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by Ocerge 7y ago
Well, yeah. Most white-collar jobs are adult daycares (including my own + many others in software).
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by Ocerge 7y ago
What do you mean Angular not being recommended? It's pretty damn straight-forward and does the job just fine if a SPA is what you're after.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
The HN special: don't comment on the great, heartfelt article; instead be pedantic about redirects.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I'm not quite to your level of distaste for your job, but I absolutely empathize. I don't know if this is the case for you or not, but I don't find any joy in software; I just happen to be good enough at it and it pays well.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Yep, I had a couple of CD sleeves filled with Knoppix and Mandrake somewhere around 2003. I was ~13 and had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but it felt fun anyway.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I'm largely biased since I grew up within 60 miles of Austin, but I never got the hype. It's hot as hell, has the worst traffic I've ever seen, is geographically lame (you don't get to claim the hill country, and no, ba
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by Ocerge 8y ago
This is pretty much where I've landed; the filter can go both ways. If I make dumb (minor) syntax errors on a whiteboard and it bothers the interviewer enough to not hire me, or if the question is some "cycle a red-black subtree&
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I'm not convinced that's true. I guess it depends on what your goals are, but I would argue the majority of devs in the American workforce don't stay on the cutting edge of anything. Getting a software dev job is still quit
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I’ve spent a marginal amount of time thinking about it, but my first thought would be to go back to school for forestry at a big state university and go from there.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Forest Ranger, specifically in the PNW
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by Ocerge 8y ago
This is pretty much my current job; leading a team of engineers on projects involving legacy codebases where the original authors are long gone. The first thing I always do is treat working software with respect. It's easy to be a HN
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I can't recommend Death enough. They are my universal choice for introducing somebody to heavy music. RIP chuck.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I left a job partly because I felt too dumb to understand the use cases for the product I was writing code for (extremely high-end Test & Measurement). It's very uncomfortable. Maybe not the same kind of "understanding"
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Pen and paper has yet to be defeated for me, personally
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Look out for yourself. If they can't bump your pay now, even without knowing the situation, I doubt they can in 6 months either. They also probably wouldn't hesitate to lay you off if they couldn't pay you what you make now
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Final Round of Free Paragon Assets Released(unrealengine.com)
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Like others have said, it really depends. As somebody who works-to-live and doesn't particularly love software, I never would have achieved the knowledge I have now on my own. I needed the real-life deadlines and stress to learn. Ad
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I feel the same way, but I'm just not sure I'm to the point where I can demand to not work for an open plan company; it's how it is pretty much everywhere I've interviewed. I'd be curious to see percentages in term
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I'm with you, I'm nowhere near confident enough in myself to work directly on safety-critical systems. I imagine an important part of those organizations is removing SPOFs with respect to the engineering team itself; i.e. nobody
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham is a wonderful intro into the entire ecosystem (Leiningen, Clojure/lisps in general, Java interop, emacs, etc.). If you're already experienced with Lisps, you could probably s
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Works for me. .5 mg per flight and I no longer have panic attacks on planes. Don't ever take it for other things than it's intended for, though.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Exact same reason as me. They were the personification of Dunning-Kruger. It's so damn disheartening to go to work everyday when you know what you are working on is absolutely doomed to fail, and you are powerless to stop it thanks t
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by Ocerge 8y ago
If it’s a side project, just stop and wait for when you feel like working again. For me, forcing myself to work on something that isn’t putting food on the table just builds resentment.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Maybe it's because I grew up bass fishing and associate it with good times with my dad, but nothing centers me quite like finding calm water and throwing a jig or Texas rig for Largemouth. I'd suggest it to anyone; don't kno
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I definitely sympathize with this. I mean this in the best way: many large companies are little more than adult daycares. And in many cases, it's a feature, not a bug; it's probably about as close as we can get to some sort of U
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Not our choice, IT only lets us choose the newer models.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
Yep, those are the holy grail machines at my shop. Everybody that has one is skipping their turn when they are due for an upgrade. Unfortunately I got hired too late and have a 2017 15-inch.
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by Ocerge 8y ago
I found my current gig by using a recruiter I was referred to by a respected coworker, and it's by far the best job I've ever had (out of 5 or so). Super small sample size I know, but if you can find a recruiter that you can trus
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by Ocerge 9y ago
Here's to hoping Portland's increasingly-awful traffic situation reaches a similar inflection point where the misery forces people to do something other than drive.
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by Ocerge 9y ago
I hit almost this exact situation at my last gig. It came down to one of two things: was I okay with complete job security while being completely bored and apathetic all day, or would I take a bit of a leap of faith if it meant getting out

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