nso95

478 karma · joined October 11, 2013

nso95··on Ask HN: Could you share the notes you took on a typical work day?

I used to take notes all the time, but they have never been useful so I've since given up. Nothing more than short term stuff I can throw on sticky note.

nso95··on IQ scores are falling and have been for decades (2018)

Quit social media..... learn to do just one thing at a time, it doesn't have to be like this.

nso95··on Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

Todoist for task backlog, Google calendar timeblocking for day planning

nso95··on Why did Heroku fail?

Looks like it's still up and running, not sure that qualifies as a failure

nso95··on Ask HN: Is it true that any community that grows big enough, gets ruined?

Once the community becomes too big to enforce it's rules it will be ruined, imo it's that simple

nso95··on Wireless is a trap (2020)

>We waste an hour a day dealing with wireless not working

seems unlikely

nso95··on Ask HN: How do you deal with rude interviewers?

Finna shit my pants g2g

nso95··on Why I left Google: work-life balance

Surprisingly Amazon probably gets the closest

nso95··on Why I left Google: work-life balance

There are outlier teams, but culture tends to trickle down

nso95··on Why I left Google: work-life balance

The first six months of a new job is the honey moon phase, give it time.

nso95··on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

Well...all modern speech recog uses ML

nso95··on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

It's crazy that Apple would so easily throw away someone "leading the charge on cutting edge technology" just because they want him to show up at the same place every day.

nso95··on Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

bullshit

nso95··on Ask HN: How do you keep social life if WFH?

I don't

nso95··on Getting hired after fifty

Thankfully no

nso95··on Getting hired after fifty

When I worked in defense aerospace the majority of software engineers were 40+. Plenty in their 50s, a few 60+.

nso95··on Ask HN: How to Stay Focused at Work?

I recommend extending the Pomodoro from 25m to 50m or so, better for programming tasks.

nso95··on Ask HN: How to Stay Focused at Work?

Honestly, 2-5 hours of work is pretty good. But if you want to be more focused you can check out Pomodoro and similar timeboxing systems.

nso95··on Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change

These things you're listing happened before the scientific method was even developed

nso95··on Ask HN: Has remote work made you procrastinate more?

My issue is that I can't seem to ever stop thinking about work

nso95··on Ask HN: Has remote work made you procrastinate more?

Same

nso95··on Ask HN: What methods do you use to focus and stay relaxed?

Sounds like you need a new gf

nso95··on Ask HN: What methods do you use to focus and stay relaxed?

Read the books Deep Work and Digital Minimalism, look into mindfulness meditation and Stoicism. Breathe.

nso95··on Sweden sends just 1% of its trash to landfills

Landfills give off huge amounts of greenhouse gases

nso95··on Ask HN: How do I develop focus?

I find 60-90 minute timeboxes better for programming, need to get into flow

nso95··on Jack Dorsey has regrets about building Twitter

never saw any more toxicity on irc than any other platform

nso95··on Ask HN: Best resource to learn applications of algorithms

Algorithmic Thinking might be what you're looking for - https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Thinking-Problem-Based-Da...

nso95··on Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers

Yikes, good luck with that

nso95··on Uber funds new lobbying group to deny rights for gig workers

How does this make money?

nso95··on Some tiny personal programs I've written

https://github.com/narkoz/hacker-scripts

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