wnolens

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   by wnolens 5y ago

   I was a freelance/contract developer for 2 years, went back to full time. And I had a golden ticket (a company had full time amount of work avail, I only did and billed for 20h/wk, paid every other week). Now that almost all dev w
2. 662.▲
   by wnolens 5y ago

   I'm also using a 2013 MacBook pro as my personal machine. I walked into the Apple store a few years ago with the intention of replacing it with a shiny new one. I hated the new keys and at the time couldn't get a physical ESC key,
3. 663.▲
   by wnolens 5y ago

   I think in an ideal world, I'd have my split keyboard sit in a custom fixture with an apple trackpad placed where my thumbs rest as per my MacBook pro. On mbp i never feel need for a mouse.
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   by wnolens 5y ago

   I use the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard ( https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/ ) which provides this natively too. I really liked it, but still after about 2 months of only using this as my mouse, it couldn't fully replace a
5. 665.▲
   by wnolens 5y ago

   Imagining my own mother in this scenario is only possible in a sitcom episode
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   by wnolens 5y ago

   Yes, I peeled myself out of bed to leetcode and got back into full time. It wasn't fun. I was pretty confident I could get back in, that was the safety net that let me walk out of a job with nowhere to land. Honestly didn't imagin
7. 667.▲
   by wnolens 5y ago

   Tried this. Quit and lived a truly romantic life for 2 years. Most happy time of my life - really. But my ventures didn't succeed. With no partner or family to fall back on, I did contract development to not piss away savings. Hated t
8. 668.▲
   by wnolens 5y ago

   An old very experienced co-worker once said, "code is written once but read a thousand times". Most of the old wizards I worked with hunted and pecked, looking down constantly.
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   by wnolens 5y ago

   Thanks for the story. I was in the hospital yesterday for unfortunate reasons and it stuck in my mind that working in healthcare is one of the few sectors that feels worth spending one's productive years in (to me).
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    by wnolens 5y ago

    > I try to be happy for them and gracious and to listen and enthuse whilst they tell me of their good fortune Just like you don't have to live up to an economic ideal, nor do you have to live up to a rational/moral ideal. Maybe
11. 671.▲
    by wnolens 5y ago

    > changing your geographic frame of reference really helps. Thanks for saying this. I was stuck and faced my problems head-on for years in therapy (and every day life). More than one therapist I saw for an extended period of time really
12. 672.▲
    by wnolens 5y ago

    same. my evenings and weekend are totally gone to put out this fire. which I wouldn't do if i wasn't obligated to
13. 673.▲
    by wnolens 5y ago

    Not integrated into laptop, but since 99% of my laptop time is spent docked, i'm using https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/