I'm not sure how I'd go about stating it, but I would like to see and make the job interviewing process in software jobs to be as objective as possible. Lots of people say the hiring process is broken in most places, but it's hard to discern possible solutions for it. Plus, not everyone is interested in taking the building-a-business/self-employed route.
Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?
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#62Reduce health care spending in the US by 50% without decreasing quality of life or life expectancy. Started a company that is trying to achieve those goals.
The answer is fairly simple if we look at the examples available to us - health metrics and spending per capita of of all other first world nations.
The answer seems to be universal single payer health care.
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#63World domination
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#64Retire by 40
I thought the same thing, but I’d have no idea what to do without work. If I didn’t have to save for kids college, I could retire now at 46. Other problem is 401k can’t be accessed until 60. Retire for me just means enough FU money, but I’ll probably work till I drop dead.
You can access your 401k before 60. You need to do a rollover into an IRA and then after 5 years the principle is accessible. This rollover is taxable but if you are retired your tax rate can be quite low, even 0% in some states depending on income. You should be in such no-income-tax states if you plan to retire early anyways.
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#65Running my own business, having customers or clients, going into may day job, and realizing: It's a place I want be at, not a place I have to be at, like it would just be extra money, while my business is my primary means of income.
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#66Yes. I run the behavior-change company Pavlok[1] -- our goal is quite massive -- to help 100% of people achieve 100% of commitments they set. That means, ending addiction, 100% adherence to diets, etc. We create technology (the Pavlok wearable, and the Shock Clock at this moment), offer coaching, create courses, and much more to build the world's first truly effective behavior change platfom. I wrote a FB thread abou…
I am awfully intrigued by the downvotes here!
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#67Lifetime goal: being kind to everybody at all times. Means to achieve it: first, became aware of every time I am not being kind; later, analyze the circumstances that lead to that behavior, so that I can prevent them in the future. This sometimes requires undoing bad habits. I do have other goals, but they are much less important.
This. If only 10% people had such goal (and did half-decent job at it), maybe it would spread like a virus and transform humanity for the better?
Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?
#68Yes. I run the behavior-change company Pavlok[1] -- our goal is quite massive -- to help 100% of people achieve 100% of commitments they set. That means, ending addiction, 100% adherence to diets, etc. We create technology (the Pavlok wearable, and the Shock Clock at this moment), offer coaching, create courses, and much more to build the world's first truly effective behavior change platfom. I wrote a FB thread abou…
I am awfully intrigued by the downvotes here!
I am guessing people were off-put by a combination of grandiose goals (can sound crackpot-y to some people) and advertising.
Re: Ask HN: What are your long-term goals?
#69Reduce health care spending in the US by 50% without decreasing quality of life or life expectancy. Started a company that is trying to achieve those goals.
The answer is fairly simple if we look at the examples available to us - health metrics and spending per capita of of all other first world nations. The answer seems to be universal single payer health care.
There are a wide variety of health care systems in other first world countries that are not single payer systems that don't have spending that is vastly higher than the countries that have single payer systems. For instance, Switzerland and the Netherlands both have mandatory private health insurance, similar to the way ACA was designed to work. Germany's system is based on a public option rather than being purely single payer.
I think instituting a single payer system in the US would be a good first step, but it is unlikely to completely solve our problems.
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#70Something I've become passionate about in the last couple of years is reliability in software and professionalism in software development. I feel like we're at an inflection point where the cost of developing formal specifications is coming down enough for more teams to be using them in their practice. I'd like to continue that trend to allow more developers to use pure maths to solve their problems and use computers…
This is something I think about from time to time as well, I haven't been able to see how to actually implement this in a real project. When I studied Computer Science, I had a particular interest in formal design, (studied Eiffel breifly) but haven't seen that aspect of it translate into my work. I work in enterprise web application development, and the way projects are estimated, resourced and budgeted (in my exper…
If you're new to it, focus on formally specifying parts and not the whole system. These sorts of specifications can become very complex very quickly. And if you're modeling them, the time to execute a model could take an inordinate amount of time.
For your two examples, rather than modeling how you communicate with Facebook for the bot, focus on how the bot gets data to and from your e-commerce store and how they stay synchronized or consistent. Your communication with Facebook's services may not even make it into your model. For the angular driven warehouse catalog application, same thing. You don't need to model angular and the UI. You need to model how the data gets to and from the UI and stays consistent with the warehouse catalog.