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by countessa 14y ago
this is great stuff - I'm a casual php hacker and this is just the sort of thing I need to help me out when I'm working in the language - saves me from having to be deeply embedded in the culture of a language I don't use "all day every day
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by countessa 14y ago
and...if we are being bullshit free, we should stop asking "how are you?" unless we really want to know. I do wonder, though, what the author would rather we used for quick informal greetings used to acknowledge the presence of another pe
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by countessa 14y ago
I like that "do a lot of small things right"....kind of sounds like "the more I practice, the luckier I get"
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by countessa 14y ago
This is great thanks - I've got a book on R that a friend found at their work and gave to me. Been meaning to dip into it for a while now.
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by countessa 14y ago
Nice little tool thanks
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The parcel conundrum(bbc.co.uk)
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by countessa 14y ago
the whole thing could have been averted with a simple "hey - great work so far - can I tweak a couple of things?" instead, you now have a blog post (and HN thread) worth of analysis on something that should have been very simple. OTOH, no
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by countessa 14y ago
In large companies that I've worked for, the uptake of IM and skype is slow and barring the occasional video conference when someone just couldn't travel for one reason or another, is almost frowned upon. That kind of makes it difficult for
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by countessa 14y ago
tldr; It sounds to me like you are in the wrong job. You are obviously keen to write good quality code in a modern-ish framework/paradigm. --- You have to realise that the company you are working for now might be suffering from industrial i