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My first week at my current company, back in 2011 they gave me an empty desk without a computer, and told me to wait for one.
I did, for a whole week. Came to work, read some books, talking with colleagues, etc
Computer arrived Monday morning and then I could start working -
But the colors are so nice
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Replace the battery of your old notebook and keep it
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It is a good analogy for non tech people
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Ternaries are shit
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Get a laser printer, "it just works ™"
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@lbfalvy git/github for open source seems niece due to the forks and all that.
For closed source projects, you won't need forks anyway -
Use the manager as a rubber duck.
Work just as well as a rubber duck -
Svn is better that git, change my mind
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Reject cold interviews, embrace networking
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I have learned that meetings should be conducted or directed, not just had. I have left some Of those unscheduled meetings early by saying "i see you guys have asked everything from my side,bye"
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Most of code comments I see in the wild are about the how something is being done, but not about the why, which in general is what needs being explained.
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That login screen was the network login, not the local login. At the time, windows did not have any local security, and everything you ran was with full access
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Comments should be about the why, and not the how.
But most of them seem to be about the how -
Good old <table> comes back to life in a different form
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Some jobs pay very well exactly because they are very shitty (finance and management consulting come to mind). Your compensation is in part from that, whether directly or indirectly.
Now you may want to accept a lower compensation with a more palatable job, or not -
Most of the price of a macbook is the brand and the ability to run macOS. If you are using linux, then there will be much cheaper options
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I am really against laptops for gaming, way more expensive and no upgradability. I would only recommend if it is your only option
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@wiki phosphine
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Use a laptop cooling fan. Works wonders to fix their faults
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Many times the bots are not bots, but real people in clickfarms and mturk
That is why bot protection wont work -
Xsd is the standard
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Just assume it is and work from that
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Don't
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And why do you dream about it? What would improve in your life if you had it?
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Tab on the keyboard. The editor may or may not convert it to spaces. I leave it to luck.
Only relevant for python anyway, which i don't use much -
@odite it is vintage now
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Copying wrong example code from the question has happened to me several times
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My Google search is ten times better than the intern, that is why I am a 10x developer
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I press tab, and the editor converts to spaces, so I guess both?