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by user68858788 5y ago
I’m just now looking for a house. So far I’ve been throwing extra money into vanguard funds. It seems like waiting for a housing crash doesn’t make sense because stocks will drop too. My buying power would be about the same before and after
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by user68858788 5y ago
I’ve gone months without being productive. For me, it’s caused by a mix of ADD and depression, which results in no feeling of achievement or dopamine when I finish tasks. What gets me started is usually the stress of somebody needing someth
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by user68858788 5y ago
Several senior employees left the company to form new studios, taking several people with them. Ben Brode and Mike Morheim for example.
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by user68858788 5y ago
I went to college for art, but had to drop out due to high expenses. I became a self taught programmer, starting with game development. That didn’t pay off, of course, but it was intrinsically interesting which allowed me to learn useful te
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by user68858788 5y ago
Beyond needing to visit the pharmacy monthly because vyvanse can’t be delivered, my life didn’t change much. I still have just as much trouble focusing as usual. Maybe I should increase the dosage..
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by user68858788 5y ago
I briefly (3 semester) went to an art school where the president’s motto is, “there’s no such thing as a starving artist.” I learned my major has a rate of <10% of being hired after graduation. I saw a several graduates working minimum w
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by user68858788 5y ago
I find that pouring boiling water into coffee grounds makes a bitter brew. Instead I pour boiling water into a metal container, which is enough to drop it a couple degrees, and then mix grounds into it.
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by user68858788 5y ago
I went from SDE to an escalation engineer. Programming experience is helpful but not required, and I’m only writing code when my team needs tools. I’m on call six weeks per year. It’s a better work/life balance than the SDEs I work wit
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by user68858788 6y ago
Thank you for making this.
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by user68858788 7y ago
How's working in battle.net? I interned on a dev team in 2014 and the general consensus was that work conditions were pretty rough. Is that still the case?
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by user68858788 8y ago
He's hiring a lot of non-devs lately. When I look at the new hire emails for software devs I see a lot more master's than bachelor's - none without a degree. That's anecdotal though, so it might just be my department.
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by user68858788 8y ago
I was hired without a BS. I had 4 years prior experience and applied as a SDE. I got hired as a support engineer and stayed for two years. When I told my manager switching to SDE they said the path was support -> SRE -> Sysadmin ->
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by user68858788 8y ago
Andy Weir was a software engineer before he became an author and wrote The Martian.
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by user68858788 8y ago
Hey this is great! It beats taking out a $200,000 student loan to learn (looking at you, Ringling.)
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by user68858788 8y ago
I can relate, but unfortunately have no real strategy for overcoming this. I've ended up leaving behind the things I used to care so much about, just to avoid the feelings. The feelings only became overwhelming after several months of
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by user68858788 8y ago
I'd take an improv class as an adult if it weren't so nerve wracking.
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by user68858788 8y ago
Does any engineer over mid-level actually still code for most of their day? I'm sure there are exceptions, but most senior engineers I've worked with spend most of their time communicating with other teams, laying out architecture
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by user68858788 8y ago
I've worked as a developer oncall, and as dedicated support engineer oncall. You're absolutely right - management will absolutely refuse to allot time to improvements and bug fixes when there are features to make. It's frustr
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by user68858788 8y ago
While I agree that a simple figure does a good job at explaining what a pointer is, it takes quite a bit longer to develop an intuitive sense of how to effectively work with pointers. In that case it's the more examples, the better.
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by user68858788 8y ago
I second the sentiment of wishing design was more valued. It's a shame, really, that the majority of engineers look down on something that is so essential to customer experience.
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by user68858788 8y ago
I missed the boat here. I unfortunately didn't find a mentor with my first two engineering jobs. Now I'm too experienced to be mentored as a junior, but not good enough to be mid level. I've since been unhappily working suppo
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by user68858788 8y ago
Don't forget the affiliate link! It is annoying and, IMO, reduces the credibility of the author by quite a bit.
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by user68858788 8y ago
So that's why it's hard finding meaningful work - all you more qualified people are looking at the same jobs!
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by user68858788 8y ago
That's probably true. Another factor is that I have support roles on my resume, and now it's really hard to be given a chance at anything other than support. I had an easier time getting programmer interviews when I had no experie
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by user68858788 8y ago
I'm fairly new to this NAS stuff. Is there a reason to have one hard drive per sever, or is that just a limitation of this one in particular? I'm sure that RAID over a network of hard drives is a solved problem, but I wouldn'
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by user68858788 8y ago
When I was younger I was able to go into interviews with the mindset of, "it's their decision and it's okay if they don't think I'm a good fit." It made interviewing easy, and in a lot of cases even enjoyable.
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by user68858788 8y ago
Seems incredibly harsh considering the "crime."
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by user68858788 8y ago
The headline seems to be misleading. Here's Dan Houser's response (lead writer). "There seems to be some confusion arising from my interview with Harold Goldberg. The point I was trying to make in the article was related to h
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by user68858788 8y ago
It varies dramatically by team. Personally I don't think the goal should be to collaborate like the big guys, and instead try to emulate the successful smaller companies. Large companies have the resources to support huge amounts of re
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by user68858788 8y ago
I used to work at Blizzard. A designer found an app store game he liked and reached out to the dev with an interview offer. Attending GDC, I've heard from at least a dozen hiring managers that personal projects look better than degrees

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