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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50?(prog21.dadgum.com)
414 points by rw140 14y ago|242 comments
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How to Make Things Happen(scottberkun.com)
1 points by rw140 14y ago|0 comments
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Startup Skill Set #6: The Startup Manager(swombat.com)
44 points by rw140 15y ago|13 comments
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Coworking for Introverts?(shareable.net)
1 points by rw140 15y ago|0 comments
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RPF: Google's Record Playback Framework(googletesting.blogspot.com)
3 points by rw140 15y ago|0 comments
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Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"(ericsink.com)
144 points by rw140 15y ago|41 comments
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Solving an old surplus mystery(evilmadscientist.com)
4 points by rw140 15y ago|0 comments
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What I’ve Learned With the Cr-48(whatever.scalzi.com)
2 points by rw140 16y ago|0 comments
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by rw140 16y ago
I think that there's a tradeoff between software engineers being able to work well on this specific problem, and knowing which problem is a good problem to work on. The first benefits from being isolated; the second from having the rest of
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Making omelettes inside of eggshells(evilmadscientist.com)
2 points by rw140 16y ago|0 comments
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Making classic frequency counters into Nixie clocks(evilmadscientist.com)
2 points by rw140 16y ago|0 comments
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Cardboard Boxes and Plastic Badges: Link-O-Rama(replicatorinc.com)
2 points by rw140 16y ago|0 comments
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Crayon Manufacturing: Then & Now(replicatorinc.com)
11 points by rw140 16y ago|0 comments
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by rw140 16y ago
To me it makes it HN feel that little bit less welcoming. I may be being over-sensitive, but it makes me feel like I'm eavesdropping on a conversation I wasn't supposed to be part of. Although, heck, maybe he talks about masturbating in fr
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by rw140 16y ago
See also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1717023
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by rw140 16y ago
Generally I don't get asked for an estimate until after I've done the design, so these numbers are code, unit test and very basic test on real hardware only. These are the rules I use: - If I think I understand everything it involves, then
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by rw140 16y ago
Orange buttons than red buttons, but an interesting case study nonetheless. I wonder whether red buttons would have been less effective, given the association with warning / stop (at least in some cultures).
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by rw140 16y ago
They're questions about the people you'll be working with and for - can you learn from them, can you work with them, can you trust them, is the team focussed on 'creating value' (instead of just marking time or playing politics), are they g
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by rw140 16y ago
My current rule of thumb is that if I don't think that I'm 90% done when I'm only 50% of the way through my schedule I'm going to miss my deadline. My suspicion about the cause of this is that I'm conflating 'easy' with 'doesn't take long'.
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by rw140 16y ago
Article dates from 2007.
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by rw140 16y ago
Well, 'talk to your customers' is a little different from 'listen to your customers and make sure you understand exactly what problem your product/service solves for them'. And I think the only difference between evolution (as you've descr
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by rw140 17y ago
Is this article somehow getting past the duplicates filter? I'm sure I've seen it here before, and Google turned up http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164968 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130197 (not sure if either of thes
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by rw140 17y ago
I'd particularly recommend being part of one of the smaller sports clubs - as well as being part of a different social group from those on your course (it's really useful to have a group of friends who aren't all exactly your age and who wo
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by rw140 17y ago
Depends on your definition of fun, but I've used text books to give me practice exercises, instead of having to invent problems myself. (It's also a good way to learn a language's way of working, rather than learning how to implement your
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by rw140 17y ago
I'd take the view that the emphasis has shifted from 'can we do this? / is it possible' to 'how shall we do this? / what will make our users happiest'. Both of these are great aims, but the former is probably more fun. There will still be e
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by rw140 17y ago
I've not tried any of them myself, but the list in the article from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134301 seemed quite sensible.
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by rw140 17y ago
It might depend on your personality - although you can be sure that you can be a good programmer 100% of the time, I know I occasionally make decisions that, in hindsight, are significantly stupid. Currently I can sanity-check things with
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by rw140 17y ago
Unfortunately astrological signs didn't give me any 'opposites' I can compare myself with. Having read through the descriptions of various character types associated with various astrological signs, I cannot say I identify with one any mor
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by rw140 17y ago
Round here we use a variety of techniques: * As everyone else has mentioned: headphones. * Work at home when you're doing a particularly complex piece of work. * Stagger working hours so that there are times when not all employees overlap -
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by rw140 17y ago
I was interested in the assertion that most books aren't fashion items, so it doesn't make sense for the price to go down over time. I'd have thought that this effect would still be there, even if it's less pronounced than on blockbusters

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