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by gregjor 3y ago
I bet he can't explain "blockchain." The guy is nuts.
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by gregjor 3y ago
It's not a crock of shit, it's borne out by years of experience. Lawyers must attend school to get licensed, and of course no one reads case briefs as children. But good lawyers very likely did show an interest in parallel skill
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by gregjor 3y ago
vim
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by gregjor 3y ago
Lots of practice. Read books about programming. I don't see how not wanting to go into programming as a career prevents you doing the things professional programmers do to enter the profession. I learned how to maintain my motorcycles
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by gregjor 3y ago
James Brown. The hardest working man in show business inspires me to work just as hard. When I need calm to relax I prefer Judas Priest and Guns 'n' Roses.
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by gregjor 3y ago
I try to multitask a shower or toilet break with my meals to optimize my productivity. I tried power napping at meal time but got too hungry later in the day. You could try eating while on the treadmill. I want to free up as much time as po
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by gregjor 3y ago
These clickbait articles about PHP and other languages just mislead and portray the programming business as little more than fad and fashion, as if programmers read a TIOBE or StackOverflow survey and suddenly change their languages and too
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by gregjor 3y ago
You probably had a useful product with a few hundred common supplements. I doubt that you need to start with every supplement to get to MVP. Maybe the car analogy doesn’t apply. But consider Henry Ford went to market with just one model a
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by gregjor 3y ago
I suggest you ignore the AI hype. The nonstop media coverage and announcements prop up an investment bubble. LLMs cannot replace programmers yet and based on what I’ve seen they won’t get to that point anytime soon, if ever. Some companies
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by gregjor 3y ago
I don't know if I can give you any useful advice but I can relate my own experience (40+ years programming) and how I have learned to avoid burnout, after going through it a couple of times. It depends on the project and the organizati
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by gregjor 3y ago
All of the ways? You had better ask a so-called AI if you want a silly but apparently exhaustive list. In my experience making money programming distills down to one of these: 1. Learn to solve business problems and add value and find an em
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by gregjor 3y ago
Stop reading message boards telling you what to do and focus on building your MVP. Go over every requirement and decision and defer or remove any that an MVP won’t require. For example, an MVP car (which took more than a couple of weeks to
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by gregjor 3y ago
You will have to define what you mean by “worse” and “lately.” I have over four decades experience in software development and I don’t think we ever had high-quality code, reliability, or good security. We have some examples from the old da
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by gregjor 3y ago
Cool, but about 20 years late to the digital nomad salary arbitrage wave. Very tough right now to land any software developer job in the US. That gets increasingly hard when you require working remotely. And quite a few companies pay loca
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by gregjor 3y ago
Full of affiliate links and unrelated junk ads. Info outdated and probably incomplete/incorrect. For example the Thailand Smart Talent visa has additional requirements not listed on the site, requirements that few digital nomads can me
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by gregjor 3y ago
I can’t think of any. We have enough overlap in flexible work hours to DM on Slack. Usually just two people need to chat to resolve issues and answer questions, we almost never get the whole team involved. I forgot to mention GitHub, used f
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by gregjor 3y ago
You can safely ignore the news without losing your relevance. Nothing important will happen so fast in the tech world that a few weeks or months ignoring the news will leave you behind. If anything actually important happens you will hear a
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by gregjor 3y ago
And not cutting the one person who caused the chaos.
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by gregjor 3y ago
That's not what "objectively" means -- nicer looking. And ma-TAB to autocomplete makes it the same for the three times a day I might have wasted two keystrokes.
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by gregjor 3y ago
Slack. Very few meetings. Defining projects and workflow so people don't get stuck waiting for answers or collaboration.
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by gregjor 3y ago
I can’t tell if DHH means to prepare his audience for a conservative coming out announcement, or if these posts are just “no such thing as bad publicity” for niche products. I never got around to renaming “master” to “main.” No one on the t
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by gregjor 3y ago
Unix seems hard to learn because it started as a tool for experts, people who already understood the underlying concepts and had experience with other operating systems. Someone coming at Unix without some understanding of the fundamentals
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by gregjor 3y ago
"Devops," or system and infrastructure administration, should have the primary goal of creating reproducible steps to create, maintain, and diagnose servers and other assets. Part of reaching that goal is creating scripts, tools,
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by gregjor 3y ago
I would think the JVM requirement makes it a non-starter. But I could have it all wrong -- when it comes to "devops" no amount of unnecessary complexity and dependencies seem too much for some people. I use Go and bash scripting.
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by gregjor 3y ago
Paywalled. It starts with Notepad++ so you can probably imagine the rest.
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by gregjor 3y ago
I think of worry as not actionable. If I know eating too much chocolate that will affect my teeth I can take action and eat less chocolate. Simply worrying about it does no good. Idle worrying and talk, or online armchair second-guessing po
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by gregjor 3y ago
Tech stacks, languages, libraries come and go. No company has demand for more code. Employers want people who add value and solve problems. The software tools are incidental. You find jobs with the same skills that have always worked: - Goo
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by gregjor 3y ago
Back to my original comment in this thread… anything seems possible. But no amount of worrying or blog posts will affect those possible futures. So for me the most rational choice is not to worry about it. I prefer to reflect on what a Budd
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by gregjor 3y ago
Of course. I grew up in the '60s and '70s. I've been through something like this before, crawling under my desk at school and hearing about how the Soviet army was bigger than ours. If missiles launch then both sides get dama
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by gregjor 3y ago
I agree except I suspect the "ongoing political choice" you mention really comes down to ongoing dithering and failure to make a choice, in the USA. Everything from pronouns to COVID to Ukraine get turned into political footballs,

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