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jaylaal
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
How's the boss going to know you can do secretarial stuff if he hired you as a plumber?
jaylaal
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
"Seriously, ref, I'm good enough to win. No need to play the game, you can just hand me the gold medal now!"
jaylaal
·11 maanden geleden·discuss
Nice comparison. When I was living in China, I'd encounter someone who forgot how to write the characters for a word on a weekly basis. I think the difference is that with Latin alphabets you can still misspell something, and having gotten it down on paper, still rely on phonetics to convey your meaning.
jaylaal
·vorig jaar·discuss
Also keep talking to people, since you never know when and where opportunities will come from.

This environment reminds me of the one I faced graduating into the 2001-2003 post-Dotcom Bust market.
jaylaal
·vorig jaar·discuss
Robots in disguise.
jaylaal
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
TL;DR: she thought kids would like grown-up stuff but was wrong.

"Giving my kids unadulterated fun allowed me to relax, at least as much as I could as a mom of three young ones.

I'm not the type of parent who wants to spend all my time off at an indoor water park with dozens of other screaming families, but I'm learning that we need to have age-appropriate fun. And that looks different from what I'd imagined (or what I saw on social media)."
jaylaal
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Was the development team hugely influenced by The Mythical Method Man Month?
jaylaal
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Many people can't mentally context switch for game and aren't prepared for the behavior that is required of the game from those that can. It's an assault on their world view.
jaylaal
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
For a small but complicated project I got thrown into a while ago, the only way for me to understand it was to print out all the source directly, vertically tape together the pages for a single file, and then lay them all out on a huge table. Then I took multicolored markers and started physically drawing out the call chains. I then I sers-toi the system, and also found an enraging bug: the system widely used the variables "blah_name" and "blah_id", including in many functions' parameters. Except, in one case, blah_id was passed in as blah_name and thenceforth became known as blah_name.

I don't know if an automated visualization system is possible, but you'll have to understand the whole thing before doing so. Pen and paper was the most expedient solution for me at the time.