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by justrudd 4y ago
I generally like to think I'm a rather calm individual. It takes quite a bit to get me flustered. But let me tell you, I have had a couple of FBI agents show up at my door. And when I saw those badges, even though I know I've not
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by justrudd 4y ago
I was talking with my sister a couple of days ago, and we started talking about being alone. She is an extrovert’s extrovert. When things were locked down for her, she got really, really depressed. At one point, she didn’t even care if she
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by justrudd 5y ago
I don’t. Which is why I like living near strategic target areas. Ups my odds of dying in the initial blast vs. the slow death of radiation poisoning or starving :) Edit: fixed a word
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by justrudd 5y ago
Haha! I worked on a dairy farm in my youth. Cows also don't care about what days off your government says you should have. Kids have a recital in the afternoon? Better have someone there to milk the cows. Woke up with a tooth ache? bet
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by justrudd 5y ago
I was a 63 being considered for 64 during my time at Microsoft. I loved it. Great W/L balance. Interesting work. Great coworkers. Was really looking to make that a long term gig. But my org got disbanded, and I got rolled into Mobile (
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by justrudd 5y ago
Reminds me of the time I went out to a draft for a softball league and got picked up as the token man. All my teammates played D2 softball together. I always thought I was a reasonably good rec league player. But that team was something els
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by justrudd 5y ago
Hm…I don’t know. It would explain why so many of the meetups seem to be more like sponsored “come check out our venue” type things (the wine tasting I did definitely was). There are some legitimate ones in there, but it took a long time to
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by justrudd 5y ago
Unfortunately my school was closed due to COVID. And it was one of those that couldn’t weather the time closed. I’m going to pick it back up, and go into it realizing that Fred Astaire I ain’t :)
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by justrudd 5y ago
I recommend a Kickball league. Less “bro” types for the most part. Although to be fair, my league had this one team that everyone hated because they were super serious. But the rest of us all got along great.
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by justrudd 5y ago
> […] I don’t want to meet people like me How do you know they’re like you? How do you know all the single guys there are just looking to hook up or find girlfriends? How do you know all the aging, unattractive women are just looking for
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by justrudd 5y ago
Not really. But if I start doing a major refactoring while working on a new feature, I’ll generally cut a new branch, move the refactoring over to it, and do a PR of just the refactoring. That makes it easier for the reviewer to only have t
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by justrudd 5y ago
Mentally: I have a therapist that I talk to once a month no matter what. Even if I don’t have anything really going on in my life, it is a good check-in. Through a monthly conversation, I can usually cut off falling into historically bad p
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by justrudd 5y ago
YMMV - but I’ve had 2 wordpress blogs on Linode for 14 years now. I’ve spun up (and spun down) 3 different companies on Linode (all monoliths using Postgres, Memcached and Redis). I’ll be with them as long as I can. During this time, I can
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by justrudd 5y ago
I’m running EKS in us-west-2. My pods use a role ARN and identity token file to get temporary credentials via STS. STS can’t return credentials right now. So my EKS cluster is “down” in the sense that I can’t bring up new pods. I only notic
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by justrudd 5y ago
Reminds me of a place I worked 7 or 8 years ago? The CEO was big on the “I’m just one of you” trope. They had a cubicle the same as everyone else. They dropped their bag off every morning, had pictures, a couple of plants, etc. But… There w
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by justrudd 5y ago
If I may, what industry do you work in that needs this level of collaboration and such a quick turnaround on it? I agree with you that it can be nice. But in thinking back on my career, I’ve never been in an industry that needed it (beyond
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by justrudd 5y ago
Like Java NIO select? Lot to ask for 4 hours if you aren’t familiar with the API of NIO
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by justrudd 5y ago
That’s awesome. I wish I could cut at the same time. But alas my old man body has 3 modes - cut, maintain, or build. And never will the 3 overlap. But I’m past the point of worrying about it. I’ll never get rid of that last 3 or 4% body fat
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by justrudd 5y ago
I don’t believe it is in the books. I’d have to dig out the blue book and verify. But I think most of it comes from Rippetoe himself - forums, seminars, YouTube, etc. For example, I went to one of his seminars in 2008 (I think. It’s been a
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by justrudd 5y ago
I think Dan John said it best (and I can’t recall nor find which essay he said it in) - “everybody needs to squat. But not everybody needs to squat heavy”.
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by justrudd 5y ago
I’d always ask “How much are you eating?”
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by justrudd 5y ago
I’m sure you’ve heard of it, but for others - check out powerbuilding. It is the combination of power lifting and body building. https://www.nifs.org/blog/powerbuilding-the-middle-ground-be...
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by justrudd 5y ago
I’ll give you my 2 cents about Starting Strength. And please remember this is a sample size of n = 1. Other people (including yourself) will obviously have very different outcomes. TL;DR - starting strength got me to the strongest I’ve ever
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by justrudd 5y ago
Does your calendar get cluttered? I use iOS Reminders to track things like “Every month on the 1st Saturday run the cleaning cycle on my washing machine”. And I’ve got 23 recurring todos like this. Feel like these kinds of things would clut
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by justrudd 5y ago
I agree with you. I generally don’t hold anything back in my 1:1, skip level 1:1, etc. But if you’ve communicated effectively, it makes no difference to rehash it to HR on the way out the door. HR, usually, doesn’t care. And I’ve left posit
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by justrudd 5y ago
Usually say it with more tact, but it is along the lines of - “Yes. I’m a professional new guy. I’ve seen and worked on a lot of different types of technology, and I come up to speed quickly. I’m not afraid to ask ‘dumb’ questions when I ca
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by justrudd 5y ago
“Strong opinions loosely held”. I learned this at about the 15 year mark of my career. Made the next 10 much easier.
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by justrudd 5y ago
Depends on the company you’re interviewing with and (IME) region you’re looking for work. In my 26 years since graduating university, I’ve had 13 jobs. So an average of 1.8 years per job. My longest was 6 years at Amazon (ironically enough
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by justrudd 5y ago
I’ll bite :) If you look at my productive hours for the month, I would say I’m pretty close to 1:1 hours at home vs. hours in an office. If you look at my hours on a day by day basis? Definitely give less of my hours to my employer than I d
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by justrudd 5y ago
A bit ago, I did what is called Simple and Sinister. It is kettlebell training that only has 2 moves - swings and get ups. I would do it first thing in the morning after I woke up. I could be done in 30 minutes or less. It was good for gett

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