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by beat 7y ago
I often say "That's not programming, that's just typing". (Stole it from someone, can't remember who now.)
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by beat 7y ago
One of the first rules from the book The Pragmatic Programmer is "SELECT isn't broken". (It might even be the first rule.)
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Outstanding observation, thank you!
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I actually found an OS bug in AIX on my first real I-designed-this code project. Worse, the bug was discovered only when the code went into production - it behaved differently on the test servers than on the production servers! The bug caus
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by beat 7y ago
I'm actually thinking more of social skills and written language, not programming. I said something about this in a different thread earlier this week, and someone was baffled as to why I thought being able to write and sell was import
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by beat 7y ago
Anything can be your bottleneck. Fix one bottleneck, find the next one. That said, databases are often the bottleneck. And with web apps, "the speed of your server-side programming language" is almost never the bottleneck - althou
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by beat 7y ago
Admittedly, my first days as a junior programmer were before some of you were born, but I'm thinking of a particular format here... Learned as junior: If you report an OS bug or some other deep problem, seniors will not believe you and
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Their mother had them when she was 24. It paused her finishing her master's degree for a semester. She went back to teaching college, then into IT, where she's a product owner for international e-commerce.
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He still doesn't drive. He's resisted it (mostly passively) pretty hard. He even has his own car. But to him, it's an alien thing, something he doesn't want to do. He can talk to people who share his interests at the mom
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My own parents were pretty horrible. I've been determined to do better. Part of that is respecting them for who they are, not resenting them for who I wish they were. As I've said elsewhere, I really admire my son's ability t
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by beat 7y ago
I try to not assume other people are either stupid or malicious, that if they see the world differently from me, they have good reasons. I think it makes me a better person, and it certainly makes me a more relaxed person.
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by beat 7y ago
My spouse meets people entirely through her existing social networks - me, her existing friends, her dance community, and work. She doesn't just strike up conversations with complete strangers, it makes her very uncomfortable. Whereas
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by beat 7y ago
Yeah. In a way, I really admire his focus. His life has everything he cares about, and he ruthlessly ignores everything that doesn't actually matter to him. And he's smart, capable of incredible focus, and can interact with people
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Autistic enough to not function well in society. There's actually a middle ground between "just fine" and "has to wear a helmet".
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Last night, I said something to my spouse about a conversation I had with a "single serving friend", and she didn't know what I was talking about. I said it was a Fight Club reference, then went farther and explained that I h
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by beat 7y ago
My daughter is actually one of my best friends. I'd hang out with her even if we weren't related. I sometimes joke that I diluted her mother's genes to perfection...
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by beat 7y ago
I think I got a lot of hostile replies from people not stopping to think about why, especially people who have never actually raised children themselves. This particular comment, though? Nah, suggesting "beat some sense into him"
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Is it necessary? I don't mind him living at home; I just worry about what will happen to him when his parents are gone, especially if for some reason we die relatively young.
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I've had some Indian co-workers in arranged marriages who think it's great, and are totally baffled by people who only marry for love.
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by beat 7y ago
I keep telling myself I'm being criticized by a bunch of people who have obviously never raised children. :)
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by beat 7y ago
That's a very shallow understanding of incentives. Case in point - his twin sister moved out as soon as she got herself a steady income to live on. But she also chooses to stay in town, and spend time with us multiple times a week. Why
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by beat 7y ago
Pretty severe autism. The main reason we never just kicked him out is because he really can't function on his own. He'd suck at being homeless. That was hard for me to get used to, as I've been on my own since I was 18. And
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by beat 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he winds up living with his sister someday. They're pretty close, really. We had a talk about wills with the kids last year, and one question was "What should we do about the house? Do you kids want
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by beat 7y ago
My dad beat plenty of sense into me. What I learned was to stay the hell away from him and never treat my children the way he treated his. edit: I haven't spoken to my father in over 20 years, and I probably never will again. What fina
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by beat 7y ago
He's pretty seriously autistic. One thing having twins did for me was push me way over to the nature side of nature vs nurture. They're so different, and always have been. And I don't expect to have more control over their li
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by beat 7y ago
My own concerns are different. I'm in my 50s now, happily married for over 25 years, with a terrific social life. I'm not at all lonely or isolated. It's my children that I worry about. They're boy/girl twins, now 2
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by beat 7y ago
That falls under my "hire the devops" criticism. A "devops team" is a bad idea. This is a blurry line, because it's also a good idea - that is, hiring someone (or a team of someones) whose job it is to think about,
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Population should level out around 11B, assuming no big surprises/shocks. And people aren't hungry for a more CO2 intense lifestyle - just a richer one. That's why getting off fossil fuels is so incredibly vital. Luckily, I t
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Does it? It seems to me that there's a lot to it that simply hasn't been researched adequately yet.
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by beat 7y ago
Yes, it's a culture. And it's not a culture. It's also a toolset, and not a toolset. So I see "culture" on the same spectrum as "tools". Which is more Taoism, I suppose. If you're doing DevOps right,

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