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 Tags: personal, software industry
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+I haven't been doing so well for most of the past three-and-change months.
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+At least, that was the vision _I_ internalized in the late 'aughts. Others who were present may remember things slightly differently.
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+And so, as I previously blogged, it was _kind of a shock_ in 2016 when I moved to "Portland" (which is actually Berkeley), noticed that 
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 February has been a pretty exciting month for me in terms of advancing in my chosen profession!
 
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 test case: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/12/clarification-to-sacred-principles-as-exhaustible-resources/
 
 https://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/10/james-watson-tells-inconvenient-truth_296.php
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+stepping over the line in babyserver and #arabeth
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+most of the ill will is on my side
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+From the standpoint of a cultural minority, it feels like the dominant culture is constantly microaggressing against your interests, and sometimes you want to push back in self-defense, with the justification that they started it. But from the dominant culture's perspective, it was just being itself, and the "pushback" is the aggression, and the minority started it.
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+Tail didn't even want to Tweet me?!?