Timpy

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by Timpy 4y ago
I learned on Java and I really feel like it slowed me down in some fundamentals of programming logic. Books were raving about garbage collection, JVM, "everything is an object"; I had no idea what any of that meant or why it woul
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by Timpy 4y ago
I think you would probably find a lot of naive programming and other amateur mistakes. Maybe there's a sweet spot where you want to be just smart enough to solve the problem in an elegant way but too lazy to abstract and overcomplicate
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by Timpy 4y ago
I don't know at which level of detail this line of thinking stops, but it's certainly somewhere after "we don't know the pitch or rhythm for any of the notes in this piece, we can only make educated guesses." Just
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by Timpy 4y ago
I got into this habit long before I got into tech, I wasn't even conscious of the reason why. You're right, it's extremely frustrating when a website breaks middle-click to open in new tab behavior.
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by Timpy 4y ago
I was once the sole report of a "senior developer", and the article nails every pain point that caused me to leave. His code had tons and tons of serious problems. The database was a mess; he insisted on storing multiple data po
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by Timpy 4y ago
I did Anki religiously every day for 2 years, I managed to internalize a bunch of facts about Japanese and no skills. I knew tons of vocab words and grammar points but I couldn't make a sentence in the heat of the moment to save my lif
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by Timpy 4y ago
The sad thing is, this is the same problem TV has had for a long time that YouTube was solving. TV programming will take 10 minutes of content and stretch it into 40 minutes of filler with 20 minutes of commercials. YouTube used to have a
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by Timpy 4y ago
>China says Taiwan is a part of them, Taiwan says no, fair enough. This is the part you're oversimplifying, the CCP does not say "fair enough." Taiwan has the highest democracy index in Asia, and the 8th highest in the wor
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by Timpy 4y ago
When I left my last job the owner asked about a counter offer. My new wage was so much higher that I told him even if he offered me that much I would resent him for valuing me that highly and intentionally underpaying me.
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by Timpy 4y ago
I know these heat waves are affecting Europe compared to the US because they don't have AC to deal with it. I don't understand why this isn't an issue for parts of the world where they also don't have AC but reach these
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by Timpy 4y ago
More realistic example: The contractors in charge of the dam cut corners to pocket some extra money, but they'll be dead before the dam breaks anyway so they move into the valley. Land developers paid off the government to open the la
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by Timpy 4y ago
>no brownie points for just building random things That's kind of what hackers do though isn't it?
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by Timpy 4y ago
A Japanese woman explained to me that they blast the AC really hard in the summer and she keeps a blanket in her office because it gets so cold. Japanese summers are hot and humid but men still wear suits to the office. I heard about some
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by Timpy 4y ago
If I unknowingly named my command the same as some system command and the custom command ends up earlier in my path it doesn't really cause any problems does it? I wasn't using that system command anyways, and my custom command i
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by Timpy 4y ago
>The trick is to rely on decades of acquired arcane knowledge I hate windows as much as the next person, but to be fair that's kind of how command-line life works on Linux too isn't it?
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by Timpy 4y ago
I see where you're coming from but this kind of ends up being the worst of both worlds in some ways. I think the invaluable family support happens when you're down the street from grandma and grandpa and you've got a sick ki
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by Timpy 4y ago
It's seagrass, if you want to save a click.
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by Timpy 4y ago
If I had a voluntary gap like this and I put something like "Sabbatical" on my resume and made a few notes of how I spent my time I wonder how that would go over. The last time I was in the interview process I saw my interviewer
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by Timpy 4y ago
Having a walkable city makes frequent grocery shopping much more comfortable. When I lived in Osaka there was a grocery store between my apartment and my nearest station. I only had to meal plan a day at a time, my food was always fresh,
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by Timpy 4y ago
Wow this was definitely a pessimistic click for me, I was thinking "trying to replace SQL? How stupid!" But it just looks like SQL with all the stuff you wish SQL had, and some more stuff you didn't even know you wanted.
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by Timpy 4y ago
I started with a career related to my free time hobby but I ended up hating my job and hating my hobby, my life is much better now.
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by Timpy 4y ago
I'm sure you had an array of considerations when buying an electronic safebox, but this is the bottom line as to why I would never buy one. As a programmer my day job is "this isn't working the way it's supposed to, lets
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by Timpy 4y ago
I wrote a bash script for this and binded it to some key commands in Linux Mint. Winkey+T will launch a terminal if nothing is open, or cycle through terminals if there are any open. I have other keys for other programs. I'm relatively
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by Timpy 4y ago
I don't think 1000mg is a small dose, I'm not a doctor but that seems like an extra-strength portion to me
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by Timpy 4y ago
In the music department at my university the vocalists had to take two different foreign language classes for this reason, and they were _supposed_ to learn the meaning of everything they sang so they could capture the feeling of the song.
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by Timpy 4y ago
Massive social media sites are affecting public discourse, elections, international politics. I don't have a Twitter account, but I don't have any choice but to participate in a society that has polarizing hot takes boiled down to
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by Timpy 4y ago
None of the games I play these days are CPU intensive so while I understand FPS is important to a large group of gamers I have never paid attention to it. Before clicking I thought "does frame rate really matter for Mario 64? How big
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by Timpy 4y ago
I decided a while ago that I'm going to live my life as if this were true despite not having scientific evidence to support it. When people retire they're in danger of rapid decline if they stop living a rich and active life, exa
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by Timpy 4y ago
A lot of comments are about the organization, I have a few actionable tips for you to work on by yourself. I joined a remote company a year ago and there are some things I did that helped a lot. I made a Trello board with a default card tha
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by Timpy 4y ago
Actually you were right, I am talking about NKY/Cincinnati

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