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by jrumbut 5y ago
One of the keys for me is to treat the interaction like a task, with a plan that you stick to, and to avoid being in the moment or thinking a lot about the big picture. Then you can just do the simple (but not easy) work of softly explainin
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by jrumbut 5y ago
In a nice work environment giving an estimate of 1 month is easy, but not always. A lot of managers have the bad habit of trying to negotiate estimates and it takes quite a bit of confidence and even stubborness to avoid telling someone wha
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Oh that's a good thought! I figured that would be factored into the "feels like" number on the weather forecast though?
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I've only ever done this style of interview and I've never hired someone who was downright awful. I also suspect it makes candidates more likely to accept because you can develop a bond and have a relatively enjoyable time in inte
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The person could have just learned to code in all that time spent watching conference Q&A sessions to con interviewers. This does seem to be the threat model many interview processes are meant to protect against though. I understand the
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I lived in a town in the Vermont mountains where it got to -40 (with very intense wind on top of that) occasionally and it felt qualitatively different than the positive single digit type cold that is more normal in Massachusetts. It was al
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I found it disappointing that the implants were largely security keys of one kind or another. One could put that in an earring or wristband. Under the skin offers very little advantage. I was hoping for implants that enhanced the body in so
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by jrumbut 5y ago
My mother had one of those, I also once borrowed my father's HP graphing calculator for a math test and quickly became unpopular because it beeped every time you hit the wrong key.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The discussion is the first 20 years of the 25 year process.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I don't have much of a view on what other people should do with themselves or how drugs ought to be controlled, I just wanted to throw out this fact I had seen before. An estimated 65% of people who inject heroin don't develop an
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The homepage shows a release from November. Hopefully some current Easel devs chime in. I took a look at the docs, it has an interesting approach to userinterface event handling and there seems to be some special "Screen Scraping"
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by jrumbut 5y ago
It's funny I am at a place where there is no chat and my productivity has never been higher and I've never been futher away from burning out. I go entire days without an unscheduled mental context switch. We're slowly going b
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The reason I feel compelled to express my crypto-skepticism is that I see well organized efforts to convert some or all of our financial system to crypto and I think that could be disasterous. It's tiresome to discuss and HN doesn&#x27
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by jrumbut 5y ago
But very few interesting real world objects can be consistently described across different pieces of software like a Point can, which is where it ties into the article.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
> "Data abstraction is impossible." That's an amazing point. It explains where the object oriented proponents of decades past went wrong in thinking there would be vendors for "Car" or "Employee" object
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by jrumbut 5y ago
It's not as good, especially for Github. GH also breaks down the results into types which is very helpful when you only want code or are looking for documentation or discussion.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Recently I've just punted and begun searching SO and Github directly. One thing Google has gotten really good at lately is knowing that when I search for "John Smith" I mean John Smith the baseball player not the video game c
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The few I went to 10ish years ago had something of a party atmosphere. Free beer and pizza, and the winner was the one with funniest presentation. Imagine my surprise when they started showing up on new graduates' resumes, eventually I
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Probably the best information those users can give you is why they still use your product if they hate so much about it. I think it's possible we've become so focused on being gracious about receiving negative feedback that positi
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by jrumbut 5y ago
When he said "now subtract the two 4 digit numbers" I felt a whole room full of eyes glaze over.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Depends what the failure mode is. To date the only light switch downtime I've had was related to power outages and bulb failures.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a few organizations had run major experiments over the years, with results never seeing the light of day. It would also be great if there was more awareness of the kind of data the research community needs so
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by jrumbut 5y ago
The use of students in place of professionals would have gone as #3 in my list if I had thought of it, thank you for adding it. Generalizing from studies where all participants were students is one of the things that psychology and the soci
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I see a couple of other issues, which share a root cause. 1. A lot of research is based on mining open source projects which bear little resemblance to how software engineering is done behind closed doors. 2. Very few prospective trials (mu
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I had it for a class in college and it was an absolute nightmare for me. This was from someone well known in mastery learning so I don't think it was poor implementation. The only thing I learned was empathy for people who struggle tha
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Is this keyboard sold anywhere? It looks really cool but the same hand problems that make it appealing make assembly completely impractical.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Just paying a clerk eliminates the risk of a software development project blowing out the budget or alienating customers used to the convenience of ordering by email. If whatever that company does is meaningful the poster contributed the sa
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Can not recommend this advice enough, it should be on billboards and read out yearly to every high school student.
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by jrumbut 5y ago
Being in a situation where you only have yourself to blame, when you can't say "oh if only I didn't have these coworkers and that boss and my family and everything else holding me back (holding you up, really)," it'
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by jrumbut 5y ago
I came in at "golden layout" and I still don't understand what was golden about it.

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