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Carbon dioxide posted:"Suitable hardware"? Nah, the second dev just gets a big backspace key, like a driving instructor.
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prom candy posted:So I'm having a pretty hard time staying focused at work lately, anyone have any suggestions for getting into flow state when it's just not coming? It seems like my brain is just bouncing off the walls trying to think of anything except what I need to be working on. take breaks, put some headphones on playing music (i like electronic/classical depending on my mood), minimize distractions (phone/browser) meditating is also really great for this kind of thing but not something i'd do at work
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Music is super critical for me. I completely tune it out and can't remember what I've been listening to when I'm typing. But if there's a break in my thoughts, the music keeps me from getting distracted by something else. Headphones are like an instant 20% production boost. It also helps that our dev environment is in a VDI that doesn't have access to email or chat. No popups or chimes or glowing taskbars constantly pulling attention.
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Mar 11, 2020 13:59
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Judge Schnoopy posted:Music is super critical for me. I completely tune it out and can't remember what I've been listening to when I'm typing. But if there's a break in my thoughts, the music keeps me from getting distracted by something else. It's fascinating how people work differently. I can't have music playing while I'm working, I get too distracted by it and end up fiddling constantly. Silence / background noise only for me.
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Mar 11, 2020 16:16
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pomodoro method is a great way to get focused and productive for the first couple of months after you start it. after that everyone inevitably gets less diligent about it and its effectiveness suffers but hey, at least you got the two months
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Mar 11, 2020 17:26
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I can't have music with lyrics, but anything instrumental/with a good beat is amazing for productivity. Really like Ratatat for this purpose.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:28
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Sometimes you can't force the flow. I use a combo of Pomodoros (set a daily target and achieve it) as well as a physical notebook to write down everything I need to do as I do it. For me a lot of the time my "stuckness" is a matter of either 1. not knowing something I need to know (poorly specc'd requirements) or 2. being overwhelmed by a huge number of parallel tasks. Writing down a plan for what I intend to do helps because I can braindump everything and address them one-by-one. Plus it's satisfying to strike things off my list.
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Mar 11, 2020 17:51
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I guess I really need to start meditating since it seems like everywhere I go people are recommending it. I tried it a bunch in January but I found it extremely boring. Headphones are hit and miss for me, sometimes it's great but I'm also a musician so sometimes I go from passive listener to intently focusing and trying to figure out how a song is put together. I think a lot of it comes down to not knowing what's next. Having questions around the stories I'm working on that cause me to just grind to a halt, or else getting too caught up in the bigger picture of all the things I need to do to complete the larger feature and then getting overwhelmed.
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Mar 12, 2020 04:33
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The Fool posted:I can't have music with lyrics, but anything instrumental/with a good beat is amazing for productivity. What's up ratatat-while-programming buddy  I have entire albums memorized from listening in the background on repeat while I type away.
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Mar 12, 2020 06:23
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prom candy posted:So I'm having a pretty hard time staying focused at work lately, anyone have any suggestions for getting into flow state when it's just not coming? It seems like my brain is just bouncing off the walls trying to think of anything except what I need to be working on. Get diagnosed with ADD and use meds. Works for me.
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Keetron posted:Get diagnosed with ADD and use meds. Works for me. I've often wondered because the comorbidity with all my fun anxiety disorders is pretty high but any testing I've done comes back negative. I also enjoy Ratatat.
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prom candy posted:I guess I really need to start meditating since it seems like everywhere I go people are recommending it. I tried it a bunch in January but I found it extremely boring. To some degree, that is the point.
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https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/229713254864749?_rdc=1&_rdr Just a job ad, it seems. But this sentence is interesting: "Our biggest and the most challenging project is evolving Erlang into a modern statically typed programming language. "
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Carbon dioxide posted:https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/229713254864749?_rdc=1&_rdr Also curious is that the list of similar fluencies: OCAML and SML (and Haskell and Scala) but no F# in there, despite it being just another ML dialect at heart.
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Mar 15, 2020 11:56
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Did F# ever go any where? I don't hear that much about it even among the functional programming crowd.
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ultrafilter posted:Did F# ever go any where? I don't hear that much about it even among the functional programming crowd. I thought it was still where new c# features came from. Tooling is miserable though.
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ultrafilter posted:Did F# ever go any where? I don't hear that much about it even among the functional programming crowd. At least as of 2017 it was not really in broad use but did have a following. quote:C# is used by millions of people.
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leper khan posted:I thought it was still where new c# features came from. Tooling is miserable though. At the rate C# is going functional, it'll be another language version or two before it's basically "F# but with 2-3 times as many lines of code to do the same thing" It's a slow-growth language and while one of the major users of it is American (Wal-Mart), it seems like it's got more of an uptick across Europe, based anecdotally on the official F# slack. Tooling is in a comfortable state - it'll feel *very* sparse coming from something like C# where you have 4500 different refactorings and analysis highlighters. But the language doesn't require a lot to get going, and the compiler does a lot of the heavy lifting, so some of that doesn't really make sense in-context. (Though there are a few rough edges that could be smoothed out).
