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by bbarn 10y ago
I see so much of this arguing against being interrupted, or context switching. I suffer from it, most of us do, but I think everyone's trying to solve the wrong problem. The problem isn't that we get interrupted and our concentra
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by bbarn 10y ago
I feel like part of the problem here is the IOC and trying to "win" having the Olympics. A more sensible approach would be temporary housing, akin more to trailers and inexpensive pop up temporaries rather than plush living. Thes
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by bbarn 10y ago
He does say at the end it's the first in a series, but I had the same thought. Perhaps we'll see another follow up about bad interior design?
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by bbarn 10y ago
Is it so hard to believe that one of the biggest tech companies in the country and the government wouldn't both respect success in the other's organizations?
755.
by bbarn 10y ago
Those with the loudest voices simply have the loudest voices, be they right or wrong.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Disagree. Especially with entry level positions, it's a real nice bonus for me when I'm reviewing applicants. It gives me something to look for when there's no work experience to try to craft what this person has worked on.
757.
by bbarn 10y ago
Frontline Education | Chicago, IL | ONSITE | Full-time We make software that powers educational institutions. https://www.frontlineeducation.com We're looking for two senior .NET developers to help lead our platform develo
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by bbarn 10y ago
Yeah, it would be great if people were dedicated to one company for a long time, but that isn't our field anymore. Companies come and go very fast. Move fast break things means breaking companies some times, and fail fast means fail t
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by bbarn 10y ago
I think you might underestimate the scale here. It's more like, it's "always on, in all regions, with as many providers as they can". This is a company that's had to innovate in basically every possible business s
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by bbarn 10y ago
I suspect, from my own anecdata, it's because a great many of us in the field have had gut issues. A lot of us lead lifestyles that aren't necessarily the greatest (although I feel overall that old adage is changing for the bette
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by bbarn 10y ago
It's not modal is it? If you click off the box dims to transparent and doesn't restrict input
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by bbarn 10y ago
There were no trivia involved. I wrote the sequence and explained it - it's not hard to grasp. It's a simple for loop in the easiest solution and a simple recursive method if they want to show off.
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by bbarn 10y ago
The PS is something people forget all the time. It's a learned skill to make interviewees feel like this isn't an adversarial meeting, but a mutual interviewing. That said, you're right. Just this week I interviewed someone
764.
by bbarn 10y ago
You don't really need one (despite the obvious danger if taking this in the literal sense). There are tests that can determine pretty much every metric a bike is trying to nail. It becomes more of a "what's the best choice
765.
by bbarn 10y ago
Heh, all the arguments over frame materials, and what do people actually feel when riding? Their tires, and whether or not the cables slap and vibrate depending on how they are routed. The supersix is what software should try to be. Bette
766.
by bbarn 10y ago
>They will prefer – and actually perform better with... That's an important distinction. There is something to valuing a tool that makes you use it better. My first version of Visual Studio I paid for out of pocket and I made sure
767.
by bbarn 10y ago
I am the opposite. My 45 minutes of bike commuting, are about as close as I get to tech free time all day long. I like the sound of the outside, even the ugly city sounds, over listening to rubber coated bluetooth speakers belting out som
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by bbarn 10y ago
See, I too am a fairly avid cyclist, and I too hate any weather that prevents me from doing it.. but when I lived in LA, it was hard to find good cycling routes. It's a very car-centric area.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I'm surprised any creature would leave relative warmth for temperatures 50 below (either scale!). Even for a girl.
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by bbarn 10y ago
I hear about this depression. I was the opposite. I felt artificially manic/high/excited about quitting I think. It wore off pretty quickly but I was super happy the first few weeks.
771.
by bbarn 10y ago
It's not to say I didn't have urges.. doing something for almost 20 years, anything, is hard to let go of. But that nail biting aggravated irritableness lasted about a day for me. Part of it may be that because of the whole bike
772.
by bbarn 10y ago
I guess the point I was trying to make wasn't to brag that it was so great and easy for me to do, it's to say that maybe we have culturally made it seem harder than it is. The more press it gets the more the belief is reinforce
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by bbarn 10y ago
Focus on the smell. Make it long enough (about 24 hours) to notice other smokers smell. That is the smell of other people being repulsed by you. You smell like that in every elevator, every time you introduce yourself to someone, and no
774.
by bbarn 10y ago
I think as a culture (speaking here in the US) we've made quitting smoking out to be much harder than it actually is. One of the problems with this massive marketing campaign saying things like "You can quit with help!", etc
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by bbarn 10y ago
And you're not racing :) Downhill bikes weight 40 pounds, BMX's have 36 spoke wheels for 20" rims, etc.. for good reason: they are built to be good at what they do. You want to go race faster, you get light wheels, with medi
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by bbarn 10y ago
I just added it to my list of stuff that pushing this bookmarklet button fixes: javascript:void(document.onmousedown=null);void(document.onclick=null);void(document.oncontextmenu=null);void(document.onpaste=null)
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by bbarn 10y ago
Yep. This is what I do. I have a couple of large plastic Tervis glasses that work great for this, and as a bonus if I've put too little ice in or heated the water too much I can adjust on the fly by seeing through it.
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by bbarn 10y ago
This is more like, I think I'll sue you 40 years later because your code is very close to mine in one method.
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by bbarn 10y ago
Just like half the statements here, this could be changed to "People from the bay area", "People from LA", etc. California has a lot of great people and beauty but when you equate the whole state with the two big cities
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by bbarn 10y ago
Or, it's all they can admit publicly to having. (which makes sense in a play book)

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