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by singular 16y ago
Agreed. I have a big enough loan (not absolutely huge, but big enough to be serious) right now which locks me into my current job. Do not get into debt unless you absolutely have to people, unless you enjoy stress + being forced to stay in
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by singular 16y ago
Very well put. Very sorry to hear about your experiences - I think this highlights quite clearly what a serious thing burnout can be. Hopefully you won't mind if I mention my experience - though I didn't do a computer science degree (someth
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by singular 16y ago
I absolutely applaud your reasoned approach - being reasonable about a schedule while consciously avoiding practices which lead to burnout is the way to actually get out of the situation. I think a key part of resolving burnout issues is
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by singular 16y ago
I agree that it's vitally important to keep burnout in mind when you're the type of person prone to it (I suspect a great many HNers are), however I wonder whether being over-cautious is potentially as, if not more, damaging in some circu
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by singular 16y ago
You're right, ack, embarrassing. Unfortunately I seem unable to edit the post now. EDIT: As an aside I think it reminded me too much of the concept of precedence in maths, so the brain-burp was probably sourced from there.
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by singular 16y ago
This applies to ideas too I think - if I have a general 'idea' of how to perform a task, that can be expressed as an algorithm which I then implement in [whatever language]; I could then be unwittingly violating a patent on the idea.
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by singular 16y ago
Absolutely. I think John Carmack put it best:- "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed t
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by singular 16y ago
just in case anyone was wondering, I eventually got in contact and everybody was ok :) - though not via the people finder in my case. Still a great tool, much appreciated.
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by singular 16y ago
This is great news. It's nice to see two rivals joining forces on something which is not only morally wrong, but actually generally damaging to the industry as a whole. Hopefully (if successful!) this sets a precedence and sends out a messa
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by singular 16y ago
Though I agree with Joel on this central point here, I think it's important to take into account the randomness that applies to technical recruiting - it's hardly perfect (full disclosure: I am a lower-tier member of the 99%, having intervi
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by singular 16y ago
Amen brother. Drop me a mail if you want... always good to have solidarity in this kind of situation.
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by singular 16y ago
Still there. Contributing to OSS (golang) + studying theory I missed because I didn't do compsci at uni. Once I hit the 40/50 patch count and have good algo/os knowledge I reckon I should be better placed to be attractive job-wise. Several
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by singular 16y ago
I have family living in Christchurch who I am completely unable to contact, so am grateful that there is at least another means of attempting to get some information.
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by singular 16y ago
I definitely want to emphasise that I agree that love, family, etc. are the most important things. Only people who have never had such could disagree with that :-) Just wanted to highlight that I think it's important that work be more than
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by singular 16y ago
Though I agree that love and family come above all else, of course, I do quite dislike the whole 'it's just a job' attitude. Isn't the whole point of all this that we do what we love and are passionate about? I, for one, adore programming a
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by singular 16y ago
Agreed, go rocks :) Keep in mind that a lot of the logic is shared between backends, so check out http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/cmd/gc for the core stuff too.
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by singular 16y ago
True, and that is of course applicable here in the UK too, however it is rare, in my experience at least, to see people being too concerned about text length. In the past people would be very anal about using 'text speak' i.e. hi m8, how r
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by singular 16y ago
In the UK you can combine several texts together seamlessly so this limit is meaningful only with respect to billing, and most plans provide so many free texts that it simply isn't something you think about - is that similar in the US?
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by singular 16y ago
I, myself, did not do computer science at university (I did civil engineering), and regret that a great deal. Not only does learning this stuff make you considerably more hire-able, it also enables solution of problems more sanely than a na
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by singular 16y ago
I spent a long time trying to get mine right, and it's still looks a bit shabby in my mind - http://www.codegrunt.co.uk/ - I'm not actually that surprised by the cost. This seems to me to be classic non-tech manager thinking - 'how on e
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PSP 2 Announced(uk.psp.ign.com)
1 points by singular 16y ago|0 comments
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by singular 16y ago
I think the article highlights the problem with being made to make decisions before you even have enough information to base those decisions on. Just because your manager thinks you can decide how a project's going to look when done before
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by singular 16y ago
See my other reply below; there are definitely times when shit needs to be done. Perhaps the analogy should be the state of the house in general; if the foundation's fucked you really have no choice but to start again. And yes, there are d
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by singular 16y ago
well, yeah, but all analogies to coding are bad in the sense that they never quite capture everything and coding is honestly just not like anything else. But at least with respect to emphasising the cost of a rewrite, it gets at it... somew
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by singular 16y ago
I think a good analogy is a messy house. Do you bulldoze the house and rebuild it, or do you just go ahead and tidy what's in it? Only in the most unbelievably dire and awful circumstances do you take the former option...
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by singular 16y ago
I'm glad that somebody other than me has come out and complained about the darkness of the image - I ask other people and they act as if it isn't the case, but it was really striking when I went to see Avatar. Major drawback...
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by singular 16y ago
Sure, but the big problem with a static structure is that once you are down the road the inevitable 'unknown unknowns' creep in, no matter how tastefully you've designed your interfaces (whether they are literally java/c#/etc. interface typ
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by singular 16y ago
Because programming is such a study-able thing... except it isn't. Too many factors to take into account, not least individual developer ability/experience/etc.
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Programmer productivity + taste(codegrunt.co.uk)
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by singular 16y ago
agreed, however it is certainly a part of using an ubuntu system. The point isn't so much the specific problem, but rather that such things are quite common in linux (though far less so now than in the past).

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