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by zikzak 6y ago
Yeah, I did explain why that wasn't "how we did it", and tried not to sound like a know it all (I am definitely not this). I am way less judgemental now and a lot of the comments here are making me rethink what I thought abou
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by zikzak 6y ago
That's a good point. We were talking MS SQL but yes, that would make way more sense.
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by zikzak 6y ago
He was a radical honestly type guy. It was all on the table and we had lots of success stories. We would give anyone a chance which let a lot of self taught, entry level people get work. I got a ton of experience mentoring people, as well (
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by zikzak 6y ago
Wow, ok. To be clear, I'm a water bottle kind of person but telling adults they can't drink bottled water just seems disrespectful.
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by zikzak 6y ago
I'll bite. Why did they take away the water?
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by zikzak 6y ago
I cannot imagine telling my very busy, more stressed than me, top level exec wife that she was on her own for a week so I could bang out some code. She wants me to be successful but that's a little too much to ask.
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by zikzak 6y ago
This is also the solution for developers. You sit down and do the work. Some days are better than others. If you have rituals or strategies to maximize that productive time, that's great, but don't sit around waiting for the muse
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by zikzak 6y ago
A developer joined a team I was on once. The boss was infamous for hiring anyone with a pulse and assigning a small client project. Sink or swim. As the senior dev it was my job to provide info as needed and subtly assess the new, potential
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by zikzak 6y ago
I had to run a job ad for a programmer so I took the template provided by HR, added my list of buzzwords and acronyms, and corrected the many factual, grammatical, and spelling errors in the original document. They ran my ad but the only pa
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by zikzak 6y ago
I am one of millions (I assume) who learned to program with K&R and gcc (using a Linux distro I got from a CD-ROM in the back of a Linux book). I have very fond memories of sitting with it, reading things over and over, knowing the answ
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by zikzak 6y ago
I don't want to be dismissive but I think we all go through this. My dream of building robots was kind of crushed when I realized as a mature student coming into a cs program after eight years of working blue collar jobs, that I might
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by zikzak 6y ago
I live in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. We're are downwind from a compost facility sometimes. The smell is horrible k if you grew up using outhouses, it's the smell after a weekend when the extended family visits).
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by zikzak 6y ago
Also: maintaining a work wardrobe (more important for some than others), dealing with meals (packing, transporting, etc), forced social interactions that have no work value (Larry stops by every morning 15 minutes after you are in the zone
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by zikzak 6y ago
As a kid, the only real toy I had was Lego (and a bike, etc). I had other odds and ends but we didn't buy toys (my family was financially secure, my parents were just cheap/not into material stuff). Being the youngest grandchild o
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by zikzak 6y ago
I have no dog in this fight and am not even really a fan but always thought Gaga was a legit artist. Do have any proof she's not?
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by zikzak 6y ago
That is literally how I have justified every single expenditure on tools for myself and my team for going on twenty years.
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by zikzak 6y ago
Are they trying to cool down demand or are they trying to create a climate where people feel they should list thier home now before the market cools?
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by zikzak 6y ago
I was finicky as a kid and was not catered to so I lived on pb on whole wheat, raisins, carrots, and apples (I are other foods but didn't enjoy it unless it was total junk - very rare in our house). At some point (mid-80s) my mother de
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by zikzak 6y ago
Temperature can change the starch/sugar balance in the potatoes as well.
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by zikzak 6y ago
That may be true (ok, it is definitely true) but we have to start somewhere. I know a lot of people my age who grew up (like me!) in a house with guns and hunting that do not hunt or own guns. I don't even have anything against respons
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by zikzak 6y ago
It's time for the adults to take care of this. I understand the deeply embedded gun culture and stockpiles. But what would you do if you found out porcelain toilets were killing people at this rate? You'd ban them and start progra
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by zikzak 6y ago
Come to Canada if you think it is bad in the US!
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by zikzak 6y ago
Not defending him but it was very clear after this that admins were willing and able to do this. That's good to know, at least.
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by zikzak 6y ago
I don't think I did a good job of articulating my point. By the time I wash out all the domain specific stuff, I believe I am left with a post that is even less valuable than a link to a Stack Overflow discussion about the same issue.
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by zikzak 6y ago
I have personally turned down an offer very much like this. I could have paid my (at the time) salary and benefits with about 2 days work a week with the option to bill as much time over that as I wanted as long as I agreed to work at least
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by zikzak 6y ago
I love the "Wales" typo, here. :)
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by zikzak 6y ago
I work on a well established, closed source, trade secrets style e-commerce site. I can never seem to think about anything I could write up that would not involve me reworking everything to be more general. I also think it would largely boi
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by zikzak 6y ago
I don't judge, it's a very personal decision and there's so much that goes into raising any child. Our two anecdotes illustrate how easy it is to find people at either end of this continuum. This stuff is very difficult for p
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by zikzak 6y ago
Thank you for this, I have been out of the freelancing game for over 10 years and wasn't sure what it was like these days.
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by zikzak 6y ago
This is exactly how I feel. That 1.5 - 2 hours each night when I know no one wants or needs me to do anything is invaluable for me mental health. I know I should get more sleep but I need that time to not resent the fact that I get so littl

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