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josephgrossbergon Ask HN: Have you successfully done a career do-over, and how did you do it?

As someone who just found himself 41 and jobless, I found this a great perspective on things. TY for sharing, especially that advice paragraph!

josephgrossbergon Show HN: Talking Code – Technical podcast for nontechnical people

I feel like this could be useful for cross-discipline summaries within engineering -- e.g. explaining what quants do to iOS developers, and vice-versa.

josephgrossbergon How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life

What's something concrete that you think the entire open source community lost as a result of Eich no longer heading Mozilla?

josephgrossbergon Follow up to the investigation results

And how, exactly, do you conclude that I'm American? Or that I've not worked professionally on three continents?

Cool assumptions, bro.

And why propose a thought experiment if you're just going to dismiss criticism as a reflection of the critic's nationality, instead of evaluating them on their own merits?

You didn't address a single counterpoint I made; it sounds like you're not interested in a "thought experiment" so much as proposing your idea and then not hearing any criticism.

josephgrossbergon Follow up to the investigation results

What you're essentially proposing is, "All employees have to declare whether or not they are sexually available to every other employee."

It's demeaning, unprofessional, and a legal nightmare that this would be part of the terms of employment!

It also gets consent totally wrong. The onus shouldn't be on employees to explicitly swipe, "No: I do not want to be subjected to sexual and romantic advances at work." That has to be the default.

Plus, are managers involved? If your boss swipes "yes" and you swipe "no", how are you to know that won't bias their evaluation and treatment of you?

And when someone swipes "yes", what are they swiping "yes" to? Being flirted with? Being asked out on a date? Being propositioned for sex? Are you proposing that "Hey, she swiped yes" stands up as a refutation of any sexual harassment claims?

Etc. etc.

Think it through, man -- this would astronomically increase workplace drama and legal woes, not reduce them.

josephgrossbergon Why I am building a product with a tiny market

What is the value-add over free tools such as rubular?

josephgrossbergon Calories, fat or carbohydrates? Why diets work (when they do)

Yes, but what is "better"? And what is the best way to make both life changes enduring? (E.g. if someone is constantly hungry, their change in diet is probably not sustainable.)

josephgrossbergon Calories, fat or carbohydrates? Why diets work (when they do)

And what was your starting weight? It's a lot more challenging to go from, say, 250 lbs. to 150 lbs. than it is from 350 lbs. to 250 lbs. (not that either is easy).

FWIW, I am down about 80 lbs. from my peak weight of 260+, but it took years, not months.