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> As someone who taught kids in person and fell into a deep depression with how Kafkaesque that job was Would you mind elaborating on why that was the case? I’m super curious becau…

As a father of a still very young boy who might be getting into sports later in school (who knows), reading that terrifies me. I’ve heard the same, in person, from friends who have…

Were you able to get into that role without the expectation that you’d still be functioning as an IC i.e. holding two jobs at the same time? I had an awful experience as a lead bec…

Goodness, I totally misread the post lol. I somehow read it as “Mazda has a process to help their engineers deal with that.”

Can you elaborate on that? Sounds interesting. I’m exactly 35 and in the same situation as the OP.

They essentially eliminated the SDET role across the company. There may be a few left here and there, but it used to be a whole thing of its own. The book How We Test Software At M…

I moved to America around 10 years ago. One of the first things I was positively surprised about when moving here was how smooth setting up bank/phone/Internet/etc. services was, c…

Am Brazilian, can personally confirm. I used to do that too. I actually left the country with the explicit goal of shedding my Brazilian identity and becoming someone else entirely…

The ecosystem is nowhere near as mature though. I don’t work with either anymore but back in 2017 I made the switch from C# to Java and it felt like a breath of fresh air when it c…

> Working on something with unrealistic confidence, even if that project itself is completely doomed to failure, is probably better for you than watching Netflix. As someone who’s …

I don’t have an answer to your specific question, but I just want you to know you’re not alone. I’m also quite excitable and love talking not just about technical stuff, but all so…

I’ve been learning it for over a year because I want to be able to speak to my wife in her native language. So far I’m loving to learn it for the exact reason you said, the way sen…

Seattle has so many intersections that are completely bonkers. They’re not only poorly walkable, they also make driving extremely stressful.

> My experience in this world of embedded chips, is that many of the tutorials you read do not deal with power consumption really. They assume that you're playing with a dev board.…

I’ve realized that over the course of what’s coming up to be a 20 year career, the common theme in almost all my “I need a new job” moments is that I get fed up with how slow the d…

> I do not care about being competitve. > I work so I can draw a salary to fund my life. That's it. I don't care about constantly climbing a ladder. I don't care about advancing my…

That’s hasn’t been my experience at all. Worked at Microsoft and now I’m at one of the big AAA game companies (working on their online services side, not games directly) and both w…

How old were you when you went back to university? I’ve been wanting to do something like that but I feel like at 33 that’s too late.

Not OP but Dropbox for example was unique and game-changing when it showed up. I agree with OP that nothing interesting like that has shown up in years. It's all "we're gonna make …

> Has anyone seen what it takes to run something on AWS? I've given up every time I've tried it on personal projects. It's just a complete poorly document mess indeed. At work we h…

Brazil.

My own anecdote as an immigrant is that I've always felt welcome here and have always been well treated, respected, and valued. Totally different route of course, but same deal in …

I’m from Southern Brazil (very close to our hermanos in Argentina) and yes this is very true. I really look forward to eating steak when I go visit family and friends down there.

The best! It actually helped me take a more moderate view on the HN crowd. I'll admit I used to put people's opinions here on a pedestal.

Brazil has a similar system called Registrato, run by the central bank. Honestly though, I’m not a fan of such all-encompassing federal systems. I live in the US but I’m in Brazil …