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MidnightRaver

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MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?
- left for a 2.5x salary bump after 1.5 years

- that place ran out of money after 1.5 years

- back at the original place, but got bored after 6 years

- let a recruiter talk me into a potentially more interesting place even if it paid less, left before hitting the 4-month mark for 2x more money

- left after 2+ years because the boss was a ginormous asshole and I was colleagues with Hamas (UN)

I regret step 3. As I was leaving there, a colleague asked me, bewildered: "why don't you just do side projects if everything's so easy and you're so bored?" And he was fucking right. I'd be done with work by noon Tuesday and then go tinker on some open source thing on Github or write on Medium or saw stuff at the country place. And so much more money would roll right in every year.

MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?
Or count votes at Russian elections
MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
> I've never made a sufficiently advanced UI that required react/vue/etc.

There is no such UI. Users don't want 'advanced' UI.

MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: Anyone else feel trapped in FANG? How did you get out?
Retire early.
MidnightRaver··on Google Search Is Dying
My go-to porn finder.
MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: Would you pass an interview for your current position?
I once passed inverting a binary tree with flying colours because the interviewers talked about it between themselves thinking I couldn't hear, but I did and googled it.
MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?
I've done tons of work during meetings. Only need to listen like 4% of the time.
MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun?
Django, DRF, with high pytest coverage. I'd build the front with Django's own templates + jQuery or even plain JS, but am also fine helping someone else build Vue.
MidnightRaver··on China blocks Wikimedia from entering World Intellectual Property Organization
Lol who accepted China into an IP organization : D
MidnightRaver··on Disclosure: Unlimited Chase Ultimate Rewards Points
I like crypto lockers. It means researchers can set the price of the vulnerabilities discovered, not shitty corporations.
MidnightRaver··on Has to Be a Joke, Because If It’s Not
You make very good points. Additionally, I believe banks, even though they get 'free money' from the Fed, have seriously constricted lending. Most people, even if they started feeling positive again, just can't get (another) loan. And America is so debt-based, if you can't get a loan to pay off a previous loan, you're fucked.
MidnightRaver··on Has to Be a Joke, Because If It’s Not
That "we're going to allow even bigger than 2% inflation" is the bullshit of bullshits because they've never even been able to hit that 2. Means all the printing's been useless and things are going to shit. (or have already)
MidnightRaver··on YC Software Startups: Value and Initial Programming Language Used
The table very clearly shows the correlation.
MidnightRaver··on GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
Have the owners of the alternatives commented on this yet? What to use now? Atlassian? Gitlab?
MidnightRaver··on GitHub is working on renaming default branch from “master”
I've always seen it as 'final mix', 'mastered tape', didn't even occur to me before this it could be backpropagated to BLM.
MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer?
PyCharm
MidnightRaver··on Steve Yegge: Saying Goodbye to the Best Gig I Ever Had
Tries to make it about COVID but if you read it, turns out Grab is pretty much a very Asian sweatshop for devs and endless pointless Zoom for the managers. Also, rats and ships and stuff.
MidnightRaver··on Effect of economic crisis on America’s small businesses [slides]
Some people feel for dying Italians, some fear going outside so much their hands are shaking. But this really wrenches my gut : O
MidnightRaver··on Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as 'man' and 'woman'
I wonder if this is actually a marketing gimmick to invoke outrage and therefore clicks? The change certainly reduces the usefulness of the API by a fraction of a fraction of a percentage.
MidnightRaver··on Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?
Maybe get a friend who delights in working with payment APIs?
MidnightRaver··on Letter to a Peer Reviewer Who Stole and Published Our Manuscript as His Own
How very Italian.
MidnightRaver··on What Great Listeners Actually Do
They retrieve weekly contracts from the Night Mother diligently.
MidnightRaver··on What was your best passive income in 2014?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdHkRkwJvww
MidnightRaver··on What was your best passive income in 2014?
You do realise INR == Indian rupees, right?