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dookahku

221 karma · joined March 1, 2015

data science, machine learning, C/C++, embedded, systems programming
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dookahku··on We purchased a machine from China and it came with malware preinstalled
That doesn't feel like a reasonable response... How's anormal person supposed to know what DMZ subnet would means?
dookahku··on Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?
I think the problem is not discovery but the problem is that only garbage comes from LinkedIn. I've never gotten a job that was worthwhile from LinkedIn.
dookahku··on Ask HN: Do you have to use LinkedIn to get hired?
I've gotten a couple high quality leads via engineering managers on LinkedIn. One was of Apple. I forgot what a regex was after I got nervous though so no job
dookahku··on Death Clock
On Android there's no easy way to input the date. I get a date picker that I can only increment the month. I can't change anything else :-(
dookahku··on The value of taxi medallions has plummeted 90% in NYC
I wish you could have empathy with other people
dookahku··on Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?
That is true and consistent with what I've seen. However way too many IT policies Will rely on phone sms 2FA, such as Wells Fargo

Sometimes people just like to watch the world burn...

and besides even if they get something low value as far as money that doesn't mean it's not important to me or terribly stressful

dookahku··on Microplastics in food and drink may be fueling a dramatic rise in bowel diseases
So how do these food wrapping plastics end up in the ocean?
dookahku··on The value of taxi medallions has plummeted 90% in NYC
I don't know if I'm totally sad about this... I don't know how many female friends I've had get sexually assaulted or raped inside a taxi cab. They could never catch the taxi cab drivers because nobody memorizes the number of the cab they're in...it's happened inside an Uber/lift but they actually got the guy because of the app

I'm sure many cab drivers are very anti-rape but nobody seemed to have done anything to make the situation safer

dookahku··on The value of taxi medallions has plummeted 90% in NYC
On the surface it seems similar but I think there's differences because of proprietorship

Seem to me that taxi driving is more of a (formerly) safe and proven blue collar job rather than an enormous and risky enterprise with investor money. Whereas with cab driving many times in the past it was a simple loan

There's the expectation of failure in a startup but not in a simple blue collar job

There is much more on the line personally than a startup.

dookahku··on Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?
I use Google Fi because the SIM card is attached to my Gmail account where I can use A real 2FA
dookahku··on Ask HN: How do I protect myself against SIM swap attacks?
That's a good idea but it's not a practical solution because most websites don't give you the choice.
dookahku··on Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again
Send Your former colleagues a group email asking how it is
dookahku··on Code to flood Kellogg with bogus job applications after strikers sacked
Just ask for your money back from hn
dookahku··on Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
Still, get the vaccine
dookahku··on Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
In the future, everyone will be nude on the internet for 15 minutes
dookahku··on Root cause is for plants, not software
The examples they provide for root cause analysis are actually trying to assign blame, rather than find the cause.
dookahku··on Ask HN: I've realized I'm a bad software engineer and I'm over 30, what's next?
It's kind of a fork on the road yeah? I went through a similar process...

It turns out I had real issues with CPTSD and other things going on that interfered with my ability to perform at work. What's worse, I didn't even know I was this bad.

Your reasons may be different. I actually really like doing my job even though I know I'm not the best.

for my case I had to stand back and realize what was actually really important to me and what would it take for me to just really throw myself into a job, to really just get good at something. It's kind of hard to say with your situation cuz it could be different you know?

For me, it was figuring out what exactly high-performing meant, what it took to achieve excellence and what the path looks like. There were also drugs involved.

I'm reading some anxiety in your message, like looking weird etc. does it really look weird or is it something that you're just sort of afraid of?

All I have is shitty advice, but I went through what you went through. :-( I don't know what you're specific situation is but your story reads a lot like mine

dookahku··on Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time
i mostly got tired of being told i going to burn and choke and scream forever and ever, amen, because i like guys and gals. and if i disagreed, the pastor made sure i got punished.

the long term effects wast that this not a healthy thing to tell a young teenager, and it's time for society to move on.

dookahku··on Mischa's Cursed Webring
Maybe like finding a Prada store in the middle of nowhere near marfra Texas... Either it's a cover or an artwork, or possibly someone That twisted at Prada headquarters decide that it was a good location
dookahku··on Mischa's Cursed Webring
Why are you salty?
dookahku··on How to Discipline Overeager Engineer?
Thanks, but that's too generic.

I mean what practices, habits, who knows what else

dookahku··on How to Discipline Overeager Engineer?
All right so I got a strange question.

how do I get to be like this employee? With that kind of drive vision and focus? It's something I've been trying to cultivate in myself for a while but I'm always looking to be better.

It seem like I never know what to do next

dookahku··on Show HN: We Got Sick of Giving Out 'Ballpark Estimates' So We Built This
Love it! <3

When I'm on https://www.productdone.com/contact/ and I click 'about' in the nav bar it doesn't seem to take me anywhere.

dookahku··on They Rejected Us
I can provide some insight on this.

For me, as an older programmer, it's not about 'self-worth'. It's about sunk cost, it's about our ability to provide for our families, it's about what we are doing with our lives when we have much fewer days ahead of us than behind us.

What do I tell my kids or wife? I can't get hired because I didn't memorize enough JS functions, or the right one, or didn't grab onto the right tech stack?

This isn't about a theoretical emotional idea: it's about survival today, into old age that is coming up on me quick, about providing for families.

dookahku··on Putting This Blog on IPFS
Love what you've done with IPFS and this blog!

There are a couple of advantages to places like Medium, Facebook, or Quora over a normal website.

The first is branding -- you get what you expect from a site. FB for personal connections (memes or distraction for others), curated content for Medium & Quora, etc. I remember using the web back in the 90s or so. I had committed to memory a dozen sites or so that I would visit every day. Slashdot, Yahoo News, ScaryGoRound etc. It was a bit stressful. Now I can just go to Reddit and just get distracted by whatever. Even curating your own Reddit experience is difficult, like it was for RSS. Most viewers of Reddit don't really create an account.

The second is ease of use for publishers. I'm not going to set up a website, even a Wordpress blog now if I can just go post content on Reddit or Medium where I have a chance of people reading it.

There are other things like consistent UX, etc.

dookahku··on DIA Study: Warp Drive, Dark Energy, and Manipulation of Extra Dimensions (2010)
Published April 2nd
dookahku··on Ask HN: How do you keep up the energy to work on side-projects after work?
I don't usually go home. I stay in the office and use a separate laptop or go to a coffee shop. I know if I go home I'm just going to sleep immediately. Then Ig et up in the middle of the night and get more tired.

Using S.M.A.R.T. goal system (https://www.yourcoach.be/en/coaching-tools/smart-goal-settin...) is helpful, too.

"I will resolve this 1 bug." "I will scope out this feature" "I will wireframe this UI" "I will start and tabulate this survey with these 2 questions"

These are all helpful and can be easy to finish.

dookahku··on Coders who trade: Wall Street designs its staff for the future
So how does a mid-level software engineer get into trading? I do paper trading on my own for fun but I'd like to make it a career.
dookahku··on How I got to 200 productive hours a month
This is anti-advice.

This is like telling depressed people to be happy or victims of violence with PTSD to 'grow a pair' and 'snap out of it'.

This is the kind of simplistic, unhelpful, shaming advice that keeps mental illness taboo.

dookahku··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
Hi, Steve,

How about mid level people who are familiar with web apps but are mostly experienced in C++ embedded programming?

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