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Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by andric »

chx wrote: post #176
canadiantim wrote: post #160

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Why'd you leave Canada, if I may ask?

Because y'all don't mask any more and if all I can do is sit at home then why not be warm while at it? And be closer to family, too. I can travel wearing the Halo to visit my brother's family (in the UK) and my parents (in Hungary) but that's all. Otherwise, by and large, I don't go anywhere any more. I can't. That's the new reality. I wear a positive air pressure respirator to risk such activities as boarding a bus.…

A fellow HN reader I know in a Covid Cautious online community shared your comment with me, and I just wanted to come here to say that you’re not alone.

There are some of us who stay largely indoors and only leave the house for essential visits, with a respirator. I’m one of those people.

I don’t know if you’re able to find a local community that’s cautious too.

But if you want to talk, I have contact details in my bio.

Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by gcarvalho »

beeboobaa3 wrote: post #683
gcarvalho wrote: post #679

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Delivering the over-complicated feature and improving the performance of the over-complicated feature both seem to get more praise than shipping the simple version to begin with.

Who cares? Do you do your job for head pats or to actually get shit done?

To make a living. Being acknowledged is good to keep at it, or so I heard.

Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by malkosta »

mdavid626 wrote: post #668
dehrmann wrote: post #578

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Sounds like polling. On an inactive connection, whatever it is, you have to always be polling to see if the connection is still alive.

What do you mean? The client knows when the websocket connection goes down and just reconnects. How is this polling?

Because it always needs some sort of keep alive, which is many times hidden inside the client/web framework

Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by mdavid626 »

malkosta wrote: post #694
mdavid626 wrote: post #668

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What do you mean? The client knows when the websocket connection goes down and just reconnects. How is this polling?

Because it always needs some sort of keep alive, which is many times hidden inside the client/web framework

But isn't a keep alive bit better than a "full" polling?

Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by ohnoitsahuman »

fragmede wrote: post #20
ohnoitsahuman wrote: post #15

Had an employee poach on of my customers. And had another do the same ten years later. I apparently have trouble learning life lessons.

Two over 10 years doesn't seem like that much, but I guess even one is too many. What do you see as your life lesson here though?

Sorry for the delay:

In both time I knew it was happening, but I was too busy to fix it.

It almost happened again - I pulled the employee off the job, made him document everything, and put a team of people back in. He was banned from the job.

Kept both him and the customer.

Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by qprofyeh »

Loughla wrote: post #457
qprofyeh wrote: post #445

Falling out of favor with ceo/cofounders/ex. Those moments were a punch to the face.

I'm dealing with this right now. New institutional leadership at the most executive level. This person believes a) if you're not moving up you should be moved out; b) there is zero value in the historical operations of any department; and c) the only way to tell if someone is a good employee is whether or not his gut tells him he likes them. These are three things I disagree with vehemently. He has no use for me. It…

I don’t have advice for you, as I am just as bad at kissing ass. Maybe try to elevate your perceived image/worth by liking what he likes outside of work: trying out a that he plays. Watching a that he likes. Wearing the same shoe . That stuff might be easier to do yet might buy some credit.

Re: Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?

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Post by bitwize »

brk wrote: post #509
mhaberl wrote: post #450

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This is so true. I remember one of my interviews that went well in the end. In the middle of the interview, they mentioned using Java and building web apps. At the time, I was a C++ developer with no web development experience. I said: "I never did web development," and their response was, "You do know how to write source code, don't you?" I said: "Of course I do, but..." They cut me off with: "You will pick it up, d…

I recall interviews from that era too, where the interviewers didn't fully comprehend the jobs they were hiring for. "You know how to write source code, don't you?" Answer: "yes, but I mostly prefer to write fully compiled code directly to disk. Much more efficient".

Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand...
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