slipwalker

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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   for years now my "personal home page" has been a TiddlyWiki[0] collection of notes and bookmarks. Simple, lightweight and very useful. 0: https://tiddlywiki.com/
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   why the prejudice against "feature matrices" ? In all my professional experience, nothing beats a six-sigma-like "Weighted Decision Matrix" for such choices ( and explaining later on the "whys" ) https:/
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   a bic (cristal) pen
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   my 2c: if you have the time and energy, the money is good and the company enviroment is healthy: keep your job, it *IS* important to know to fundamentals. But open a github/gitlab/gitee/gitwhatever portfolio and start some s
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   99% of time, i can get away "borrowing" from some pattern: http://ui-patterns.com/
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   my general metric is, per task: ( complexity_points - bugs_reported ) / total_time over time, the total productivity is the sum of each task. ( for complexity_points i use https://ciandt.com/us/en-us/co
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   i would strongly recommend taking a good look at an open source game engine like Godot[0] ( which is very forgiving on older hardware[1] ) there are several very good tutorials on youtube[2][3][4] to get you started. If that pick your inte
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   not sure if it's the "most life-changing", but it was somewhat life-changing: https://iheartintelligence.com/discipline-beats-motivation/
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   by slipwalker 5y ago

   Godot (game) Engine ( https://godotengine.org/news )
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    i would take $1k to invest on some good stock options trading course[1] and use the remaining $19k on swing trading, while i keep my day job, until i am proficient enough to make my living from it ( my current plan, actually ) [1] https:&#
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    i really don't see alternatives, since you must cover your costs, either charge time/attention of your users ( advertisement ) or money ( vip/premium features, paywall )... other possible option would be "charge computat
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    pen-and-paper RPG taught me to "role play", fake it until you make it. In corporate environments, i believe it is an essential skill to anyone.
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    i truly believe that when you have a large enough "vocabulary" ( and languages in general are fantastic for that, foreign languages, programming languages of different paradigms ) the better you mind can grasp new concepts.
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    are you using the mapkit-js[1] to integrate with other platforms than ios, or something else ? [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/mapkitjs
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    after i read "discipline beats motivation"[1] i realized my biggest problem with personal projects were exactly lack of discipline, awaiting for the motivation to come by itself. Now i have a large paper calendar in front of me, w
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    ( assumed it's work-related stuff ) - JetBrains All Products Pack USD 149.25/yr - server4you.com unmetered VPS USD 32.00/mo - 100Mbps broadband internet ( Brazil ) USD 49.00/mo
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    light attract bugs :> seriously, IMHO my eyes feel less tired with a darker display after many many hours of screentime.
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    >In my city, it's huge, in others, not so much do you mind telling us which is your city, and why it's huge on C# ?
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    mostly BCP[1] [1] https://ciandt.com/us/en-us/complexitypoints
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    this meme[1] translates perfectly the current state of tech interviews [1] https://starecat.com/the-technical-interview-vs-the-actual-j...
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    - context diagram for an overview - uml sequence diagram for a more detailed view of interesting parts - entity relatioship model for databases
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    [irony] any sick mind game... :> [/irony]
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    i will give it time to mature... i approve the ideas behind it, but there's too many JS developers used to "doing thing wrong" in the node ecosystem, i doubt they would change their ways easily.
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    by slipwalker 5y ago

    you can sound like a genius, yet over charge and under work... it's a great opportunity for tired ( burnedout ) engineers.
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    by slipwalker 6y ago

    IMHO, you would lose leverage on your negotiation.
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    by slipwalker 6y ago

    given XML is a "first class citizen" datatype on Microsoft SQLServer 2012 ( used on my day job ) yes, i am kind of forced to use xquery...
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    by slipwalker 6y ago

    and there's also a general election coming in 2022, with lots of news about funds sent to different states for hospitals and ventilators "disappearing".
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    by slipwalker 6y ago

    i always think of story points as "function points ( as in IFPUG[0] ) for lazy people". It should measure complexity[1] of a task. The time dimension will come later, after you have some perpective on your team's technical s
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    by slipwalker 6y ago

    Slackware: reliability & simplicity
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    by slipwalker 6y ago

    samsung galaxy note 9 ( before that, galaxy note 4 ) in a couple more years, probably the note 20 ( when 5g becomes the norm )... i always try to keep away from the latest and greatest ( to avoid the inflated prices as much as possible ) an