toadi

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by toadi 3y ago
There is a pre-internet and Internet pre-Stackoverflow bit. Called O'reilly books. Learning to program for example Perl. I had the learning book, the reference book and the cookbook. learning I did once, the reference had post its on i
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by toadi 3y ago
Lol yeah the insightful questions. I don't remember that much from high school anymore to make it relevant. Like I have been working for 25 years in IT maybe that is a bit more relevant? Another one was the GPA. First of all after a ho
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by toadi 3y ago
In my home country no one can do a background check like that. But they can ask me to produce a "proof of good conduct and morals". Seldom they ask for this. The only places they ask for it I know of is working for NATO, EU or som
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by toadi 3y ago
Close to real life issues :) Traffic.
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by toadi 3y ago
Maybe US is out of whack a bit with salaries. As software engineer I never made 80k in Europe. I made more when I was freelance engineer. Now I live in Asia only the very senior people will make like around 100k. I have had several leadersh
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by toadi 3y ago
I never live without noise. Not thanks to what is around me but due to tinnitus. It is just background noise for me. But have friends where they are more disturbed by it...
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by toadi 3y ago
I started coding because I loved games. Thing was there was no unreal or other frameworks to help out. I was no Carmack writing my own 3d engine. I'm just not good enough in math for all that. But once I retire I will go back at writin
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by toadi 3y ago
Can't review your past employers anymore...
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by toadi 3y ago
Archived all my old mail in a paid service. Still use the google one for the easy one tap login at many places. But if possible I added the other account too. Some places you can link logins together with regular email password.
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by toadi 3y ago
what is happening with me is I start to consume less and less content online. Many movies and series are crap and I don't like them. Video games the same. I'm not sure it is because I'm getting older and have the classic it u
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by toadi 3y ago
This brings back memories. Was linux only since the 90s until 2009. I went to mac and now I just use windows with wsl2. Fluxbox was my favorite window manager.
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by toadi 3y ago
There was a book written in 1936 and it is the only one you need to read. https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0... Here us a synopsis: https://fs.blog/how-to-win-friends-and-
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by toadi 3y ago
First 10 year of my career(am now close to my 25 years into my career). Yup searching and hustling. After that during good economic times I get pinged/called with job offers. During down turns the only jobs came through my own network.
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by toadi 3y ago
I worked for a large health insurance company. The development team switched to macbooks and could install their own tools. Corporate laptops where shitty and no one had local admin. The installed a tool like that on the macbooks. In the en
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by toadi 3y ago
In the Oreilly days if you wanted to learn about a language there were 3 options. 1/ Learn the language with exercises - Fun book but you only use it once 2/ The definitive reference guide - that was the book I had on my desk with
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by toadi 3y ago
I am getting old. But in the old days when you asked on IRC a question that could be answered by reading the manual you got the answer RTFM. Then there was stackoverflow where everyone got used asking questions and people obliged to answer
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by toadi 3y ago
think around 2010 I worked for the one and only payment processor in my country. All ATM tx, POS, online were handled. The back office handling was done with Agile and Java. It was a pile of garbage. The frontend was still a massive mainfra
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by toadi 3y ago
My personal favorites are waterman just because during highschool this was my favorite tool to write. The one I had at that time was expensive for me at that time ;)
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by toadi 3y ago
Same here. Have a nice Chopin Mont Blanc fountain pen. 2 starwalkers a rollerbal and pencil. I have some leather good stuff too. I would never ever buy electronics from them. Heck I won't even buy anything else besides pens and leather
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by toadi 3y ago
Weird because I am split on this. I still game a lot but never got those feelings again that immersed me in the world. Sid Meiers Pirates in my C64 for example. the first CIV or Xcom. I still rack up significant game time but the immersion
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by toadi 3y ago
Like really? 80% of tests I read are crap anyway. Just crap written to pass the test coverage detection. For basic CRUD and simple business logic I see TDD work. But for example most projects I work on I have no clue what or no clue how to
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by toadi 3y ago
For me it was installing redhat and finding the linux hoiwtos. For example networking was awesome and detailed going deep into TCP/IP etc. At those times to do shit you had to learn it properly. Not just copy and paste it from stackove
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by toadi 3y ago
My GF watches youtube vertically... only using 1/3rd of the screen.
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by toadi 3y ago
I think it is an American culture thing. In Europe I worked in tech for at least 20 years now. Take 15 public holidays and 20 to 30 paid vacation holidays, affordable health care and education and yes I make less money then my American coun
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by toadi 3y ago
Isn't that bit the same as when people use the word literally but not meaning literally? It grinds your gears but who am I to tell people how to speak?
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by toadi 3y ago
Exactly I live 600km from the capital. 1 hour flight. Still takes me more then half a day to get to my destination. I ride my motorcycle most of the times 6 hours door to door. With pit stops on the way. Trains are slow here but I take the
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by toadi 3y ago
think last time I consulted it almost 10 years ago. Was fed up with it anyway. Best thing for your career is read the documentation of the tech you are using. Most of the stuff is just right there. Heck even on IRC 20 years ago first remark
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by toadi 5y ago
Funny to see a blogpost. This is part from our onboarding. We ask github handle and ask people to use work email to commit to our repo. Hence the conditional so you can keep using your personal email for your own work or opensource.
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by toadi 5y ago
Question is always what is suspicious ?
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by toadi 5y ago
god I have hundreds of threads and I hate it....

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