bendixso

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by bendixso 7y ago
Fair point. It's a thought that has gone through my head a few times. There are places that want you to conform to whatever it is we call "modern" software development, and I often find myself feeling uncomfortable about expr
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by bendixso 7y ago
It is telling that the person arguing in favor of native C/C++ has to use a throwaway account for fear of going against the dominant force of opinion in our industry. We should be able to have these conversations openly without wonderi
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by bendixso 7y ago
Seriously. Just keep piling more bullshit on top of the bullshit
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by bendixso 7y ago
Yeah, I have the same concern. This is great for those situations where declarative works but sometimes you really want to get low-level and do some custom stuff with imperative code. I suppose we can use the old frameworks for that?
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by bendixso 7y ago
I get the feeling that many elements of your story don't add up. How can you work 10-12 hours a day and only have $1000 saved up, especially if you're in a tech-related field? I know kids can be expensive, but they're not tha
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by bendixso 7y ago
I have never worked in a field more obsessed with talking about how it does its work. Today we're standing on one leg. Tomorrow we're programming in downward dog stance. Next week, we're gonna try the Red Bull diet and see ho
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by bendixso 7y ago
Seriously. Development phase or iteration is way better. It's also more of a flexible concept. It doesn't need to always be two weeks or whatever. We just decide what to do next and then do that.
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by bendixso 7y ago
Is anybody else a little creeped out by this recent insistence that we refer to everything being done as an "issue"? I never agreed to this. I don't know where it came from, but it's really weird. Issue implies something
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by bendixso 7y ago
Never take a code test until you speak on the phone with an engineer at the company. That way, they need to at least trade something valuable of theirs (expensive engineer time) for something valuable of yours (your time). When you adopt th
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by bendixso 8y ago
Yeah, depends on how you define "retire". There are plenty of people who hit financial independence and "retire" but still choose to work. I'd go so far as to say you should keep working after you hit financial inde
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by bendixso 8y ago
Park is fun for me. It's relatively cheap too. You just need a ski pass and your gear. I would also qualify as a tech d-bag but I don't spend a ton of money on the sport and generally look like a dirtbag when I'm out and abou
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by bendixso 8y ago
lol, you invest a few grand one year up front but it smoothes out over the coming seasons to roughly one grand on average because you keep your gear and don't have to invest in new stuff every season. Also that's not the super fru
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by bendixso 8y ago
I dunno. I actually don't think it's all that expensive of a sport if you can invest in your equipment and keep it long term. Sure, you'll spend a few grand one season for a setup that will last you three or four seasons. The
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by bendixso 8y ago
Some of the geekiest people I know have become the best skiers/snowboarders on the mountain. I know a guy who used to regularly show up to the terrain park and do double frontflips over 60 foot jumps. He's got a PHD in physics now
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by bendixso 8y ago
I have found myself saying this in my mobile apps business. Oftentimes, I will contact someone associated with the community for a product I am building and ask them if they want to help promote the product once it's out. They take thi
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by bendixso 8y ago
In some work environments, you are encouraged to get 40 hours a week, regardless of whether those 40 hours are necessarily put towards what are perceived as the "highest value" endeavors. So if you are blocked on everything else,
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by bendixso 8y ago
What does the company have to lose by your going, and what do they have to gain? If you are asking to take personal time off in the middle of some critical goal/deadline, I could see how your going would negatively impact the business.
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by bendixso 8y ago
There is an implicit assumption that working for yourself means working for medium to big clients, but that isn't always the case. What if you build a product and have hundreds or thousands of customers? They might leave a negative rev
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by bendixso 8y ago
That's what I get for not reading the whole thing
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by bendixso 8y ago
Yaaay government deciding it's better for my employer to pay a food service provider instead of just paying me directly.
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by bendixso 8y ago
LOL Disadvantage: "The need to prepare food." Are we talking about generally existing as a human being? Yeah, until they invent food replicators you're gonna have to prepare your own food. Get used to it. I'd say getting
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by bendixso 9y ago
- If any of your actions make me so miserable I get in a fight with my spouse, the contract is finished.
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by bendixso 10y ago
Or worse, you die early.
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by bendixso 10y ago
This kind of reminds me of clients who send emails late at night. My general policy is to just make myself unavailable, or simply send a polite reply telling them I will address it first thing in the morning. I figure if I do that enough, i
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by bendixso 10y ago
Yeah, so in that case I think it would make sense to tie each code review session to the feature/story you are reviewing. Maybe that's what you were already doing. I'm not sure.
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by bendixso 10y ago
I do. I try to focus on improving my estimates. I find that some things work better when lumped into a general category like "Code Review" while you can be more specific with other things, for example a particular feature or user
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by bendixso 10y ago
I'm not sure what would be unpopular about this. It's totally true. When you aren't charging a bazillion dollars an hour to write software, there's much less pressure to hit deadlines. And generally speaking most people
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by bendixso 10y ago
I think at the very least we can agree that it is the employee's job to inform their superiors of feature creep, looming technical debt, and whatever bad practices they see. If you're fixing bugs in production because your manager
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by bendixso 10y ago
You seem awesome to work for. Need an iOS developer? Your style totally matches mine.
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by bendixso 10y ago
Regarding point number 2 - A promotion has to get handed to you in some way or another, regardless of how hard you work for it. I just don't want my career advancement to be up to the arbitrary whims of someone in a position of authori

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