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by trcollinson 7y ago
As others have said, find another therapist. We don't have a lot of context to go on here but my therapist who helped me so much never put me down. He often told me important truths but in a way that I could digest and would help me to
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by trcollinson 7y ago
This happened to me as well. I remember getting much much worse. Luckily by that point I was in therapy and that helped a ton.
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by trcollinson 7y ago
I'll give a slightly different perspective. I work with TekSystems a lot. Let's imagine you're a customer and you go into a car dealership. You tell them you want a nice midsized sedan at a certain price level. If the sales p
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by trcollinson 7y ago
Really? I haven't allowed people to log directly only a production environment in almost 10 years. There is definitely a choice.
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by trcollinson 7y ago
It may seem that way, but no I've crossed that chasm long ago. I've debugged on production more than I would ever care to remember. But in all honesty it is easier than ever to stay completely off of production. It's also ext
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by trcollinson 7y ago
Honestly, if you have to hop on production to debug a crazy error, you have two bugs. The infrastructure being so different on production compared to development or local is a fixable issue. As are any other differences between production a
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by trcollinson 7y ago
It's unfortunate that in this day and age we still have people who directly access and touch a production server at all, ever. There is zero need.
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by trcollinson 7y ago
The VCs I work with often use a statistical method to find TAM. The data out there is extremely lacking and often incorrect. They find it by searching Google for targets, making phone calls, gathering the correct questions to ask, asking th
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by trcollinson 7y ago
So I handle this in one of two ways depending on the needs of my company. So first, you use pivotal tracker so you can do it the "pivotal way". (* Disclaimer: I am not a pivot but I worked with them for about 2 years as a client i
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Is that really the sort of argument we want to attribute to crime? I am going to go out on a limb and say that the OP's truck was not spray painted by Banksy. But the person who spray painted it might have thought their efforts were ar
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I absolutely have. I actually enjoy a contract to hire sort of scenario for a lot of my hiring. I think it works out well.
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by trcollinson 8y ago
My best advise and tip is also my simplest. Get a very good tax professional, pay them, and listen to them. Seriously. It took all of the guess work out of taxes for me and made me far money than I spent. (And their fee is a tax write-off!)
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by trcollinson 8y ago
When I hire junior developers the only evaluation I'm looking for is how they fit with me and my team. I don't worry too much about anything beyond basic skills. I then realize that I will have a large amount of training I will ha
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by trcollinson 8y ago
We use an owl [0], an iPad for handling scheduling, and a big tv from Costco. Works very nice. I love the owl. It has a great 360 degree camera setup and directional microphone with no software requirement. [0] https://www.owllab
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by trcollinson 8y ago
You are absolutely right! I'm trying to find some of my past comments about this very topic but yes, I did face horrible burnout and associated anxiety and depression. I was placed on a number of medications by my primary care physicia
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by trcollinson 8y ago
You cite you are burned out and then you quickly dismiss it as something that will go away once you rest. I dare say it won't work like that. Your brain chemistry and thought patterns have been skewed by stress and depression. My sugge
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I'm not defending multilevel marketing pyramid schemes but if you are signing up for one, you are not an employee. You do pay to run certain types of companies (franchises). But if the franchise isn't supporting you then you are b
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I understand where you are going but is this true? Did we really skimp on that or did we instead put into place a culture that is causing busy work and ineffective procedures that could be fixed with the people and resources we currently ha
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I'm quite dissatisfied with my retro slack bot at the moment. I'd be very interested in an alternative! Reach out if you need a tester or just want a new user. My username at Gmail will get you to me.
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by trcollinson 8y ago
As silly as if may sound, the thing that helped me the most is Ruby and Rails. Rails was designed with the idea that small groups of people could make robust applications quickly. So as a full stack developer, it works out very well. Some w
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by trcollinson 8y ago
The short answer is, yes. Many people are hiring many employees. But this is a rather empty cry for help. What do you do for the federal government? What would you like to do in your career? Do you have a resume or even better a portfolio?
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by trcollinson 8y ago
When you take funding you lose control. Period. I am a technical consultant for VCs and my entire job is to evaluate whether a company and product will be a good investment and allow the investors to become more profitable. This always mean
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I found this video and talk to be very enlightening. I know it's not the neatest, most exciting framework, but Rails with Turbolinks sure can do the trick. My last two mobile applications were built in the same way that Sam Stephenson
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by trcollinson 8y ago
There is a quote that says: “Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit.” I would point out another important quote I live by: “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.” So I guess
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I was actually preparing a standing prime rib roast! And trimming the fat. I held the roast with one hand and slices towards that hand with the other. Twice! The first year, shame on the roast. But the second year... lol
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Thank you for what you do. Luckily (fingers crossed) I haven’t needed an Urgent Care on Christmas Day for the last few years. But I did slice open a finger two years in a row (same finger, same stupid slicing accident, I’ve grown better wit
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I know this is not the answer you want to hear (and trust me this should NOT be the answer). But if they have an API that allows you to make these updates, it might be best to use something like Postman to hit the API to make the update whi
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by trcollinson 8y ago
Maybe I’m missing part of the article but who says it was just laying around loaded? It obviously wasn’t locked up as well as it could have been. But I’m sure she knew how to load the rifle and pull the trigger. It’s not a complicated proce
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by trcollinson 8y ago
I'd suggest getting a good attorney to take a look at your current agreement (if you'd like, email me at username over at gmail, I have a good one). From what you have said so far, I would suggest to you that the fact that "t
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by trcollinson 8y ago
True some will though I believe only $10,000 without taking the tax penalty. Definitely worth talking to a cpa before making any decisions.

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