slipwalker

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by slipwalker 9y ago
my 2cents: to use this strategy, don't forget to have an iron-clad pre-nup, first.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
i second that !
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by slipwalker 9y ago
checkout the code, run it though a coverage tool and a static analysis tool. And start writing tests for the less covered parts of the code base ( unit, functional and/or UI, go bold, go crazy ). You will learn a lot, won't br
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by slipwalker 9y ago
how would i prefer ? Couch surfing... how do i usually spend ? Working by morning and running errands with mrs.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Apache Wave ( former Google Wave ). But without the mentality of "replacing email for good, now!" baby steps, embrace and suffocate this time...
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by slipwalker 9y ago
same feelings here. All my time is sucked either into the full time job ( writing code, debugging, profiling... and then meeting with stakeholders, debating requirements... and then coaching the younglings management hires oh-so-often... a
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Personal experience: Learn by doing. Practice. There's no shortcuts, afaik. Take your notes by hand ( paper & pen[cil], Cornell style is very nice. Typing does not work like handwriting ) study by night before having a full night&
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Flyway, Liquibase or Nextep ( https://github.com/christophefondacci/nextep-designer/wiki ) depending on which client, which project...
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by slipwalker 9y ago
AFAIK, John Sonmez ( simpleprogrammer.com ) made his career jump to the multi-million-dollar status starting with his blog. So, i would look into it seriously.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Hope you are not looking only for success stories... I left a stable job at a small consultancy, with one-year-worth of salaries on the bank, armed with my tech skills but no sales expertise ( or commercial talent ) whatsoever. The results
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by slipwalker 9y ago
pet projects: Groovy, sometimes grails ( lately, ratpack ) hibernate, postgresql ( sometimes mongodb ), vue.js and lit css. On bitbucket private repositories. Home machines are Linux && FreeBSD. daily job: Spring 4, Java, Oracle, A
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by slipwalker 9y ago
same here about buying a better router. In my case, was an ASUS RT-ACRH17 AC1700. Best USD70 bucks spent on 2017´s xmas.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
please, open source it.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
me too. After i got used to the shortcuts and tuned the JVM, never looked back ( to eclipse ) again.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
early in my career, those two books were on my desk continuously: https://www.amazon.com/Network-Programming-Perl-Lincoln-Stei... https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Algorithms-Perl-Practical-P... later, it wa
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by slipwalker 9y ago
a mix of ab and vegeta ( https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta ). More and more vegeta lately, thou.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
since 1998 up to a couple years ago, i have been a Slackware user, with no intention to change. But internet banking is a b*tch, and my bank started demanding some brain-damaged daemon overriding standard TSL certificate processing ( namel
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Laziness Impatience Hubris http://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
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by slipwalker 9y ago
my 2cents is look for a Dell. I have been using a FullHD Dell XPS lx502 for over 4 years now as my main system, and both Slackware or Ubuntu ( to stay compatible with my bank... ) ran fine. Easy to upgrade, replaced RAM to 16Gb, HD to SSD
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Depending on your location, paying (close) attention to your local labour laws ( since your first employee ) and all those extra-hours just before each release.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
Server4You ( despite negative reviews i have seen ) has served me well ( very fair price for an unmetered 100Mbps link ) for over 5 years now. On the really cheap VPS options, just make sure to have your services running under a supervisor
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by slipwalker 9y ago
I would love to hear more about this. The routine, choosing post subjects, how to get visibility, which social media ( if any ) is more "valuable" for technical posts ( i´m assuming linkedin and medium ). Please, elaborate a bi
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by slipwalker 9y ago
I would suggest any freelancing site ( toptal, upwork, fiverr... ) and taking small projects one at a time. So you can build a portfolio and reputation. The downside is it´s a long game.
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by slipwalker 9y ago
given libreoffice 6 and gdocs, or even office365, is MS Office still relevant ?
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by slipwalker 9y ago
nice, how it works around NTLM ( microsoft ) proxies ?
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by slipwalker 12y ago
failed for my first attempt: how can't i customize my dual-socket opteron 64Gb RAM workstation ?... ( mobo ASUS KGPE-d16 )
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by slipwalker 15y ago
why does anyone need anything other than ImageMagick's import ?