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by pandler 8y ago
Unfortunately I’ve met some people that take that mentality to a macho extreme in the form of “if you want to be STARTUP, you should actively avoid doing anything that resembles forethought.”
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by pandler 8y ago
I had a conversation the other day with some work colleagues where we were talking about a friends dad who just retired from working as an engineer at AT&T for something like 35 years. We made some jokes about how that would be unthinka
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by pandler 8y ago
Volume is just base 2 instead of base 10. It’s probably the most sane of the imperial measurements.
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by pandler 8y ago
Not to mention, how many people only have one Apple device?
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by pandler 8y ago
One of the few things I remember from that one neuroscience class I took in high school was that the more physical senses you involve in something, the more likely you are to remember that thing. I think you’re totally right about writing s
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by pandler 8y ago
> If you have full flexibility, I’d suggest aiming to hit 40 hours on a weekly basis rather than 8 on a daily basis. I think this is an exceptional answer. I’ve been working as a contractor recently where I am hard capped at 40 hours a w
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by pandler 8y ago
Personally I stick with “irregardlessly” just to see who goes bug-eyed when they hear it. This is not directly in response to your comment, but I see three types of people. Some people don’t know better or care to know better or weren’t pay
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by pandler 8y ago
> What I will say is that the implicit, convention over configuration approach of rails means you really do have to RTFM. And there you have it. Most devs I have ever worked with hardly read docs beyond as reference material. To be fair,
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by pandler 8y ago
Not to mention, these things are usually case sensitive. Sure, I can remember my childhood address, but how did I capitalize it? Did I abbreviate street? If I abbreviated street, did I add a period to make it "St." or "St&quo
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by pandler 8y ago
In the US, there’s a difference between a professional Engineer and a Professional Engineer. Professional Engineer requires certification (I think they even give you a ring or something), but you can still work professionally as an Engineer
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by pandler 8y ago
When this has happened to me before with bigger companies, I finally get a rejection letter months after the fact. My guess is that it’s them hedging and not wanting to reject until they’ve filled the position.
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by pandler 8y ago
This has happened to me before too. The owner of a company I ended up working for found me at a hackathon. Apparently he frequents hackathons to keep tabs on the local talent of our somewhat out-of-the-way city. (To note, he also actively p
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by pandler 8y ago
I think they’re saying there is no correlation between seniority and equity.
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by pandler 8y ago
That’s honestly a tough one if you’re working on an inter-cultural team. I (American) was working previously on a project with a British-spelling team for a British-spelling client. It was fine when they had named a variable and I could fol
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by pandler 8y ago
What could investment do for a site like this?
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by pandler 8y ago
> You're analogy works for academic programs that lead to careers that pay reasonably well. But, not for underwater tiddlywinks - no amount of time spent in that field will allow you to pay down the debt. Agreed, but that’s your onu
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by pandler 8y ago
> The only mistake I’d warn against is letting this influence your judgement of others, or your prescription for future generations. I’m curious what your segue is from contextualizing and rationalizing decisions I’ve/we’ve made for
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by pandler 8y ago
The cost of what? The end-user cost that you’re billed or their costs to provide the service?
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by pandler 8y ago
I’ve started thinking of the obligation to stick in industry to pay off my loans as an analog to having an organization like the US military pay for my degree. I have a few friends in the military studying at university for free. Their paym
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by pandler 8y ago
MTR is definitely decent, but it’s a far cry from authentic, quality Indian food. I’ve had many MTR lunches at work, but I don’t see myself eating it for dinner where convenience is not my primary concern. It seems like Buttermilk is defini
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by pandler 8y ago
> Interestingly, full-stack teams have been heads and shoulders above in quality in my experience. I agree with that. The way I think about it is that in web you benefit from thinking about a system holistically. The divide between front
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by pandler 8y ago
While we’re on the topic of fringe candidates, I’d like to plug my all-time favorite political contender: Vermin Supreme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
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by pandler 8y ago
The whole point of the article is that it’s still tracked even if you turn it off.
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by pandler 8y ago
Awesome work OP! I’m a big fan of using tools like this to supplement git, especially when it comes to some of the more complex operations. Personally I use tig, which is basically this but different. I used to use Sourcetree and I loved it
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by pandler 8y ago
Yeah sounds pretty typical of India in my experience. Can’t get WiFi unless you have a sim
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by pandler 8y ago
I don’t think it’s necessarily something to be “guilty” for. Especially if it’s someone else’s code I’m debugging, I agree that rewriting it “in my own words” can be a great way to understand what’s going on. Like you said, its not like you
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by pandler 8y ago
> Information is available “almost literally for free and instantly” to people who can afford a device that connects to the internet. ... and who have a sufficient working knowledge of how computers and the internet work in order to take
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by pandler 8y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any information on a similar analysis of fiat currencies? My Google-foo is failing me.
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by pandler 8y ago
I was playing Flexbox Zombies for a little while and really enjoyed it. > This is a Mastery Game. Each section unravels part of the plot, gives you mastery over a new flexbox concept, and presents zombie survival challenges that force yo
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by pandler 8y ago
> The page load speed is seriously impressive, congrats! I happened to see this before I clicked the link, and I have to agree the page load speed lives up to your hype! I'm not experiencing your issue on OS X, Chrome.

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