cleandreams

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by cleandreams 8y ago
If you want the startup life, find a startup where the founders (white men probably) have small children and professional wives.
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by cleandreams 8y ago
This doesn't work, as shown by the last 30 years. It requires not only wiser elites than the ones we've got but also real political power for working people. "Ordinary" middle class working people have much less politica
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by cleandreams 9y ago
Pretty good. The one thing in this article I found off was the notion that regulation by "the community" was preferable to regulation by, well, regulation. That is a fundamental mistake. "The community" is a bunch of bus
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by cleandreams 9y ago
I use Space and I like it. It diminishes the kick of Facebook and Instagram. I check them less often as a result. I do like esp Instagram and I keep in touch with friends with Facebook so I do want to use these apps, and this dulling of the
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by cleandreams 9y ago
I think if I had had an easy out I might have left the profession. But I didn't and so I've done a lot of somewhat scary but ultimately really rewarding things: took the hardest jobs I could get, then went out contracting, then fo
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by cleandreams 9y ago
Good luck. I am female and in my 60's and happily employed. However I've had scientist and engineer women friends who have become unemployed in their 50's or later and have great trouble finding work. It can take years. Durin
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by cleandreams 9y ago
Curious. Why? I have a Surface Book and will be upgrading in a few months.
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by cleandreams 9y ago
Here's a plug for bash with vim on the command line. (Ubuntu but also wsl). In your login dir, in .inputrc, add: set editing-mode vi set keymap vi-command:w This gives you vim on the command line, very handy. Interactively, set -o v
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by cleandreams 9y ago
My 2 cents: dynamic typing works okay for library consumers. For libraries themselves though, or platform code, the disadvantages are real. It is harder to fix and extend code when you don't know who calls it, how they call it, what th
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by cleandreams 9y ago
We do that. Try developing a complex code base with a medium sized team. It becomes very hard to make changes!!! You just need compiler support, IMHO. Python offers ease and fun, and that has led to an explosion of functionality. But there
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by cleandreams 9y ago
Why is Python So Aggravating? That's a question that bugs me. I can't believe the level of obviousness of the things that are wrong. That is because we write complex code. Things like direct access to data members (which is '
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by cleandreams 10y ago
I've been a software engineer for nearly 30 years and I was diagnosed with tendonitis in my first 5 years but I have managed to hold RSI at bay. I pay attention and if any pain surfaces I take action that day. I do not ever, ever wait.
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by cleandreams 10y ago
I found the article interesting and it sync'd with my experience in one significant way. When I started doing interviews after nearly a decade at the same job I was way out of practice. I blew an interview at Google, I still feel embar
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by cleandreams 10y ago
I have been a working writer as well as a software engineer. I have been a broke poet and fiction writer (for years) and a senior level engineer (for years). I get to be a homeowner because of the software skills and I sent my kid to a good
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by cleandreams 10y ago
Useful! I live in a neighborhood of mixed age houses and it is interesting how many of newer houses make me wince. This article helps me understand why. They lack harmony with themselves and their surroundings because of these failings. But
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by cleandreams 10y ago
I thought this was an interesting article and then I read the comments. Oh dear, a bunch of white guys kvetching and clutching their...pearls. Your deprivation moves me. Really. Anyway I had a point to make, as a software engineer for 30 ye
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by cleandreams 10y ago
I listened to the whole series and ended up feeling he was guilty. Then I felt annoyed with the project. I'd spent all these hours getting familiar with a killer. What a result from this project - maybe a guilty man will get out of pri
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by cleandreams 10y ago
I work for an SV startup that has a satellite office in Seattle. We're in Seattle for the engineering talent. I think Seattle's role in the startup world has a good foundation because it's about talent. As for NYC I can tell
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by cleandreams 11y ago
I dunno. I've worked at startups a lot and none are dismal in quite the way described here. They are dismal because the founders are irritating and have bad judgment. Or they are dismal because the idea flops. Or you run out of runway,
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by cleandreams 11y ago
I think the rise of Trump reflects the reality of a declining middle class and the overall problem of political stability in the face of declining opportunity and economic security for most people. In business it is easier to focus on the s
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by cleandreams 11y ago
I've worked in lots of tech companies and my experience is that you don't give notice in advance at all. That's because you get walked out the day you say you want to / will be leaving. That's a no-brainer from the