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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
If I need to be outdoors, I schedule it earlier in the day. If we do go out to a farmers market or something similar, we don't spend a lot of time outside. We also schedule walks for when the sun is going down and take water with us. A
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
This makes the assumption that "The majority of ...". You have to separate high-volume and loud voices that get press time from what is really happening. These are sensational stories that make click-bait news headlines. However,
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
> "...communicating technical topics..." So important and sets you apart from a developers who lack the ability to explain what they've done in terms of how a non-technical user/customer can understand.
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
Here are a few that I can think of: - Patterns - Separation of Concerns - Modularization - Source Control - Abstraction - Domain expertise - The ability to translate user requirements into tech - Tolerance for some degree of ambiguit
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
Having been here 10+ years, it feels like it's growing to me. With new sports teams that are already here and new ones arriving, there's more than just casinos for entertainment. There are also other companies coming here, moving
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
Here's a discussion of Copilot for VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2023/03/30/vscode-copilo...
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
It would probably be designed to act in a way that's beneficial to people. In so doing, it wouldn't manipulate people into a situation where they would release private information, which could be interpreted as harmful. Rather, it
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by JoeMayoBot 3y ago
Andrew S. Grove wrote a book called High Output Management. While you might not necessarily engage in all the activities he describes, it's his attitude and approach to management that feels timeless. Each person on your team is an ind
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I recently read the O'Reilly report "NFTs, the Metaverse, and Everything Web 3.0". Blockchains are a part of that discussion; though what I gained from it was a broad perspective of what Web 3.0 is and how it is different. It
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An Open Letter to Elon Musk Regarding the Proposed API Tiers for Developers(openletter.earth)
1 points by JoeMayoBot 4y ago|1 comments
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
The people who once had a free blue checkmark are complaining because they now have to pay. Especially journalists who have the ability to be heard more than others. Twitter once told them they were special and now they're being treate
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I use an Excel spreadsheet as the central document for each customer. No stopwatch, I'm aware of how much I work and make an entry before stopping work or switching to a different customer. I used to be more granular on recording to th
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
Getting started, algebra was enough for me. However, as I got slammed by algorithmic complexity problems like nested loops and needing to pick out the proper type of collection (data structure/sorting) for holding information, things l
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I think we'll go though a period of adjustment before landing on a few different work arrangements: only office, only home, and some hybrid option in-between. Some companies are born remote and won't ever change. People will eithe
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
For several years, chatbots, which often use some form of AI, have been performing basic customer service tasks via chat interfaces, messaging, and email. It makes sense that they eventually improve over time, especially with the GPT-N and
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
There are a lot of different opinions on this, but I'll share my thoughts. Building a team is a complex experience where having a variety of people is beneficial. If everyone on the team is "experienced" you increase the risk
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
Looking at my bookshelf, there are three books that I've re-opened as references for a while that have a significant impact on my current work: 1. Refactoring/Fowler 2. Design Patterns/Gang of Four 3. The Art of Unit Testing&
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
He's probably getting some benefit out of this approach: 1. Some fun (the 420 comments) and shocking people. 2. Market research to see how people react to various prices (A/B testing while trying and backing out of bad decisions)
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The Rise of the Fancy Freelancer(vox.com)
2 points by JoeMayoBot 4y ago|1 comments
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I think everyone outside of Twitter is pretty much still in the dark on how this will turn out. It seems to be evolving as we approach 2/9, which is similar to how other policies have come about. To me, it looks like the strategy is to
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.NET 7 is now included in Ubuntu 22.10(twitter.com)
9 points by JoeMayoBot 4y ago|1 comments
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
A couple more benefits to this approach come when you do code reviews and other developers on the team have an opportunity to provide feedback and are more aware of what docs are available.
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The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits(vox.com)
2 points by JoeMayoBot 4y ago|0 comments
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
Stack Overflow banned GPT and ChatGPT answers. Here's an important part of that policy: "The objective nature of the content on Stack Overflow means that if any part of an answer is wrong, then the answer is objectively wrong.&quo
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
This is a clickbait-sounding title with a questionable opinion. OP is unrecognizable. Judging by the amount of comments and upvotes, this article received some amount of traffic and the author made money off of it. Looking at the author&#x2
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Where will all the laid off tech workers go?(vox.com)
25 points by JoeMayoBot 4y ago|11 comments
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
Since I treat my customer list as confidential (my) company IP, it wouldn't affect me much. I don't include companies on my resume to keep recruiters from mining my customer list. That said, it could be beneficial to be able to le
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I only reveal what I want people to know. For job purposes, I don't want some recruiter contacting me about an old technology that I don't want to work with anymore. I also regard resumes as interview acquisition devices. I custom
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I've encountered this situation before. It happened because the large company had a process to become an approved vendor. It's a bit like trying to work with the government with delays and red tape. Since they didn't want to
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by JoeMayoBot 4y ago
I've been using .NET. Cross platform, cross language (though I prefer C#), multiple technologies (cloud, desktop, mobile, web, ...) and open source. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/

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