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I'd like too see a way to visualize the output of complex SQL logic. Exe I have a couple of views layered over some underlying data tables. If I click on a datapoint in the final view, I'd like to see all of the underlying data in the tables that effected the calculation, and also which steps of the logic in the views were run. So if I have a case statement in my view, I want to see what case matched for a given output.

I like to leave off at the end of the day knowing what the next step is. I leave a small task that I could easily do then and there. This way I can start my morning off with a simple, quick, productive task. This gets my momentum rolling. I learned it reading about some famous author that used to use this trick.

Other fun productivity tricks include drawing a simple diagram when you can't focus or don't know what to work on next. I also try to have tasks that take all different levels of focus and cognitive energy in the backlog so that I can choose a task based on my mood.

I can spend a tremendous tremendous amount of time staring at a blank page.

Anywhere from 0 to 8! I'd say in average around 3.

Im a huge fan of the bullpen as well. You get the benefits of spontaneous conversation and collaboration, without the overwhelming anxiety that some of us feel in a crowded room. Its a solid compromise between collaboration and privacy.

I installed a browser extension that adds a blocklist to google's search results. So every time I visit a '10 wierd hacks to...' type of page I block the entire domain from ever showing up in my results again. It take a while to filter them all out, but it drastically increased my search experience. Anyways I use duck duck go nowadays so now my plugin is irrelevant...

Who cares if you can't export your playlists. You probably used their proprietary recommendation systems to generate them anyways. And its not like I can't write down all of my playlists and recreate them elsewhere. Why should Spotify go out of their way to make it easier for me to switch off of their platform. I refused to get fired up over this non-issue.

Just stumbled upon this: https://www.elastic.co/blog/monitoring-logstash-filters. It may be exactly what I was looking for.

Elastic rocks! I've been using it for a new project and am really digging it.

You guys should build in some better profiling tools for logstash. I'd love to be able to see how much time each filter rule took to know where to spend my time optimizing. Since its all in a java virtual machine its tough to see things like how many threads are working hard vs idle and how much memory each is using etc.

Anything data related. People have lots of data, and panic as soon as that data gets big enough to crash excel.

I think that it is still very relevant though to this discussion. I was born with some reprogrammed instincts and senses to let me objectively decide if an experience was positive or negative. This ultimately is the basis on which I am able to learn. When you're young, you may try random things like putting your hand on a hot burner. It gives you pain, so you learn not to do that! Likewise we need to pre-program an AI with ways of objectifying its environment and stimulus. From there a trial and error mentality can lead to a wealth of artificial knowledge. To expect a program to come to intelligence that can compete on any degree with humans without first programming some basic 'artificial emotions' would be unfair.

You don't recoil when you see a snake/spider? You don't get tired when it gets dark out? You aren't born with the knowledge of how to extract milk from your mother? You don't cry when you're hurt? You don't have an innate desire to please, and fear of pain... which ultimately allows your parents to teach you? We are loaded with survival instincts that set us up for successful learning.

We are born with pre-programmed information about the structure of our environment, IE instincts. Why should an AI be held to higher standards?

Finding work that you love and will continue to love for 40 years is really really really hard

They focus on high salary because they can. In other careers there are no high salary options so they can't,

They focus on early retirement because they can. Others would do if they could pull it off. Also as a result of high income and great job security have nothing else to worry about. Gotta worry about something, right?

Dangggg. I've just started getting back into Starcraft hard with the remastered release. Such a great game, so many great memories!

Read "the republic" by Socrates. Lots of fun philosophical musings with anti-democratic sentiment.

Some of the social issues are difficult to address without extensive insider knowledge of your particular company and culture. Some easy outsider advice though is the 'Joel test'. Written in 2000, its a bit out of date, but there are more modern versions of it floating around the internet (such as the one that follows). Basically it is a checklist for a good development environment. In my experience it is fine to miss one or two of these, and some are n/a based on what you are building. But if you find you are missing of half-assing a lot of these, seemingly unrelated employee satisfaction issues will start to pop up.

1. Are all builds handled automatically by a Continuous Integration server?

2. Do you make and use daily builds?

3. Do you use an issue tracker?

4. Do you fix bugs before writing new code?

5. Do you have an up-to-date schedule?

6. Do you have up to date information on your products performance and usage?

7. Do you use the best tools money can buy?

8. Do you have a comprehensive test plan?

9. Do you have dedicated UI and UX designers?

10. Does all code go through code review?

11. Do you have coding standards?

12. Are new employees given training?

13. Can you download the code base and run it in one step?

14. Do engineers have the strongest say in their time estimates?

15. Do engineers choose the tools and architecture for what they are building?

Monit does many of these things. More for monitoring than scheduling, but you could easily make a script that handles the timing side of things.

Excel Spreadsheets

Reminds me of the board game 'Scythe'

I've used this with decent success. Their support slack channel is great as well, and there is a lot of active development on the project.

Postgres's built in partitioning is also being actively developed. If it gets good enough, I wonder what will happen to timescaleDB as a company...

What do you mean tomorrow? When I open my start menu today I see ads for a bunch of games and apps that I don't have installed. When I see my lock screen I see a pretty nature photo with a couple of clickbait phrases on it like "If you think that this place is peacefull, then..."

Anyone work at a small shop and DOESN'T prefer AWS? They're the leader in the hosting space, from my perspective you'd have to have good reason NOT to use them at this point. They have more in terms of services and robustness than any other cloud platform, and its easier to hire developers who know it. If you're managing your own servers in this day and age then you either have a very specific use case that requires it, or you're behind.

This was always tough for me. Pick a couple of industry meetups in your area and suck it up and go every week. I found that just showing up was enough, once I was there I'd naturally make enough contacts to eventually get some work flowing.

Sell organs.

Broodwar will always have my heart. The first true e-sport with amazing balance without a patch in decades, and people are still discovering new techniques and strategies.

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If I were in the situation of unlimited PTO I'd probably track myself and take 5 weeks a year, just so that I can keep the guilt out of my conscious. I'd probably make that clear to my manager as well and put it on him/her to let me know if there are any problems.

The growing divide between the haves and have-nots. I have found that people in tech are generally completely oblivious to the massive amounts of impoverished people around them and have no idea how to help them. Also the technical advancements that we are seeing nowadays mostly seem to help people who are already well off. It is difficult to find good tech companies that have a high social good output.

Go somewhere even fancier and there is no menu...