pumblechook

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by pumblechook 10y ago
Am I the only one who is as tired of the 'kids can't use computers' meme as the 'digital natives' meme? The vast majority of people have never been able to 'use' a computer like the author describes becaus
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by pumblechook 10y ago
Not just students - I experience this in the workplace too, and it just boggles my mind. We hired a recent grad, and after about 10 days of watching him type a password into a terminal ~20 times a day I casually mention how he can use ssh k
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by pumblechook 10y ago
I've found journaling on paper to be one of the best morning rituals for calming anxiety. It really is amazing how just writing a few sentences creates a sense of awareness of what's going on in your head. I also tried bullet jour
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by pumblechook 10y ago
Appalled is probably a better word. I'm not sure how the process is now (I got Global Entry, which pretty much short cuts the entire horrible experience), but I remember coming back into the country as an American citizen and being app
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by pumblechook 10y ago
We obviously won't know until all the data is in, but looking at the county by county results seems to suggest that rural voters (who are predominantly working class whites) in swing states turned out for Trump in much greater numbers
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by pumblechook 10y ago
Personal reason: in many ways, the old versions are much purer expressions of the timeless concepts of software usability. It is becoming much more difficult now to separate platform convention from actual user tested, researched UX. In the
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by pumblechook 10y ago
As someone who's lived in the southeast US my entire life, this is spot on. The Bible Belt gets a lot of flack, most of it deserved, but it is hard to overstate the importance of the church community here. I suspect this, not the relig
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by pumblechook 10y ago
I faced this same question on a recent small project. For anyone dipping their toes into React, it's a huge leap of complexity. I thought I could jump into Flux just like React: get familiar with the concepts, do a tutorial or two, and
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by pumblechook 10y ago
Yes! It needn't be a lot of detail either. Example: I interviewed with a leading UX consulting firm, and they were very up front about the process. It was essentially 1 short take home assignment (30 mins), 1 phone screen (30 mins), 1
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by pumblechook 10y ago
Man, if this would've been around a year or so ago! The whole 1099 process was by far the biggest pain point for me of being a contractor/sole proprietor. What led you to address this problem from the banking, rather than accounti
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by pumblechook 11y ago
Exactly. The lower bound I'm prepared to give is always a raise from my current salary. I may be prepared to accept less if the opportunity is right, but my only purpose in offering this information in the first place is to get to the
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by pumblechook 11y ago
A little bit of both (I've been doing iOS for less than a year), but mostly the latter. I don't live near a tech hub or major city, and the cost of living is pretty low. So good data was hard to come by. I essentially just found t
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by pumblechook 11y ago
One technique I've tried that seems to get a particularly stubborn hiring manager or recruiter past the salary question is giving a generic number range. Before talking to anyone I usually do some basic research to get some idea of wha
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by pumblechook 11y ago
I've been meaning to do an agenda view for weekly reviews for awhile, but my master view works well enough. What I'd really like is an agenda view that approximates a burn down chart and gives me a suggested velocity for next week
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by pumblechook 11y ago
I combined a few different views into one using Bernt Hansen's custom agenda as a starting point ( http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html#CustomAgendaViews ). It includes everything I need - schedule for today, a list of pro
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by pumblechook 11y ago
Kudos to the author for trying to bring org mode to a wider audience. It was definitely the gateway drug to Emacs for me, and now that I've been using org for awhile I honestly can't see myself ever switching to another personal t
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by pumblechook 11y ago
The saddest part is that this kind of 'feedback' isn't out of the ordinary, but is actually pretty common. I've found in my own reviewer feedback a striking tendency towards pedanticism that would put Internet grammar na
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by pumblechook 11y ago
This is all good advice, but this article falls into the same trap that most other career related advice does: it assumes only one type of job seeker (in this case - ambitious, experienced, and passively job seeking). The truth is that ther
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by pumblechook 11y ago
Perhaps it has to do with someone's dominant behavior style? Someone who is naturally gregarious probably doesn't enjoy sitting still for an hour during a lecture, just like someone who is naturally analytical might not enjoy a lo
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by pumblechook 11y ago
When Bonobos first came on the scene, it was difficult to find a pair of men's pants with a decent fit at a decent price. I don't consider myself a Bonobos enthusiast, but I can say that putting on a pair of Bonobos pants after ye
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by pumblechook 11y ago
Most companies don't have interesting engineering problems to solve, so all they have to attract talent is a shiny new stack.
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by pumblechook 11y ago
NPR is targeting ARC, but this is actually a bigger, more difficult problem for the charity industry than one organization not disclosing where it spends its money. I used to work for a large ($500 million+ annual revenue) NGO fundraising d
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by pumblechook 12y ago
Blindsight, by Peter Watts. One of the better sci-fi novels I've read in awhile. Reminds me a lot of Arthur C. Clark in that it successfully strikes a really hard balance between scientific accuracy/feasibility and imaginative sto
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by pumblechook 12y ago
The ironic part about this is that companies think this is a benefit to the employee, when in reality this seems to be a classic example of the psychological anchoring bias that influences people to take LESS vacation. For those who aren&#x
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by pumblechook 12y ago
Honest question: is this not a classic example of the fallacy of claiming causation in an observational study, in the presence of a potentially infinite number of confounding variables? I'm not a statistics expert by any means, but thi
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by pumblechook 12y ago
Came here to say this, and also add that this entire effort rests on the assumption that "natural" ability or "talent", in this case predisposition to language learning, actually exists. While certain people are no doubt
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by pumblechook 14y ago
As Nielsen said, the ultimate goal of usability is cash. Unfortunately, this article comes off more as a designer rant, as if startups should invest in usability just because it somehow makes the world a better place. When, in fact, the pos
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by pumblechook 14y ago
It may be hard to see it now, but the school you went to will be much less important in a few years. An Ivy League education surely gives you a leg up right out of college, but after that, it is all about the quality of work you do. I went
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by pumblechook 14y ago
The mistake in this (and in similar articles) is conflating activity and purpose. Programming is an activity, not an end in itself. To love programming is to love solving challenging problems with a computer, not the act of typing code for
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by pumblechook 14y ago
I live in a major metro area and have moved each year for the past 5 years, and each year is worst than the last. Renters need SERIOUS help.

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