JanisL

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   by JanisL 8y ago

   With life expectancy getting longer and longer I think this is increasingly the case.
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   I think the argument people are making is that it's a lot less of an edge case than people think.
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   Anecdotally, reducing poverty has greatly improved the ability of me and some people I've known in similar economic situations to be productive as professional software developers. Being distracted by issues arising due to having no mo
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   Absolutely, given the huge decrease in capacity from disruptive environments it's just insanity that people create work spaces filled with distractions. When framed from the perspective of "hey do you want to have every employee i
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   At one point in the past I was most definitely dealing with poverty and I found it a lot more difficult to get development tasks done at work. The reduced mental capacity is really noticeable but importantly it's also temporary. Since
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   You definitely aren't the only one bothered by the name.
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   Good example of a suitable use case, thanks for sharing.
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   If a document is super important we make sure that it's only worked on in a system that support some form of version control. But that's fairly easy for us because we pretty much all are comfortable with Git. In the cases where pe
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   by JanisL 8y ago

   > the mpg per person of public transport isn't that great The point is that it gives an opportunity to reduce the "m" in the mpg.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    You raise a really good point there, I hadn't considered the distraction aspect when writing my comment but there's definitely a lot of benefit from reducing the distractions when learning.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I think this begs the question: how are you defining productivity?
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    This is an important point and a really big advantage as I've painfully found out over the years when videos have not worked as intended.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I find that remarkjs ( https://github.com/gnab/remark ) has removed a big class of situations where I previously needed PowerPoint.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Thanks for sharing this, fascinating.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Yes that likely would be. I guess the main issue is the really heavy sugar content in many drinks more than the carbonation. I find that it's the drinks like cola that are really brutal but there's also other drinks that are parti
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I find that understanding learning better helps with this. Effective learning requires knowing where you are at and what you need to do to get better given where you are at. In this sense trying to be the best is often the wrong goal.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I completely cut out carbonated drinks, I recently went to the dentist and was expecting the usual "You haven't been looking after your teeth" spiel but instead was told my teeth were in great shape. It's also been very
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I'd love to see some data-backed analysis of this, links would be appreciated.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    What's the complexity of that operation?
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Speaking as someone who has been on there and posted a substantial number of answers I think the correlation between professional development skills is much stronger with open source contributions than "points" on a QA board.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I think the biggest thing is just to keep that hunger for learning going strong, that will serve you well regardless of the direction you decide to go in. I think knowing what year you dropped out at matters for giving advice here.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Ironically some of those older machines seem like they might have been good to learn to code on. I remember the first code I wrote was on some really old Apple computer with basic (I think it was Chipmunk Basic) and it was really quite stra
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Anecdotally the most dysfunctional place I've worked at was the most obsessed about educational credentials. I had highly relevant experience (including some that was open sourced on GitHub) and a degree in a related field but it wasn&
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I don't know too much about employment in Japan, would love it if you could elaborate on this.
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Sounds like others are paying a fairly high price in that case but just more indirectly
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    Unfortunately tech policy in Australia seems to have a history of being poorly thought out and this doesn't appear to be an exception to the trend. The thing I find so disconcerting is just how little expertise seems to be present in t
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    I'm currently working on a very interesting problem, currently we are making software that makes automatic phonetic transcriptions: https://github.com/persephone-tools/persephone The quick summary is that you take
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    GitLab is a code hosting service. That makes use of the Git version control system ( https://git-scm.com/ ) https://about.gitlab.com/ Is this the same GitLab you are referring to?
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    One thing that really struck me was this comment: > Stardom and riches beckoned! I could practically see my face on Wired magazine. Many years ago I worked with a sports psychologist and one of the things he impressed strongly upon me wa
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    by JanisL 8y ago

    For anyone reading who is looking for a certificate authority make sure you check out https://letsencrypt.org/ I'd pretty much always go with this over the cheap tiers of the existing certificate authorities.