badman_ting

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by badman_ting 12y ago
> If your arm gets broken, you don't "suck it up" and say "that's life", you go to a doctor and get treated. It's no different when your brain gets broken. People say this sort of thing a lot, but it st
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I'm not a founder, just a techie with mild depressive tendencies. I think the advice to talk to someone when you feel it coming on is the best - if you talk to someone about the specific things bothering you, it can help avoid the scen
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by badman_ting 12y ago
There was nothing named "Bolt" before Mr. Benton's product came around? Really?
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by badman_ting 12y ago
The first time I went to Mexico, I was excited to get a fresh coconut, a hole cut in the top with a machete and a straw inserted. It was much less refreshing than I expected, so I don't understand this trend.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Probably correct. But, it doesn't feel that way.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Right, this strikes me as a situation with real potential for "the cure is worse than the disease".
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Right. The point here is actually reducing the pool of candidates to those enthusiastic enough, and with enough time, to do projects in a way that fits the template this interviewer is looking for. I don't doubt they had success hiring
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I worked at a place that had people whose responsibility was the workflow, precisely so that developers could focus more on writing code. Then people started doing their own projects (good) so they wouldn't have to use .NET anymore (go
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Anecdotally it seems like a lot of the people let go were in SDET roles.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I hope this person is OK but that strikes me as unrealistic. Ageism is a real problem for software developers, but also that 15 years at MS could just as easily be viewed as a negative than a positive.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
It's really not bullshit, I think. The stuff about fear rings totally true to me, it aligns perfectly with my experiences. But, I know that being on the other side of it, it can sound like a bunch of hokum. (That's part of the rea
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Yup, it's about labor costs.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
It's not like I disagree but discussing this aspect of every new thing that comes along is rather tiresome.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Wow, gotta disagree there. I found that having projects on Github was impressive to potential employers 100% of the time I brought it up. Before I had them on there (in particular, two small personal side projects) it was much more difficul
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Oh, brother.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
This is very thorough, and I'm sure it's helpful to a lot of folks. So thank you to the author. For me, it's probably a syntactical issue, but I find things such as the below too hard to comprehend. What did we get just by d
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Very strange comment, I'm sure execs expected all of this when the deal was done. Their expected outcome probably does not look "catastrophic" to them. Actually, I would say that by the time the deal rolled around the catastr
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Call me names all day, I would never get on a flight with that airline. They should really just pack it in at this point. "These events are still rare." OK, but if there's a turd in a bowl of 10,000 Skittles, I'm not eat
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by badman_ting 12y ago
> Instead of being a programmer auditioning to sling code, he was already “part of the club” (management) and just engaging in a two-way discussion, as equals, on whether he was going to join that particular section of the club. Hmm! Th
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I find this suspicion suspicious. I know that some people are melodramatic about it, but why can't people just have their food without gluten if they don't want it? Nobody ever backlashed against the anti-MSG thing, and that was a
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by badman_ting 12y ago
This is what mealy-mouthed "best tool for the job" rhetoric misses. Different platforms have different communities with different people in them, who place emphasis on different aspects of development. My personal hunch is that th
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Pre-legalization: "Crime will go up." Post-legalization: "Crime went down, but not because of the weed thing." Well, okay then.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
"Functional programming is the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms." Well, that's not helping. But I agree that devs should learn FP, and I now write in a much more functional style than I used to. I resisted for a
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Getting the first and last line of a file with unpacking is pretty slick. Respect.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I remember idle moments during soccer games I played as a kid. I would sometimes think to myself "OK, we're up 1-0. If the rest of the game goes at this rate, we will definitely win." The problem with that reasoning is the wo
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by badman_ting 12y ago
It's the blog post I was born to read. Thank you for writing this. The amount of stupid tedious pain you're supposed to go through with vi in order just to get a basic working editor is ridiculous. Like some kind of nerdy rite of
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by badman_ting 12y ago
A more humorous look here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZr7ADxLff8#t=0m38s
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by badman_ting 12y ago
Well, in my opinion it's not just the cold, the summers are hot and gross too. Not much "open-window weather", as my mom says. But then, if pollen is a consideration that would make sense for you. I live in the Pacific NW now
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by badman_ting 12y ago
That has been my way of thinking too. Another consideration is student loans - if you pay $500 a month in loans, that will be a smaller portion of an NYC salary. Same for any purchase or bill which is unrelated to cost of living.
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by badman_ting 12y ago
I left Pittsburgh, like all my friends except for one. It's been discussed as an up-and-coming city for years now, but I'm still not sure it's somewhere I would want to live. I remember when people pointed to the Google offic

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