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by coward123 5y ago
>Being in meetings means you get to be in the room when decisions are made. That was never my experience, especially if those meetings were standup meetings as the parent poster was referring. The standup meetings were a lot of feel good
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by coward123 5y ago
I have a cat who will deliberately create a diversion so that she can steal my chair. I know when she’s doing it, but I go along anyway because it’s fun. The first time I saw her do this, it involved pushing the lift button on the motorized
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by coward123 5y ago
We were just talking about this yesterday in my family... I think you should take it as a sign of intimacy, that is to say that there is a familiarity and and comfort such that they are willing to share things about their personal life as t
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by coward123 5y ago
I know there are many fans of these technologies here, but it’s been more than a decade and I still find myself asking the basic question of “what problem are we actually trying to solve?” I could share my opinions, but in each case the ans
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by coward123 5y ago
I love what your cousin did, but there’s a big difference between that and beekeeping. Not even the same types of bees. The bees kept for honey / wax production and pollination are more like livestock than “nature.”
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by coward123 5y ago
I agree with you, but: -- It took a lot of years to get here. -- It took expensive equipment to get here. -- I'm lucky that my house doesn't have a lot of brick or steel or some other material that blocks signals -- I still believ
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by coward123 5y ago
My son is learning Java and Python for a middle school class. I encouraged him to download Squeak and learn Smalltalk, as to my thinking a student is going to struggle to understand OOP if you jump into Java and Python. I know there are man
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by coward123 5y ago
Ruby might superficially syntactically look like Smalltalk in a few places, but the actual semantics of the language and the overall toolset are nothing alike. Smalltalk was ahead of its time. The licensing and the hardware demands were too
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by coward123 5y ago
>all but been decriminalized on the West Coast. There's talk that WA is going to introduce a bill in the next session to completely decriminalize.
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by coward123 5y ago
FWIW: There are plenty of landlords in the world who are willing to keep rents down in order to keep a good tenant, IE: you take good care of the property and pay on time. On the other hand, if they decide to up your rent over a leaky fauce
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by coward123 5y ago
Loads of non-profits and small businesses that have surprisingly demanding tech needs but can't afford / don't understand / can't manage / have only a part-time need, etc.
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by coward123 5y ago
No kidding. I would have preferred to migrate the client to GitHub, but they were convinced that wasn't acceptable - had to run their own GitLab. Turned into a mess of managing Gitlab updates and BS rather than working on the product.
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by coward123 5y ago
Welcome to the cycle... don't worry, they will make you do devops soon enough too... then, maybe after they've burned through enough people or have lost enough money through broken software and ops, they will start hiring QA and o
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by coward123 5y ago
Because good sir, rather than being snotty and downvotey and the type of jerk who has utterly ruined HN, I chose to reveal myself as a fellow beekeeper in hopes that there might be fellow beekeepers here who would also want to share their s
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by coward123 5y ago
Just harvested honey this past week from my hives... taste was absolutely the best honey I've ever imagined. So much more floral and complex than anything store bought. Watched them fly back and forth from the lavender to the hives all
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by coward123 5y ago
I refuse to pay for either NYT or WaPo subscriptions specifically because of the OpEd pages. It's one thing to encourage provocation for the purpose of social dialog, but the abject lies and violence that both publications have allow
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by coward123 5y ago
20 years ago when I was going to school in Winneshiek county, the average winter temperature was considered to be 19F. Lots of -50F nights. About every other year there was at least one story of someone freezing to death when their car brok
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by coward123 5y ago
>there is an incentive to get the most out of the individual negotiation since you almost certainly will never see each other again You've got great insights here. That said, I can't help but think that perception - that it is
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by coward123 5y ago
Outside Smalltalk, TDD has never "worked" for me. But in a Smalltalk environment it was an absolute no-brainer and super slick because the environment was set up for it to just work. The nuance is the code-build-test cycle. In S
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by coward123 5y ago
TLDR; Divide-and-conquer heuristic. When I was contracting, every few months I was looking at a new-to-me code base. First - if you don't know the language the code was written in, then you need to learn that at some basic level. Next,
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by coward123 5y ago
This topic triggers me a bit because along with rants about CRT, masking, book banning, etc one of the buried topics among the loonies who have berated and attacked our school boards was that they were against electric buses. This is despit
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by coward123 5y ago
Trust as a contractor can be an interesting thing. On one hand they may not trust you because you are an outsider who they think can't possibly understand the nuances of their culture and business domain, but on the other hand they wil
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by coward123 5y ago
Analogy and tribalism are powerful tools. Analogy in the sense that a corporatespeak word can act as an abbreviation for a concept and thus the ability to get a group to the same mental space. A common language smooths communication and cre
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by coward123 5y ago
In my work, I have to create and share a lot of videos, and Vimeo is superior to YouTube for my needs. Doesn't auto-play some unrelated content when they are done with my videos, I can easily make basic edits like a custom thumbnail or
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by coward123 5y ago
One piece of advice: If you find yourself saying things like "At my old job..." just shut your mouth. I mean this with the utmost respect that phrases like that are the best way to alienate your new co-workers. Listen and learn to
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by coward123 5y ago
Your post fits with a conversation I had with someone last week, so let me ask - why would you choose Erlang / Elixir over Python for web backends? I've got my reasons for both camps, but since you point out the above information
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by coward123 5y ago
> the language of choice for bad programmers Sure, and Java went through this phase too, and I'm sure so have plenty of other languages. It's the stage at which a language has reached mass adoption and it is inevitable, but it
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by coward123 5y ago
I was there for a while too... that place and their compensation plans were... special. There were a lot of funny games that happened with their stock price too.
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by coward123 5y ago
You realize that the core story of Heart of Darkness has become countless reinterpretation like Apocalypse Now, right? I mean, how bad can it really be if it spawned an entire motif of sorts? As for English Patient - look, you might not lik
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by coward123 5y ago
Look I'm as environmentally conscious as the next guy, but here's the thing I don't quite get about induction - how am I supposed to use a wok, a tagine, or basically anything that is either a non-metallic pan or where you ne

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