patricklouys

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by patricklouys 4y ago
Using 10lbs for shoulder press does absolutely nothing for your fitness. Even 50lbs barely does anything unless you are completely untrained. And 10 reps is not low reps either. It's on the upper end of what people usually use in their
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by patricklouys 4y ago
It's not ok to plateau at that level. You will get old, your strength and bone density will go down and it is a lot harder (but still possible) to improve those when you are old. Much better to start with a lot more than the minimum so
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by patricklouys 4y ago
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (a large percentage of my training partners happens to be in IT). It's a fun sport that keeps you fit but is also very cerebral. In a way it's a lot like playing a computer game where you level up your characte
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by patricklouys 6y ago
Aerobic training is all about the heart rate. You have to get it up to around 120 or higher (and keep it there for a while) to have a training effect. Unless you are REALLY unfit, walking is probably not enough. You can also run/walk i
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by patricklouys 6y ago
Yes, we did all that a few years ago and it's still in use. Clean code, hexagonal architecture, DDD, event sourcing. Main lesson is that you should not use it for everything (yes, the books say it, but it's easy to overdo it in th
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by patricklouys 6y ago
Thanks for creating it. I sold the ebook variation of my book through Gumroad and it was a very good experience. Looking forward to the membership part, might use it for another project of mine.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
I liked the beginning of the Three Body Problem, but it got really weird towards the end of the first book. I had already ordered the next 2 books but couldn't motivate myself to keep going. Does it get better?
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by patricklouys 8y ago
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Problem solving under stress (and will get you fit at the same time). A disproportionate amount of our members [0] are programmers or software engineers. [0] http://bjjlab.ch/
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by patricklouys 8y ago
Location: Zurich, Switzerland Remote: Yes Relocate: No Technologies: PHP (DDD w/ CQRS/ES), Symfony, React. Interested in Kotlin, maybe Java or C#. Resume: Wrote a book (Professional PHP). Also see my blog and Github. Email: firstn
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by patricklouys 8y ago
Check out what happened to the Venera landers. It's really hostile at the surface.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
From the ground. Building materials etc. If you want to build a closed system, it doesn't make sense to put it into a gravity well.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
But where do you get additional resources?
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by patricklouys 8y ago
If your doors are sturdy, make a knot in a towel, hang it over the door and close it. Use that to do pullups. I used to do this a lot during traveling. You can also do inverted rows under a table by holding on to an edge (not comfortable, b
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by patricklouys 8y ago
Your problem is all the anaerobic-lactic work. Anaerobic-lactic training leads to quick gain over the short-term, but after 3-4 weeks you plateau and from then on you burn out if you keep doing that (This is why most competition preparation
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by patricklouys 8y ago
Depends, what kind of application are you trying to build? What programming language? I wrote my book Professional PHP [0] as a guide like that, but of course it's heavily skewed towards building a PHP webapp (even though most of it is
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by patricklouys 8y ago
Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio by Mike Senior is what you are looking for.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
I used pandoc to format my book [0]. Not everything worked perfectly, I'm pretty happy with how everything turned out (especially the print version). It was a little work to set up the workflow with scripts etc, but being able to write
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by patricklouys 8y ago
This is probably bad timing with the Uncle Bob controversy on Twitter recently, but the book is good nonetheless.
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Book Review: Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin(patricklouys.com)
4 points by patricklouys 8y ago|1 comments
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Tell, don't ask(patricklouys.com)
2 points by patricklouys 8y ago|0 comments
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A few days with a software consultant(patricklouys.com)
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by patricklouys 8y ago
There is nothing wrong with using null in PHP...
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by patricklouys 8y ago
I feel your pain. That's my biggest gripe with Symfony. Sometimes it feels like I am spending more time configuring that programming.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
That's not true. I've worked on large applications with frameworks (CodeIgniter, Symfony) and without frameworks (but with composer packages). In the beginning you might spend a little more time on wiring things together, but on a
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by patricklouys 8y ago
That's what an IDE is for. I've been programming PHP for over a decade and since I switched to an IDE this became a non-issue for me.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
PHP handles null better than Java. That's the one thing that kept me from switching to Java tbh.
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by patricklouys 8y ago
I like to use the same approach, I even wrote a tutorial [0] and a book [1] about it. That being said, I am still forced to use Symfony at my current job. It only gets in the way sometimes, it's not too bad. On my previous job we went
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by patricklouys 9y ago
I have used scrum in two completely different companies and it was working really well in both. In both cases management was on board with scrum and knew what that meant. Everything was estimated by devs, not managers. If there was an exter
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by patricklouys 9y ago
Yes, we have been using them successfully for quite a while. We only use it to estimate roughly what fits into a sprint. No comparisons to time or between team members are made. I think that's really important. Management is on board w
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by patricklouys 9y ago
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It - Tools of Titans (was positively surprised by this one) For developer

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