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by bg4 8y ago
I worked from home for 7 months and also loved it. I stopped simply because benefits were better for a gig right up the street.
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by bg4 8y ago
This list applies to all domains.
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by bg4 8y ago
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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by bg4 8y ago
> images don't cause mental health problems This is categorically false.
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by bg4 8y ago
This was exactly my experience except that I eventually left the service entirely.
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by bg4 8y ago
I very much agree and I tell every young CS student I meet that Computer Science + Some Other Domain = bright future
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by bg4 8y ago
You're not alone in this thought. We developers are dopamine junkies chasing complexity to get our fix.
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by bg4 8y ago
Every programmer that has ever existed has said and felt this exact thing. It used to really bother me as well. Then I realized that the world is a messy place and I would need a stronger stomach if I was going to watch the sausage being ma
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by bg4 8y ago
Replace the system with another.. system.
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by bg4 8y ago
I take 5,000 IU of Vitamin D daily and 3 mg of Melatonin about an hour or so before bed. It has all but cured a lifetime of serious sleep issues.
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by bg4 8y ago
Apparently lions, tigers and bears aren't aware of the Kantian perfect/imperfect duty divide.
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by bg4 8y ago
It's referring to his fake skin tanning.
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by bg4 8y ago
Because we as humans will never escape the subconscious constraints and biases of a pack ordered society, it's woven into our very being.
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by bg4 8y ago
Cool, I'd love to hear about the education programs you've started to help inform these parents of the harm they're doing.
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by bg4 8y ago
After you get back on your feet please work toward an emergency fund with 6 months living expenses in it.
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by bg4 8y ago
Agreed. And to follow that thought, you probably don't need microservices either.
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by bg4 8y ago
If I let my kids roam free the police get called. It's a lose/lose and it's very sad.
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by bg4 8y ago
The Goal by Eliyaho Goldratt
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by bg4 8y ago
Thirded.
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by bg4 8y ago
My family emigrated from Cornwall in the 1830s, would love to return someday.
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by bg4 8y ago
If it's not my phone beeping, new slack notifications, it's outlook popping up with meeting reminders, it's the application focus being ripped away from me by something else, it's time to update some random software on m
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by bg4 8y ago
The book everyone recommends but few have actually read.
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by bg4 8y ago
When I was a kid, lightning bugs filled the front yard. Now, I might see one of them if I'm lucky.
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by bg4 8y ago
In my experiences, non-technical managers tend not to trust software engineers. This is partly due to a lack of true professional credential for software developers and a lack of their own technical chops to call out any bullshit. To put it
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by bg4 8y ago
It's also the reason why so many systems, at so many companies, are complete, utter shit.
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by bg4 8y ago
Yes, plus my kid's elementary school has a dress up day or fundraiser of some sort almost every week for the entire year.
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by bg4 8y ago
Yes, one must be able to discern between technical debt and taste.
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by bg4 8y ago
What a great way for me to filter them out of consideration.
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by bg4 8y ago
> Too little restraint. 100% this. Always, always favoring the ease of the individual developer or meeting short term goals.
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by bg4 8y ago
Because 'big ball of mud' is the most common system architecture.

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