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by unoti 12y ago
Being engaged is terrific. Forcing yourself to do it anyway when it's not fun is at the very heart of professionalism and the pursuit of excellence. Engagement is important, but so is self-discipline. Consider what Frank Herbert says
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Perhaps the most important lesson the author failed to learn in school is: sometimes if you want to succeed and keep The Man off your back you gotta Play The Game. Real life isn't all about the best people encouraging and helping each
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The difference between "I nailed it all down" and "everybody between myself and the CEO was an idiot" may simply be a matter of perspective. Let's say both are true. Focus on the former, rather than the latter, in
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Here's an often overlooked technique for older, self-taught engineers like me: study. Go get this book, The Algorithm Design Manual by Skienna. Also pick up a whiteboard, and a nice set of dry-erase markers. Read the book, and do wha
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This reminds me of a type of professional that I see far too often. The professional who specializes in not doing their job. It happens with programmers, as well as many other specialties. You've probably seen them: - Software develo
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I've learned through experience that decoupling the link between your brain and your mouth can change your life and make you a better person. Years ago on HN I discovered the No Complaining Challenge[1]. I took the challenge, and cont
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> For backend/webservices, I initially tended to agree Go is a killer tool. But if you are a Python shop, why would I bring this into my stack instead of using PyPy (or soon, Pyston) for CPU-intensive tasks? Two big things here, for
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Here you go! "This is done by selecting Edit->Project Settings->Editor in the application menu and enabling External Version Control support by selecting Visible Meta Files in the dropdown for Version Control. This will show a te
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It's super trivial now to set up your own version control at the command line. One check box in editor preferences and I was up and running with my own private free mercurial repos on Bitbucket.
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> I still wouldn't try and target mobile or low-end PCs with Unreal Engine 4. Agreed. I'd rather use Unreal Engine for lots of reasons. The technician in me prefers UE4, but the businessman in me made me choose Unity. Here&#x
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Bullet Boy looks amazing. Regarding Unity vs. Unreal, it looks to me like Unity is better for targeting mobile devices, at least if you're planning to deploy this year. Last time I played Tappy Chicken, it devastates my batter and mak
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I have a rule I use for fighting this: don't learn more than 1 new technology at a time. On any project there will be a bunch of technologies I'd like to use but am not proficient with. I limit it to just one at a time. Sometim
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The real punch line would be if they offered equity in exchange for the low salary.
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There's nothing inherently unnatural about taking a bottom up approach to solving problems. Sometimes, knowing you're going to need a particular tool and doing that first makes sense. I think of it like the cooking technique Mis
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Note that this strategy wears down. If you started this strategy 8 years ago, you'd be making websites with cgi, perl, and asp and desktop apps with Visual Basic and Access. If you're going to be a developer for more than a handfu
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by unoti 12y ago
Several things that have worked for me. 1) Exercise, a lot. Put it first, so that you'll actually do it. 2) Eat right. These things, exercise and food, can have a far greater impact on your work than you might realize. 3) Discipline.
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This was something keeping me back from Go before. However, in 2015 when you're doing so much more on the client, and things like Angular and React are available, this concern becomes reduced or eliminated.
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Last I looked into this 6 months ago, there were a few things keeping me away from Unreal Engine and keeping me on Unity. I need to be able to deploy to the web and have the client execute there. And I definitely need to deploy to iOS and
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I suggest you use Bootstrap, and use that unmodified. It'll look far better than anything you'd do by hand. You can also get free themes to change it, or just use it as it is, or upgrade it later.
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An interesting analysis on this topic of the feasibility of human space travel was written by Charlie Stross here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/06/the_high...
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I work on a team with a graphic designer who cannot code at all, and is doing amazing things with Unreal Engine. This includes coding shaders (yes, shaders!) using only the blueprint drag and drop system. You just set up how you want it t
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I know the feeling of wanting to be in touch with my technology roots. That desire is what got me into Ham Radio. I highly recommend it, because it's got a healthy mix of practical usefulness combined with old school technology.
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Now it's time for a multi-player Wobble Wockets, where the only way to make it to the moonbase is for the people who come before you to set up little outposts and blast rocks for the people behind them. Also, is there a moonbase? Or is
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There's a much deeper thing going on here than Flappy Bird. The rhythm of it is more multi-dimensional. Flappy Bird works really in one dimension. This works more in two dimensions. Also there's a Tetris-like quality to it wher
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Annoying as this game is, its simple game mechanic is far superior to Flappy Bird. It's genius. If some form of this doesn't go totally viral, then it's way underrated.
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You worked on the ST firmware! That's so cool!
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Back when I was a Cub Scout, I learned assembly language on my 6809-based TRS-80 Color Computer. A few years later at my first professional job we ran 300+ users on a single 68030 based minicomputers from Alpha Micro. I ended up learning 68
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Yes. Pretty much any kind of sensor, your brain can figure out how to make use of it. One big example I can think of is humans learning to use echolocation, similar to what bats do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_e
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> Let's remember that in those 42 years the number of BASIC, FORTRAN, or COBOL jobs has diminished through to almost nothing. That's true, but it's a hockey stick / logarithmic thing. When I started coding, the BASIC
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I own my own company too, and the loneliness is a very serious issue. I miss having someone else to bounce ideas off of. And often it feels like I'm the only one that cares whether I'm working during a given 1-day period or not,

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