donnfelker

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by donnfelker 1y ago
There's a number of you (engineer + doctor), though quite rare. I have a few friends who are engineers as well as doctors. You're like unicorns in your field. The Neo and Morpheus of the medical industry - you can see things and u
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by donnfelker 1y ago
Oh yes it is. I have worked on projects where highly trained specialized doctors have helped train the models (or trained them themselves) to catch random very difficult to notice conditions via radiology. Some of these systems are deployed
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by donnfelker 2y ago
I was never mentored by any super great engineers. Worked with some brights ones, but never got formally taught by them. The way I excelled from beginner to a higher level engineer was self learning, curiosity, building things so I could un
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by donnfelker 3y ago
A fitness community. This could be either a BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) place or even a CrossFit gym. I've done both and while I'm not here to promote CrossFit, I am here to say that a group fitness class is awesome for meeting othe
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by donnfelker 5y ago
Well said.
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by donnfelker 7y ago
This.
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by donnfelker 8y ago
If one employee is remote, the entire company must act as if all employees are remote. Otherwise, this will happen. It's happened to me as well.
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by donnfelker 8y ago
I highly recommend it. I use it at a client extensively and have grown to rely on it heavily for its ability to provide a hermetic testing environment with mobile apps (android).
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by donnfelker 8y ago
Buf! Good to see you're still around. :fist-bump:
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by donnfelker 8y ago
Go buy a copy of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers. Start there. That book changed my career. Just look at the chapter names here: https://amzn.to/2wnPHfi Chapter 6: I dont have much time
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by donnfelker 8y ago
This.
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by donnfelker 9y ago
> Leaving a support system/family behind if you have a child (and considering another child) is not trivial. So much this. Soooo much.
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by donnfelker 9y ago
Moving to SF/SV sounds fun, until you look at the quality of life. If you're hellbent on going this route, IMO you should possibly consider the NYC route and live in NJ. Your prices will be high as well, but the quality of life is
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by donnfelker 10y ago
You can either ping existing authors or hit up the publishers. Squeaky wheel gets the grease. They're always looking for folks.
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by donnfelker 10y ago
Thank you for mentioning me. I really appreciate it. I'm always here to help. Please reach out if there is anything I can do to help you in any way. :)
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by donnfelker 10y ago
"You become an entrepreneur when you build something that people are willing to pay for." This.
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by donnfelker 10y ago
If you're worried about this, you can always use the other status page site that many other startups and large corps use: http://www.status.io
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by donnfelker 10y ago
Been using Realm in all of my Android projects for the last 8+ months. It has now become my defacto mobile database for all my mobile projects. It's that easy to use. Gets out of the way and lets me focus on business problems, not bit
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by donnfelker 10y ago
I'm happy that FB is releasing these tools. I really am, but you know what I want? I want to use the FB app with out it DESTROYING my phone's usability. Anytime FB is installed on any of my devices, the device degrades day after d
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by donnfelker 11y ago
Personally I prefer a service like http://status.io - it's one less thing I need to maintain/etc. Not to mention GitHub has had more than its fair share of outages.
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No Status Page? You're Failing(donnfelker.com)
4 points by donnfelker 11y ago|0 comments
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by donnfelker 11y ago
Rework. This version is much better: https://37signals.com/rework/
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by donnfelker 11y ago
I've run into similar issues and one such always seems to stick in my head - A few years back some Samsung and HTC devices shipped with a very buggy version of GSON causing deserialization errors on these devices. You can see the actua
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by donnfelker 11y ago
Doctors "practice" medicine. Know one knows it in and out. Remember that next time you get a diagnosis. "Doctors practice medicine."
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A Stereotypical Day(donnfelker.com)
3 points by donnfelker 11y ago|0 comments
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His Household Was Different Than Most – Hey Jake, Change Your Shirt(jakersnet.blogspot.com)
2 points by donnfelker 11y ago|0 comments
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Fragmented Podcast Episode 5 – Image Handling in Android(fragmentedpodcast.com)
1 points by donnfelker 11y ago|0 comments
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by donnfelker 12y ago
... and another reason to hire remote. Helps reduce this kind of nonsense from happening.
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by donnfelker 12y ago
vu0tran - your post inspired me to write about my journey - read it here: http://www.donnfelker.com/learning-program-sucks/
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Learning to Program Sucks(donnfelker.com)
2 points by donnfelker 12y ago|0 comments

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