boblebricoleur

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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
here is a testimony that motivated me to try and stop like you are : https://thinkfaster.co/2019/02/quitting-alcohol/
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
When I tried to stop drinking in college, I used to fill empty beer bottles with water to drink at parties. This helped a lot with social pressure. I reckon one could do the same in a pub if the bartender is understanding and discrete, but
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Reaper is awesome. I've made a lot of my (bad) music sound very great with it ! I've used it for more than 10 years, and it's my go-to DAW ever since.
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
I'm sure there are people out there that are impervious to feedback and believe they have all the answser. I've also seen countless of young engineers starting to welcome managers' feedback and "showing" their will
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
My experience is exactly the opposite. In the market I've prospected (France) the applicants have leverage because there is more positions than candidates. Even if there is a lot of candidates, there is a lot more positions. There is e
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
This is turning into a "I'm self taught and I can code juste as well as the next CS graduate" debate. I totally agree with that proposition. The degree is not a sine qua none condition of competence. My point was that success
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Indeed, and the fact that unskilled engineers with good business skills can and always climb to the top proves my point : those success stories happen because the kid is a good salesman not because he taught himself software engineering. Th
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
What does make a self-taught special?
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Maybe is the US the college debt is a problem but they are a lot of countries where education is not as expensive. I attended engineering school for 200€ a year plus help from the government for accommodation. That degree got me my first jo
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Of course encouraging people to try and get in the IT industry even without a degree is good too. I thought I said so in my comment. I am in no way a college elitist. I know not everyone can go to uni. My whole point was that the truth of w
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Everything you wrote is true and in no way disagrees with what I wrote. I think you mistook my A => B assumptions for a no B => no A which is a flawed logical reasoning.
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Since these articles seem to be putting a cash value on the word "success" (or at the very least an instagram buzz value), I would point that IMHO, most of this success comes from people skill. You can have a degree or not, even b
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Harari won't do. Too contoversial and opiniated. Not factual enough.
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
>OOP is considered by many to be the crown jewel of computer science. The ultimate solution to code organization. The end to all our problems. The only true way to write our programs. Bestowed upon us by the one true God of programming h
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
I feel hn experience is awesome. Everything is accessible with one or two clicks. I never wait for something to load, never pest against it because of some obscure behavior. It's simple and efficient. The content is perfectly served. N
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
To clarify, with "human evolution" I mean paleoanthropology and such. A study of human species from a very long time ago to a not so long time a ago. A study of both their biological and social relationship.
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Ask HN: Book about Human Evolution?
2 points by boblebricoleur 7y ago|5 comments
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Above security concerns, I'm worried about installing a custom theme made by someone who would choose such difficult to read color pairing for their own website.
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
We could have website-centered search engines. You ask the question on whatsthatquote.com and find out if someone has already asked it. If yes, you have your answer, if not someone answers and no one is annoyed. Stack overflow does that. Y
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
> Your question belittles the literal billions of dollars and millions of man hours that have gone into making the current and previous implementations of Google's search engine I don't think this question belittles Google&#x27
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
You, sir, are a modern-time knight
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
> Companies do code testing because they have encountered so many candidates who look good on paper, and may even be able to talk about computers convincingly, but can’t actually write a program when asked. Any program. At all. Maybe I&#
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
I see. Thanks for the clarification
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
My point was : node is just a web server and npm just a package manager. There was countless before, there will be countless after, we will continue to code with or without. I have worked with a few technologies and in a few industries and
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
As "life finds a way", I believe packages will find a way too. If npm stops being the go-to solution, another one will take its place, naturaly adopted by the community, following the path of least resistance. Centralized or not.
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Yes. That's why setting trap in some countries is a strictly regulated activity and lethal or harmful traps are almost always forbidden. You can't always catch what you intended to, so you have to give a way out to the guy you cau
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Browsing the internet today is so exhausting. I would add one more rule "make sure your user has to perform at least 37 clicks before accessing your ad riddled article"
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
Yes I thought about it. That's why I insisted on the difference beetween imprecise and incomplete. > I do not mean complete. You can knowingly give an incomplete spec to the candidate to see what kind of questions he/she would
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
About technical interview questions : I am not against it at all. It opens the conversation to some technical aspects that can be very intersesting to talk about. As a candidate I love getting technical in interviews because It allows me to
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by boblebricoleur 7y ago
1. I stretch. A physiotherapist I've seen for back pain problems gave me exercises to do daily. Most of them involve stretching the back muscles. One simple exercise is to lie on the floor legs against the wall making a 90° angle with

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