zeroego

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by zeroego 3y ago
I'm a middle-class person from the US. I've even had several short stints of living in Europe. I'd love to live in one of the countries there, but being a little bit older now I really don't want to start over again. Mak
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by zeroego 3y ago
I was going to read it, but that pop-up asking me to sign in or sign up for your newsletter kept blocking my view. For a blog, with what I'd imagine would be limited readership, why would you insist that people login or sign up for you
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by zeroego 3y ago
I've played around with Lazyvim a fair bit and it seems pretty solid. It's a bit more hands on than kickstart. Currently working as a laravel dev and really enjoyed Jess Archer's course on how to setup nvim specifically for l
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by zeroego 3y ago
Another vote for Carhartt shirts. I'm large and it's difficult to find shirts that fit well. Their shirts are cheap and last me years. Also if branding is an issue for you, it's very easy to remove the patch on their pocket t
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Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023 (Parody) [video](youtube.com)
91 points by zeroego 3y ago|21 comments
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by zeroego 3y ago
I don't have a novel solution to your problem, but here's my experience. I had a mac laptop for a previous job and I went down the route of using separate a iCloud account. I used spotify so it was no issue in terms of music. The
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by zeroego 3y ago
I don't actually fall asleep, but every day after work I lay down on my bed for about 10 minutes. Sometimes I close my eyes and sometimes I just stare at the ceiling, but I just breathe and relax. Really helps me get into "home mo
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by zeroego 3y ago
This is a solid argument, thanks for taking the time to write this out!
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by zeroego 3y ago
That's an interesting take! I'm still early in my career and I ask with genuine curiosity, but why do you think "clean code" has a bogus meaning?
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by zeroego 3y ago
I'm currently using Laravel at work. It's very opinionated, and some folks say it uses anti-patterns with regards to its use of facades. That being said my last job was C#/.Net and I am so much more productive with Laravel. I
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by zeroego 3y ago
This hasn't been true in my experience. People were very critical of Picard season 2 and the whole of Discovery. I posted criticisms myself and never got banned.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I currently pay for a few things: Proton Mail - Solid email service. I'm not hardcore about privacy but I do like their ethics. Spotify - Love having instant access to any music, though I wish their app was a bit more intuitive. Two Tw
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by zeroego 3y ago
I just took a job as a Laravel dev. I was previously a C#/.Net dev before that. Not making any claims about one being better than the other, but you're right about the ecosystem and the community. It's been great and I'v
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by zeroego 3y ago
I mean that they used versions of frameworks that were no longer supported, and they did not use best practices which resulted in lots of security concerns (and messy code).
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by zeroego 3y ago
Wow that sounds eerily similar to my experience, I'm sorry you had to go through that!
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by zeroego 3y ago
Oof, my condolences. As someone who was a junior somewhat recently I narrowly avoided a couple of projects like that. The desire to push off important work to cheap labor blows my mind.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I know the person who was in charge of the redesign. This may sound unbelievable, but she was not a reddit user prior to working at reddit or being put in charge of the redesign. Really nice person, but they did a terrible job.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I got hired from a Who's Hiring post last year. I doubt my experience is the standard but I landed at a really terrible company. Used outdated tech in really unprofessional ways. The culture was extremely toxic as well. I have since mo
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by zeroego 3y ago
Is that true? Last I heard (I just looked it up) over half of people in the US read at least one book per year.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I've gotten two jobs from Linkedin. I don't much care for it outside of when I'm looking for jobs. Whenever I'm employed I put it into the "hibernate" mode and only reactivate it when I'm back on the job m
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by zeroego 3y ago
I'm a mid level developer and probably about 5 or 6 on any given day. I do a lot of designing/coding and by the time 3pm rolls around the part of my brain that can think in that way just starts to shut down. Having upcoming deadli
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by zeroego 3y ago
We didn't have any clients, it was a marketing department for a CPG company. I was just a peon; I didn't have any say in how things got done. Say all that to say, you would think that at some point VPs of other departments would w
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by zeroego 3y ago
Eh, I'd rather just play the game and get to travel, socialize, eat, and learn cool new stuff for free.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I've often wondered about that. Spotify has never failed to have the music I wanted to listen to. Though their app interface has always been a little painful for me to use.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I definitely couldn't "make" anyone click on anything. But delivering it wasn't the only thing we had control over. The format and content of the email we had complete control over. This was years ago, but at the time I
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by zeroego 3y ago
Personally I have to "prove" that I took something away from the conference to justify the expense to my company. I take a lot of notes, even if it's basic material, because it allows me to copy the flow of the presentation f
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by zeroego 3y ago
As someone who used to work in marketing, this. Anecdotal, but in my experience working in marketing it was often funny to me how little we had to validate the numbers we presented. My boss didn't care how many people actually clicked
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by zeroego 3y ago
I'm late in responding to this, but I just use vanilla Gnome and have never had any issues. My work laptop is a P15v Thinkpad. All I do is plug it into my 32in monitor via usb-c and everything works as expected. Maybe my company's
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by zeroego 3y ago
Adding to this, I quit my job in January and was employed again in March. Pay increase and better benefits.
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by zeroego 3y ago
I use Ubuntu for work, but my gaming rig runs windows. I went through all of the applications I use on my windows pc the other day and they're all available on linux now. With proton getting as good as it is, app availability on linux,

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