The Navidson Record from House of Leaves, although it’s questionable whether it is supposed to actually exist within the narrative.
The Navidson Record from House of Leaves, although it’s questionable whether it is supposed to actually exist within the narrative.
3Blue1Brown on youtube has amazingly good visual explanations for various math concepts. Helped me out a lot when I was having trouble with calculus. It doesn’t help specifically with memorizing theorems or anything, but provides a good conceptual framework to start with. https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
I hit the “wake on lan” icon on my phone, since my computer is in a different room from my monitor and the usb doesn’t work for waking it up directly. But if I could, left ctrl all day!
For a long time I tried, but one day I just decided to focus on the hobbies I care the most about. I dumped a lot of time into software for my career, then kept up with bass guitar practice and dirt biking. All the other hobbies are things I might pick up if I have a surplus of time, but I’ve accepted that I’ll never go that deep into them.
If you’re not being sarcastic, why limit yourself to only one thing? If you’re working on some amazing UI with tons of CSS animations and a full audiovisual experience, and it takes intimate knowledge of everything frontend, I guess it would make sense. But if you’re just making internal CRUD apps, I don’t see a reason why a given domain is special enough to have its own job title.
I think it’s a complement. We’re not in the dark ages anymore where you had to be intimately familiar with each target platform and have different people who each know everything about their little part of the stack. Nowadays it’s feasible for one person to be productive in devops, database, backend, frontend, etc. because so many people have gone to great effort to get us there. I personally get a lot of enjoyment out of being able to stand up an app by myself without necessarily needing to work with six other teams. That way we can have an actual vision for an overall user experience rather than getting caught up in compatibilities and discussions of ever changing best practices.
I’m pretty sure you could buy one of those with a straight six, I bet they’re even more of a dog!
I’ve had many other jobs and few experiences in them have been as humbling as programming. My favorite is trying everything to fix an issue then realizing the problem is that you’re pointing at the wrong database or running the wrong branch.
The problem with modern UI design in a nutshell…
I have basically the same story, except it was one of my actual friends on Steam asking me to rate their CS:GO team. I fell for it since I was trying to be nice, and luckily changed my password before they could turn around and use my account for the same thing.
Just an anecdote, but I’ve definitely eaten those bad boys after several months. I’ve never been led astray by just checking for mold and giving it a sniff.
Yeah! I think I still have the exact same tastes as when I was a kid. I always wanted a dirt bike and now I have one, and I always wanted a fast computer with a good sound system, which I now keep relatively up to date. Maybe my kid self would be disappointed that I don’t have a fast car though!
Suddenly I need to order a lot of explosives…
I’ve already left, but seeing them marching towards an IPO makes me even happier with my decision. I just fear that the mountains of helpful troubleshooting and advice on Reddit will be locked away forever soon, while the rest of the web falls to SEO and AI-generated nonsense text…
That’s a shame, I love that book.
It helps people relax and feel good, basically. In a similar vein, there’s no informational content in a sitcom and yet they continue to be made. Some people enjoy crocheting or playing guitar hero, even though they might not be learning much from them. Personally I like a good blend of entertainment and education, but I also don’t really try to justify to myself why I might enjoy one person’s videos over another’s, it might even come down to the voice or some other entirely subjective factor really.
Might need some evidence of this one!
I did, I was in high school at the time and I had just discovered Firefox. I remember it was a while before it was possible to have nested replies. Before Digg I think I just used StumbleUpon. Good times!
I got pulled over and the cop found a 1/2 gram of pot in my car (a very small amount), which ended up with me having to do community service and take regular drug tests. I was working as a line cook at the time, but being forced to stop smoking weed gave me the push to finally apply for an entry level manufacturing position at a local company who does drug tests. Years later I still work there, but as a software engineer, and attending online college. I wouldn’t quite say I’m grateful about the ass backwards drug laws and invasive drug screening, but I really can’t argue that my current situation is a lot better than it was back then. Without that event, I might still be working random entry level jobs.