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eddof13··on Ask HN: Take the easy job or the hard job?
I think eventually the hard job won't be that hard- so go with that one and you can stave off boredom for longer
eddof13··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
If Elon gets them to become an actual free speech platform and drop all right wing censorship, he will be my hero, and I will become a Tesla SpaceX shill for the rest of my days
eddof13··on Ask HN: At what point do you have 2 pages in your resume?
Most people will look at just the first page, but as far as I'm concerned I don't care how long it is, particularly in this job market, I think mine is 3-4
eddof13··on Ask HN: How to stop being so anxious about job interviews?
Second this, I solved my social anxiety for dates and also job interviews just by doing many many many of them.
eddof13··on Ask HN: Starting a Career in Programming at 61?
I would suggest technical recruiting, you can do that until an advanced age, and it can even be a benefit to attracting senior level people as a recruiter.

My dad did similar, after going back to school in his mid 50s and getting a CS/cybersecurity degree, he tried the engineering side for a bit but ultimately went into technical recruiting for a big enterprise, which is a six figure position.

eddof13··on Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics
I had no idea what 4pt is but this video helped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDmdo6Px8Hk
eddof13··on Nova 9
I tried it and couldn't get into it, like opening files (command-p in VScode) didn't work as expected for me, and the file explorer wasn't there yet either. I'll check again in a couple years perhaps
eddof13··on Container ship EVERFORWARD has run aground in the Chesapeake Bay
Should have listened to the union guys in The Wire
eddof13··on YouTube suspends The Hill for playing clip of Trump denying election results
youtube is a piece of shit, I adblock them and cancelled premium as soon as they started censoring
eddof13··on Lesson: Stop saying “Hi” and waiting for a response
this is a cultural thing as well- I moved to Mexico and it's huge here, and I have to tell people not to do it
eddof13··on Ask HN: Recorded Pair Programming Sessions?
https://avdi.codes/moom/ has some pair sessions
eddof13··on YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
I adblock youtube now and I cancelled premium due to their censorship
eddof13··on Man tries to dodge Covid vaccine wearing fake arm
My hero
eddof13··on How many people have Q Clearance?
You need Q for certain facilities as well, SWIM had one and it was just to work in the building, and there wasn't anything going on there of particular interest
eddof13··on Ask HN: Can you be openly politically right-leaning in tech in North America?
Ideally a law where a person can't be fired because they have offensive political beliefs or opinions, I like tenure in universities
eddof13··on Ask HN: Can you be openly politically right-leaning in tech in North America?
I could say I don't support or believe in tech censorship, vaccine passports, virtue signaling, BLM, critical race theory, white guilt/privilege and that I don't believe that trans women are women.

However, I suspect that it's true that an employer would not approve of that, and that right leaning beliefs or believers don't get a fair shake in this climate.

So I think it's best to not be open about and say such things. 80% of your paycheck is to do the job, and the 20% is to not have any opinions or sexually harass anyone.

eddof13··on England vaccine passport plans ditched, health secretary says
I concur, good on England
eddof13··on Hiring Developers: How to avoid the best
I used to hate leetcode, and I've never done the grind, refusing to do so, so just a maybe 20-30 of them in total in my life to get an idea of it. I'm okay with not getting through hard leetcodes in competitive positions.

However, recently when I put myself on the market I found many companies are now doing take-home tests. I find I hate them even more, so I appreciate leetcode interviews now. I think take homes are too asynchronous and the last thing I want to do is waste my nights and weekends working on them. I've refused to do the last 4-5 I have been offered after agreeing to do a couple and then dropping out instead.

Ultimately I went with companies that didn't do tech screens beyond a simple code pairing session.

eddof13··on SF first major U.S. city to mandate full vaccination for many indoor activities
Disgusting, I know where I'm never returning to
eddof13··on Ask HN: How many of you are quitting over return to office?
I know for my part I wouldn't mind a position that is hybrid or requires an office as long as it is local, as I don't like working remotely at least all of the time.

My problem is the companies that are requiring both in-office and proof of vaccination, like I think Google is doing. That, would having me quitting.

eddof13··on Ask HN: Best online speech / public speaking course?
I haven't taken this one but I want to:

https://www.dalecarnegie.com/en/courses/4486

also this one: https://yourtruevoice.org/claim-your-voice/ but it's not live like the dale carnegie

eddof13··on No More Movies
Agreed, I was over 2000 movies seen and the list of ones to watch was ever getting larger the more I knew (5000+). With only 800 seen I guarantee they didn't know what they didn't know. I stopped focusing on movies for the opposite reason of him, I knew I would never get to see all of the good ones I wanted to.
eddof13··on Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility
I support this. I think once the platforms become large enough, Facebook, YouTube, Google, etc, they should be regulated as a utility.
eddof13··on Changes at Basecamp
Coinbase and Basecamp are now certainly on my shortlist of companies that I would consider working for now, hoping for more like this
eddof13··on Never Pay for Online Dating (2010)
I think people get this pretty wrong.

As for the drinks, you can get a mineral water with lime if you need a drink in your hand.

The point of the cover charge for men is to: Increase the barrier to entry, keep the riff-raff out and maintain a certain level of male clientele. This improves male to female ratio, improves the likelihood of females attending because they have better environment (you should love ladies night- you are paying for the club/bar to set out the bait) and better options to pick from. The higher the cover the less likely you will get into a fight over talking to the wrong girl.

I used to hate cover charges but then I realized like most people I got it all backwards. It's only desperation if you pay the cover, buy the drinks, only to not take proper advantage of it.

eddof13··on Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?
Also DevonThink
eddof13··on A Connecticut inn has hosted sea chantey singalongs for half a century
I saw this and immediately thought of the scene in The Other Guys
eddof13··on Akira Kurosawa’s List of His 100 Favorite Movies (2015)
I was approaching 3000 films on criticker back in college when I realized, that I would never be able to begin to approach watching all of the films that I wanted to. Sort of like, the more you know the more you know you don't know. I ended up deleting all of my tracking of films, books (well now I'm tracking my books again for insurance purposes) etc and no longer worry about seeing all the important films.
eddof13··on United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
Thanks for the recommendation on that 3rd response, it was an excellent reply
eddof13··on Categories of personal information collected
It's a numbers game (or at least I can treat it that way), they follow my funnel or they get lost, I don't think twice about it.

It's like 6 messages to text and then another 6 on text/whatsapp to figure out if the logistics for a date will work.

Maybe 15-20% actually make it to a date from a number in tinder but it requires the least investment on my part.

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