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Cursuviam··on Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career
My dad was a psychaitrist with a private practice for the longest time.

Sounds like a good time for an impromptu poll?

Cursuviam··on Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career
I've been treating my sabbatical time post graduation as basically summer vacation and honestly, it's been pretty nice. For the past 4 years, I've been researching, in school, or working an internship, so I haven't had a period of time to just be carefree for quite sometime.

I'm very happy right now, but mostly that's because I have a roommate who's unemployed right now, so most of the time I'm not alone in the house and have another person to go on adventures with, as well as have most of my network of college friends and friends still in college around.

On the con side, I've discovered that unstructured working at home descends quickly into distraction and browsing HN too much. I think I might try setting time each day where I go to a coffeeshop and work on coding projects, creative writing, and reading, as the change of scenery might help change my focus modal.

Finally, I recognize that I'm incredibly privileged to be able to do this. Having well-payed internships and a 1%'er family is giving me an opportunity for relaxation and travel that most Americans lack. I'm planning on spending more of my hiatus time volunteering for local causes for what I wish I could say is the goodness of my heart, but is honestly out of guilt and boredom.

Cursuviam··on Writing system software: code comments
Sections are the step before separate files for me.
Cursuviam··on “So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafening.”
More exasperated, I think? If I remember correctly, it wasn't too complex to fix (maybe just a rollback), it just took sometime to push to prod.

Mostly my interactions involving the outage were just browsing memes about it in shitposting@

Cursuviam··on “So the silence from Facebook over the weekend is.. deafening.”
No, it wasn't. I was interning there at the time and love to regularly check the current issues page.

Also, they probably did just learn about the breach day of from the person who was going to livestream deleting Zuckerburg's account.

Cursuviam··on How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap
Yes, they both are.
Cursuviam··on Redis will remain BSD licensed
Hmmm, I wonder if you could use a license even more virulent than the AGPL to approach problem (a) and then dual license to solve (b)
Cursuviam··on Commons Clause
Just dual license with AGPL, instead of this proprietary crap.
Cursuviam··on Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system
And another of the people, Robert Morris, helped found ycombinator
Cursuviam··on Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster
To quote Mars Blackmon, "It's got to be the shoes."

(In ref. to Nike's Air Jordan ad campaign)

Cursuviam··on Market Conditions, Trends and Home Prices in San Francisco
SF has a severe lack of free toilets, besides the streets.
Cursuviam··on Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System (2016)
Recommendation for checking out Digital: A Love Story, a free PC game set mainly on BBSs in 1988.

http://scoutshonour.com/digital/

Cursuviam··on Google embraces, extends, and extinguishes
I feel this one is highly positive enough to give them leeway. There are many types of browsing data, my porn habits as an egregious example, that I would prefer be constrained to a minimum number of entities.
Cursuviam··on The NetHack dev team is happy to announce the release of NetHack 3.6.1
I find DCSS's development goals very interesting in contrast to Nethack. While Nethack is widely famed for "the dev's think of everything", DCSS has been on a streak of streamlining mechanics, such as the latest release collapsing all food items to rations instead of the pizza, royal jelly, and others. Though rip wand of healing.
Cursuviam··on An Introduction to Cache-Oblivious Data Structures
Why not Introduction to Algorithms? (also taught by demaine)
Cursuviam··on Effective Engineer – Notes
This is by far my favorite HN comment of all times.
Cursuviam··on We Might Be Eating Cactus in the Future
If you are talking about the food substance itself, Cactus is correct.
Cursuviam··on Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake
The telecoms' relationship with Facebook with likely be more a symbiotic mob relationship. "You pay us protection money, and we rough up anyone who tries to get in your turf."
Cursuviam··on Starcraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch
And that was EA suing over a Battlefield server running.

My general opinion on this is that AAA gaming studios have become too large and gangrenous. Indie gaming, however, has been enjoying an incredibly excellent period recently, which keeps my spirits up.

Cursuviam··on Starcraft II goes free-to-play seven years after launch
I would place that more on John Carmack being great, than the gaming industry going down hill.
Cursuviam··on American Democracy Is Drowning in Money
Seconded. It infuriates me when people get enraged about lobbyists, but also whine about representatives being payed too much. The only thing that seems to make those folks happy is if the person is independently wealthy (see Trump).
Cursuviam··on Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
On the point of needing friends, I don't think this is necessary given that this post hit 500 points on this site. This almost definitely will be posted to some internal group for recruiting feedback.

edit: Looks like it's been posted already internally judging from one of the other posts

Cursuviam··on Facebook recruiting and Unix systems
Hey recruiters,

At the point that it became clear that there was a technical misunderstand, would you find it condescending to say something like, "I think there's a misunderstanding over this qualification for `foo` position. Could we clear it up with a `foo` engineer who is working on this stack?

Cursuviam··on Delete Facebook Account
I mean, if you work there you can just delete some rows
Cursuviam··on Insane state of today's advertising part 3
It's been done, but they ran into trouble with New Jersey for a bit.

https://www.eff.org/cases/rubin-v-new-jersey-tidbit

Cursuviam··on Yes, Google Uses Its Power to Quash Ideas It Doesn’t Like
From the Gizmodo article

> The text of the post is reproduced in full below, with some minor formatting modifications. Two charts and several hyperlinks are also omitted.

Cursuviam··on Facebook is steering users to donate to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy
The only time I think we changed the slugs at my college newspaper was when I did not realize my terrible memey titles in the cms would be on the public url. Got some angry emails over that.
Cursuviam··on Thread Pools in Nginx Boost Performance 9x (2015)
Being specific about the area being improved (blocking operations with the example of file reads) could be nice.
Cursuviam··on Japan’s ’golden coder’ making games apps aged 82 [video]
Both rare metals are good for this case.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/golden%20years

Cursuviam··on Google to add 'news feed' to website and app
I agree; the right-wing press lacks high quality journalists. Journalists seem to happen to lean left a whole lot more.
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