MartinCron

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by MartinCron 7y ago
I actually really like that idea, constantly scanning logs for hyper-specific red flags. I might start doing this.
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by MartinCron 7y ago
(2013) but reads as if it were written yesterday. By me. If I were a better writer.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
True story: I worked at a startup where the founders were married . Nobody told me, they had different last names, and I looked like a complete fool when I was shocked they were going on a beach vacation together.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
As a dev manager (small team) I am trying to never “assign” work. I just prioritize and describe, and let fellow coders pull the items that are most appealing to them. Sometimes it means that I wind up doing work I would rather delegate if
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by MartinCron 8y ago
Hunger Games is pretty clear about what its influences are: Ancient Rome and Reality TV. Some people will claim Collins stole the idea from Battle Royale, but it is more likely the two authors had the idea independently.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
I don’t think in my case that it was necessarily about me and my performance. Just like I don’t think that the OP’s story is necessarily about him and his performance. When teams grow, they change. There is an all-too-often unspoken assum
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by MartinCron 8y ago
Doh! I had a nagging suspicion about the public school thing. Now I have outed myself as an ignorant American.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
Are you this pedantic about the non-marginal costs of all government services? This public school is free at the point of delivery or calling the police is free at the point of delivery ?
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by MartinCron 8y ago
To second this... If there is any chance you have obstructive sleep apnea (big neck? snore a lot? have trouble staying awake during movies?) get a sleep study ASAP. Treating that can be life changing.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
It is possible that you are not being intentionally sidelined. This has happened to me, where a company hired a new PM to help us scale, but just took over the parts of my job that I most loved, leaving me with just the drudge work. I was l
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by MartinCron 8y ago
The only appropriate ABV for two-wheeled travel is zero.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
A lot of the statistics on The danger of mopeds/scooters/motorcycles do not differentiate between a commuter rising to work on a 200cc scooter and a bar-hopper riding home on the freeway on a litre sportbike. In the US, anyway, ha
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by MartinCron 8y ago
Just watch the classic film “Roman Holiday” and you will associate scooters with gorgeous people.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
I have commuted via bicycle and Vespa scooter and I feel so much safer on the Vespa. I can keep up with traffic, I have proper mirrors and signals, and I am wearing better safety gear.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
Programming, testing, debugging, tuning, and yes, configuring are all parts of the umbrella that I like to call “Professional Software Development”. All valuable skills, worth respecting and improving.
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by MartinCron 8y ago
It looks like the passive voice is not something that is well understood by you.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I swear some projects are outsourced to a whole different universe , one where people haven’t yet figured out that copy/paste is not a good idea.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I have seen permutations of this scenario multiple times. I have some sympathy for organizations in this situation, but it is entirely self-inflicted.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I don’t think there’s any sauce you could pour over a chain gang of immature programmers to make them palatable. When building teams, I deliberately aim for a mix of developers of more and less experience, as that is a more realistic sustai
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Sexual harassment. Self admitted. Ugly stuff.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Short for “Gypsy”. Many consider it to be a racial slur. Just as some people use “Jew” as a verb in a similar way (more obviously a slur).
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I am reminded of a basic fact: You can’t opt-out of other people talking about you online. Keeping people from tagging you is pretty close, though.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Something I never thought I would write, but here it is: "Those curly braces are gorgeous "
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by MartinCron 9y ago
It is news in that The Economist recently used the more modern usage which caused a bit of a stir amongst their linguistically conservative readers. I noticed, but I wasn’t one of the many who wrote in to complain.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
Or a profoundly uninteresting job.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I've met the brilliant jerk (and depending on who you ask, I've been the brilliant jerk). It's a real thing. One surprising thing is that it is possible for people to change, at least in how they treat people. Once I was to
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I don't consider taking steps to make sure the code actually as you expect it to as "artificial" feels pretty essential, to me.
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by MartinCron 9y ago
A lot of the ultra-isolated test advocates seem to come from the kind of development world where you can exercise most of the value without needing to interact with external dependencies. With aggressive enough mocking, you can deceive your
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by MartinCron 9y ago
So many developers are so myopic that they can’t imagine a scenario different enough from their lived experience that people would want to do things differently. When people say “in the real world” they really mean, “in my insular world”
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by MartinCron 9y ago
I too have had selenium nightmares but have landed someplace pretty good. Here are some quick tips. YMMV. Don’t think “integration” — think “full stack” these will find configuration and connectivity bugs more than business logic bugs. Thes

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