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How do I regain managerial control of my “self-organizing” team?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
3 points by pendragon 8y ago|0 comments
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by pendragon 9y ago
It does not make it easy to access the mapbox library API directly. It claims there is a way, but it's not documented.
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by pendragon 11y ago
Remote drove me insane. I was younger then though, and if I did it again I would make sure I had a seperate office room. Living in a flat of rowdy people was a bad idea.
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Ask HN: Developing a Skillset for Contracting in Europe
11 points by pendragon 11y ago|5 comments
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by pendragon 14y ago
XML Doesn't necessarily make it easier. Maintaining and changing things down the road is better. wxPython doesn't have XML examples for every widget and it does make trying new things out more involved. wxPython isn't a pure MVC design. Hop
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Ask HN: Getting a viable freelance income stream with time constraint?
1 points by pendragon 14y ago|0 comments
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by pendragon 15y ago
A very good point. Landing a non-web gig seems more daunting to me. In part, this may be because even small companies have websites whereas in the areas that I want to go into I would need to work with much larger clients.
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Ask HN: Skills which are under supplied by freelance developers?
9 points by pendragon 15y ago|3 comments
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by pendragon 16y ago
Participation would probably result in learning more. Some have said they find themselves spending too much time checking for answers though. On the subject of the Cone of Learning: http://www.brainfriendlytrainer.com/theory/dale%E2%80%99s
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by pendragon 16y ago
I was at a Polytechnic for my degree. It is pretty much a uni, just doesn't have the prestige. The lecturers are as good and have taught at universities in the past. I say this as I think they are often confused with community colleges in a
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by pendragon 16y ago
Actually, I just found something which looks like a good solution for developers: http://tagmask.com/ . It allows developers to share not just posts, but code snippets as well. Filtered by tags. A social-news board-community for programme
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by pendragon 16y ago
HN isn't so much a movement in the content industry, but a very specialized aggregator. It certainly is one of the ways I try to provide myself with good reading material so it does help. One of the good things about twitter is if you follo
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The Lost Opportunity of Our Education System(blog.sokanu.com)
1 points by pendragon 16y ago|0 comments
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by pendragon 16y ago
I too have to second the dancing. It's lots of fun and it throws you out of your comfort zone in a good way. It'll force you to develop socially and once you start to 'get' the dancing and get into it, you will improve in dancing. Most peop
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Why IT Jobs are never coming back(networkworld.com)
4 points by pendragon 16y ago|3 comments
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by pendragon 16y ago
One thing to consider is that the usability and maturing of the mainstream tech has helped it's easy adoption by people who otherwise wouldn't be bothered. I'd say the same thing will happen with 3d printers. Possibly we will see an easy ab
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by pendragon 16y ago
I don't think the Alpha geeks are failing. I do think that computer literacy has increased as younger generations have grown up with technology and also, because a lot of smart alpha geeks have improved the usability of the technology (two
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by pendragon 16y ago
Hmm: "direct from our Browser, like we have since the dawn of the internet". I'm young, and the internet existed when I was born, but I don't think there was a web in the internet's "dawn", let alone graphical web browsers. Still, aren't ap
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by pendragon 16y ago
“Create a window with a table view, and then when someone clicks a button, add an entry to the table view” The thing is, even the above has logic "then when someone clicks". A lot more logic than that is needed to write any reasonably sized
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by pendragon 16y ago
I've been finding that in order to motivate myself for programming I have to not think of it in terms of, " sigh , a basic GUI front end for MySQL....". I have to make myself identify some interesting problem, or new skill which challenges
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by pendragon 16y ago
Interesting how the brain is "much more active than during reasoning with a complex problem." I think we have found de-focusing etc can help anyway. For instance, often when working on a problem, such as a piece of code it helps to stop if
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by pendragon 16y ago
No.... :) I hear fake 25 yr old female analyst profiles on Facebook work well. :)
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by pendragon 16y ago
It is an absolutely wonderful idea. I think it's definitely desirable to add form if function is not sacrificed. It looks like whoever designed these figured it out.
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by pendragon 16y ago
Very interesting that someone really uses his social network like that. I like to keep up with professionals via their blogs and twitter. As a student (final year) I find it helps me learn what's happening in the tech world from a better (f