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by koinedad 4y ago
Super cool!
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by koinedad 4y ago
Clear communication is not easy…
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by koinedad 4y ago
This was me as well, albeit the company asked me to time box the take home test to 1 hour, which I think is fairly reasonable.
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by koinedad 4y ago
What are you passionate about? Might be able to find an overlap or related field that you enjoy. For me, an interesting problem-space and hardworking/friendly coworkers can go a long way.
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by koinedad 4y ago
Yeah there’s definitely different types of hard things that don’t fit this
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How to learn hard things in tech(technicallychallenged.substack.com)
96 points by koinedad 4y ago|36 comments
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by koinedad 4y ago
I usually write in a quiet place while I’m thinking. Then read again, edit, etc. Then practice out loud what I’ve written a bunch of times
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by koinedad 4y ago
I use Siri on my iPhone a good amount, and recently made a Shortcut that reads the page that I am on. Usually I use triple click accessibility setting to read a page/article to me (or even kindle book). You just need to learn a few ges
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by koinedad 4y ago
I am in a similar boat. Thought it could be interesting to code in VR but the clunkiness of the whole setup (keyboard pass-through is limited) and the text resolution have held me back from trying and real work on my quest 2.
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by koinedad 4y ago
Yes, and no. Kids can help be a great motivator as well and help you to be more focused when you need to be. And they are just a lot of fun (especially when they get a little older and start talking/running around).
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by koinedad 4y ago
No but that's a good one as well! It was 3D Touch, where the screen actually had pressure sensitivity built into it.
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My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement(technicallychallenged.substack.com)
432 points by koinedad 4y ago|359 comments
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by koinedad 4y ago
I am a SWE in CA with 5 kids and no family support. We make it work…it’s hard but we have each other. Europe seems very different than US/CA for SWE so there’s likely a trade off there as well. One suggestion is to maybe focus on build
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by koinedad 5y ago
I just noticed this last week myself, super cool. I have a small script I wanted to run on a local raspberry pi and this worked great
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by koinedad 5y ago
I definitely can relate! As was mentioned above I think building something you can use yourself daily (or regularly) helps. When I my side project that’s where o get excited about continuing to develop it. And as you mentioned in your post