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by tmm84 7y ago
Japan is still using these technologies because most Japanese aren't computer literate. Many are smartphone literate. Most of what I have experienced in my time in Japan so far are clients trying to move from pen/paper to smartpho
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by tmm84 7y ago
Not to poke holes here but that link shows agricultural emissions with animal manure [aka feces] (14% of the 9%) and livestock ruminants [aka farts and other digestive processes] (~33% of the 9%). So, about 47% of that 9% is directly relate
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by tmm84 7y ago
Thankfully I don't have to work with Jira anymore. However, when I was working with it the speed was a major problem. Another major problem was clicking something that go into editing mode for a ticket item. Switching between browsers,
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by tmm84 7y ago
Since I moved to Japan I have always looked back at pieces like this and get a good laugh.
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by tmm84 7y ago
When my wife came to America the first time she got asked that by department store employees and she kept thinking that something must be wrong for everyone to worry about how she was feeling.
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by tmm84 7y ago
This answer is spot on. User base is always more important than code base. ROI is what business people care about and code quality doesn't matter as much as does it work as advertised. Also there are always those coders who'd work
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by tmm84 7y ago
I agree 100% with this. I once had a project that was versions behind the current platform. I couldn't upgrade because the tools to upgrade were gone and I was constantly having to fire off questions to the lead contributor who was aro
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by tmm84 7y ago
I've seen this a few times. The offshore team will either get better (because you've taught them CS101) or they will produce low quality source that'll be poor unless you personally read each and every single line. Either way
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by tmm84 7y ago
My comment is going to cover some of the answers given by others but here is my view of the situation. Management/HR: 1. They don't know programming (to them it's magic). 2. They are afraid of paying for people who are less t
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by tmm84 7y ago
For me it is the get everything setup to work correctly in a "Windows" environment. Compilers, system variables, command lines (powershell, cmd and bash) and editor/debugger setup take a lot of time. Almost every new project
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by tmm84 7y ago
It is super slow for me as well. The usual Jira pages at least a full minute to render. Almost every ticket gets "accidentally" into edit mode and I have to click a button to get of edit mode but a slight click on text sends right
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by tmm84 7y ago
This is something that is actually interesting to me. It does simplify the whole get a web service up part of development. The one thing that isn't touted enough on the page is how much this was brought about by interns. I hope those i
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by tmm84 7y ago
I believe in the next 15 years that developing on a machine you are working on will be a thing of the past. With cloud computing, containers and the like, you'll just go to a web site and code everything in the browser.
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by tmm84 7y ago
I've been feeling this way for years. Web browsers were meant to show mostly static pages, not pages trying to dance around as full blown programs.
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by tmm84 7y ago
The whole countryside vegetable stall blew me away when I first to Japan but now I love it. Just grab, leave the cash in the box and go. Most of the time the vegetables there aren't prime targets so stealing a bundle of spinach is prob
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by tmm84 7y ago
I've been programming in Java since I started working as a programmer. Learning to setup a Windows machine for Java development is difficult if you aren't familiar with environment variables and the like. Java, like C++, has gotte
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by tmm84 7y ago
I think desktop/laptop computers that are standalone will be a niche again. Chromebooks, iPad Pros and the like will make always online a requirement not a luxury. Facial/voice recognition along with AI that will constantly try to
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by tmm84 7y ago
The people/times when I seen crazy hours worked are those doing paperwork or working on a death march for some project they didn't think when accepting it.
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by tmm84 7y ago
I 100% agree with having passion/interest in the field. Learning and growing as a programmer requires time. Its like becoming a martial artist in that sense. You'll only get better with practice, patience and time.
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by tmm84 7y ago
I know several people who use voice assistants because of visual impairments. Touching, swiping and tapping is several times more harder with a visual impairment.
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by tmm84 7y ago
Documentation has been one of the pain points of my programming career. I've worked on some big projects with software that can't afford to fail and needs to meet a bunch of requirements. All of them only had user manuals and zero
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by tmm84 7y ago
The problem, at least what I remember, was that each state had a different voting style. Some had punches, some had squares you filled in by hand. The chance to make mistakes and the like was there (crossing out a square or double punching)
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by tmm84 7y ago
That is the best that companies cargo culting the big four have for evaluating the skills and experience of professionals. The industry is going to have better ways in the future for sure. The current state of the industry is that many have
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by tmm84 7y ago
I can attest to having lived in a place, around 28 years, where the wet bulb got near 30C in the summer that it was quite miserable.
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by tmm84 7y ago
First, why they are replacing you is based on the belief that these people are the better deal. Changing a belief is harder than changing an attitude (being able to spot an attitude vs a belief is a real challenge). So, anything can do or c
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by tmm84 7y ago
These are bits of knowledge from my personal experience in startups: 1. Most of the stuff you write will not be used. 2. Product owners/sales people will change their designs/expectations on a whim (get ready for it) and expect a
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by tmm84 7y ago
I worked at a dealership that sold 4X4 and trucks in Houston, Texas several years back. Big giant grille guards were sold all the time. Most of the buyers never drove off road or even in the country. So, I agree that those guards are more d
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by tmm84 7y ago
I've noticed the search results get more and more centered around hot spot sites. My most hated is when xyz site is shown and it just runs a search on that site's internal search that shows 0 results. I just don't understand
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by tmm84 7y ago
If it is a slow day then some good ol' programming algo training with no pressure is fun. You'll look busy and it keeps those programming muscles working. Heck, try a language you don't use and see if you can make a better im
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by tmm84 7y ago
A. Check out archive.org and look for old basic computer game books. Your kids can tackle all the games in JS, Ruby or whatever. Plenty of code to "look" at and it gets them thinking on how xyz work in language A and B. B. Levelin

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