toadi

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by toadi 5y ago
I don't even had a car for the 6 last years. I don't commute(remote work), If I need items I do home delivery, If I need to be somewhere I ride my motorcycle or a cab. I love enduro riding and MX racing though. Tried to do this el
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by toadi 5y ago
Not by sending a SWAT team.... https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Belgium/Un... Here you can see we have more crime per 1000 then America. But we have significant less gun crimes and/or vi
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by toadi 5y ago
I moved to a country where I need less money. My life style is actually much better while making a little bit less money then I did in my own country. That works for me and not for everyone that want to stay close to family or/and have
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by toadi 5y ago
Nice stories. I just did the physical labor and hacked on my C64 as a hobby. Luckily I did the "unpleasant" physical labor and I learned to push through hard work. Actually after 20 years working in IT I hade some successful own c
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by toadi 6y ago
Never read this. As I speak 4 languages and dabble in 2 others. English is actually my 3rd language but currently most used language. Still it is hard to write natively. I still write my first language structures in English. I try to be tho
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by toadi 6y ago
and there is also dendron.... https://dendron.so/ I used all of them and settled on dendron. Because Dendron makes the same links and nodes as roam and all the others. But it is still also hierarchal. After so many years of
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by toadi 6y ago
Totally agree. Have this issue in most issues. Even Jira does this.
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by toadi 6y ago
On that last part a Jr. CS question that you maybe not even use in real life for some CS jobs. People forget that not everyone is writing awesome ML things or other awesome things you read about in newspapers. Most of the people are writing
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by toadi 6y ago
See you had the first comment here. This was my thinking too. Whole thesis about free market and protecting markets and not being beneficial for competition etc. I'm all for easing this. But every coin has its flipside. Consumer protec
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by toadi 6y ago
The hard part here is getting a curriculum to learn software engineering. Writing code is much much more then just a language. So much time spent on that. Just learn one freaking language and move on. eg. I started with Basic -> QW Basic
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by toadi 6y ago
Most adults can't either and yes there are some who can....
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by toadi 6y ago
I actually stopped using email for private communication. Most emails are just invoices, confirmations or license keys. Gave up on email few years ago. Professional I use email for mostly the same and for official trace communication....
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by toadi 6y ago
Want to see those configs...
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by toadi 6y ago
Huh, where is the companies money coming from ?
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by toadi 6y ago
because I didn't have a lot of money I was working on a 486 when pentiums were the normal. I used a pentium when most where on pentium 3. thank god for linux to make my computers workable. Mail: mutt, Editor: vim, actually most like ne
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by toadi 6y ago
We are a remote company. I give take home projects too. Mostly I give them couple of days but mention they shouldn't work more then 4 hours on it. Our test is actually quite simple and everyone that did any kind of development should h
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by toadi 6y ago
Seems like most people cargo cult companies together or even keep big companies running by cargo culting. Getting praised if they are successful but it''s maybe not on purpose they got successful.
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by toadi 6y ago
I scanned through the comments. There is no editor war anymore these days ;) For development I wouldn't have issues as I just use VIM and CLI. Neovim currently has linting and auto-complete and works so much better then before. Actuall
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by toadi 6y ago
I don't organize my life so I never had a need for TODO lists. I get stress from seeing TODO lists. I deal with shit when it's in my plate. Maybe I could mitigate some things by planning better. But until know I planned as I need
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by toadi 6y ago
I'm 43 now and working like 23 years in IT in various roles. Started a few companies and did that all on a high school diploma. One of my dreams is when I retire to finally go to university and get a proper degree.This more for emotion
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by toadi 6y ago
Was thinking the same. When I look at infrastructure I look at SPOF. This has such a glaring one that I think why go through this ordeal? Even managing later and trouble shooting it will be such a pain in the but...
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by toadi 6y ago
I have have worked as freelance contractor for most of my career. In my country 80% of decent IT people do this. We can demand higher income because our contracts only last 3 months so it's easy to lay us off when we are not needed (we
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by toadi 7y ago
Seems odd... To be honest I'm from Belgium and like how layoffs are handled in my country. There is a rulebook with actual legislation behind it. I like that because it is easy to know for both parties what the expectations are. Mostly
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by toadi 7y ago
This is still a thing... working in the field for 20 years and really is 15 years ago LOC as KPI went away... Why is it back?
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by toadi 7y ago
Title should be if you get stopped in the US by the police. The US until today is not the world. In my country have been stopped by police a lot. Most of the time they are civilized. Some cases they can come over as dicks but as long as you
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by toadi 7y ago
I live in Thailand and always get the Thai links first. Hate it because can't read Thai.
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by toadi 7y ago
43 here and I was a CTO in my own startups that provided me a nest egg. Done Digital Transformation Coaching for a big chunk of it. But my last employer hired me after 1 year contract of doing this as tech lead. Much to my amazement because
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by toadi 7y ago
This is about the same library: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/always_review_your_dependenc... Claims there are it's written by people who don't understand Go that well.
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by toadi 7y ago
Before I had a reference book of the language. Also I would program always in the same language before stack overflow. Now I switch between so many languages. But still use references. But now it's easier in Dash.app I have references
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by toadi 7y ago
Not understand why everything needs to be so left/right. I like parts of socialism think we need to provide some common things as a society and I believe in regulated capitalism. Hey I even changed my mind how to implement things for t

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