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Had a guy ask me if he should "consolidate his partitions." He's on a laptop with a SSD+HDD. He filled up the 256GB SSD, never touched the 1TB HDD, and thinks the solution is to, uh, consolidate partitions. This guy has the title "Coordinator of Technology" so... take that for what you will. Half tempted just to tell him to go for it to see what he does, but it'll probably backfire on me, so guess I'm also IT today.
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Mar 17, 2020 21:02
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He just wants to coordinate both of those technologies though 
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Mar 17, 2020 23:22
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Coordinator of Inflated Paychecks and Pencil Art on Desk.
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One of our product managers just asked for "someone" to jump onto a call with a customer, no context, reason or information of any kind provided. Turns out I'm still at lunch and didn't notice at all. 
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I apologize in advance. I just wrote a bot that will mass-message all first-degree contacts on LinkedIn using Selenium. We're just using it to try and generate leads... cause I already lost one of my jobs due to COVID-19.
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Protocol7 posted:I apologize in advance. I just wrote a bot that will mass-message all first-degree contacts on LinkedIn using Selenium. I cannot wait to hear about how my background makes me an exciting candidate for your big data job.
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Volmarias posted:I cannot wait to hear about how my background makes me an exciting candidate for your big data job. Not that kind of bot thankfully. One of our bigger clients just went under due to the Coronavirus so it’s basically a last ditch effort to keep the company alive. Not proud of it by any measure, but if it keeps the paychecks flowing for at least one more pay period... Macichne Leainig fucked around with this message at 03:24 on Mar 22, 2020 |
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I'm thinking about picking up a new skill because I work for a small startup and I wouldn't minding having an even more well rounded resume just in case we don't make it through this poo poo. My two main areas of expertise are React and Ruby on Rails. I'm also good at implementing UIs in whatever front end tools you want to throw at me. The two things I'm deciding between are Node (since it's widely used and I already know and love Typescript) and iOS (because it would be an entirely new thing for me and it's something I've always wanted to learn.) Any thoughts on which direction to go in? Anybody else gonna channel their constant dread into self-improvement?
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prom candy posted:I'm thinking about picking up a new skill because I work for a small startup and I wouldn't minding having an even more well rounded resume just in case we don't make it through this poo poo. My two main areas of expertise are React and Ruby on Rails. I'm also good at implementing UIs in whatever front end tools you want to throw at me. The two things I'm deciding between are Node (since it's widely used and I already know and love Typescript) and iOS (because it would be an entirely new thing for me and it's something I've always wanted to learn.) Do like me and switch to Flutter. It is cool and good and both iOS and Android capable.
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prom candy posted:I'm thinking about picking up a new skill because I work for a small startup and I wouldn't minding having an even more well rounded resume just in case we don't make it through this poo poo. My two main areas of expertise are React and Ruby on Rails. I'm also good at implementing UIs in whatever front end tools you want to throw at me. The two things I'm deciding between are Node (since it's widely used and I already know and love Typescript) and iOS (because it would be an entirely new thing for me and it's something I've always wanted to learn.) while i love TS node as well, if you already do react it won't be radically different (you just won't be playing around with JSX). mobile development though is different, and i imagine would be more interesting.
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Gildiss posted:Do like me and switch to Flutter. I put some time into React Native a while back and kind of regret it. Maybe Flutter is a lot better than RN but I think I want to learn the real deal. Kept running into important stuff that people were like "oh yeah that doesn't really work in RN"
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Gildiss posted:Do like me and switch to Flutter. flutter looks cool, but I can't help but have a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to google products
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The Fool posted:flutter looks cool, but I can't help but have a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to google products don't worry, the bad taste will go away with the product in 6-12 months
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I just assume Flutter is whoever was responsible for Dart trying to retroactively make it not a bad idea. Err, you do still have to use Dart, right?
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prom candy posted:I put some time into React Native a while back and kind of regret it. Maybe Flutter is a lot better than RN but I think I want to learn the real deal. Kept running into important stuff that people were like "oh yeah that doesn't really work in RN" Do you have examples of what kind of stuff RN is bad at?
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Navigation was the big one at the time (like moving around your app, not mapping.) There were a bunch of different packages and none of them quite worked right. One company that was a big adopter of RN had a setup where their navigation was built in native code but each individual area was part of the RN package. The build tools were another issue. The dev server would just crash a lot of the time and require full restarts to get back up and running. This was a couple years ago. After AirBnb abandoned it I never looked back into it, I'm sure a lot of issues are solved now.
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Java is a good skill if youre looking to remain employed... Maybe not as fun and exciting projects but there is lots pf work there.
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yeah, i'd think about considering flutter if it's still around in 5 years
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cyka blyat posted:Java is a good skill if youre looking to remain employed... Maybe not as fun and exciting projects but there is lots pf work there. I think I've been too poisoned against it to really give it a fair shake. It's not "cool" and like most of you I got into this business to be cool.
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 Oh dear, it finally happened to me.
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cyka blyat posted:Java is a good skill if youre looking to remain employed... Maybe not as fun and exciting projects but there is lots pf work there. For the love of god use Kotlin if you're going to do native Android.
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Munkeymon posted:I just assume Flutter is whoever was responsible for Dart trying to retroactively make it not a bad idea. AFAICT Flutter picked Dart specifically because Dart had no users and so the Dart people were willing to reshape the language to exactly fit what Flutter wants.
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