justrudd

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by justrudd 1y ago
I’m helping my dad build a dock and a walking path for his new lake.
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by justrudd 1y ago
Yeah. I just try to separate them in my mind or I’ll quit trying :) Not ready to retire just yet.
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by justrudd 1y ago
For sure. I love my side projects and my jobs. I love writing code and designing systems. I’m burned out on the game I must play (and be good at) to be afforded the chance to write code, design systems, and be paid.
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by justrudd 1y ago
I assume by industry you mean software development. And I’m not tired of that. Where else can you be integrally involved in different businesses? Communications, medical, education, e-commerce for anything/everything. We get to play in
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by justrudd 1y ago
> Do you buy bottled water from the store? When driving. But not for day-to-day. > Do you filter tap water? What filter do you use? Yes. Brita. I don't know which one. It attaches directly to the faucet. > Do you drink unfilte
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by justrudd 1y ago
I agree with you to an extent. I was recently laid off (start up out of money) along with the rest of the engineering team. So I’m going through loops. The hardest part of the process for me is getting past the initial recruiter. Once I get
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by justrudd 1y ago
This made some memories pop. I was on the camera and photo app team. I was not an integral part at all. I think most of my code never made it into the app because being part of that org was a shocking experience. I came from building web ap
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by justrudd 1y ago
As I’ve been lucky to be in computers my whole career and I started taking health/wellness seriously before things got too bad, I can probably stock shelves at a grocery or Wal-mart type store. Why would they hire me over a teenager or
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by justrudd 4y ago
No. The first treatment was electron since the tumors were in my throat and close to the surface. But my oncologist didn’t like the progress. So my second treatment was just standard photon. Both done with conformal.
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by justrudd 4y ago
This year, during a routine physical, my general practitioner felt some “lumps” in my throat. He wasn’t worried but wanted me to get a second opinion on them. two rounds of chemo and two five week five day a week rounds of radiation later,
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by justrudd 4y ago
Helps drown out my tinnitus. But have to be careful because sometimes it can make it worse.
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by justrudd 4y ago
> shooting each other with f-ing nerf guns Well before COVID and the WFH swing, I left a job that I loved because of f-ing nerf guns. Because it just went crazy. People started with the 1 shot at a time guns. But then someone else bought
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by justrudd 4y ago
Various magazines (Dr. Dobbs, MSJ/MSDN Magazine), USENET (comp.lang.*), email lists, MSDN subscriptions (the DVDs full of Microsoft documentation), books, lots of experimentation, etc. There were actually quite a few resources before S
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by justrudd 4y ago
If you don’t want to anchor a band for face pulls, at least do band pull aparts. I do about 10 every hour on the hour. Shoulders feel great.
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by justrudd 4y ago
Yep. But my concern is with the phrasing “We’d make an exception if someone really needed accommodations”. Like it’s their decision whether or not someone has their camera on. Who is included in that decision? Just the manager? Do they get
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by justrudd 4y ago
I’ve been leaving my camera off for the past couple of weeks because I’m going through radiation treatment for cancer in my throat. My neck is red, my cheek is swollen from the canker sores that won’t go away, my beard (which I’ve had for o
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by justrudd 4y ago
I wish the good old fashion art of writing an agenda was still practiced. And not an hour before the meeting. Give me at least a day. I’ve clarified many a meeting just by looking at the agenda and communicating with the host that J. Doe ha
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by justrudd 4y ago
That sucks. I wish I could say I’ve never had one of these. And luckily I haven’t had one go as badly as yours. The main one I recall is when I had a good manager at the time, and he noticed the amount of time I was spending with the junior
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by justrudd 4y ago
Agree completely. Reach out to prior managers that you respected and would want to work with again. In the past decade, I’ve worked with the same manager across 3 different companies. All without a loop.
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by justrudd 4y ago
I’m kind of in this boat. I’ve been doing this for 25 years now (jeez). Mentoring a dev with 6 to 8 years experience is a pain in the butt (yes. I know. Not all of you). While I’ve got a pretty good memory, a lot of the times I don’t have a
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by justrudd 4y ago
Same. Except the books I buy aren’t advanced :) The books I can see from my couch - Code Complete (McConnell), Transaction Processing (Gray), Algorithms (Cormen), Algorithms (Sedgwick), Starting Strength (Rippetoe), All the 5/3/1
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by justrudd 4y ago
I believe what is being said is: If you are a citizen of the United States of America, and you are returning to the United States from a foreign country, Customs and Border Patrol are not allowed to deny you entry to the United States of Am
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by justrudd 4y ago
That's fair. I will say that my parents are loving it. They live in a very rural area. Until Starlink, the fastest speed they could get from Verizon (the only provider they have access to) was maybe 4 to 5Mbps. And it was still capped
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by justrudd 4y ago
Haha! My neighbor was in the infantry in the Army, and he’s a smoker. Deployed 3 times - twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. According to him he’s been smoking since he was 18 and doesn’t plan on quitting (to each their own). I asked him
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by justrudd 4y ago
> I've found that I always pushed myself way too hard while running. The goal is not to be fast or have the best time. This was a key point for me. Like many, I started with Couch to 5K. During my run intervals, I ran too fast. Had
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by justrudd 4y ago
I think everybody’s going to be a little different. But think single digit or low teens on average. I’ve been powerlifting and body building for about 8 years now. I hover right around 15%. I don’t have a 6 pack. I doubt I ever will. I trie
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by justrudd 4y ago
Your VO2Max? You can get a reasonable estimate using this - https://www.omnicalculator.com/sports/vo2-max . But if you really want to know, you’ll need to go to a lab that knows how to run the test. I’ve done a lab test
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by justrudd 4y ago
This happened to me as well with Cox Cable in AZ back in the early 2000s. I returned the modem and got the returned receipt. Next 6 months I had to call and get them to reverse the charges. At that point, I started recording all the calls e
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by justrudd 4y ago
I wasn't paying attention and used one my primary email addresses when donating. Account is basically worthless now. So much spam. Even from candidates in states I've never lived in or currently reside in.
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by justrudd 4y ago
For me (20+ year club): 1.) Senior Dev referred me, and they had a remarkable relationship with management - informal chat and offer that afternoon 2.) Senior Dev referred me, and they had a normal relationship with management - regular int

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