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by notapenny 5y ago
I've "enjoyed" most of these including the occasional loud blast of white noise when trying to connect, and my favourite; they disconnect immediately when there's no output for a few seconds and then take a few seconds t
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by notapenny 5y ago
Out of sheer curiosity, is it just the white on black and would a "softer" light-grey on dark-grey be better for you? Or just generally light on dark?
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by notapenny 5y ago
Maybe, but the workman of old didn't have tools that were pretty much engineered to distract them. Focus is a real problem for a lot of people, and some people are really easy to distract.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Part of it you won't be able to fix by making changes to your device, because its you. You can take away all the distractions, but you're a human being, you will be looking for them at some point and you need to be able to stop yo
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by notapenny 5y ago
People going to class because they have to go to class? Because they were told by the school, their parents, whoever to go to class, or because they actually want to go to class and see their classmates? Don't get me wrong, if my kid s
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by notapenny 5y ago
I used to feel a way about this, but I honestly don't care anymore. Have your code-formatter deal with it and forget it exists. Even 2 vs 4 barely matters to me anymore as long as the code is formatted/structured in a consistent w
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by notapenny 5y ago
I'm one of the wretched sinners, but I was honestly surprised at the results.
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by notapenny 5y ago
As long as your source and target branch are present on the remote (i.e. github/lab/whatever) you probably don't need to trash the entire repo. Just `git --rebase abort` and if you're halfway through a rebase just delete
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by notapenny 5y ago
- Focus on your fundamentals; learn how to do basic stuff like manipulating data structures, flow control and how to write clean understandable code really well. Forget about the 100s of frameworks and which language is better, that stuff d
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by notapenny 5y ago
What an amazing age she reached, few do. I grew up watching Golden Girls way back, it seemed like she didn't age from then. Rest in peace, you'll be missed but you warmed people's hearts for a good time.
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by notapenny 5y ago
I'm probably not going to add a whole lot more than what's already been written here, but pragmatically; if the deploy tooling isn't compatible with your app, and that tooling needs to support other apps as well, why not make
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by notapenny 5y ago
The way people responded to him was nice as well, they understood he was a beginner and either trying to learn or challenge his image of what he'd learned until then.
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by notapenny 5y ago
I think your example could be seen as designing as a team, its just one person who does the writing, but everyone who needed to be involved was involved. On a smaller scale I've worked in teams where when someone picked up a story, for
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by notapenny 5y ago
I was an explorer at that time. I made documentation websites for my own fantasy novel and took screenshots of SNES emulators that I'd turn into table-based websites. Nostalgia indeed. Took me a career in corporate finance to realise I
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by notapenny 5y ago
It's your career, you decide, but no I wouldn't call it unprofessional. If the company doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. I've been in a similar position before but decided to wait it out until the 6 months mark, I'd
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by notapenny 5y ago
Keybr.com is great for this. I've been touch typing all my life, but when I started programming, I noticed that typing brackets, parens and a bunch of other symbols really slowed me down. Great to practice those as well.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Exactly. People like the parent make themselves crazy thinking they need to be the expert at absolutely everything. You don't. Learn your fundamentals, and learn how to learn. All of these front-end frameworks, that's just tech. A
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by notapenny 5y ago
Quite a few companies I've worked for have raises budgetted by department/business unit/whatever. The average may be 3% over the department, which means only a few people get to have an above average rating. If everyone does
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by notapenny 5y ago
This being a perfectly cromulent candidate to be entered into Merriam-Webster gives me great hope for tnettenba.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Well just because one thing in a space isn't great, it doesn't mean that they all are. There are plenty of alternatives to BTC for example that are much "greener". Granted, crypto is a relatively new technology and some
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by notapenny 5y ago
And use it to ask questions about their process. It helps to know upfront if they're slow, you can use it to either try to slow down anything else you've got, or cut them loose when you need to.
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by notapenny 5y ago
"Young" companies generally don't care about quality, testing, processes. They just want to build a product. I put that in quotes because being a consultant I'm sometimes amazed at companies that make millions/billi
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by notapenny 5y ago
"Some candidates asked for an interview without completing the exercise. Unfortunately, this was not an option, as this would not be fair for the candidates who worked hard to get to the interview." This is just how I look at it,
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by notapenny 5y ago
Personally I'm with you on keeping your personal/work device separated, but many people I know surprisingly have only a work laptop. If you're a free-lancer, you also might not have two separate devices. I work fo a consultin
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by notapenny 5y ago
It's sadly typical of their apologies. The "I'm sorry you feel that way" apology. As a long time customer its beginning to annoy me. You fucked up. Say "we fucked up" and move on.
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by notapenny 5y ago
If you don't mind, would you recommend some sources these people can go to/should read into? I've had a shortened CS education (2yrs) but I'm mostly self taught outside of that. I'm just starting to do a bit more ba
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by notapenny 5y ago
I personally want to do a good job, but some companies make that hard to employees, albeit sometimes inadvertently. Whether it's by tying people up in politics, having them do busywork, or just failing to reward them. To give an exampl
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by notapenny 5y ago
I couldn't help but immediately think of this line from Margin Call when I saw the headline. I won't spoil it but at one point the CEO and someone are sitting in a room and he says to the person: "I need a head for the shareh
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by notapenny 5y ago
Read something, an article or a book which is more short snippets (try Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, those five minutes will change your life). I have a list with a whole bunch of tech topics that I could read a quick MDN/wikipedi
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by notapenny 5y ago
Just pick one. That's probably more simple than you'd want to hear, but there is no such thing as "best". If you search for the best in anything, you can find tons of posts/articles/whatever all suggesting diff

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