sopooneo

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by sopooneo 5y ago
When you say “switched on a lightbulb” is that figurative? Or did bright light somehow make your condition apparent? Sorry if I’m being daft here.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Is drunk driving without running anyone over that particular night victimless? I agree with your sentiment generally, but I think the details get tricky.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
Similar to many famous "how to get rich" advisors.
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by sopooneo 5y ago
My guess is that we need a sweeping, emotion-fill, romantic story toward something else, not just away from the current diamond-status quo. There certainly is a quiet satisfaction, and clear conscience, in avoidance of evil. But no joy
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by sopooneo 5y ago
I’ve tried that approach of moving users to a “deleted_users” table but ran into the problem of losing the foreign key references to any records pointing at the user.
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by sopooneo 6y ago
The jokes things is something I realized too. Not because I ever tell off-color jokes, but because I realized certain people felt compelled to laugh. And others would then quietly roll their eyes, not at me, but at the exaggerated reactions
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by sopooneo 6y ago
That drives me bananas too. I had some minor luck by positively calling out people who did provide great details. I’d send a message out to a wider group copying the original request, pointing out what was so good and saying how much time
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I don’t actually know. And I was about to joke, but on second thought bet it is actually true, that at the end of the chain, all the money is in actually selling ED pills, hair-loss treatments, and porn.
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I am clearly missing something, but at that point, why not just allow the client (presumably a web app running in a browser in most cases) to just make requests via SQL? You would of course want to add authentication/authorization laye
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I may be in the minority, but at my last job I had some pretty great project managers that had us using Jira in a way that was simple and helpful. I think part of that was they had experience and political capital. So they chose to use only
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I agree with you, especially about McCandless. But I ask myself, where is the line? What level of risk stops being rude?
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by sopooneo 6y ago
Does this mean that distinct, non-flying species of dinosaur independently evolved to be able to fly? Or does it mean that one species of dinosaur evolved to have the ability to fly, and then further branched into all know species of birds?
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by sopooneo 6y ago
There must be some formal and rigorous way to argue against such crazy complex plans. Because I've seen my share as well, almost universally disastrous. Perhaps they are optimizing for the "best possible" outcome rather than
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by sopooneo 6y ago
That, along with the parent comment, clinched it for me. Thank you.
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I'm not high up the ladder, but like many others here, I am a boss myself. I don't think all of us have such terrible motives. I know my boss doesn't. And yes, we also were in an open office before all being sent home. Thou
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I write code for many projects. I vastly prefer those that forbid my access to the production instance. So much less stress.
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I taught in Boston for five years. Something that almost no one outside the profession seems to understand is that a teacher's number one function is to inspire students to work . For the vast majority of students, that requires physi
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by sopooneo 6y ago
I have used that pattern in my apps and found it works well. But then I've watched video from respected DB experts, that I learn a great deal from, where they practically beg you to stop using nullable columns. So I'm torn, becaus
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I freelanced for a few months for a local high-end cabinet maker. I helped them integrate their online ordering system with the automated fabrication equipment. It was, by far the most I have ever enjoyed programming. Coordinating with su
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by sopooneo 7y ago
In my twenties, with no responsibilities and with some money, I thought to get a motorcycle and learn to ride it. I stopped when I looked at my room and saw the vast number of things I was already dabbling with and deep-diving. I knew that
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by sopooneo 7y ago
You are good. You can discuss all the things about the page the client likes and how you were so happy to get it just the way he wanted. Then you offer to do subsequent pages at your working rate. Big smile (even over the phone), big enth
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by sopooneo 7y ago
The thing is, you have to take it all without a sign of unhappiness or grumble. Roll with it and deal with it... until you don't. Then you go hard against. You can never be halfway.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
By this logic we are speculating that perhaps being blind from birth blocks the symptoms of schizophrenia to the point that it is no longer a "disease". I don't know if this is correct, but a compelling idea.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I think saying the system didn't fail relies an overly tight notion of the MCAS system boundary.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
Above all else: listen. Your job will no longer be primarily about creating good code, it will be about making it as easy as possible for everyone else on your team to do so. Writing well is very important. I literally spend half my day wri
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by sopooneo 7y ago
Absolutely yes. It's true of all organizations, but I've found that with non-profits especially, just figuring out the need you are trying to address is quite difficult. It makes me think of all that uproar for some iPad app for
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I am with you on this. When I look up new companies and can't get a basic idea of their product/service even after spending minutes on their home page, it drives me batty. But I also have a lesson from my former decades on earth
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by sopooneo 7y ago
One thing that has always impressed me about these systems: I've never read a story about a corrupt manager of the deposited funds betting them on the stock market and losing them. That's something we in The States have had a hard
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by sopooneo 7y ago
My thought was that story points can be used once they are turned into velocity by dividing by time. And you can say that adding this feature half baked now in short time, will inevitably drop our velocity by 10% in the future.
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by sopooneo 7y ago
I hear you on tech debt, but in my conception, it is just one portion of "long term cost multiplier". Because even a perfectly coded and tested feature adds weight to a system and slows future development.

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