mikekchar

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by mikekchar 6y ago
Being good to yourself doesn't have to be a priority list. It can be more like a jigsaw puzzle. It doesn't matter where you start.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
They can make you pay your taxes, but can't restrict your movements in a disease outbreak. I live in Japan, and the government here also does not have the power to legally lock us down (which is why there are only recommendations here
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Yes. However, it may or may not include equity depending on how things are set up.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Got to agree here. It only takes one manager in your upstream that doesn't like remote to cut you out of the loop. It's not certain that it will happen, but over a long career it approaches certainty. It's not necessaril
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by mikekchar 6y ago
It's a good point. It varies widely depending on the industry, but even in the software industry a good rule of thumb is that IT costs about 10% of revenue (some places are as high as 30%, some as low as 2%). But that includes all th
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, even if it is about politics and business it's practically crazy not to fully fund these kinds of activities. The ROI is staggering. It's pretty hard to imagine a price tag where it doesn'
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I have always looked a projects, portfolios, etc. No exceptions. If it's on the cover letter or CV, it's the first thing I go to -- even before I've properly read the other things. Not many people have interesting projec
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Now imagine that you did use one of those swear words. Imagine the attention you would garner. People would know that something is dreadfully wrong. My high school English teacher taught that all words can be used either skillfully or u
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by mikekchar 6y ago
My advice is to lower the value of ideas. A lot of time people think, "If only I had a good idea I would be successful". You will see other people saying things like, "Buy my good idea!". But really, good ideas are a
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Remember that NDA stands for "Non Disclosure Agreement". That agreement could say anything . If you sign the agreement, then you are bound to it (assuming the agreement is legal). If you don't sign the agreement, then you
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Look in the "Science and Technology" section. It took me forever to figure that out.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Also +1 for the consistency. I try to stream every work day at the same time and it really helps -- I mean, I'm still a backwater coding stream, but usually at least at some part of my stream I have double digits watching. If I tak
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I don't know about other streamers, but I, for one, expect people to hang out for about 5-15 minutes. I do a coding stream, so it's bound to get boring :-) I'm always amazed when people hang out for the whole stream. Peopl
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Thank you! As another small viewer base streamer, that will be quite helpful. Although, if nobody is around, I just natter on like always because there is always someone who will want to have a peek at the VODs.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Thank you. I do like to write. I'm also really happy when people read what I write. It looks like we have a lot in common based on what you've written there. If you'd ever feel like trying out pair programming (remotely
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by mikekchar 6y ago
One other important thing to realise: prioritisation is the art of deciding what you are not going to do. When you prioritise, you place the highest value/risk things at the beginning. That way, when you run out of time, those thin
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Sorry to piggy back on your post. I'm not intending to aim this at you, but it made me think. I'm finding a lot of the current reactions to Covid-19 are pretty similar to the stages of grief. Denial - It's not really a prob
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Free and open source licenses are really useful. Works licensed like that are worth significantly more to me that works that aren't licensed like that. Of course, charge whatever you want for your code, but I don't think you sho
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by mikekchar 6y ago
The last comment in the issue (as of this posting) posted to a comment from John Carmack on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1254872368763277313 I specialise in legacy code. I've seen my fai
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Hmm... Perhaps the best way to put it is maybe the opposite. There are lots of ways to fail, and less ways to succeed :-) Of all of the practices in XP, I think the one that gives you the most bang for buck is actually the planning game.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
What you say is absolutely correct ;-) However, I still find it useful to think in these terms. For example, I'm working on a game in my spare time and streaming (most of it) on Twitch. But I'm also making cheese and doing a lo
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I may be being overconfident, but I feel I can tell you if it's going to be successful (I need to spend some time with the team, first though). That used to be my gig ;-) I'm usually pretty straightforward when I go onto a pro
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I can understand what you are saying, but there are some very subtle and difficult things in the world. The fact that only a very few people in the world can be successful with the things that make a concert pianist successful does not mea
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I have a "rule of 3". You can be quite good at 3 things (give or take). One of them will probably be your job. One will probably be your relationships. You have time for 1 more. If you keep changing your mind about what that
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I like the diagram in the middle of the article and think it has a lot of value, but I want to comment on the "XP failed" aspect of the article. I've very rarely seen any team actually implement XP. The rare times I'
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Kind of strange comment, but one of the problems I've seen in schools is the assumption by teachers that children are not as intelligent as adults. Generally this isn't true. Usually they lack a framework for reasoning and lack
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by mikekchar 6y ago
You'll need to know how to build a website that loads its ads before the reader has finished skimming the article.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I wonder how much of the decision was based on pressure from Oculus. Especially if Oculus were appearing to be a bit more relaxed about 3rd party market places... it seems like a pretty juicy carrot to hang in front of SideQuest.
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by mikekchar 6y ago
Case in point: who would have ever set out to make Minecraft? The only reason to do it the way it was done was due to the constraints on capital expenditure. Lately I've been playing Dragon Quest Builders 2 and it's awesome. It
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by mikekchar 6y ago
I read half the post before I realised who wrote it. Don't really want to spoiler it, but it was interesting to explore my biases.

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