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by rabidrat 8y ago
Not as differently as you might think. When I was more junior, I assumed the wage increases would continue as they had been. But they flatten out after 10-15 years of experience, to the point that the salary of someone with 15 years of ex
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Author of VisiData here, how did you try to find it (what did you search for)? I'd like to make it easier to find but I'm not sure how.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Great paper, but as a non-acadmic I was disappointed by the last paragraph before the conclusion: > I think it may be our vanity as academics to think that any one but academics and students read academic papers. Therefore, I have chosen
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I wish you had done that :) But in actuality I agree, I don't think it would have helped. In today's climate, disagreeing with your 'side' signals that you are on the other 'side' and makes you a bit more of
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by rabidrat 8y ago
For me this often happens incrementally. Like they started with "if (FeatureNotDisabled)" and then locally refactored the code until it was "if (!FeatureNotDisabled)". The problem is that they then didn't go back
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Thank you!!
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It doesn't have to be, and yet, when we do the comparison, it usually is. Why is that?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
You can't have a "self" without reference to an "other". When you say to yourself "I am a good programmer", it must be by comparison to all the other not-good programmers. There is a subtle but very impo
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I think there's a happy medium. I have a personal target of 4 days/week (or equivalent), and so I don't mind optimizing existing work, and then taking on additional work, as long as it averages out to this healthy balance.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Overall this article has some really good advice. But I have come to realize that a violent stance--"fighting" to "kill" a "toxic ego"--reinforces a separate, negative part of yourself, and it becomes stronger
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by rabidrat 8y ago
What if 'enough' is not time-based? What if you just have to make sure that new versions are deployed and the service stays up and isn't being hacked? If you can do that with 2 days/week, more power to you. Or maybe y
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Same here. There is a world of difference between 32 hours/week and 40/week. I'm looking forward to being more settled in my current job so I can move back to 4 days/week (and be more productive too).
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Many of these people are academics, doing it as their professional work--academics do seem to have that same kind of European giving mentality. Most of the others were paid by a company to do their work. Stallman though I will grant you.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
51% of the population are women, who suffer from these gender roles. That's a super big-ticket group right there.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Actually it's because gender is a hot-button topic, and not just political. Some of us think that everyone pays too much attention to gender, and those who think they don't are generally male and don't have to think about
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out. I've been watching the shitshow for a few decades now though, and to be honest the only surprising thing is that it hasn't already fallen apart. In my mind it's inevitable, and not just due t
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by rabidrat 8y ago
If climate change truly is incompatible with global civilization, I would rather have some defunct coal plants laying around than spent nuclear fuel. Nuclear maybe would have helped us avoid the worst of climate change if we had adopted it
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Europe does seem to create a different class of 'maker'; consider Linus Torvalds and Fabrice Bellard, both notable for their immense contributions to open source software. Who in the US is creating on that scale and not doing it
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Do you use Emacs besides Magit, and is the Emacs integration essential to what you want? What other tools or workflows would you want to build?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Yes, but how did you come to that conclusion? Lexical matching, piecewise numeric matching? What's the programmatic way of determining that? For a better example, how about version 1.9 vs 1.10? Or 1.9rc1 vs 1.9?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> then you start to see common causes behind a lot of the mistakes and you think, if people would just fix those, I'd like my job a lot more. > And that attitude is self-defeating. It leads to unhappiness and unfulfillment and pr
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by rabidrat 8y ago
At a corporation she founded? You think nudies of Martha Stewart would dethrone her?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I have a theory, that the reason older engineers are into embedded development, is that the scale of technology is similar to what they were using ~30 years prior. It's very different, of course, and there are many new things; but the
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> limiting login attempts based on a particular user account, not an IP address. How do you do this on account creation?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Yeah and imagine that faking a death certificate is even easier than that. That would make it a pretty effective metaphor for how easy it is.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> Get the first 10 to make viral videos for you. This is difficult on multiple levels. Most people won't make videos no matter what (and they paid for the product so they would feel even less pressure), and those homespun videos ar
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by rabidrat 8y ago
OTOH, when you're repeating the same 3 lines of code over and over, refactor so it can fit in one line of code. This is one of my big peeves with Go; in C at least I can make a RETURN_ERR macro.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
That's a great idea, I'm going to use that.
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Honor != sainthood. Like teaching and nursing, some people feel a calling to help, and are willing to make not-insignificant sacrifices to do so. They're not in it for the money and won't be transferring into fintech for better
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I think this is exactly what is happening, and why the GOP senators are complicit with the shutdown.

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