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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by sillysaurusx on Monday October 12, 2020 @05:51PM (#24759852)
No offense taken! I have narcolepsy, which means attending a 9-5 job is difficult. I woke up at 2pm today, for example.

It’s an advantage to conceal that fact, and the one company I did disclose it to, fired me about a month later. For completely unrelated reasons that totally didn’t violate any disabilities laws, of course /s.

It was also partly my own fault, but in hindsight I wasn’t able to recover until I even understood what was happening. I wrote a bit about it several years ago, shortly after being diagnosed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984478

So my career progression has been more of a stochastic random walk. And I’m fine with that. :) Ended up being able to contribute one or two things to the ML scene, which is all I really wanted anyway. Just a scientist at heart, I suppose.

There’s nothing wrong with being used, and using someone, by the way, if it’s mutually beneficial. Aligned incentives are how society comes together.

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by achillesheels on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:48PM (#24760380)
I’m sorry to hear that. This speaks to the generally lower moral behavior of our society today. It develops gross incompetency in ability to deal with unique human physiologies.

Ideally people are able to work with each other’s upmost abilities rather than view people as a threat to their own job security and career progression. :(

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by presentation on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @12:39AM (#24762335)
> This speaks to the generally lower moral behavior of our society today.

Lol of course disadvantaged minorities were treated far better in the olden days. /s

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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by achillesheels on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:00AM (#24766205)
Sir, I recommend you look into the history of Charles Steinmetz, for instance. And your generalization of minorities effectively evacuates its meaning - technically we are all minorities by your reasoning; or rather your lack of it.
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