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rllyboredonline

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rllyboredonline··on Ask HN: With ADHD, how did you become an effective software developer?
Repetitive music, or listening to the same song over and over (it has to be a good one). Speed/Caffeine also seem to help.
rllyboredonline··on Sun Belt Cities Are Dangerous Places to Walk
San Antonio's River Walk is cheating
rllyboredonline··on Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow
No we don't :P
rllyboredonline··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
Automated the shit out of a customer service process. Current doing contract work doing the same thing. It pays bills.
rllyboredonline··on Typography of Neon Genesis Evangelion
Anno isn't an idiot.

This comment, while oft repeated, is simply not true. There is plenty of symbolism going on in the show. There is a lot of PoMo "mask on top of a mask" stuff going on with the biblical references, but some stuff is more on the nose. There are plenty of articles on this, including this one: https://reelrundown.com/animation/Symbolism-in-Neon-Genesis-...

rllyboredonline··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2019)
Location: New York, New York

Remote : Sure

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python, Dask, PostgreSQL, Pandas, Git, Airflow

Resume: email me

Email: theapartmentalien@gmail.com

rllyboredonline··on Why spiky shapes seem angry and round sounds are calming
I figure this has to be it. In nature spikes are almost always dangerous, whereas blobs are almost always relatively safe objects (typically soft, et cet).
rllyboredonline··on The Utopian Promise of Adorno’s ‘Open Thinking,’ Fifty Years On
I'd recommend One-Dimensional Man by Marcuse. You're not going to extract anything too wild out of it, but the picture he paints of 50's American consumerism is worth it.
rllyboredonline··on Google reveals fistful of flaws in Apple's iMessage app
While being a Project Zero member is cool and all, Natalie is also a well-known Tamagotchi hacker https://natashenka.ca/about/