I'm not sure if you are trying to be /s, but yeah that's basically what I'm trying to say. Definitely better than working on those recommendation systems.

Damn, I'd pay to work in some serious OS/Compiler teams, but hey why should they hire me? Oh well...Yeah I'm doing a bit of projects on my side but man I'm so burnt out by my 9am-5pm $$ job + 5pm-10pm kid job that I barely have any large chunk of time to work on those.

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WD-42 7 days ago | parent [-]

Not sarcastic at all. I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to get into contributing to Redox, but at the end of the work day when the kid is finally asleep it's hard to motivate.

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markus_zhang 7 days ago | parent [-]

I get it man. It’s really tough. How old is your kid? Mine is a 5 years old boy and he doesn’t seem to need a lot of sleep but a huge amount of companionship which really bugs me out.

In theory, it’s better to sleep early, get up around 5 and get 2 hours of quality time, but man he sometimes gets up around 6:15 and earlier, and I found it difficult to get good sleep anyway, so I tried to switch to 2 hours of night time, but he wants to sleep with me for 30 mins around 9pm before going to my wife’s bed, and I usually fell sleep sooner than he did…

Girls are much easier to raise. They sleep earlier and don’t fight too much, as far as I heard from friends.

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IshKebab 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

> They sleep earlier and don’t fight too much, as far as I heard from friends.

Definitely depends on the specific children!

	▲	markus_zhang 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I guess so. But the sample size is over 10, although not statistically significant but definitely something.

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WD-42 7 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I actually have some ideas about this kind of situation, drop me a line, email in my profile!

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osullivj 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm now a post kids greybeard; two nats, two steps, both flavours. Yes, girls under 10 are easier than boys. That flips on you in the teen years!

	▲	markus_zhang 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		That sounds scary…I don’t know how to communicate with teenage boys. I had a lot of quarrels with my parents back then.