deirdresm

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by deirdresm 2y ago
If lawyers only had perfect clients, they wouldn’t have clients. (Analogously, If software engineers only worked for perfect companies, companies wouldn’t have software engineers.)
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by deirdresm 3y ago
Definitely too big. I use the FitBark GPS 2: https://help.fitbark.com/en/articles/6999814-what-are-the-fi... Which is 47 mm x 30 mm x 15 mm vs the Mictrack's 46mm x 41mm x 16mm - and that 11 extra mm would ma
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by deirdresm 3y ago
I've got a really wandery cat whose range is about 1-1.5km in any direction from the house. We try to keep her within 0.5km as much as possible. If we didn't manage her location fairly actively, she'd probably wander farther.
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by deirdresm 3y ago
I've been using FitBark for the last 2-1/2 years. The catch is that my cat's use case (being mostly outdoors, mostly out of Bluetooth range, and mostly draining power) doesn't match the engineering design model of a dog
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by deirdresm 5y ago
I'm reminded of a Berkeley CA bumper sticker: Visualize Rent
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by deirdresm 6y ago
Honestly, out of all the things I've been paid for over the many years of my career, the one that gives the the most pleasure, thinking back, is being paid as an extra for The Blues Brothers. Watching Cab Calloway do Minnie the Moocher
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by deirdresm 6y ago
In a state that permits users to delete their entire data forever and ever, hallelujah. golf clap (One of the 2,000+)
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by deirdresm 10y ago
Thanks! I added an index here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11698292/pvax/index.html
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by deirdresm 11y ago
Yep, you've got it. Once I realized I had the skill to accomplish a workable version of anything is when I started noticing that there weren't many problems I cared enough about to feel like they were worth my time. There are thin
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by deirdresm 11y ago
It was 18 years before I worked with another female software engineer peer. I don't think most men in the industry can imagine what that would be like.
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by deirdresm 11y ago
This. So much this. The brick does not love you. The company funding any project is a brick. No matter how much you love the project (or enjoy the people you're working with), it's temporary. Detachment is the only way to stay san
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by deirdresm 11y ago
That's a difficult question. Essentially, some part of any job sucks. Even within a given field, some jobs and/or projects will suck more than others. Some tools and languages suck more for certain applications than for others. I&
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by deirdresm 11y ago
Were I gloating, I'd point out that I a) had code in space before I turned 18 (digital tape driver); b) had written (in Pascal) the code to control emissions for four power plants by the time I was 22. Truth is, I feel like there aren&
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by deirdresm 11y ago
Actually, I deleted my github account while I was a software engineer at Apple. Here, have a photo of my Steve Jobs engraved iPad I got while working on the Safari team: http://deirdre.net/wp-content/uploads/2011&#
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by deirdresm 11y ago
Thank you.
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by deirdresm 11y ago
Like you, I did enjoy it more when I was contracted to do the 1.0 version of something and where I was basically working alone to a spec. Though I prefer the modern tools.