pcglue

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by pcglue 9y ago
These guys are being roasted, and rightly so. But let's also cut them some slack. Lord knows what kind of trouble I would have gotten into if the Internet had been around in its present form when I was in high school/college. So
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by pcglue 9y ago
Does it mention agile or scrum? If so, pass.
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by pcglue 9y ago
Thanks everyone, it's been helpful to hear how others do things. I already met with the client and exchanged a couple emails. First meeting I'll do free because I want to vet the client as well. But this client asked for anothe
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Freelance rates/help
7 points by pcglue 9y ago|12 comments
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by pcglue 10y ago
This means you actually store customer credit card numbers and have to deal with PCI compliance? Is ensuring PCI compliance very onerous?
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by pcglue 10y ago
>struggle for 20 minutes thinking about how to solve it before trying something like a doubly-nested loop over all the milliseconds in both intervals, testing for equality. Tell me you're kidding... that this is just a contrived exa
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by pcglue 10y ago
Using a BeagleBone Black to read current sensors and send MQTT messages whenever an appliance (washer/dryer) is turned on/off.
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by pcglue 10y ago
Same reason it still hogs memory and crashes when I leave it open with no more than a dozen tabs for a while (Chrome never does this).
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by pcglue 10y ago
Seeing that bozo at the podium as president-elect, I really feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone.
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by pcglue 10y ago
Find something that is more suited to you, whether it is another job, or some entrepreneurial endeavor. For the longest time, I bought into climbing the corporate ladder. It was making me unhappy and very unhealthy, mentally and physicall
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by pcglue 11y ago
What type of work do you do? Webdev, sysadmin or ? It seems remote working is only just becoming mainstream acceptable. How were you able to start doing so 17 years ago? Has it been with the same company or many companies? Are you indep
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by pcglue 11y ago
A good friend and I both started out as software engineers. Dunning Kruger or not, I am a very good software engineer and so is/was he. He also has an insatiable craving for status and cares immensely about how successful he's p
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by pcglue 11y ago
I had that same exact feeling! I scrolled to the bottom looking for a date somewhere to confirm (there was none), but then saw the reference to stockfighter and finally dawned on me it was likely a new post. Then I read it.
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by pcglue 11y ago
Back when I was working at a MegaCorp who kept trying to turn me into a tech lead/manager? Miserable. Now at a small company where I just code all day long and nothing else? Extremely happy. Where you work and who you work with matte
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by pcglue 11y ago
Good on you for trying something. I hope you learn from this. I can only imagine the trouble I would have gotten into if the internet/social media were around when I was a teenager or even in college.
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by pcglue 11y ago
I have some anti-advice, not what you asked for, but perhaps valuable anyway for you to take into consideration. When I moved to a new home, I started renting out my old house. I found I just cannot handle being a landlord. The seemingly
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by pcglue 12y ago
I have anxiety and I have quit 2 jobs when asked to assume tech lead role because the first 2 times I have taken on tech lead roles, I ended up in the hospital and started alienating my family due to depression, respectively. I can handle t
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by pcglue 12y ago
I think they can't even proofread. It's probably supposed to be coutureshopla.com. That website looks similarly styled to the mnm* one.
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by pcglue 12y ago
Staying in aerospace/defense industry as long as I did (11 years). It is a dysfunctional soul-sucking environment that affected my health, both physical and mental. I escaped a year ago and am so much happier now.
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by pcglue 12y ago
Yeah, I left my last company because of SCRUM gone wrong (1 hour daily "stand-ups" and 6 hour sprint planning meetings). One criteria in my job searches now is no Agile/SCRUM (to me, it's just another name for micro-man
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by pcglue 16y ago
22 months and counting here...