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by a-saleh 7y ago
Some things that sometimes work for me: * working early/late * having blocks for work scheduled in my calendar and turning off all the notifications. Doesn't work for all jobs, i.e. I wouldn't be able to this when handling in
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by a-saleh 7y ago
How did it hinder? Peergroup? Teachers? I have to admit, that I did mention my mum on purpose, for first two years she literally sat by my side to help me concentrate. Videogames either reqiured too good reaction time for me, or were too en
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I don't think we are talking about transfer. My mam had the concept of exercising zitsfleish, the ability to sit down and concentrate at a mentally taxing boring task for uncertain reward. This is a skill I use to this day, especially
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I am not sure the language diversity helps. I.e I remember working with localized Excel. Some of the names made no sense. What was worse, depending on localization, '0.5' could be displayed as '0,5', and that kept trippi
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Can more or less confirm all of these except for Valerian Root and Mahabhringraj oil. Rest, we used in my family for past three generations, this was the stuff my mom tells me her grandma used when taking care of her.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Most often I did have cold or some respiratory inflamations. I am used to curing myself with large ammount of herbal tea. Ginger. Mint. Chamomile. Thyme. Sometimes I suspect it really is more about heating up with hot liquid (and then swett
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I use my phone. I have termux on android, with password protected ssh-key and it did save me a few times. I assume there is something like that for iOS, or other phones.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
For me, the most important game-changer is to have things set-up in advance. I.e. I have dance-lessons on monday and wednesday evening, and there open dance-hall every sunday. Or, I know that every tuesday and thursday there is a boardgame
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by a-saleh 7y ago
It depends? I.e. when I worked at a fairly large multinational (around 10k headcount), the only time I got promoted was when I explicitly started asking along the lines: "I like the sound of 'senior engineer', how do I get th
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I am at peace with this. One thing that helped me, was when I saw the ammount of taxes I pay :) I am fairly capitalist, but I do hope one day we would achieve this weir socialist utopia where nobody would need to be working. I definitely
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I would say there are limited number of fields where having PhD is an assumed norm, and would influence your hire-ability. Molecular biology is one of those, from my experience? Your time is probably better spent interviewing, networking or
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I never really used any. In your place, now I would work to have community that feels familiar. Maybe you are lucky and you have your close-family living nearby and you have good relationship and good boundaries, that is a real asset. We di
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Not on the surface? In the shell you have select "activities" that you can choose, and if the "activity" you chose is a standard linux app, or a explorer-style application (i.e. I remember I was still able to run Nautilu
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I was on both sides at RedHat. It differed team by team. My last interview was just a discussion about past experiences :)
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Ok, I should have said 'one of the reasons' ... and maybe there is a better road-map, but I was dabbling with Elm around 0.16, and then watched 0.17 change a bunch of stuff I liked to bunch of stuff I didn't care about as muc
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by a-saleh 7y ago
T.b.h. this is the reason why I will probably stay messing around with either PureScript or ReasonML but stay away from Elm.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Interesting w.r.t Go-lang. Where I live, we have RedHat working on kubernetes, and several startups in the "lets-turn-everything-to-golang-microservices-on-kubernetes" phase of hype-cycle, that pay premium, so my cost-benefit anal
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I kinda agree, that is why I was talking trade-offs. In reality, you probably mix bit-of-collum-a/bit-of-collum-b.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
There are paths and trade-offs. a) Focus on technologies that have staying power. I don't think Java EE jobs will really ever disappear b) instead of flavour of the month, focus on the flavour of the decade? i.e. Go and Kubernetes seem
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Company is https://exponea.com/ , you can see the tool in the backround on our landing-page :-) But I can't really show you, these days we have quite involved procurement setup aimed at large corporations. As far as I u
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Depends on what do you need? I.e. my company has integrated low-code marketing-campains scheduling designer, that is node-based. I think it is quite cool and our users seem to like it? At least it looks like a good fit for a job. What I as
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I would almost considered quoting the great ancient literature a cheat-code but I still do really like the Ecclesiastes. From the other end of the spectrum, "The Adventure of the Dancing Men" is the book/story that inspired m
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I was looking at https://k3s.io/ as a better configuration management solution than just pure-docker. Because I like kubernetes, I used it, I know it.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I wouldn't stress about that as much. I.e. I learned programming in Visual Basic for Applications (i.e. did you know Excel 97 had a full-fledged VB6 ide hidden behind a short-cut? ALT-F11 if I remember correctly) and while I could argu
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by a-saleh 7y ago
So, I have recently been at Zurihac, attended by ~500 people. From what I have seen, there have been roughly 4 groups: * people running their verified-contracts on blockchain strartups with haskell stack * people interested in GHC as a comp
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I can listen to Tim just fine, but I had similar problem with Andrew Warner of Mixergy. If you'd like a cliffs-notes version of the podcast, that is what most of Tim's books. I.e. Tools of Titans are very much this and I heard Tri
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by a-saleh 7y ago
I started listening to https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/ ... I think it strikes a nice balance between reading history as a thrilling (albeit tragic) narrative and how much we don't know and just speculate about.
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by a-saleh 7y ago
Depends. I had some success with Terry Prattchet's Discworld? Especially Moist von Lipwig series or The Watch. Like, if you get hooked, suddenly you are reading the rest of the series and you kinda have to become a regular reader :D
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by a-saleh 7y ago
What you get is multiple bound variables. Using only map and filter it would be harder to do i.e.: [(x*y) for x in range(0,5) for y in range(0,x)]

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