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by mattm 16y ago
Watch the Facebook movie "The Social Network" for an example of this.
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by mattm 16y ago
Something I learned teaching English in China. People who learn English as a second language and whose native language doesn't use latin letters have an extremely difficult time reading words in ALL CAPITALS. I was amazed when I gave a clas
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by mattm 16y ago
>> The same people ... don't understand why someone is uncomfortable writing a program on a whiteboard or, even worse, over the phone Exactly. I loathe whiteboard interview questions. In five years of programming, how many times h
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by mattm 16y ago
One of the lessons I've learned in life is that there are some people that will impress you very much when you first meet them. They will talk a lot about how much they're doing and what's going on for them and it will sound very impressiv
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by mattm 16y ago
What about people that haven't used much Perl but can pick up languages quickly? Do you look for people like that or do they get screened out because they have little to no Perl experience?
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by mattm 16y ago
You didn't really fail because you learned more about yourself and where you work best.
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by mattm 16y ago
I've quit a few jobs. In my experience, when you're thinking about quitting and asking other people if you should quit, then it's time to quit. I have tried to stick it out before and I wish I had just quit instead of trying to work throu
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by mattm 16y ago
Parkinson's Law - work expands (or contracts) to fill the time available for its completion. When I was teaching English, for one class, I gave groups a human-slide puzzle activity. A group of 8 were given a number from 1-8 and arranged ra
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by mattm 16y ago
Interesting. I have never heard of this technique. I prefer working in 3 x 45 mins blocks. At 25 mins, I'm just getting into things.
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by mattm 16y ago
A reason not to start marketing right away: - You may pick the wrong people to market to and they convince you to abandon your project While this may save you some time, the people may just have convinced you to stop work on a valuable prod
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by mattm 16y ago
I have also heard other accounts as well but yeah, it's probably bad to draw conclusions based on a couple people's accounts. However, despite their size, large companies do generally seem to be quite uniform in their culture.
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by mattm 16y ago
Yeah, I remember talking to a friend who wanted to get into game development. I told him that the gaming industry has a bad reputation for making people work long hours for relatively low pay and a lot of stress. His reply - "I don't care.
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by mattm 16y ago
I've come to enjoy using Zend Framework.
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by mattm 16y ago
I have no inside knowledge of EA but from reading this and the EA Spouse letter in the past, I'm amazed EA can actually deliver any software.
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by mattm 16y ago
Thanks Patrick. My girlfriend is from Gifu and I have been entertaining the thought of moving there next year. I'm actually surprised that living expenses are higher than I thought. Those numbers are pretty similar to what I spend living
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by mattm 16y ago
Assuming English is your native language and you're white* it should be easy to find work teaching english. You won't make a lot of money but it will allow you to live comfortably and save money for travel. You can find a school that will
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by mattm 16y ago
I accepted a job at a company where, during the interview, one of the interviewers said "we are looking for someone who can do work fast, good and cheap and we don't want any excuses." I was thinking of bringing up the point that it is impo
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by mattm 16y ago
I've only done freelancing on and off yet I've been approached a number of times exactly like this. Client hired someone that would work for cheap and now the project is only half done, poking around for a few minutes reveals a handful of
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by mattm 16y ago
A friend of mine flew back home to Canada. After clearing customs, he was one of the random people chosen to have their luggage inspected. He had his laptop on him and the customs agent booted up the computer, asked him to enter his passw
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by mattm 16y ago
Reminds me of the scene from the movie "American Beauty". After he gets laid off from his soul-sucking office job, Kevin Spacey's character applies at a fast-food burger joint saying "I want a job with the least amount of responsibility."
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by mattm 16y ago
If you are under 60, chances are you are paying disproportionately more in healthcare than you are getting. But this is how it goes. A large percentage of your lifetime's healthcare spending occurs in the last 6-12 months of your life. Gi
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by mattm 16y ago
A pretty good list of rules to go by. Also I think it's important to have a look at the system which enabled the person to make the mistake. One story a former colleague told me about a former workplace. The company would issue commission
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by mattm 16y ago
Like you have discovered, a class needs to go at the pace of the average learner. If you are a person who can learn at an above average pace, classes will only slow you down.
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by mattm 16y ago
>> I wrote at home, in the mornings, in three separate, highly focused 90 minute sessions. By the time I finished the last one, I was usually exhausted — physically, mentally and emotionally. I ate lunch and then took a 20 to 30 min
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by mattm 16y ago
I've heard one definition of a wife being "a women who trades sex for money but to only one man." I can't say I disagree with it entirely.
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by mattm 16y ago
I think there is some truth to that. When I am new to an existing codebase, in under an hour of reading code I can gauge the experience level of the coder. Of course, a tiny snippet of code would not be as useful.
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by mattm 16y ago
I'm interested in knowing the typical hiring process you go through when looking for work if you don't do any of these. Do you only offer to write code on the spot then to back up your experience?
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by mattm 16y ago
>> The fact that the CEO will often pull code off the internet and say we should use it shows me that respect is not really there. Holy crap!
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by mattm 16y ago
Software development can never truly be waterfall or agile. The best development always lies somewhere in between. If the process were only waterfall, the project would never even be started because all the specs would take forever to writ
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by mattm 16y ago
Would you say Stephen King or other writers are also not doing anything? What about teachers?

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