peelle

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by peelle 3mo ago
For the people I work with, I'd say no to writing more efficient code, and maybe to using more advanced algorithms. I say maybe only because they'll just ask an LLM to make it more memory efficient. Which in theory will cause the
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by peelle 2y ago
I'll tell you why I won't choose it as a solo dev. Back when I was still young and impressionable, I had several frustrating experiences with it at university. Most due to my inexperience, a few times due to Windows being Windows.
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by peelle 2y ago
I disagree with this, but I understand where it's coming from. I think you have a form of whiplash from things like: - Novices overusing the new shiny. - Java/C++/etc Jr programmers overusing design patterns. - Perl program
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by peelle 3y ago
I work with a client that has us ssh in. We are committing on branches, and they are linked to testing subdomains. So there is some safety. In theory you can spin up a local copy. Almost no one does it. Between the micro services, needing t
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by peelle 3y ago
Around 2010 the company I worked for had a pay freeze. Most employees worked in the office, but about 1/4 worked remote. About three years later the freeze was lifted. The in office employees were notified about said policy change and
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by peelle 4y ago
Stop giving your employer free labor. It sounds like you're on your way to burnout, and your misplacing some of your frustration onto the Jr devs. Let me ask you this: What $$ will the current level of work be acceptable? My guess is t
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by peelle 4y ago
My kids came with manuals. Every new baby in Taiwan does. We also got a manual for the pregnancy. Very useful. I know that one of the public health orgs in Australia has something similar. You should be able to google for it. It was a mostl
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by peelle 4y ago
Plenty of us coded before SO, but I think you're being too general. Using SO to see examples of syntax is completely different than copying a chunk/function/page of original code someone wrote to solve a problem.
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by peelle 4y ago
While I agree businesses have to mitigate against bots and hacking, I'd like to push back a bit. I'm an American living abroad. I have the same types of issues as OP, even with my reliable internet. The current methods of mitigati
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by peelle 4y ago
Some of the comments below are talking about how to successfully argue against the move. Does your company have some history you can point out? We've had enough of these type guys and their failed space ship projects that any proposal
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by peelle 4y ago
> Also, what's up with people asking this question in the first conversation? At least here in the USA, there's a lot of advice about deflecting that question. Things like, countering with "What are your pay ranges?",
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by peelle 4y ago
If I understand right you are saying that the # of symbols Perl employs makes it hard to understand or read, correct? TL;DR; I would say that you assertion is context sensitive. - For a junior Perl programmer or an outside expert those symb
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by peelle 4y ago
I agree with this threshold idea, and I would argue that Perl and probably Ruby also have a lower threshold for switching than Python. Nothing against Python.
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by peelle 5y ago
This is something I plan to start writing about. There isn't enough intermediate and advanced material. I've also ran into too many "senior" programmers that not only lack some of the topics you mentioned, but also fail
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by peelle 5y ago
I read 2 fiction for every non-fiction. For a while I read 40-50 books a year. Nowadays, It's between 1 & 2 a month on average.
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by peelle 5y ago
When we traveled(2015-2018): - laptop, no larger than 17 in screen, and the thinner and lighter the better. - portable monitor like the Asus ZenScreen MB14AC - VPN - universal power adapters & a surge protector - small mouse & sma
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by peelle 6y ago
There's a whole bunch of technical skills that Universities didn't teach when I was there. I would recommend reading The Pragmatic Programmers by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt to help with that. Equally important are your soft skil
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by peelle 6y ago
I work for a small company that's been around for 20+ years. All of those things you outlined as basic, are things that I have been fighting for the last eight years. I've won a few battles, compromised on a few others, but lost m
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by peelle 6y ago
To each their own. It always fascinates me to hear about Java/.NET environments that massive. Do you only work on 1 project for months at a time? Do you not ever need to reboot into another OS? Is your laptop power efficient? Do you ha
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by peelle 7y ago
MySQL workbench will generate a diagram for mysql/mariadb databases.
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by peelle 7y ago
We shouldn't compare creation of languages to frameworks. If you look at back end frameworks, like web MVCs or ORMs, each language usually only has one or two major players.
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by peelle 7y ago
I use Dvorak, I'm faster in Dvorak, and have less RSI issues. As an adult that works from hardware I control I almost never have to type QWERTY anymore. In the past things like computer labs, and locked down school computers would have
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by peelle 7y ago
Been doing back end for 13 years, and I try to visit a programming conference or two a year. I think on average back end churns slower. Every year I'll hit a conference, and hear about the latest and greatest, but only a fraction of th
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by peelle 7y ago
- Not all IDEs show method signatures. - Not all languages have IDEs developed specifically for them. - Some IDEs require configuration/plugins to have that feature. - Some IDEs will give you method signatures for Standard libraries,
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by peelle 8y ago
I head a tale that had the same lesson. Not sure where I heard it, but it went something like this: >There was a Buddhist monastery up in the mountains. Every day at noon the head monk would call everyone together in the main courtyard t
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by peelle 8y ago
As others have already said, it depends on location, definition of quality, and so on. Below, I added some numbers from my past. The everything else is still just for minimum/essentials. It includes things like car insurance, utilities
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by peelle 8y ago
I set up a Linux VNC desktop using a $20/mo digital ocean server. I connected to it securely over SSH. The setup itself worked fine. From my apartment with 300/30 I had no issues, but coffee shop internet varied. If 2 guys started
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by peelle 8y ago
I learned QWERTY first in high school around 2000. An hour a day over, 5 days a week over a month to get it down. Probably a few weeks of practice to do it without hesitation. I learned Dvorak in 2005 or 2006. I spent about 4-5 hours, over
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by peelle 8y ago
Currently I get my best work done in a cafe. Usually, without using headphones. There is the usual cafe background noises. I find it hard to work from my small apartment, whether family is around or not, music or no music. I forget the term
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by peelle 8y ago
Using it, I mostly like. The new kernel supports my newer laptop hardware better. It "feels" like it runs smoother, fwiw. Upgrading was bad. For my local machine, when it first came out trying to run the upgrade script would lock

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