honkycat

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by honkycat 7y ago
I've worked with the overseas "talent" and if that is the best they can do, I'm not worried. Hell, I've worked with a lot of people on the US side of the pond who have experience or are educatied and they can't
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by honkycat 7y ago
I started using Typescript at work. It is so joyful to install a library, import it, and then to explore the API through my turbo-charged IDE thanks to the type-hints provided by the type files.
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by honkycat 7y ago
Yep, exactly. I went down this "trades are great!" rabbit hole a while ago because I had a cousin who had a friend telling him: "You can be making 6 figures in 5 years as an electrician!" I was surprised when I found out
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by honkycat 7y ago
Agreed, I would never recommend someone go to art school unless they are absurdly talented ( and at that point: The school would probably give you a scholarship. )
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by honkycat 7y ago
I think this trade school obsession is foolish. Everyone cargo-cults it as "pragmatic" without actually analyzing what the jobs entail and what you can actually expect to make. Statistically, you still earn way more with a degree
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by honkycat 7y ago
1. NEVER practice Coincidence driven development. If you get lost, and no longer know why something is not working, do not just keep fiddling and changing things. Simplify the problem. Disable all confounding variables and observe your chan
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by honkycat 7y ago
This isn't just preachy. It is ignorant and condescending. I'm very glad you have never experienced enough abuse in your life to the point that you had to cut someone out of your life. Maybe you should be listening to victims inst
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by honkycat 7y ago
Naw, Jim is a good guy. Uses inclusive language, I've never heard him say anything racist. The circles he runs in are all EXTREMELY progressive. In fact he actively advocates for gay and trans rights.
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by honkycat 7y ago
Agreed. That statement is one of those catty oft repeated things we are supposed to take as gospel for some reason. Personally: I spend ALL DAY typing. Configurations, code, documentation, tutorials, arguments for doing things one way or an
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by honkycat 7y ago
I'm not knocking Paul Graham or anyone who did well for themselves. But comparing your experience with that of Paul Graham, one of the richest people on the planet, is pointless. The wealthy live on a completely different PLANET than y
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by honkycat 7y ago
I picked up this book, wasn't a huge fan. The idea is great: teach mathematics in a way a computer programmer would understand. But the title is misleading. The premise that this book will teach you maths using your already existing pr
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by honkycat 7y ago
> Game devs don't simulate worlds for the fun of it. Unless you are Tarn Adams
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by honkycat 7y ago
Pokemon Or Micky Mouse
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by honkycat 7y ago
I think Joker put it well when it said: "The thing about mental illness is that people expect you to act like you do not have it." I have my own idiom: "If these people could be normal, they would chose to be normal." #1
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by honkycat 7y ago
It's not that they CAN be gamed. It is that they NEED to be gamed. They want you to want the position. They want you to explicitly study and prepare for the position. Sure you could go from zero to ready to interview Google over the co
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by honkycat 7y ago
I agree with that 100%. I am a voracious reader, I love software engineering and productivity and fiction and Syfy and nonfiction and... You get the idea. I have a previous comment on this site about reading. That is actually what I look fo
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by honkycat 7y ago
People REALLY hate college degrees on this site. I think my degree was a great decision. I've met a few decent self-taught programmers. Most are awful. Over and over again the bootcamp grads and people who have never attended school en
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by honkycat 7y ago
Same experience. People always say "Oh maybe they are smurfs, or just really good." No. Elite players are less common than hackers. And these people were actively cheating and not even pretending to not be cheating. Twitchy aiming
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by honkycat 7y ago
You could manufacture goods ( electronics, cars, etc. )in space, and then drop them onto Earth. Free shipping!
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by honkycat 7y ago
Yep. You just nailed my latest hiring experience. I moved on triumphantly from my previous programming job where I built a company's product from Greenfield to million a month with awesome performance and features. Other start-ups in m
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by honkycat 7y ago
I tried notion and coda, which are both AMAZING products and are vastly superior to Google docs. But I ended up back at Google docs. Everyone has it, simplifies sharing and planning vacations massively.
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by honkycat 7y ago
I was disgusted by myself when I was writing my year in review blog [0] last year, and discovered I had only read 20 books. So, I deleted my social media, and at this point I am at around 52 books, plus a bunch of abandoned books. Was a gre
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by honkycat 7y ago
In college, IRC chat rooms with bots serving books from an FTP server were a life saver. I don't think I bought 5 books throughout my entire college career. Me and my buddies also built a textbook scanner that saved us a ton of money.
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by honkycat 7y ago
I hate all of my jobs. Computer programming just doesn't seem worth it for 100-120k. I could work an easier job for a better money/bullshit ratio. My therapist is concerned. So am I. What if I don't fit in anywhere? I'm
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by honkycat 7y ago
Of course Apple bitched out, what else have they ever done? Acting like a revolutionary, counter culture company is one thing. Actually sticking it's neck out and doing something important is something completely different. Part of the
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by honkycat 7y ago
My friend, live in a podunk town for a while before you take that bargin xD Though, to be fair, there are a ton of awesome NON-podunk little towns that are a delight to live in.
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by honkycat 7y ago
Colleges put an ABSURDLY high price on the value of athletics and the "school pride" they bring. Does it actually improve the common student's education? Probably not. I assume the teams actually make money, since people woul
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by honkycat 7y ago
This is happening on my home town. The hospital has been scaling back more and more. What was once a thriving hospital now only has 3 doctors. Not due to demand, but because there are not enough doctors. Doctors do not want to live in a pod
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That is a feature, not a bug. Why would a well-paid, highly regulated profession allow people to come into their turf and undercut them? Not saying this is a GOOD thing. Merely pointing out that the system is working as intended.
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by honkycat 7y ago
No man is an island. And it is hard to know if you ARE "handling your own problems" when you do not seek other people's input. "Handling your own problems" a lot of the time means "making other people responsib

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