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celim307on Squirrel stores thousands of nuts inside man's parked truck

Curious about what routes you climbed! I did Olympus but that was more glacier hopping than technical, I figured most of the technical multipitch was in the North cascades around index. Would love some recommendations as I just moved

celim307on AMD’s Lisa Su

I bought 10k shares @ 2.60, but had to divest for various work related and legal reasons. How do you think I feel?

Also had to sell a similar stake in Microsoft before the turnaround :(

celim307on Spotify Box

Would a chrome cast audio work? Or is it not high fidelity enough

celim307on Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia

Business secrets, political dissidents, journalists. Let’s not start the “if you got nothing to hide” argument

celim307on Malware found preinstalled in classic push-button phones sold in Russia

For a certain demographic this is good advice

celim307on The Seniority Roller Coaster and Down-Leveling in Tech

This has been the opposite for me. Yes I wore a ton of hats at the startups I worked at but working at big tech I’ve been exposed to scale and quality standards beyond what I was used to before. Plus my coworkers are all higher quality so it’s like being in college again and hanging out with all these smart people I’m learning from just by interacting with them.

And this is coming from someone very cynical of big tech otherwise

celim307on Code-First vs. Product-First

A lot of tech debt is just passing the buck from bad product leadership onto engineers. If product is chasing the new hot feature of the week maybe they don’t have a long term vision

celim307on Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping

Hard to say if all the data collection that happens online is any better

celim307on Aspartame and cancer – new evidence for causation

At least with my young single male peers, trips to the store are primarily for beer or tobacco or sugar. The 1 & 2 of video game junk food cross sponsorship has messed up a lot of their bodies

celim307on Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

I’m at unity, you can look me up, senior software eng.

Original grant wasn’t meant to be that much but stock ipo’d well

celim307on Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

* what are you guys using to find high quality remote jobs? I used to use builtinseattle but that’s of course region specific and I’d ideally like to go fully remote. HN and LinkedIn are my best options?

* if I’m making 300k at nonfaang, and don’t feel like doing these crazy ass LC interviews, is it even worth it to look? Or is 300k+ all LC?

celim307on Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds

Does this apply to humans? Should the policy be to euthanize all humans who experience suffering?

celim307on Amazonian moths that drink the tears of sleeping birds

Feels pretty arrogant to assume that’s the only ethical action. Who are we to be judge jury and executioner, even more than we are already?

celim307on The Backblaze Rebrand Reveal

endorsement warning

A good Digital Asset Management service streamlines rebrands a lot. My old place Brandfolder I think is great for this.

celim307on Show HN: Drop-in audio & video chat for remote teams

Discord fills this need for us

celim307on U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world, new Gallup report finds

The people you are describing are more a function of where you live, those people tend to congregate in what I calm “yuppie slums”, shitty made multi family units with names like “aloft” and “elevate” with art and random shit in the lobby. There’s a ton in every US city. And they are all the same.

They attract people who don’t know the city very well and have a check list of amenities. When your lease is up I would encourage you to look at different neighborhoods, ideally a little away from the “revitalized former industrial/meatpacking district” which is probably bougie breweries and wine lounges now.

celim307on Ask HN: What's some great fiction for founders and entrepreneurs?

I’ve only read the unicorn project but if Phoenix is similar, I found it fairly entertaining in the first third, then it started to feel like stereotypes monologuing. I think it’s an entertaining book and if you’re looking for affirmation and catharsis at the dysfunction of bureaucracy, or maybe want to feel a little smug, but I didn’t feel like it really helped me evolve.

celim307on The art of Front end Engineering

Like any position my enjoyment of front end depends highly on the philosophy of the company. Am I going to work with designers and product managers to really put the customer first and craft accessible, enjoyable, and useful ways of customer interaction? Or am I going to spend my time building dark patterns

celim307on The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (2018)

Probably just nostalgia but man those icons remind me of how fun the internet and computing seemed in the mid late 90’s. Nowadays everything Seems sterile

celim307on OBS Studio 27.0

I remember when it was OBS vs xsplit, looks like OBS won!

celim307on Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

My suggestion is to get into an unrelated hobby, and you’ll find small opportunities to print things useful to that hobby. Dice shakers or holders for Dungeon and dragons, pick holders for guitar, a case for my belay glasses for climbing, etc

celim307on Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

What genre? BBC and trance around the world, or even monstercat are similar to what you’re looking for.

Indie radio stations do the same and usually have a podcast “episode” per week with curated content

celim307on Americans are on the move, but their stuff doesn’t always follow

Denver is all of that, Boulder maybe even more. But it’s expensive and I left

celim307on River Runner: drop a raindrop anywhere in the USA, watch where it ends up

Wow I clicked thinking the concept was neat enough on its own but the execution was engaging and informative. This is great

celim307on Show HN: Flashcards to learn AWS skills

It hit too close to home. It described me and everyone I knew age 22 - 30 in tech to a T. We really aren’t as original as we’d like to believe

celim307on Teardown of a PC Power Supply

On a somewhat related note, I just found out johnnyguru, a major contributor to consumer psu reviews and knowledge, has shut down his site and forums. His tear downs were always fascinating

https://web.archive.org/web/20210126113732/http://www.jonnyg...

celim307on Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

Yeah sounds like OP has a chip on their shoulder and is projecting.

I wouldn’t trade my years at a startup for anything but they can be run by tyrants in a fiefdom just as much as a VP runs an org, sometimes more so as they have no one they report to.

celim307on Lambda School lays off 65 employees

Anyone with knowledge know if this is isolated to lambda falling behind their peers, or the industry itself starting to turn away from hiring boot camp grads?

celim307on Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft

I’m near middle age and discord is how I still talk to my friends from high school, college, and past jobs. My high school friends are pretty close now with my work friends, despite only ever have interacted on discord.

It’s hands down the communication tool i use the most in my personal life