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by fcatalan 2y ago
Programming doesn't happen in a vacuum, and experience and institutional knowledge can account for many orders of magnitude of performance. A trivial example/recent anecdote: The other day, two of our juniors came to see me, they
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Things like this brought me into computers, but along the way I fell for the easy and boring life of glueing libraries, endpoints and corporate bullshit that leads to burnout. Perhaps some day...
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Small Twitch communities do it for me. I'm quite of an introvert. And all my long term friendships have faded or my friends have moved cities or countries. But around lockdown I took up miniature painting and started watching a bunch o
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Hard to measure the quiet quitters, but they are there, sullenly drawing their check in exchange for their minimum viable productivity.
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by fcatalan 2y ago
He's confused, he thinks he should be always winning because he's better. And sometimes he does, for example he can talk himself into a promotion while I silently do all the work. But I always win in the end, because he needs me m
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Until I switched to Postgres 8 years ago I knew a lot about MySQL. I barely know anything about Postgres
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by fcatalan 2y ago
Not really assigned at birth, but at the time you first request the card. It's a very very very crappy database ID number: -There's a significant amount of duplicates, enough that if your database is big enough you will find one s
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by fcatalan 2y ago
This resonates with me. I can't have relaxing hobbies: I take them up, find some measurable/competitive/social aspect in them, smash my way from "rookie" to "advanced beginner" to "top 20 percentile&q
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by fcatalan 2y ago
About the remote work comms there is a widespread attitude that irks me: People texting "can we talk?" or simply "hello". No! tell me straight away what you need so I can judge how and when to respond. When people state
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I suspect some/many of the online exam proctoring services are that way. Even some that market themselves as fully AI driven might be really AI = Actually Indians
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I flew this week. There were two 737 flights at about 130€ then one with an A320 at 220€. I took the Airbus. Same reason as you.
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by fcatalan 3y ago
Simply that the company had profits. This was pre dotcom crash and these were 20-something flashy MBA dudes that had been told to buy terrible money sinkholes left and right, and were seeing positive cash flow in an acquisition for the very
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by fcatalan 3y ago
Long time ago I worked at a startup that was making profit from day one, and growing off reinvesting the profit. Zero external investment or debt. The founders finally sold it to a big corp that was on a buying spree. When the accounting pe
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I've been running multi-server Moodle for many years. My sessions are in Redis, but you have the option to have them on the database. High traffic Moodle (mine is about 40k users) is a bit involved. You need to set up caching and also
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by fcatalan 3y ago
Can you also explain how he surrendered again what the Francoist dictatorship had already surrendered about 50 years ago?
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by fcatalan 3y ago
In a way yes, an important part of the appeal of the games were the miniatures, and during the pandemic I got back into collecting and painting them and it's become my main hobby since then.
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I'm glad to find my sentiment reflected in the article: I was interested in RPGs and wargames in the early 90s. Even in my relatively backwater hometown there were events, stores or clubs were I could socialize over them. It was all sw
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I'm kinda the Oracle at my workplace. People come to my desk to obtain answers and I google for a couple minutes and deliver them. I thought maybe ChatGPT would replace me, but so far the same people come so I can prompt it for them.
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I dropped out of Physics back in the day, because I loved computers a bit more, and now that I'm kind of fed up with computers I'd like to remove the thorn and do something like this. But I find that so much time has passed that I
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I run Postgres since about 2016. I used to run MySQL behind the same frontend app. I barely know anything about Postgres beyond installation for our use case, backup and recover. I used to know loads about obscure MySQL optimization techniq
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by fcatalan 3y ago
Get the dudes digging trenches in front of Crimea to build those roads instead
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I still treasure friendships forged that way :)
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by fcatalan 3y ago
Mid 90s were fun at Uni. Replacing a T-connector with a broken one to sabotage unpopular classes... Or binary searching it with a terminator to save one you liked... Learning that pinging Windows 3.1 with a big payload would BSOD it and wri
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by fcatalan 3y ago
True, here in Spain WhatsApp is practically a basic utility. Nobody is not on WhatsApp.
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by fcatalan 3y ago
I've been trying a few things, some are very interesting. For example it understands Europanto* perfectly, but when I asked it to produce some it was germanic-only Europanto: English, German, Danish, Swedish... I told it to use more ro
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by fcatalan 3y ago
Of course it's just another variety, but it's the one equivalent to the Received Pronunciation or "BBC English". People also tend to consider it the "original" one because, well... the language started in Casti
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by fcatalan 3y ago
There's a bit of "accentism" in Spain. Speaking with a southern accent will (wrongly) mark you as "lazy", "uncultured" or "unsophisticated" to some people. I was born in Castile, so I usually spe
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by fcatalan 4y ago
It's not just concrete things like command line or linux or old crusty editors, it's about how they lack general computer savvy and flexible problem solving skills. One example: I had this guy, it was his second job, the previous
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by fcatalan 4y ago
The kind that went into the subject just because it pays well and are taught some kind of bimodal syllabus: Lots of heavy Math/CS stuff they forget after the test and then practical programming as defined by "industry", indus
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by fcatalan 4y ago
I find a version of this even with fresh out of college programmers. They just know how to type Java on an IDE, maybe some SQL (using some graphical front end), some HTML/CSS. They can't operate in a Linux dev environment at all,

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