PopeDotNinja

6 years agodiscuss

Sure. I can't remember exactly what led me to this point, but I remember going to workout with my personal trainer & feel really angry towards her for no particular reason. I realized in that moment that I was not OK, and I booked a session with a cognitive behavioral therapist. I basically started with "I'm super angry & don't know why", and went from there.

PopeDotNinja

6 years agodiscuss

+1 for therapy. Best $10K I ever spent. Over 18 months I ever spent.

PopeDotNinja

6 years agodiscuss

The best way I could summarize it is that coding is the easiest part of my job (unless I have to touch CSS). Working with people is by far the hardest part.

PopeDotNinja

6 years agodiscuss

Or just set a day rate, and limit scope to helping with the specific problem. "It's $1200/day, and scope is limited to helping you understand how to recover from the described problem. All of the work recovery work will be done by you, and my role will be limited to advising."

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

Have you considered simply finding things to work on that you'd actually find interesting? They don't have to be projects that are officially sanctioned. I'm doing mostly backend coding on a legacy app, but certain parts of the app and our infrastructure make that harder. So when I identify something I don't like, I've started chipping away at making it better: logging, deployment, testing, builds, etc. Surely something at Google is suboptimal. You can seek it out and make it better.

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

I am quite boring to most people.

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

A short, recent discussion I posted on /r/AskScienceDiscussion...

"If Cavendish/dessert bananas get wiped out by some disease (e.g. Panama disease), how long would it take to cultivate a new dessert banana from wild growing options?"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/c75ct...

P.S. For the casually curious, /r/AskScienceDiscussion is a more forgiving, less strict place to ask questions than /r//r/AskScience. It's more ask Bill Nye in a podcast than pose a perfect question to pass the scientist mod filter.

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

That's pretty much the truth.

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

Define shit software.

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

Mikey Dickerson is a fairly public figure, so in this context I think it's fine.

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

I found it much more pleasant to parse JSON than YAML. At least there's a fairly soecific RFC for JSON! YAML parsing felt like a whole bunch of "meh, we came up with this, but just sorta do what you want".

And on the topic of cute names, back when I was learning Elixir, I wrote a wrapper for an Erlang YAML parser. I called it Mark Yamill :)

https://hex.pm/packages/mark_yamill

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

I did write a json encoder/decoder! I was just goofing around and decided to see how hard it was. Apparently I didn't get around to flushing out the docs, so here's the tests: https://github.com/amorphid/json_momoa/blob/master/test/json...

PopeDotNinja

7 years agodiscuss

In your opinion, what's the value of MessagePack? I worked with it when writing some Fluentd tools, and it was neat, but I didn't love it enough to switch from JSON on other projects. Maybe there's a killer feature I didn't know I need?

PopeDotNinja

8 years agodiscuss

Pretty fun. Please make the score a little bigger so I can read it without my glasses :)