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by rw140 17y ago
"my experience is that people do that with "old school" computers too. Only then it does break their computers." So basically we're looking at a product that will function well instead of breaking when a typical user uses it in a typical fa
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by rw140 17y ago
Some of it might be a matter of experience. It's just taken me 30 days to add some new CLI functionality to a piece of code (my first ever time working with this bit of the code stack - I'm not familiar with the underlying code, the debug t
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by rw140 17y ago
I think of them both as techniques for the same purpose - to get you to draw what you see as there rather than what you know is there. (Or even drawing the symbol for what you know is there.) It's been a while since I've done any drawing,
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by rw140 17y ago
Same problem. I blame the male bias in computing for producing lower average room temperatures.
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by rw140 17y ago
I agree with the sentiment. There are many ways of 'doing what you love'. You can love the tools and languages you get to play with, you can love doing a good job, you can love being part of a really cool project, you can love being chall
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by rw140 17y ago
I don't know - is it painful to remove? :)
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by rw140 17y ago
Well, in London you might say 'turn left down XYZ road', so we have a system of navigating that's less changeable than things like shop names. Not that it isn't a neat system to have, but I'm guessing it's pretty labour-intensive to get off
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by rw140 17y ago
I'm generally interested in other people's criteria for hiring people as it makes me think about what I'm not doing (and whether that's a concious decision or I've just got distracted / out of the habit), and what I could be doing better.
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by rw140 17y ago
How much weight would anyone here give to the "Started programming at university" criterion? It's one that is bugging me slightly because 1) it applies to me and 2) it's not something I can go back and change.
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by rw140 17y ago
I am tempted to make the blanket statement: "Don't let non-technical managers manage technical people." That would be unfair to all the good non-technical managers out there (I believe this is harder, but still possible). How about "Don't
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by rw140 17y ago
I'm a bit bemused by this article - how is this different from existing techniques used in phobia cures? It seems like a milder form of the immersion / desensitisation used in CBT.
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by rw140 17y ago
It's also worth remembering that there are vast numbers of jobs that don't specify a CS degree, but where being a technical or semi-technical person helps. If you're good at interacting with people and have a background in technology that m
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by rw140 17y ago
I tend to be afraid of learning new skills. This is quite inconvenient, because I love using the skills and improving on existing ones. So I'm pushing myself to learn the skills anyway. What I'm finding (and this may change, as I've only
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by rw140 17y ago
Being watched feels kinda creepy. But being able to find the stuff you want is fun. To a certain extent, this is somewhere where GUIs out-perform command lines - the hierarchical menu system that shows you the functionality available in a
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by rw140 17y ago
I suspect he does enjoy development. Just doesn't want to do it all day, every day. He writes in terms of 'enjoying solving hard problems'. If we can assume that's his motivation then 1) as long as his work includes hard problems he'll pr
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by rw140 17y ago
I suspect the presentation was a reflection of the company culture... from the previous post in the series: "The culture and work ethic of Convergent had earned it the title the Marine Corps of Silicon Valley. (Not until I was older and wis
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by rw140 17y ago
I'm someone else who renames things after writing the code to start with. It's not that my understanding is incomplete - it's more like I'm using different parts of my brain for holding the general shape of the code and coming up with word
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by rw140 17y ago
May well be true, although there's a difference between being introverted and not having an opinion. There are no shortage of extroverts who aren't going to let not having anything to say stop them from saying it. On the other side of the e
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by rw140 17y ago
Actually, I find confident people much easier to evaluate - over time it's pretty easy to tell a bullshitter from someone who knows their stuff. When talking to people who hedge their bets too much (or worse still, don't speak up at all un
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by rw140 17y ago
Tessellated hexagons might be interesting - they have the advantage of being closer to a circular target. Apparently I'm not the first one to think of that - a quick check threw up http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5805157.html
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by rw140 17y ago
Well, I've not been employed all that long, no-one's waved a study at me, and I don't know so many girls in my field that I can figure this out just by talking about it to other people (I'd have to talk to an equal number of boys as well, b
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by rw140 17y ago
Sure, "so long as you can deliver". Are we going to be treated equally when we fail? Even worse, are we going to be treated as representatives of half the species (someone's already linked to that XKCD cartoon). It may be paranoia, but i
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by rw140 17y ago
You could try 'Hi, everyone'. I suspect it depends on who you have in your audience. Personally the special case irks me more than a general 'Hi chaps', or 'Hi guys'. It simultaneously singles me out and wastes my time. I wouldn't genera
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by rw140 17y ago
True, but not necessarily the case here. I'm an introvert who is getting significantly better at acting outgoing when necessary, but being sociable seems to keep a similar level of effort.
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by rw140 17y ago
They are different skillsets, but they aren't mutually exclusive. I work in a company which has dual career paths - technical and people management. At the bottom of the career ladder, you have OK programmers with OK people skills. This
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by rw140 17y ago
"For example, it would have been interesting to see 20 pictures drawn by girls and 20 pictures by boys, instead she only presented one each." Well, yes, but to me it looked like she was trying to show a typical example from each category.
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by rw140 17y ago
Yes - their sample selection is a little interesting. As their definition of conservatism included valuing hard work, I wonder if all the study has shown is that 'if you work hard, then you don't have to be as intelligent in order to get i