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by jmfldn 5y ago
Jira in particular is everything I dislike in software. It's feature bloated, overly complex and yet, despite the overwhelming complexity, it's hard to shape to your needs very often. I want something much much simpler. Stick to
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Hah! You've just described my childhood, hacking autoexec.bat and config.sys to get games to work. Each game needed a different hack. Had no idea what I was doing back then, it was more a case of discovering the correct incantation unt
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I think over-specialisation is potentially dangerous so it's worth bearing in mind. Ideally I think a balance is necessary, have one or two areas you focus on and keep your other, perhaps less developed, skills sharp. This is why I&#x2
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Good questions. I'm not 100% sure, but currently I plan to be an engineer until I retire which I guess will be around 65. My goal will be to wind down later in my career though, work less than a 5 day week and go for contract / co
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The fact that most engineers are young is much more to do with the numbers in the profession doubling every five years in the last twenty years imho. If you were an engineer twenty years ago, there are now sixteen times more engineers. Your
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I think in some cases at least, this is an example of cargo culting ie. copying big tech without knowing why. Other reasons include resume driven development. Some devs, either inexperienced or plain poor experienced ones, like to entertai
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by jmfldn 5y ago
The importance of reading is as much about how it shapes your understanding as remembering discrete facts. I'm not necessarily great at recall of characters names in novels, or specific dates in history, but I'm quite good at abst
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My understanding of selection pressure in relation to viruses is something like viruses that escape the body's defences where those defences are strengthened. Eg if lots of people have antibodies triggered by a vaccine then it favours
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Sure I have no idea why the case was mild. This is just me saying "I seem to know a lot of vaccinated people who had mild cases". "it just seems to me that someone having caught it and had a very mild case wouldn't logic
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by jmfldn 5y ago
No idea, this is a deeply complex question that I'm not qualified to answer. I'm merely wondering out loud as a member of the public if we have our policy around this calibrated quite right.
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The point in my sharing this as 'anecdotal' is that this is my subjective view, and that from where I sit, these conclusions might follow but the correlation might be coincidental too. I.e maybe I avoided serious illness for some
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Yes someone thing like this. Exactly where we draw the line now is the hard question. I don't think we're massively off the mark but I feel we could be proceeding a bit more slowly is all. I'm not advocating the reverse gear
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Sure, it's anecdotal not proof and in no way scientific my self assessment. I've just noticed a trend amongst friends recently.
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Purely anecdotal but I'm double vaccinated (Astra Zeneca) and I caught Covid recently. It was probably Delta as 99% of cases in UK are. I know of quite a few vaccinated friends who've caught it recently too. Mainly AZ I think but
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by jmfldn 5y ago
We have this problem to some extent as well, but I've fought back pretty hard with some improvements having been made on my team. We have no meetings on Wednesdays and Fridays and also make as many meetings optional as we can. Time fra
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Yeah I'm with you on the 7am thing. I think sometimes you just had to admit that maybe the time doesn't work for you even though you want it to. I can't run without having been awake for at least one hour and being fairly wel
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I have a friend who's teaching me. I definitely recommend a teacher if you can get one. If not then apps can give you a little taste and take you somewhere for sure. I personally recommend Flowkey.
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Yep that's a fair comment! Generally week nights hence five nights. Always after dinner. Edited for clarity!
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Yeah true. My discipline isn't great so that's another reason for the modest initial goals. What drives me though is the sheer desire to do it. I don't do it through gritted teeth a lot of the time because I've cultivate
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I went from being a quite a bad procrastinator to making quite strong progress in running and learning the piano. One of the secrets was setting specific times to do these things such that I can't wriggle out. For example I run on Mond
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Bill Joy "Why the future doesn't need us" https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/amp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_The_Future_Doesn%27t_Need_... A very famous blog post b
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Could quantum AI make the earth a paradise?(thenextweb.com)
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Posting for discussion, not because I necessarily think this is serious. Strikes me as a fun thought expirement and also total sci fi. I'm sceptical about any tech utopian claims (or utopian claims generally) no matter how advanced thi
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I agree. I think it partly comes down to the extent to which they are apathetic about this though vs being actively aware of the wrong they feel they are doing. If somebody works on something that they personally believe is toxic and bad fo
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Perhaps, that's just been my impression at least in some cases I've seen. It has its valid usages I'm sure.
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Orthogonal often seems to be used in place of "unrelated" but deployed by the person to make what they're saying sound cleverer than it really is since they've used maths terminology!
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Sadly this sort of thing caught on in the UK too where the tidal wave of US corporate speak was impossible to hold back. It's rife in the tech sector and beyond. I find all of this sort of thing; "blue sky thinking", "to
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I just read the first chapter and wanted to say well done, this is great! This seems to exemplify the maxim that if you really understand something you can explain it clearly to a layman. I am that layman and I learnt a few things today! I
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by jmfldn 5y ago
Agree on most counts apart from the efficient communication angle. Purely anecdotal but I find that the number of meetings has grown significantly since constant WFH became the norm. In the past, most meetings required a meeting room wherea
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by jmfldn 5y ago
It's "literally" not TV. Pedantry-aside, YouTube clearly fits the bill as the TV replacement.

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