captobvious

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by captobvious 14y ago
Mind posting links to those several outstanding tutorials on the web?
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by captobvious 14y ago
I agree that having a population highly capable of reasoning and critical thinking is a good thing. But I do think this vision of an enlightened society is a little bit of an ivory tower fantasy. We don't live in a society where people have
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by captobvious 14y ago
This is exactly my feelings as well. I just compare my situation with my parents and see that they had it ridiculously easy compared to what my situation is like now, while the lifestyle is basically the same in every way. It's like my pare
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by captobvious 14y ago
Why not just pay everyone at the company the same salary, and adjust it each year to be 10% over the average salary. That would 1. take the issue of money off the table 2. free up lots of resources spent on navigating politics, negotiating
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by captobvious 14y ago
Someone is making an effort to lower the threshold to my field of expertise, and make it available to a general public. My livelihood depends on this! We must divert our energies to repress and quell this enemy. Spread the fear, uncertainty
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by captobvious 14y ago
Yes, it's normal to do 90% maintenance. But there are two issues here, one is regarding the tasks having to do more with updating/enhancing an existing product, as opposed to creating something new from scratch. This is normal, and not inhe
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by captobvious 14y ago
Ok I'll go with that, let's say we're similar to or better off. But just to be prepared, if it should turn out to be the other way around, or if this would happen in the future, what would you do if conditions suddenly are comparably a lot
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by captobvious 14y ago
Ok I'll name my working conditions: A work environment with peace and quiet to be able to concentrate. Have enough time to be able to deliver though-out quality work. Having reasonably specified tasks, and if not, have the decision power to
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by captobvious 14y ago
It's funny how most comments here are dancing around the issue trying to point out factual errors and counterexamples. Bottom line: Young adults today have it way worse than their parents. In most developed countries in the world. How shoul
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by captobvious 14y ago
Yeah of course you'd bring them in for an interview to talk about those projects if they show a promising portfolio. I just can't imagine hearing someone say "Yeah this guy is a great visual designer, look as his gorgeous portfolio, and loo
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by captobvious 14y ago
There is a lot of focus on team work. I'm still not sure if programming is suited for team work. There's clearly some activities of creative problem solving which are better suited for individuals working mostly alone, but belonging to a co
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by captobvious 14y ago
This reminds me on what Zed Shaw said in The ACL is Dead, when he compared programming to publishing magazines. Lots of people collaborating in creative tasks aiming for a deadline. How does magazines manage to work deadline driven and stil
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by captobvious 14y ago
- Let's say a critical bug is found in production code, could you explain the basic work flow from when it's found to when it's fixed?
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by captobvious 15y ago
IDE's: When things feel only vaguely familiar, and you know just enough to be dangerous.