PainfullyNormal

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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
writes fuzzbuzz on a notepad and shows it to the camera
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I thought gaming was taking the optimal path, ie: min/maxing. Abusing a weakness in the system sounds more like "cheating" or "fraud."
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I had an interviewer say something very similar to that to me once during a live pair coding session. I got to a point where I asked him a question about how javascript worked and he said "Hmm, I don't know. Let's see!"
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'm also only interested in remote jobs. I live in the middle of nowhere because that's where my extended family is from. If given the choice, I'd prefer to be able to watch my kids play with my sister's kids, for my kid
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> let's go back to worshipping the sun Did we ever stop? Praise the sun! solaire pose
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Have humans really changed in the last 2000 years? You can still find books today published back during Roman times complaining about kids these days and how they mispronounce latin.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
No. Being a generalist is awesome. I get to follow wherever my interests lead and I'm interested in a lot of things. I don't know what I would do with myself if I had to focus on one narrow piece of it for years on end. What I do
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
If you're interested, I created a substack I'll be publishing the first few posts to. You should be able to subscribe there. https://painfullynormal.substack.com/
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I'm going back to basics and learning to write a compiler in the dumbest way possible. I'm starting with a basic assignment (a = 3) and reverse engineering what it would take to turn that into a working executable. Then I'll
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Ah! thank you.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I successfully cloned the repo using breezy. Did I get punked? It's empty. > bzr log ------------------------------------------------------------ revno: 1 committer: TinyClock <TinyClock@tycho.sytes.net>
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I agree in general, but there is one exception and that exception applies here: film noir. Johnny Mnemonic and cyberpunk in general derive a lot of its inspiration from film noir and film noir in color just isn't the same.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Are you paid primarily for product design, graphic design or engineering? That's a killer trifecta of skills. It reminds me of some advice from Scott Adams: "Become very good (top 25%) at two or more things."
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I disagree. Some of my best jobs were contract to hire positions. The interviews are much more humane because the company isn't so worried about making a hiring mistake. I don't know why, but something about "not renewing a c
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> They often know who they want to hire before any interviews begin. I've seen the same thing as well. One company even flew me out to their headquarters to interview for a position they knew they were going to give to somebody inte
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> What is it about tinkerers being put into these positions as a natural progression? Because those tinkerers get to a point where they want to be the ones making the decisions, controlling the culture, technology, and direction of the c
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> If you have several years of experience, and you're actually a good interviewer FTFY.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I remember from my (very!) brief stint in the games industry that there are certain specialists who make considerably more than that, such as game engine, cutting-edge rendering and 3d audio specialists. But, it sounds like it still pays to
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
From TFA: > People feel compelled to finish books they’ve started – that’s just a tax on your reading. Why would you do that to yourself? He clearly doesn't finish "five or ten books a day". It also sounds like he doesn&
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
> A company would be perfectly justified in settings standards for appropriate use of email. Most companies do. And yet, the problem persists. See the points in my previous comment to understand why.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Aren't there? You should have a candid conversation with a plumber sometime. I think you'll be surprised.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
what's your area of expertise?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Is that mostly in DevOps?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Epic hired Simon-Peyton Jones to work on it (Verse), so I'm guessing more like Haskell. https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Kubernetes appears to be continuing to increase in popularity despite a large number of these failure stories. Does anybody know why? What does kubernetes do that docker, AWS, Nomad, et al don't? And, if I'm stuck with kubernetes,
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
Do we need better email/calendar integration? Or do we need more separation? Why are we relying on email to get meeting invites?
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
I disagree. You need to seriously re-evaluate things anytime you find yourself saying something along the lines of "X is just fine, we just need to educate and/or train people to use it more effectively." That's a subtle
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if the total number of bugs to be fixed skyrocketed in the past 5-10 years, too. The design and testing phases of the SDLC are nonexistent at most web dev companies and the culture is focused around adding as ma
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
It's worth noting that the only real competition in that market at the time was Hipchat, which Slack eventually bought.
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by PainfullyNormal 4y ago
For the obvious reason: there are things Airtable can do that excel can't. For example, I'm using airtable to track my job applications. I save the job ad, my cover letter and the resume I used as a pdf and attach them to the row

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