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by mb_72 12y ago
Wow, no more work will be getting done here today. Thanks, looks like a great collection of collections of information.
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by mb_72 12y ago
The Clark Terry quote "Imitate, assimilate, innovate" might have been intended for jazz musicians, but it's appropriate for any creative endeavour including programming. Nobody gets to 'innovate' without spending a
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by mb_72 12y ago
Yes, personally I wouldn't go that far - but at the same I would never use Uber as management do, at the least, sound like jerks. I think this is an entirely reasonable position drawn on evidence presented across multiple media reports
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by mb_72 12y ago
The first job I worked had each office shared by two developers; this seemed to provide a good balance between 'quiet time' and having someone close by you could bug (assuming they didn't look busy) to discuss something. In m
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by mb_72 12y ago
My Estonian relatives say otherwise, and were glad to see the backs of your unwanted 'comrades' in the early 90s. Amusingly some Russians still hold to the 'we were liberating Estonia from the hands of the Nazis, you should b
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by mb_72 12y ago
I've been programming for a couple of decades commercially, and for three decades overall, and I've found that whether you use or don't use a particular code 'style' matters little for readability and maintenance p
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by mb_72 12y ago
I lived in a country town in South Australia in the early 80s, and without the local Tandy (Oz brand of RS) I wouldn't have got into electronics or software, both of which now are my main source of income and also a source of a hell of
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by mb_72 12y ago
My public Linked In profile mentions in the first line that recruiters are NOT to contact me for any reason; if they do so, then I feel no remorse in responding rudely. 99% of IT-type recruiters are untalented jerks making a living from the
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by mb_72 12y ago
I work from home now, but in my days in an office I adopted the following system - a small box on my desk with a green tick on one side and a red cross on the other. Green tick = I can be interrupted at any time, red cross = please interrup
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by mb_72 12y ago
This editor addresses my need for something simple but 'programmy' - I develop Xamarin Mac apps on OSX and have been frustrated not finding anything I like that is between TextEdit and Xamarin Studio in functionality and useabilit
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by mb_72 12y ago
Yes ... I'm in the same boat, however the 'core' of my app I developed as a PCL, the substantial part of developing for which I spend time in VS and using Resharper. Xamarin Studio is pretty OK, but VS is damn good to develop
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by mb_72 12y ago
Making such generalisations is dangerous; for example, suicide when one is terminally ill and in terrible pain could be seen by many as the sensible thing to do.
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by mb_72 13y ago
I was expecting this might be a polarising comment, hence some up and down-voting. There's too much back-patting here on YC, IMO, when people are claiming to be what they are not, or when they write some article about how they 'ha
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by mb_72 13y ago
"I’m still dealing with a bit of impostor syndrome and it still sounds weird when I tell people I’m a software engineer..." That's because you aren't a software engineer, and if you are saying so then the feelings of bei
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by mb_72 13y ago
In my experience - and from what I've seen in my subsequent frustrated research - Google Drive struggles with large files. I had a 9Gb VM that I split into 2GB pieces, and I still couldn't get one piece uploaded in a 24-hour perio
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by mb_72 13y ago
C# will be around 'forever'. It's robust, well-supported, well-documented, and with Mono / Xamarin works across many platforms (including iOS and Android). I haven't experienced inherent memory leaks as you have des
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by mb_72 13y ago
IBM Model M from May 1987 that I've had since the early 90s. I guess this makes me a) old and b) in possession of a keyboard manufactured before many posting on HN were born!
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by mb_72 13y ago
Yes, and AFAIK (after discovering this issue just now myself and trying to resolve it) there is no 'solution' other than to re-download everything if you move your Google Drive folder.Fortunately I have 'only' 6Gb to re-
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by mb_72 13y ago
Not to mention 'Drive' / file storage is a much more fundamental and 'core' service than those Google has shut down.
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by mb_72 13y ago
This. Swapping my mouse-hand a few times a day solved all RSI problems for me. I don't swap the buttons though. :)
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by mb_72 13y ago
I'm so glad you mentioned that. Why? Because in the post you were replying to the author missed the (important) point that not all people who have access to the three ingredients listed will become equally good programmers. In fact, he
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by mb_72 13y ago
I would be wary about being completely open and honest about such things at exit interviews. There is nothing to gain for the ex-employee personally at that point in time, and everything to lose by 'burning bridges'. You never kno
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by mb_72 13y ago
People become acclimatised to 'new wealth'. One thing I learned from life experience, and then actually understood after studying Buddhist philosophy, is that it's very easy to enter a repetitive cycle of desire, some achieve
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by mb_72 13y ago
Self-publishing has been around for more or less as long as there has been books. Personally, I hope it doesn't become 'mainstream' otherwise every Tom, Dick and Harry who thinks they can write will be churning out their own
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by mb_72 13y ago
The way I see it you've already proven yourself to some degree before you even apply. 99% of your experience has been acquired, 99% of your projects have been done, 99% of your skills are already in-hand. If that doesn't get the p
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by mb_72 13y ago
I think the 'current' design of the parliamentary chamber is from the '20s - the austerity is probably accidental and a sign of it's age more than anything else. Some (English) history of the parliamentary building is he
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by mb_72 13y ago
Estonia supports online business registration there also, and I can recommend an accountant if you like. Can't you just choose an EU country to use an official base of operations? Sooner or later you will stop travelling, and non-payme
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by mb_72 13y ago
Estonia has a population of 1.3 million, and the head of state certainly has all of those 'trappings' and security etc. It's more about a deliberate choice of how the country's money is spent.
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by mb_72 13y ago
Twenty-years of typing on model Ms here - no RSI. Then again, I've been playing the piano for 35 years, so maybe a well-ingrained slightly-rounded wrist position and controlled striking of the keys has benefited me with both the piano
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by mb_72 13y ago
Interesting, and seemingly well-researched, idea. My dad - who taught me golf - has been through a lot of 'training aids' already, and has sometimes shared them with me. Note - he's a ~12 handicapper and I play off around ~14

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