igvadaimon's comments

On: Japan's Creepiest Station

[igvadaimon]

This is where they filmed Neo vs Smith

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If you are interested into it, Matrix 1 was filmed in Sydney, Australia (because it was cheaper)

On: Consider Knitting

[igvadaimon]

Consider climbing!

On: If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued

[igvadaimon]

I was valued. Then the company laid off the whole country and stopped hiring in that country.

In the end it's just luck.

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Folks don't want to hear it, but our careers are based more on luck than any of us would like.

I avoided the first big round of layoffs at my last company. How? By being so overwhelmingly awesome and valuable that they couldn't afford to lose me?? NO!

I agreed to a smaller pay increase that year so a team member could get a much-deserved larger raise. I accepted more stock grants to help make up the difference. The next round of layoffs was based on stock packages granted to employees. More stock granted == more better, right?

Sheer luck I didn't get the notice that time.

[riehwvfbk → igvadaimon]

If you weren't offered a relocation package, then you probably weren't actually valued. Probably along with the entire office in the country.

[igvadaimon → riehwvfbk]

My team/org wasn't even in that country, I was just working remotely from it.

[npodbielski → riehwvfbk]

Maybe he was valued in his department but department was not valued inside the company.

[riehwvfbk → npodbielski]

That's... what I said.

The entire office was likely seen as "staff augmentation" rather than strategic.

On: Oscilloscope watch ships after 10 years on Kickstarter

[igvadaimon]

Some nerve flossing exercise blocks now even contain some Tai Chi movements.

On: “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers

[igvadaimon]

They get unique characteristics, like all the tomatoes look identical and have long shelf life which is important for customers because they "eat with their eyes". They also taste like shit but who cares, right?

On: Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?

[igvadaimon]

SmoothScroll app on mac.

On: Why did I leave Google or, why did I stay so long?

[igvadaimon]

You read the comment wrong.

What he meant wasnt age.

"or just plain old [saying] 'you arent doing great job'"

On: D3.js 5.0 is out

[igvadaimon]

Which doesn't work even in Chrome.

On: Ask HN: Best practice for estimating development tasks?

[igvadaimon]

I think this kind of thing comes only with experience. Large amounts of experience.

There are simply too many factors to consider. The team, the client, the project.

I usually follow this rule: take the worst case scenario estimate and then double it :)

On: Getting Started with Webpack 2

[igvadaimon]

I guess most of the changes are 'under the hood', but there are some breaking changes in configuration as well.

"loaders" => "rules" etc.

http://javascriptplayground.com/blog/2016/10/moving-to-webpa...