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by tgittos 7y ago
I second the Pinboard suggestion. By paying the relatively inexpensive yearly fee, you get full text archives too which is great in the fight against link rot.
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by tgittos 8y ago
I made the jump from developer to team lead, and all the advice here is great. One thing that I wasn't prepared for and that I don't see other people mentioning (on a cursory glance at the replies) is that your reward function for
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by tgittos 16y ago
I just posted on Twitter about a programming version of NaNoWriMo. This is exactly what I was thinking. Lets see how I go juggling this, finding a job, getting a visa, having family visit from overseas and going through a wedding ceremony a
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by tgittos 16y ago
Yeah, I hear you about the note thing. If I even get into the US in time for my wedding, I have to apply for permission to go on our honeymoon. We have to plan two honeymoons, one in case I can get permission to leave and re-enter the US, o
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by tgittos 16y ago
Agreed. My fiancee and myself have been going through a K-1 visa since January, and while it's nearly over, I still have to fly to another city to get an interview before I get my visa. As far as I'm aware, the K-1 visa is one of the fastes
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by tgittos 16y ago
I don't use a single editor. Currently I'm using Visual Studio for all .NET related things, because it's a nice, overall IDE. I'm also getting into C++, for which I use vim in Ubuntu (although I am far, far from being a decent vim user). I
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by tgittos 17y ago
I've tried a bunch of computer based solutions, software designed to help with doing GTD, to-do lists, Remember The Milk, a fancy, small leather bound notebook, all sorts of things. These days I carry around a small, cheap 50c notebook that
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by tgittos 17y ago
Robin's also released the source to his bot, if you want to run it locally: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rb1006/projects:marioai All you need to run it is the latest competition code: http://code.google.com/p/marioai/
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by tgittos 17y ago
I'd definitely be interested.
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by tgittos 17y ago
I don't know if association with 'goto' is the best idea for a programming language. I like 'Stop'. They could call their tutorial 'Stop Programming!'
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by tgittos 17y ago
This. I use Chrome and Firefox. I keep work related sites in Firefox, and personal sites in Chrome. I'll often open tabs of interesting things in Chrome to read when I lose focus at work, or need a break. Sometimes I can have up to 30 tabs
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by tgittos 17y ago
This is probably what you're talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=848370 If not, it's good anyway.
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by tgittos 17y ago
I don't consider it changing my life, rather attacking the problem in a different matter. I will always chase my interests and goals, but rather than doing it for someone else's company and someone else's ideas, I'd rather do it on my own,
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by tgittos 17y ago
Me too, though I've only just realised that's what I've done. My current job is great - I work as a web developer in a small web shop. The work is low stress, pays ok, and has great perks like letting me work from wherever I want. As a resu
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by tgittos 17y ago
A few years ago I found myself working 70+ hour weeks for nearly 2 months because the client whose project I was put on had sold their software product to a large telecommunications company before it was even specced out, let alone develope
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by tgittos 17y ago
I too have found the Pomodoro Technique fantastic, especially when combined with a GTD-like list of tasks for the day, broken down as atomically as they can be. It's really helped me get through some of the most mundane work I've had to do
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by tgittos 17y ago
I spend a lot of my free time doing self directed learning from text books and frequently hit a wall where I don't know where to even begin. Usually I recognise this as either an incomplete understanding of the topic, or a representation of
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by tgittos 17y ago
A random grab bag of spend time with my partner and friends, watch movies, read, code personal projects, blog and goof off online. Some weeks I'm really energetic about progressing in my personal projects (or getting side tracked and coming
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by tgittos 17y ago
Two I have in my reader: Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP - http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/ Igvata - http://www.igvita.com/ (Ruby based, sometimes too terse)
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by tgittos 17y ago
What computer vision blogs do you read?