would never convince me to accept that for any non-trivial project.
Especially in an age where you can basically click a menu in GitHub and say "Hey, can I have a CI pipeline please?"
- Does it read like a canned response? Yes.
But it is not "forceful and rude" by any means and your interpretation is way over the top for what looks like two people from different cultures trying to communicate in a mutually non-native language using words on a screen.
Written messages can feel cold even when it's two native English speakers communicating over email or text and it's best to assume good faith until you see clear evidence to the contrary.
- I find that Yoga Nidra helps a lot. It relaxes all your muscles and also has nothing to do with "yoga".
- You emphasized the word "minimal" but it cannot be emphasized enough. I think melatonin is one of those things that quickly backfires if you take too much.
- I wonder how much of sleep research is affected by the difference in sleep quality between your own bed and a lab. Even if you're on vacation and the hotel bed is of exceptional quality, your brain knows that it's in a different environment and would naturally be on partial alert, at least for the first couple of nights.
Now imagine sleeping in a lab setting, knowing that your sleep data is being measured. Intellectually you know that you're not at any risk but there must be some difference in the architecture of your sleep.
- Not just toxic, he's simply wrong. A 10X is someone who supposedly completes 10 hours' worth of work in one hour. If anything he was a -10X lol...
- > I think you two are talking past each other
This is why steelmanning a comment before arguing against it should be a rule.
- I would recommend everyone play their first OW game on the easiest difficulty, regardless of their experience with Civ. It is a fair bit more complex and Civ skills do not directly translate well to OW even though the two games look graphically similar.
- Specifically by Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civ 4, so naturally OW has Civ 4 vibes. I will say that Civ 6 and OW seem to appeal to different audiences, so if you absolutely loved Civ 6 plays then OW might not be to your liking.
- I've already said this in another thread, but check out Old World (free demo).
- Ah yes, the famed Solver! You're known for your inhumanly rapid responses to every Old World related discussion on the Internet but I didn't expect you to show up here.
- The AI is just one of many things I like about it. In short, whatever Civ does, Old World probably does it better, all without giving mega-bonuses to the AI.
It has a lot more going on than Civ (1 turn in OW is equivalent to about 3 turns of Civ), but somehow it's a lot more polished. There's a free demo, feel free to try it. It's often on deep discount as well. It has a 200 page manual. I find that skimming a manual gives me a good feel for a game before I play it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hb4dmDKxpf3pJJtpdFA4y4OOY-d...
The lead designer is Soren Johnson, who was also the lead designer for Civ 4, so if you liked that particular iteration you might like OW.
- I've been playing a game called Old World, which is basically Civ with decent UI and AI. The UI is intuitive and uses a nested tooltip system similar to Crusader Kings 3. The AI is pretty decent at war, it will flank you, use its strengths against your weaknesses, and will retreat to heal units that you don't finish off instead of fighting unwinnable battles.
It's set entirely in the ancient time period instead of having multiple ages, which I find this to be a strength since units and technologies remain relevant throughout the entire game. Also, ethical sales practices: the base game is very complete and DLC only adds small changes unlike most games in this genre (looking at you Paradox). The game's also on GOG, which itself is a green flag in several ways.
The developers are active daily on all support channels (Discord, Steam, forums etc). I've seen people attach saves asking for help, and a dev always respond a couple hours later in great detail.
- My initial reaction to this comment: "Wow, what a judgmental anonymous keyboard warrior. It couldn't possibly be that bad." (clicks the link)
My reaction 2 minutes later: "Oh..."
- The user has never been the primary factor in my choice of tech stack. Just like my employer doesn't care what car I drive to get to work. It's mostly about the developers and the best tools available to them at that point in time.
- In the 20 years that I've been working on sizeable closed source projects, it's also mostly about communicating. Even if the team is small, it's mostly about communicating. Occasionally some developers don't want to communicate, and prefer to shut up and write code all day, like you said. That usually creates more conflict due to different expectations, regardless of how brilliant you are.
- In the early 2000s those liberal arts departments went as far as Southeast Asia to recruit international students who paid a lot more than domestic students, especially at the time. One of their outreach programs in Myanmar is called the Pre-Collegiate Program, whose website claims to promote critical reasoning among young people.
Except I actually spoke to several of them who said that they were heavily groomed into joining the liberal arts departments. Not one of them went into engineering or the sciences. One student said during the program she was told she "must" choose the liberal arts. Another described how he was sweet talked by a philosophy professor into becoming a philosophy major, despite having followed a science-based curriculum in high school and little-to-no education in the arts (back then they had to specialize in either but not both in high school).
So when you said "crime" I thought "funny you should say that". It might not be criminal but there was definitely some creepy stuff going on.
- He also bought it without test driving one. Not the best judgment. Now I love my Tesla as much as when I bought it 3 years ago, but with it being my first EV I treaded as carefully as I could. I booked multiple test drives for the Tesla as well as for other EV brands before taking the plunge.
- Remember that the division you see is amplified by polarizing voices that are naturally amplified by the medium that is the Internet. If you actually traveled to the US, did a long road trip across the country and sat down and talked to actual Americans, I expect you will find that the vast majority don't have strong opinions about who runs the country. They just want to afford rent and groceries.
Also if you think nerdy people who hang out on HN are immune to being "belligerent, closed-minded and judgy", you haven't worked with many nerdy people. We technical/intellectual types tend to be very logical and rational, until we're not.
- I too have the opposite experience. I've had my late 2022 Tesla Model Y and I like it just as much as I did on day one. In fact I like it more now, since the car has received several new, big features after lots of software updates.
I live within 15 miles of two Tesla centres, and so far I've only had to use them once for a minor sensor issue, which was serviced at my property at no cost to me. If I didn't have any Tesla centres within a couple hours' drive I probably wouldn't have bought the car.
- Future racism is explored in The Expanse. Humans have colonized the solar system, humans on Earth are on the brink of war with the humans on Mars, and they have slurs for each other.
- I think that is something that a lot of people don't get about Trump. He chooses what vitriol to spew, then acts in a different way.
- If you dig deep enough, you might find that Japan has plenty of other problems that people in the developed west don't, but of course the grass is always greener on the other side.
- Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Also, there is often a tradeoff between aesthetics and affordability. The cost of living has gone up, and most people struggling to climb the property ladder would happily sacrifice the former for the latter. With respect, this falls squarely in the category of first-world problems.
- Apologies, I didn't see your comment in the below thread until now. https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=42379970#42385296##
That thread is now closed to replies, so hope you don't mind me replying to your question here.
> Do you have any nice, foolproof ways to reliably source new info online?
I don't think there is one, and I think anybody who tells you otherwise is lying. If you apply critical thinking and analysis to every new piece of info that you get, you can get close to the truth, but you may not necessarily arrive at it. No source is 100% accurate 100% of the time. Not even the most prestigious scientific journals.
Knowing this helps keep me grounded so that I hold on to my opinions lightly instead of grasping them. It's a wonderful thing to be able to change your mind in light of new information.
Most days I go to work, I try my best, because if it turns out I don't get paid what I'm worth, I will F off somewhere else and take all this experience with me. And every time I've done that, I've had a significant pay rise.