heisnotanalien

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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
If you work on a team then you end up talking about rather than actually doing stuff quite a lot. Often people talk to show they know stuff rather than actually producing results. Quite often it can just devolve into a battle of egos. Even
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
It's not good for teens or people before 25. Again you're trying to be silly when a serious discussion is what is required.
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
I don't necessarily think it's unwise as such but I think it's good to clear and honest with your intentions. If you're doing it for status then be honest with yourself about it.
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
Do you just want to work at FAANG to gain a modicum of status in your peer group or are you actually inspired by what they do?
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
Meditation to develop single-point concentration.
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
Why would work not be getting done? It's just a weed stereotype. Some people are inspired or more productive after smoking.
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
It's not play if you're doing it for such reasons. To do it for play means just to do it for the activity itself with no ulterior motive (including career growth). Similar to kicking a ball against a wall - you do it because it&#x
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by heisnotanalien 4y ago
Stick to the basics, make it fast, ignore what the PM has to say, and avoid feature-bloat.
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by heisnotanalien 5y ago
I agree with everything you said but for the problem then simply becomes how do we do all that but do it remotely? Like why not just encourage more social chat? Have lunch on Zoom etc
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by heisnotanalien 5y ago
What do you mean unmatched even among large cloud providers? AWS doesn't innovate fast?
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by heisnotanalien 5y ago
Find a programming language you actually like and want to use rather than what will be popular for this is the way to true happiness. You don't want to have to code javascript just because it's popular.
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by heisnotanalien 5y ago
I follow people whose reviews I like.
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by heisnotanalien 5y ago
If it's not broken, why fix it? I go to goodreads for the high-quality book reviews and community. I literally don't care about UX or fancy algorithms. I'd rather use an old algorithm called 'talking to someone I know&#x
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I hate how programming has become just another business process
9 points by heisnotanalien 6y ago|14 comments
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by heisnotanalien 6y ago
There is always Medium for the 200 things I do every morning for a happy and productive life type of stuff.
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by heisnotanalien 6y ago
Because instead of fixing genuine problems and making it easier people invent new languages and frameworks to do things in their own way.
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by heisnotanalien 6y ago
What you call goofing off playing video games others call research.
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by heisnotanalien 6y ago
Funny because in my experience people are good at math tend to like playing games. At a certain level, every game is math after all.
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by heisnotanalien 6y ago
I find it so curious you think of something like a marathon as Type 2 activity. For me it's the supreme Type 1 activity. As in when I am running there is nothing else I'd rather be doing even with the pain etc.
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by heisnotanalien 7y ago
Go to a real world park instead.
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by heisnotanalien 7y ago
Everyone is already a phone head. Can't say I am looking forward to everyone being a VR head.
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by heisnotanalien 7y ago
Good. Let's hope it stays down and the world will be a better place.
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
You write tests not only to hopefully catch bugs but so that you can change the software reliably significantly in future and not lose forward momentum.
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
The whole Lenovo page just feels tacky to me.
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
Pro-tip: if you're going to market a high-end laptop then don't make the marketing/landing page look like a cheap knockoff with bad copywriting. Apple is the only one who gets this right.
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
So basically no?
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
It might be great but it's still ugly.
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
Well that's a nice change!
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
I am guessing it doesn't have Cloudformation support? So I have to spin up instances manually and this is 'generally available' for production use?
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by heisnotanalien 8y ago
I remember when I'd read genuinely thoughtful posts on Livejournal. There would be no stupid memes, no instagram style selfies, no ad spam, just people in my city or from across the world, reflecting on their life.

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