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by pault 8y ago
My story is pretty much the same as yours, but I have an extra ten years on you. I've been able to get it under control (my career is really taking off now at the age of 39) by practicing it like any other skill. Mostly it's the a
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by pault 8y ago
Green users often get their comments deaded. Possibly because they used the word "sockpuppet" which would definitely be a heuristic for low quality flamebait.
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by pault 8y ago
This is my biggest pet peeve with Amazon. I have given up on buying electronics multiple times because every search returns hundreds of no name Chinese knockoffs for every one reputable brand that I'm actually looking for. There is the
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by pault 8y ago
It's about 0.5%.
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by pault 8y ago
I don't really understand conversations about reuse in react, since the one-way data flow model it uses allows almost any functionality to be extracted into a composable single-purpose component. If the view components are kept pure I&
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by pault 8y ago
Yes! I have the same and despite spending thousands of dollars trying to find a better monitor it's still best solution I've found. I can keep 4x80 column files open in vscode or 8 if I split them vertically. And with a single mon
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by pault 8y ago
Every two to three years? The apartments I've lived in raise the rent by $100 every year without fail.
518.
by pault 8y ago
That is a pain point, but I think of it as spending a few hours to save a few weeks down the road.
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by pault 8y ago
If you want type-safe code you will usually have to rewrite some parts of your app, or most of it if someone butchered the initial implementation.
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by pault 8y ago
Can you talk about the road building engine? Are you using splines to generate the smooth curves? This is a really amazing project, I can tell you have put a ton of work into it.
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by pault 8y ago
I remember the first time someone told me about a card that you could put in your computer that would make quake run faster. It sounded so strange and exotic. Then I saw the screen caps with all their anti aliased glory and was devastated t
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by pault 8y ago
That's what I'm saying. It's not uncommon for companies to have AWS linux infrastructure for deployment but give everyone windows laptops for development. Don't ask me, ask the IT department.
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by pault 8y ago
A lot of folks have to use Windows machines at their day jobs.
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by pault 8y ago
Prescription drug prices are in no way coupled to the cost of production.
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by pault 8y ago
The touch pad is what keeps me on my macbook. Has any other manufacturer managed to create something comparable?
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by pault 8y ago
I had to start using windows at work and with WSL it's not as bad as I expected. It took me about two weeks to get over the icky feeling and learning curve, but I've since then switched my daily driver at home to a windows PC beca
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by pault 8y ago
> Somehow they don't allow any of this shit for regular employees, for reasons that I don't quite understand. It's because contractors are capex and employees are opex. I'm on a staff augmentation contract at a rate 2
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by pault 8y ago
I'll bite. One, I'm not sure next.js is the right tool for a simple dashboard. Seems a bit overkill. I think some simple MVC pages with vue dropped in where necessary would be a better fit. Also, your last sentence sounds like you
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by pault 8y ago
That was the promise. The reality is sails never really took off, fighting within the core team derailed development and fractured the community, and its opinions are so poorly documented that you basically have to learn it from reading the
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by pault 8y ago
Exactly. I only use signal for chat, and I tell my family and friends that they must install it if they want to send me text messages. It's not because I fear being hacked, it's because I don't want highly personal conversati
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by pault 8y ago
I believe I once read that at the population density of Tokyo, every human on Earth could fit into the state of Texas. Whether that would be desirable is another question, but I imagine that a lot of our current environmental problems would
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by pault 8y ago
That third sentence is not necessary.
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by pault 8y ago
Okay, but to be fair I said "close to" and the person that told me that was not offering me a job.
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by pault 8y ago
I've been told I'm pretty close to top of market in Austin at ~225
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by pault 8y ago
This is the reason I bailed while trying to create a twitter account recently. How often do you change your phone number? Once these ad companies get hold of your phone number they can track you across multiple services and build a complete
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by pault 8y ago
Is it safe to live in a sanctuary for giant bees?
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by pault 8y ago
Yes, around $220k this year. I got lucky through a personal referral to a staffing agency, found out how much another team member was making, and asked for that amount. I'm working with a local recruiter who sources talent for some of
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by pault 8y ago
Even in this thread I see a lot of people conflating consulting with working as a highly paid contractor. I accidentally fell into contracting two years ago when the company I was working for closed unexpectedly. I doubled my yearly income,
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by pault 8y ago
Even in this thread I see a lot of people conflating consulting with working as a highly paid contractor. I accidentally fell into contracting two years ago when the company I was working for closed unexpectedly. I doubled my yearly income,
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by pault 8y ago
I have to use Windows at work after ten years of development exclusively on Mac and Linux. Once I set up wsl at work I found that almost all of my gripes about developing on Windows were gone and a month ago I switched my home office to Win

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