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by mamoswined 9y ago
Also another thing is when Github changed its licensing model it really hurt those of us working on small budgets like at non-profits or in education. https://venturebeat.com/2016/05/11/github-changes-pricing
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by mamoswined 9y ago
I agree with this, also another issue with Github's dominance is silly recruiters now think a github profile is the best way to evaluate candidates. Sucks for those of us who use self-hosted revision control, Gitlab, or Bitbucket at wo
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by mamoswined 9y ago
I was so Alice for much of my career. I know this is going to sound totally cliche because this book get's recommended everywhere, but How to Win Friends and Influence People really did help me.
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by mamoswined 9y ago
I was shocked when I got my vitamin D levels analyzed a couple of years ago. Yeah I work inside most of the time, like most programmers, but I also walk to work and easily get 10000 steps a day, so I thought I'd be OK. Nope, guess it w
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by mamoswined 9y ago
OK looks like they may put the archives back up https://twitter.com/andylocal/status/926226031081672709 the fact this is so ham-handed might mean the regular IT employees weren't part of it? I can't reme
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by mamoswined 9y ago
Ex Ist employee here. It's strange because why not keep it up and collect ad revenue? I've written for a fair number of publications that are now defunct and almost all still have their websites up because of ad revenue.
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by mamoswined 9y ago
I was an editor at Chicagoist for over a year and am also a web developer. I am assisting some fellow employees with getting their stuff downloaded, luckily a lot of it is safe on Wayback Machine. You'd be surprised how many didn'
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by mamoswined 11y ago
For a short time I took notes using my phone and the reaction to that was interesting to me. People just assumed I was texting and not paying attention. With a laptop in the US you can be browsing Facebook and at least look to other people
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by mamoswined 11y ago
That was me. I came into programming via tech support rather than computer science. I liked playing games. I lacked the home environment or support to really do very well in high school, but once I was on my own, having that tech support jo
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by mamoswined 11y ago
I think one of the reasons sexism in tech gets so much press is paradoxically because developers/project managers/etc. are in such high demand. You can quit and write a Medium post about how awful your job was and still be able to
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by mamoswined 11y ago
Honestly having been a "female developer" for 10+ years my main thought on the subject of being that is it's just a job. And it's a job that's really not for everyone. I've tried to sell a lot of people I'
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by mamoswined 11y ago
It's interesting because I and most other female developers I know got into programming like this. When I try to sell it to other women I know who are looking for a better line of work, I think this is the biggest obstacle for them. Th
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by mamoswined 11y ago
Being female, and a developer, and having worked in several other fields, I think people overestimate the sexism in tech and underestimate it elsewhere. I'm ashamed to say I was one of the "who needs feminism?" women in my la
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by mamoswined 11y ago
Not a multi hour one though. My first programming job interview was 6 hours and I had no idea that was even a thing. Now I inform places I'm interviewing "Hey I am taking 1.5 hours vacation/PTO whatever, so I need to be back
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by mamoswined 11y ago
And some people who aren't going to do well on verbal questions but who can code.
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by mamoswined 11y ago
Not for those of us who have experienced the pain of terrible management and burnout caused by this. The last search I did I was also working 50 hours a week under very poor project management. I had to rule out any prospects that involved
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by mamoswined 11y ago
Yeah I ignore jobs that ask for these screens. I've spent a lot of time on them and then not heard anything. When I'm adding to my own team I would rather talk to them about code than have them do these screens. It's more hol
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by mamoswined 12y ago
I kind of want to try this with someone from a gender I'm not sexually attracted to who is also not sexually attracted to my gender. I'm assuming we'd just end up closer friends.
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by mamoswined 12y ago
I work in academia and I have job security and full benefits. I can't work on projects like this all the time though. I'm responsible for more generalized infrastructure like webservers, but when I have free time I'm welcome
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by mamoswined 12y ago
As a self-professed "boring" programmer, I think a lot times I'm extra useful on a team because I don't expect my work to be a fun puzzle and I'm willing to take on things that aren't much like a puzzle, but ar
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by mamoswined 12y ago
Yeah, it really is so individual. I lost a lot of weight on keto but overshot and ended up kind of underweight for a bit simply because I find meat and cheese so filling.
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by mamoswined 12y ago
I live in what I feel is a very desirable area (West Town) and have a 2 bedroom for $1100 (it was 1000 two years ago).
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by mamoswined 12y ago
Without using a monitor, a potential test would be to look at flowers like Rudbeckias(in real life of course) that have evolved to have patterns that tetrachromat insects can see. If you can see these patterns, you may be a tetrachromat.
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by mamoswined 12y ago
If Uber or another service worked with these accessible taxis, it would be a true game changer. Yes, some local taxi services allow you to request wheelchair accessible cars, but you are going to often wait a very long time for them (if the
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by mamoswined 12y ago
As someone who is disabled, it truly enables me to have more mobility than I ever have had. I find it truly disturbing when people equate taxis with these services. For those of us who aren't as able to run around hailing cabs or waiti
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by mamoswined 12y ago
At the University of Illinois there is centrally-heated steam that's used to heat many buildings http://www.dailyillini.com/features/greeks_and_campus/articl... Every building was always super warm in the win
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by mamoswined 12y ago
This cold winter in Chicago I tried an experiment where during the day I just heated one room with an electric space heater (a Vornado) and let the rest of the house get to 50 F. It ended up saving me exactly $1 because turns out electricit
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by mamoswined 12y ago
Your body has a "set point" that is resistant to this kind of disruption. If you gradually increase calories and do it regularly, that's how you gain weight. I remained slim despite eating some very rich restaurant meals ever
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by mamoswined 12y ago
You don't have to be low class to have a lower-status job. Lower-status jobs are just jobs that are lower paid and not as desirable to have. I grew up poor in the Deep South, my boss comes from a persecuted minority culture, and some o
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by mamoswined 12y ago
"she was young so the role was a stepping stone into a very different position" In the old days the secretary position was a vocation in itself. Now I see two types of people: - someone who actually wants to do something else. Th

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