FigurativeVoid

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   by FigurativeVoid 4y ago

   My degree is in English. Specifically I focused a lot on composition theory. Or writing about people writing. I have a few thoughts about this. 1. If it isn't rampant now, it will be in a few years time. Cheating is highly incentivized
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   by FigurativeVoid 4y ago

   This was my experience to a tee. I had been commuting about 80 minutes a day for work. Then we had the pandemic. I have been at a fully distributed company, and I love it. You would have to pay me an extraordinary amount to give up the qual
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   by FigurativeVoid 4y ago

   Well it’s at least a start! Keep recording. :)
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   by FigurativeVoid 4y ago

   I bounced around a lot in college. I started in chemical engineering, moved to math, and then finally graduated with a degree in English. After graduation, I attended coding bootcamp. I was a good programmer, but my core computer science co
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   by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

   > Think hard about the problem for a few weeks before typing any code I have always thought the "subconscious mind" was a bit of a myth. But the more I have learned about it, there is a lot to be said for having some simple uns
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   by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

   This follows what I think of as the best technical interview I ever had. It was for a more junior role, but it was pretty good. Here's a basic straw man rails controller. There are a few things wrong with it. Apply suggestions. It was
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   by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

   I was thinking about this the other day, and it really struck me how dehumanizing cars are. Look at road rage, I have seen some of the kindest people I know get absolutely furious at another person's driving. However, I don't thin
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   by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

   I have been using voice memos for field recording and recording different ideas. I am excited to give this a try!
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   by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

   Sorry. Forever. We had an incident once, and we now have to follow guidelines to that incident forever. Wearing masks now is appropriate.
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    They are important in the they maintain safe workplaces and enforce say... wastewater treatment standards. So in that sense they are important. However, given the trends in climate change, these jobs don't do much to change the traject
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    My college had a pretty large environmental engineering and sustainability programs. It may have even been one of the first to have sustainability as a major. Many of the people found out that if you go the "save the planet route"
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    When I was last traveling, the person in front of me asked TSA agent "Why do we have to take our shoes off?" He replied, "Have you heard of the shoe bomber?" When I think about it, that's a crazy policy to have sinc
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    .NET / VB6
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    I have been more interested in Sorbet.
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    This is probably closer to the real reason that we have had so much fun. I am not particularly senior, and I was wholly new to ruby, but the senior engineers that joined are the "incredibly disciplined, talented, and knowledgable-about
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    We use Devise. The fact that it's free and open source blows my mind. It's some incredible software.
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    The company I work for re-implemented out entire platform with Ruby on Rails. Even though it's not super new, everyone has really fallen in love with ruby. The gem ecosystem and the community are great. Ruby is an absolute joy to progr
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    We have had a few walking related stories on HN the past few weeks. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268136 was interesting.
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    I really love this book as it really shows the value if mathematics in programming. However, it's an intense read. I strongly recommend it, but if you don't have some college level math under your belt, it can be harder to underst
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    Yeah. I'm not sure. Sensors can stay in for 1-2 weeks, but it's not delivery device.
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    by FigurativeVoid 5y ago

    That's a really great point. I am T1 as well. The improvements I would love is an insulin that is denser and more stable. If we had insulin that was say.. 1000 units/mL (10x stronger) and didn't degrade as fast, then we could