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by matt_s 9y ago
Desired marketing targets is exactly what Twitch and eSports target. 18-54 year old males. Your high rise might have a few thousand people in it, there are bound to be many that play video games and maybe watch streamers. There is a stigm
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I think about 25 was when was on the cusp of a series of job moves/promotions in the next 5 years. I would imagine a lot of 25yo might be in the same spot (or not - whatever this is my anecdote). Keep your cost of living the same when
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by matt_s 9y ago
I used this some time ago and had a problem with cross-platform access and database corruption with copying it. Have you seen any issues with that?
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This used to be indicated by version numbers: - 0.x = version in some beta/alpha/unstable state - 1.x = version in somewhat stable/complete state
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Wegmans is also privately owned so there aren't "activist" shareholders that want hockey-stick growth.
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I'd second the Head First Design Patterns. The style of writing is light and fun. There are definitely concepts about abstraction, etc. that may take a while to grok and the different approaches help.
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A couple things to combat some of these: - When interviewing for a new role, interview the people you will work with and ask questions about the company. Interview them. Discovering during interviews that an employer or co-workers aren&#x
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Regarding instrumentation and logging - this can also be used to identify areas of the codebase that can possibly be retired. If it is a legacy application, there are likely areas that aren't used any longer. Don't focus on test
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As with any trendy technology or architecture approach, you should first be asking "What problem are we trying to solve?" That's where the discussion should start. Better yet if that is a business problem, then dive into tec
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One perspective in the article was about productivity and some belief that professional business attire had fewer distractions, so in theory helped productivity. After working 20 years in a large corporate environment where you could and I
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by matt_s 9y ago
I'm with ya on this. Although I mostly work on back-end, it seems like a lot of the front-end frameworks have many layered requirements to just use them. Things like compilers, build tools, etc. just to use the framework. If you are s
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SO shouldn't be used as a gauge of popularity of a language or framework. Well established languages/frameworks will not see a lot of new questions being posted there since they have an established set of answers. Newer framewor
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You have to compare IKEA furniture to other DIY assemble furniture. Some manufacturers are catching up but IKEA's instructions are super simple to follow and are correct. I've had multiple pieces of DIY furniture where there were
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I really don't get the US hating all Asians part. Where does that come from? Many of the cold war era wars were proxy wars with Russia to stop the spread of communism. A natural place for that to occur was where Russia was attempting
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From my readings of CIA memoirs and spy novels, CIA Agents (aka sources or informants) are really foreign people reporting information to the CIA Officers which are US Government employees. If these were US government workers reporting secr
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by matt_s 9y ago
If you are writing software, learn design patterns and create some example application using them to really understand where they fit. Doesn't really matter what language - object oriented one would obviously work best. There are als
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by matt_s 9y ago
The part about time being limited (you can't create more) and knowing where to spend yours also applies to career choices. Like the title, slow down and think about it. A move up a ladder from an engineer to manager may not be somethi
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by matt_s 9y ago
The subject of the hacking (aka copying docs to a CD in this case) was certainly hacker news. The CNN mainstream news was that she is being released from prison and she wants to grow her hair. Okay. My opinion is that this isn't real
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Ah, I RTFArticle now. She stole documents (digitally I presume) and was tried and convicted a while ago. This seems like mainstream TV news, not really Hacker News.
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To find intriguing news about software, startups and related topics of geekery.
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Oh my mistake. Maybe it should be renamed to "News, commented on by hackers"
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Why is this on Hacker news?
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We lease 1 car because it will be under warranty. All scheduled maintenance is included - oil changes, tire rotations, etc. That's probably a few hundred over 3 years. Tires and brakes aren't so we have to keep an eye on those
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by matt_s 9y ago
As others have said, when buying having an agent is a no brainer since it is no cost to you and they can coordinate multiple showings where you just literally show up. How many phone calls with the realtor or owners does it take to get tha
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The whole basis of stack overflow is asking questions about things you don't know or understand and mostly about open source software. "Tracking interest in programming languages and technologies" based on that premise means
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You need to understand what your definition of success is, this may take a while to formulate and will also change over time. If you want to be more involved with business side functions then knowing different personality types and how to
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I was more referring to the repetitive nature of CRUD apps and how work sort of repeats at a high level but details are different enough that it feels a little repetitive. Also keeping tests isolated tends to lead to repetition since you do
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One thing to consider is if the programmer "owns" the code through deployment into production. If that is the case then the focus is working software not LOC or story points or velocity or tickets closed. It's much better to
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I've found, in recently returning to writing software as the main role, that I spend more time thinking about what to write and maybe doodling out some diagram-like pictures then actually typing characters. Now that may be different if
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Interesting point of view from the labor side. I wonder if there is a bit of technological curve the US doesn't have as well in design and setup of manufacturing facilities. let alone the machines that make machines.

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