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I have no huge grudge against PHP, but I'd also like really to see an answer to this.
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16y ago
Well, checking in that much hardware (encrypted or no) on a commercial flight is of course incredibly poor tradecraft.
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16y ago
First, don't think about it as "throwing away" a year of work. Think about it as a comparatively modest annual tuition fee at the most effective learning institution you will ever have the privilege of attending, a.k.a. the School of Hard
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16y ago
Umm, if you think you're "getting" programming the first moment you let your fingers have a go at it, then you're definitely not getting it.
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16y ago
need to add another category, "nearly have it but don't know it yet"
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16y ago
at least be humane about it. you don't simply "fire" people for performing below expectations. do the extra legwork, and find a way to get them properly "laid off", ie, "eliminate their positions" -- which shouldn't be too difficult here,
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16y ago
it's all in the code. ask to see some large-scale code samples. if they can't provide any (which is understandable, as these are often the property of former employers; and a lot of people who lead real lives don't have a lot of spare time
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16y ago
The single most useful thing I've found is to find a way to get past the very idea that this is a one-way process, whereby it's supposedly just you who has to prove their (intellectual, economic) worthiness to others (whose own credentials
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16y ago
Ugh. No. Don't start doing meds just to get through job interviews. Better yet, don't do them at all (if you can possibly avoid it). The fact is nobody really knows how they work, and they all have rafts of side effects which their makers
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16y ago
First off, congratulations on moving to one of the city's famously non-existent "neighborhoods" (in that nobody, save for real estate brokers and the glossy lifestyle rags refers to the genearal area to the east of Morningside Park as "Sout