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by scruple 4y ago
In addition to what others are saying, I find a lot of communication problems, especially technical communication problems, are rooted in the Curse of Knowledge [0]. I try to work that bias into conversation on technical teams but it can be
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by scruple 4y ago
It really is frustrating. I commented elsewhere on this post that a very good friend of mine was just laid off and his immigration status is now a question that needs an answer in the coming month(s). His entire family is on the other side
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by scruple 4y ago
Well, besides resenting sympathy, how are you feeling?
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by scruple 4y ago
A very good friend was hit by a recent BigTechCo layoff. He has the financial security to take some months off but his immigration status has rendered him scrambling. I wish there were serious efforts to reform that entire system. I'm
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by scruple 4y ago
When I worked for a BigTechCo, I was doing exercism every single morning for ~30 minutes for the same reason. It really is incredible. I know a few of my former colleagues were doing the same. Today I'm on a team with 4 other engineers
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by scruple 4y ago
In California that just means that in the span of 15 seconds 3 other cars are going to move in front of you and the car that was ahead of you.
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by scruple 4y ago
In SoCal we're having an unusually cool fall so far. Today's high was 68f, it's currently 64f at 5:30PM. I don't think I remember temperatures this low happening in early/mid November in the 15 years that I've
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by scruple 4y ago
I've gone as far as embedding a ReactJS app inside of Go's embedFS. It's pretty damn powerful.
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by scruple 4y ago
I've known people (programmers) who were on extended periods of disability due to lower body injuries because sitting for long periods of time caused them a lot of pain / exacerbated their disability / hindered their recovery
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by scruple 4y ago
What argument? I don't see an argument, I see a genuine question made in earnest.
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by scruple 4y ago
We use a hot water pot at home, a Zojirushi. Never have to bother with hot water, it's always available and the thing uses a negligible amount of electricity (we're almost entirely on solar anyway, so it's a moot point for ou
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by scruple 4y ago
Eternal September, etc.
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by scruple 4y ago
Harmful how? Are we still blaming people who voted for Nader for the fact that Bush won?
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by scruple 4y ago
A grocer near me (California) still operates this way for certain items. My wife and I go there for cream and milk from a nearby dairy and there's a $1 (I don't remember the exact value, it may be $2 or even $3) deposit on the bot
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by scruple 4y ago
Interesting. Our (Rails) codebase is around 25,000 tests and less than half have a single assertion. Personally, there's some calculus in my head when I'm writing a test that determines if/when the scenario I'm testing n
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by scruple 4y ago
I once worked for a man last name started with an A, who was lovingly referred to as A-Bomb and you never knew what would set him or when he would go off. Thankfully, he retired about half a year after I got there.
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by scruple 4y ago
> But they're bottled up in FAANG, I think. Quite a few of them are locked up by AAA games studios, at least the ones that I personally know.
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by scruple 4y ago
I left embedded for web about a decade ago and doubled my salary overnight while taking on a role that was less demanding. My experience from embedded gave me an advantage over colleagues, specifically with regards to troubleshooting system
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by scruple 4y ago
I don't join those servers, though, so I don't get notifications about their @channel messages. Twitter, however, is essentially doing exactly that to it's users. I hate being subjected to shit I don't want to see, so I
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by scruple 4y ago
You can go back to the year 2000 and find Fox News and CNN talking heads warning us about the impending doom of baby boomers retiring and taking the economy with them. Any year now... What has actually transpired in the meantime has been re
621.
by scruple 4y ago
Yeah. I interviewed with a startup at the beginning of this year and the Engineering Director was telling me how he brought his friends on-board like it was some sort of selling point. People he has known since high school. Hard pass.
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by scruple 4y ago
We keep a clean house, despite having 2 dogs and 3 young children. Ants haven't been a problem for a few years because I worked diligently to keep food in airtight containers, clean up, etc. But, this year, they came in for the water.
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by scruple 4y ago
> Reviewing a PR, writing documentation, and sharing knowledge are all things taking time away from their passion. They have to write the code because that's what is demanded of them. If management would prioritize communication the
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by scruple 4y ago
I wanted magit and org-mode.
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by scruple 4y ago
When I need an interactive debugger, I alt-tab into a JetBrains product or VS/VSCode. The only time in my career that I wasn't primarily developing inside of vim/neovim and now Emacs was when I was working on a .NET team.
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by scruple 4y ago
When I left my last job (BigTechCo) I was explicitly told by HR and my manager that I'd always be welcome back, just reach out. That company got a lot wrong but the HR department and my immediate management chain really did a great job
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by scruple 4y ago
I'm suspicious of people that need to dress up their 20 years of experience with business speak, yes. It is the business speak specifically that makes me suspicious.
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by scruple 4y ago
When I see things like that on a resume I instinctively smell bullshit. Right or wrong, that's my reaction. "Proven?" Show me the proof. "High-quality and performant?" I better not be able to quickly and easily find
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by scruple 4y ago
Certainly not conclusive at all, but... Top results from a Google search: > Individually, an American coffee drinker consumes about three cups of coffee per day. > Italians drink an average of 3 coffees a day It seems that the average
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by scruple 4y ago
Aren't the Italians known for their coffee?

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