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by gordaco 8y ago
Also, enabling Firefox's reader mode (accessed quickly by pressing F9, at least in Windows) gets rid of the "please disable your ad blocker" and similar nagware most of the time.
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by gordaco 8y ago
Changing the default value of DNT to "on", so that you needed to opt in if you wanted tracking, didn't make the header "useless" for site owners. But it did make it awfully inconvenient, because it underlined an awf
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by gordaco 8y ago
Don't make money your first priority. Take it into account, yes, and fight for raises if you deserve them; but prioritize other things that have a greater impact on quality of life, such as location, commute time or absence of overtime
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by gordaco 8y ago
Here in Spain is also quite common that nurses emigrate. Mainly to the UK, although that will surely change after Brexit.
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by gordaco 8y ago
I've been doing that for more than five years. Not five summers : five whole years. I only very rarely eat at the office. I guarantee that your body will adjust after a little. In fact, you'll probably be surprised about how litt
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by gordaco 8y ago
Yes, it's more or less what I meant. As long as you go to bed and eat at the right time, otherwise forget that clocks exist. And maybe more importantly, forget that your job exists.
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by gordaco 8y ago
Yes, we use GIS systems and detailed maps of terrain information and estimated traffic demand. I don't think I can tell you much more, sorry... I'd rather stay at the more conservative side when confidentiality clauses are present
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by gordaco 8y ago
Ericsson. It's not like it's an unknown one :).
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by gordaco 8y ago
I agree so much with your latest paragraph. I'm currently working on a software that helps telcos decide the placement and configuration of mobile network cells and antennas, and it's like you said: it's actually a very inter
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by gordaco 8y ago
Personally, I study physics and maths. And read, and listen to weird ethnic music on youtube. And play videogames. I mean, there are so many things in life. You already spend 8+ hours a day at work, there's no point in spending even mo
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by gordaco 8y ago
If what you want is a low stress environment, you're like me. Some pieces of advice: 1) This goes without saying, but avoid startups. The more established the company, the better. Big corps are much more likely to respect a 9-to-5 work
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by gordaco 8y ago
To add another point of anecdote, I've also left a bad dev job for less money but better mental health overall. Such a good decision, but a difficult one to make. Higher amounts of money yield diminishing returns. It's difficult t
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by gordaco 8y ago
That's a bit like... your relationships and mental health are terrible, so you take drugs (especially alcohol) to ease the pain of that. It might get you some temporary relief, but in the long run the consequences might be far worse th
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by gordaco 8y ago
Funny, just a couple of weeks ago I faced a similar problem at work. I ended up changing slightly the code and adding a comment that read something like "We do it this way because the operation we want is the modulus, not the remainder
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by gordaco 8y ago
I've trained myself (and reworked my daily schedule) to stop using alarm clocks. Incidentally, next week will be 4 years since the last time I used one. And melatonin has been one of my main tools. Getting up by yourself instead of bei
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by gordaco 8y ago
Nor in Spain. I've been taking melatonin for quite some time, and so has my mother. You just go to a pharmacy and buy it over the counter.
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by gordaco 8y ago
This kind of bad news fatigue is a very real (and frequent) phenomenon. And it's really, really scary when you think about it. We are so accustomed to having less and less privacy (among many other things) that moving downward at the u
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by gordaco 8y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted, since this is a perfectly valid topic that has been researched: http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligenc... . There is also an effect about being time poor a
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by gordaco 8y ago
In my experience, enterprise devs are not really underpaid (this could vary a lot depending on your geographical area, of course). I also don't find corporate jobs to be exhausting at all, but YMMV and it probably varies from person to
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by gordaco 8y ago
The problem here is that there is no incentive for the companies to do things reasonably, because as many people is saying in these comments, there is a virtually unlimited supply of young, exploitable workers. For any midsized or large com
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by gordaco 8y ago
I have. Kind of. My solution might not work for you, or it might be unacceptable for other reasons. I've always been a night owl, and by always I mean that I remember anecdotes about getting up in the middle of the night of a Saturday
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by gordaco 9y ago
Well, it's a reason as good as any other to start paying good salaries AND good raises, instead of just the former. And don't skim on the benefits. As a general rule, treat your employees fairly (which includes updating their sala
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by gordaco 9y ago
You can arrive to the formula n^2 = sum(1..n) + sum(1..n-1) visually, separating a square into two triangles and fill them adding diagonals. Ok, that doesn't sound very informative, so let me show you an example. Let's start with
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by gordaco 9y ago
That's because you are using an extremely small sample; of course the individual differences are going to matter. Now, get a random sample of 1000 teams using waterfall and 1000 teams using agile, and you'll get much more meaningf
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by gordaco 9y ago
This sucks because I'm tempted to do it as well, but this means that I can't support the content creators that I like. I really hope that a better alternative comes soon. I've seen a lot of people using https://ko-
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by gordaco 9y ago
Just yesterday I finished Merchants of Doubt (the book; I didn't know there was also a documentary). It's a really good book, and very informative. Side effects include uncontrollable anger and hate towards certain industries.
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by gordaco 9y ago
I'm working in a B2B telecom and I haven't seen that level of conservativeness, although in general I agree that they are conservative. But it's a wonderful place to work in many aspects: it's stable, pays well, and in
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by gordaco 9y ago
I agree very much with this, and I will add that this can lead to a reasonably stress-free life, which is even better than it sounds. To me, the real perk of working in tech is not that there are so many jobs that I can find one that pays i
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by gordaco 9y ago
I remember cases where the AV successfully detected the upxed executable, but not the original, because upx was so widespread that the most common version of the infected file was upxed.
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by gordaco 9y ago
I thought that Scilab was well known. I used it in the uni during my degree in Maths. I prefer Matlab, but Scilab is still pretty decent. I haven't tried Octave, so I can't compare the two of them.

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