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by epalmer 9y ago
A lot of practical advice in the comments so far. Practice is important. Don't wait in your story to hint at the outcome. Don't give the punch line until it is time but entice the audience with what is coming early on. Hook th
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by epalmer 9y ago
Right now the other half of the scrum team has been relocated to the football stadium till office renovations are done. When the team practices they play music loud to simulate crowd noises. So their open environment is worse than imaginabl
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by epalmer 9y ago
Yes mindfulness is helpful.
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by epalmer 9y ago
Some days I have a lot of different tasks to accomplish and support items come at me usually at the wrong time (before vacation, at 5PM,...). For the last month I've been using kanban to manage my work (trello) with these columns backl
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by epalmer 9y ago
I'm extremely lucky as I have an office with a door. Most days I take a very short nap. It can be as short as 6 minutes but I like it to be 12 to 18 minutes. I drink a 1/2 cup of coffee before I nap most days. After darkening my
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by epalmer 9y ago
I used to come home and slug a glass of wine or two down. Felt better fast but early in the evening I was tired. Now I just get quiet for a few minutes and then let the brain be what it is. My fog goes away more slowly but I have energy a
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by epalmer 9y ago
I am aware of a case where employee s performance was criticized in written form because "you are too old". I can't detail specifics because of confidential issues. But there are times that people put their bias in written fo
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by epalmer 9y ago
Nutrition panel is in the FAQ https://www.impossiblefoods.com/faq/
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by epalmer 9y ago
I have a boss that I report up to. But for day to day work, my work chunks are come from 4 os us discussing what needs to be done and doing it. The so called creative work comes from one member who is our scrum product owner. We all act lik
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by epalmer 9y ago
> If you're being targeted by governments I would agree you're out of luck even on iOS. Probably true on almost every OS.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I don't measure velocity in the scrum team I coach. And people's skills are not interchangeable but we do want most of the team member to be able to perform the easy stuff. A front end developer is not interchangeable with a backe
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by epalmer 9y ago
I try to go to the gym each morning for 60 minutes of cardio + strength I take frequent trips down the hall and back and that helps me think edit: get to the gym at 5:15 AM, so I go to bed rather early. Also working on eating better to los
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by epalmer 9y ago
gnachman Thanks for Iterm2. We have many developers using it every day.
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by epalmer 9y ago
>"hello world".echo Okay I have to admit I love this one.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I'm in the second group. No interest in doing a hackathon. Also I really like the thinking part and take my time when I can. My work is maybe 15% coding and a lot of other things. I do code for fun at home. Also I'm kind of a soli
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by epalmer 9y ago
Thanks. I hadn't yet considered this.
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by epalmer 9y ago
DO you have a url for documentation that shows how to set up the certs? Our certs are on each web server and not in the load balancer. I suppose we can also put the certs into the load balancer but I don't have control over that. Edi
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by epalmer 9y ago
I have been anticipating this but have had better things to spend my limited time on. I have more than 135 sites I need to convert to https and they are load balanced. I don't think letsencrypt handles load balanced sites yet. My manag
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Python in Engineering – Modeling the Physical World(talkpython.fm)
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by epalmer 9y ago
I wonder what the route is in the brain? This is similar to the claims we hear about MCT oil.
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Religious leaders get high on magic mushrooms ingredient – for science(theguardian.com)
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by epalmer 9y ago
I mostly agree with you. I create mindmaps to help me think and or dump my brain around a particular topic. But you could do textual analysis and map a taxonomy or other analysis couldn't you (said by someone that has never done a t
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by epalmer 9y ago
I wonder how many people in power or have strong influence are psychopaths or sociopaths. I've had the misfortune to observe a psychopath in the workplace and in this case they touch people a lot. They touch people of the opposite sex
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by epalmer 9y ago
My dad had become a civilian employee at that time. Union Carbide I think. William Gerald Palmer (Jerry). It would be very cool if they knew each other. Dad was on a ship 10 miles from the blast. I played with Mercury as a kid. I hope I
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by epalmer 9y ago
In terms of the comments below I'm still of the mind that I have the chance for good genes. That gives me hope and maybe the Placebo Effect will kick in.
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by epalmer 9y ago
My dad witnessed one of the Bikini Atoll nuclear bomb tests and was on the Atoll 24 hours later measuring background radiation. He never got cancer and lived till he was 83 and died of old age with his organs just shutting down. He was al
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by epalmer 9y ago
> Workstation mode: Microsoft plans to optimize the OS by identifying “typical compute and graphics intensive workloads” to provide peak performance and reliability when Workstation mode is enabled. Shouldn't reliability always be a
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by epalmer 9y ago
I've got a two year plan. 2017 CSP (Certified Scrum Participant) then in 2018 take the http://fast.ai course. Maybe the Stanford ai course as well. 63 and still learning.
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by epalmer 9y ago
I'm 63 but learned to code a long time ago. My ability to see connections, abstractions and the like is better than ever. I do find that distractions like background noise or other competing tasks reduces my ability to solve the comple
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by epalmer 9y ago
The author of the study is on a recent Talk Python to Me podcast that I just finished listening to. https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/112/geeking-out-in-the-g...

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