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by jmchuster 4y ago
Probably for a similar reason why Kirby gets angry eyes added to his art when the games come over from Japan to the US. https://www.eurogamer.net/why-so-serious-nintendo-explains-a...
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Specifically for software development, you have the example of Coding Bootcamps. It's not a guarantee, but the better your Bootcamp brand-name, the better your region's job prospects, the more time you spend hobby coding before a
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by jmchuster 4y ago
When i was in school, the rule was also "you can't use the encyclopedia as a source". So it feels more like trying to get students to learn to find and use primary sources. Wikipedia actually makes this incredibly simple no
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by jmchuster 4y ago
> For example working with some (not all) developers in Asia, its culturally negative to admit you don't know something. If this is true, and junior devs in Asia are all wandering around unwilling to ask questions to understand thin
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Not sure where i read this one, but it's worked out great for me (someone who seems to get hiccups a lot). - breath in through your nose till you fill with air - hold your breath for 10 seconds - try to breath in again (w
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by jmchuster 4y ago
> The Corps says heavy ground armor will still be provided by the Army. That sounds more to me like the US Military decided it'd be more cost-efficient to only have the Army be responsible for tanks, and have the Marines be more foc
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by jmchuster 4y ago
No worries, as you weren't working then, but to give some context, what you have in the "first frameworks" I would probably call the third generation of frameworks. So the breakdown you have is nice, but probably only covers
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I've started to be able to sense it, when i feel that burnout creeping up, and i know i need to just stop and take a vacation asap. I can try to push it a couple more weeks, but then those couple of weeks will basically be at like hal
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I wonder how strong of a signal that is for a good engineer. There have always been people who've stood out as wanting to teach, wanting to mentor. Is it too much of my own bias to say that good engineers are good teachers?
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Kind of (maybe not that) interesting that this is the first update that says > and have reached out to all affected customers. while the previous ones have stated > please reach out to our teams should you find any issues or > We h
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I don't really think of dumbing it down, more like distilling it to its true essence. To be able to do so requires even more skill and understanding than just enumerating the details. I always think of the Feynman anecdote where he tal
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by jmchuster 4y ago
How about Clojure on node? Starts and runs instantly https://planck-repl.org/
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I had a PM who would get deleted out of the company directory every 6 months. She resolved the issue by getting married.
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Similarly, if your last name is "Null", sometimes it's just easier to just change your last name.
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I highly dislike the recent changes in Evernote, so i just tried importing my notebook into Notion, and uh, it's kinda horrendous. The massive amount of margin (going from 850px of usable width to 600px is unconscionable), having to c
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by jmchuster 4y ago
I was going off more of FAANG salaries, comparing the work you put in to get a FAANG job vs the work you put in to get a doctor job. Huh, i guess it probably is true that "most" engineers couldn't make it, but i guess my view
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by jmchuster 4y ago
> I was sometimes assigned stories no one else on the team had done anything like before, so at times I couldn't even ask the senior devs for help. This is wrong thinking on your part. You 100% should be asking senior devs for hel
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Maybe it's because i know a lot of doctor friends, but months of prepping to then get paid more than they do seems way unfair in my favor.
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Thanks so much for your work on Postico. I had been using Sequel Pro working with MySQL and was looking for something as good, when i switched to a company that uses Postgres. Postico has fit that bill entirely and then some, and has been
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by jmchuster 4y ago
It's probably more that every other popular database gui out there looks decidedly _not_ modern.
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Here's one studio's opinion “We definitely found that piracy was a significant factor in our Nintendo DS development efforts. When we approached publishers to propose potential game projects with them, most of them brought u
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Is this something a lot of people are missing with their microservice implementation? You need to be able to deploy each microservice independently of everyone else. If you have a change that's spread across multiple services, you shou
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by jmchuster 4y ago
Sure, then make it a meta attribute. Just needs to be a global somewhere.
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by jmchuster 4y ago
If the requirement was truly only to satisfy ADA laws, then it seems like you should have implemented it as: window.ADA_MIN_FONT_SIZE = 16; This seems more like you were given the requirement and then went: 1) we could implement th
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Create a feature branch for everything i work on. Then squash all commits on that branch for merge. If that doesn't look clean because there are too many features munged together, then split that feature branch into multiple ones (ide
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by jmchuster 5y ago
Weight loss follows the 80/20 rule, so 80% diet, 20% exercise. Unfortunately, humans are terrible at eating less, since you've been well trained by both evolution and society to eat as much as possible. So then there are things l
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by jmchuster 5y ago
It makes me think of when i visited Japan, just so many shops that carry every single possible different piece of inventory possible. While in the US, if it's not selling, they'll just stop stocking it, so you're left with a
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by jmchuster 5y ago
The top companies make over a million in revenue per employee.
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by jmchuster 5y ago
I was also CS undergrad. I see it more as a choice between industry or academia. Junior year i also had to make that decision. For industry, that then meant getting into internships, which then translated into job offers. You needed a min
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by jmchuster 5y ago
It's pretty simple to get a rough estimate of how many people you need to hire a year. You take your engineering count, say ~10,000, how long engineers stay at each company, say 4 years, and you come out to 2,500 engineers you need to

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