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by itamarst 9y ago
What's my motivation for accepting cryptocurrency in the first place? Real money is much easier to deal with.
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by itamarst 9y ago
Oh, and a story: Nasreddin was walking in the bazaar with a large group of followers. Whatever Nasreddin did, his followers immediately copied. Every few steps Nasreddin would stop and shake his hands in the air, touch his feet and jump up
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Spend some time with normal people. You're in a very highly paid profession in a very rich but highly unequal society. You're better off than most of the planet. You're better off than most of people in US. But if you only
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by itamarst 9y ago
You shouldn't be talking to people on Hacker News. You should be talking to construction firms, inspectors, etc..
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by itamarst 9y ago
The extra terrible thing is that this is completely counter-productive. E.g. see this takedown of crunch time by someone who works in the game industry: http://www.igda.org/?page=crunchsixlessons But this is a problem outsi
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by itamarst 9y ago
The video says bicyclist and shows a bent bicycle. So pedestrian or bicyclist?
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Take a long vacation. Spend some time talking to friends. 2. Figure out what you do want in a job. Personally I quite enjoy working, if it's the right work. But I still don't want to work 40 hours a week, so I work less when
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by itamarst 9y ago
Here's my checklist (originally included in an email sent out to my mailing list - https://softwareclown.com ): Understand the big picture direction of the organization, team, and product I’m working on: management, marketin
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by itamarst 9y ago
You have other options you can also try: 1. Try to get a raise at your current job. Are you being paid fairly, given experience and other people's salaries? 2. Try to switch to better paying job within your company. If you have additio
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by itamarst 9y ago
If you're interviewing for job I would not deflect; most of the time it will be legit "what kind of skills and knowledge do you have". And it's not like you were looking for contract anyway, if you get this vibe just ans
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by itamarst 9y ago
In addition to normal unit tests, you can write tests whose job is a warning to a human being "you are about to do something dangerous, are you sure?" With a way to say "yes I meant to do that" when necessary. Whereas un
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by itamarst 9y ago
Fastmail is very nice.
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Empathy, as April Wensel talks about a lot (e.g. https://medium.com/compassionate-coding/confessions-of-a-rec... ). You need this for everything from gathering requirements to debugging. 2. Ability to gather requirem
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Why you’re losing the battle for high-quality software(codewithoutrules.com)
4 points by itamarst 9y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 9y ago
Tools really only can help you so much. Productivity is a lot more about attitude and skills. The necessary attitude is that you are trying to avoid unnecessary work, instead of the more typical of attitude of trying to do all the work more
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How to lose technical arguments(codewithoutrules.com)
3 points by itamarst 9y ago|0 comments
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by itamarst 9y ago
Instead of spying on your employees, and measuring something that isn't likely to be their productivity, maybe figure out what you can do to motivate them or make their life easier: 1. Pay more. 2. Better UX/UI. etc.
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Know when to ask for help. Figure out task deadline in advance, set a timeout, ask for help if you haven't made progress in interim. (Longer version: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/12/07/asking-for-
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by itamarst 9y ago
There's two approaches: 1. 6-month contracts and the like, which you can via staffing companies like Randstad and Winter-Wyman ("contract staffing"). My impression this is rather like interviewing for a job twice a year. 2. L
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by itamarst 9y ago
It sounds like you've just had bad jobs. Measuring by 15 minute increments is crazy. It's quite possible to work sane hours (I even wrote a book about it: https://codewithoutrules.com/saneworkweek/ ). How abou
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by itamarst 9y ago
It's much more useful then Strunk & White in my opinion.
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by itamarst 9y ago
Read some good books on writing. https://www.amazon.com/Style-Lessons-Clarity-Grace-11th/dp/0... or older edition is quite good.
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by itamarst 9y ago
I learned enough just reading the free stuff to make a product with revenue. But yes.
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You don't. First you find a problem, then solve it. Go read everything on https://stackingthebricks.com/ (I've been there. Built a product. Talked to potential users to try to find a problem it would solve, they t
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Only code at work? That doesn’t make you a worse programmer(codewithoutrules.com)
29 points by itamarst 9y ago|23 comments
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by itamarst 9y ago
A wedding doesn't have to be a massive production. You can just have a party, with family and friends. You don't need special software, you don't need to spend huge amounts of money. Really.
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by itamarst 9y ago
You might be able to use that to both get a job and get a higher salary. 1. Have CV explain the skills you got out of it, without mentioning how much money you make. 2. Once you have an offer in hand, you can then use your income as a b
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by itamarst 9y ago
45-90 is recommended by typographers: https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html
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by itamarst 9y ago
Almost no one ever writes code correctly, in my experience. (I'm sure you can find studies on error rates, if you care.) Software engineers as a rule tend to write highly buggy code. Recent example from my own coding: I transcribed som
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by itamarst 9y ago
1. Base your idea on research. https://stackingthebricks.com has lots on this. But basically if instead of "I HAD AN IDEA" your process is "read read read read read WOAH these people have a PROBLEM", you have

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