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Not much time. I've almost naturally fallen into a rhythm of wearing the same 4 shirts to work M-Th and Friday is jeans/casual. I alternate between a few pairs of pants. So, less than a minute is spent deciding and looking for my work clothes. Going out, I tend to wear whatever is top-of-stack, weather permitting.

It shows mastery of the language, one could argue. With the tools available today it makes development a lot faster and easier. Functions have tooltips on how to use it, you can scroll through the available functions, libraries imported, and more. While it is unpleasant, it is an exercise that demonstrates your independence from dev tools.

The only time I've used my personal computer for remote work was when it was freelance/independent contractor work. The companies I've worked remote for have all provided a computer for remote work. The main reason is usually information security. The companies need to know that sensitive data is not being stored on my personal computer - I shouldn't have access to it if I'm not working for them.

it worked for me on ubuntu 16.04

    $ unrar e shakespeare.part001.rar 

    UNRAR 5.30 beta 2 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2015     Alexander Roshal


    Extracting from shakespeare.part001.rar

Are you getting paid for 40h a week when you work less? If yes, enjoy the extra free time. If no, talk to your boss.

This goes for homebrewing (beer/wine) too. If you can make oatmeal you can make beer, but if you want to make the same beer exactly the same over and over it is very complex. The fact that Budweiser tastes the same all over the US and is made in 12(?) different locations is a testament to how good the brewers are (even if beer snobs don't like it).

As for coffee, even the foam on top of an espresso is complex.

You might enjoy this paper if you haven't already read it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140933/

Congrats! I've been working on a personal project now for a couple months that I originally conceived 2 years ago. It is still difficult to stick with but it is getting easier the more progress I make.

I hope they don't leave out Tom Bombadil.

I saved a lump of money for the short-term and took a very long vacation. I have a bit saved for the long-term from before, but now the focus is long-term saving.

The company didn't want to invest in my department but kept setting higher expectations. It caused the team to be overworked and understaffed. You couldn't focus on a project because you were always needed somewhere else. The people in my department were great but their hands were tied. The pay wasn't great and there were some other less important issues, too. I've seen a number of people leave since me, but turnover was always moderate.

I was in a similar situation. I took a break from work and rediscovered the reasons I got into software. Then, I went back to work after a nice long break.

My advice: Don't just save money, invest it in an S&P 500 index fund.

Time is going to fly by and if, like me, you put money away each month, the interest will be a nice reward to yourself and give you new opportunities when you start to look for them.

This is so true from my experience working for companies using PHP. You can advocate all you want to clean up code, but in the end, if it doesn't create a new feature its not going to happen.

Code that replaces/relieves humans.

I always felt that working out was a hassle. My parents tried forcing me to work out with a trainer multiple times and it never worked out. Then one summer I worked out with a friend a few times and that got me going to the gym a few times a week for about 2 months where I abruptly stopped. Fast forward 3 or 4 years and my parents, being worried about my health, got me to start working out with a trainer. What was different this time is that I built a friendship with the trainer, and I was paying with my own money and didn't want to waste it.

I don't care much for socializing while I work out, but knowing people there and having friends who I can workout with, discuss weightlifting with, and do competitions like warrior dash and tough mudder is what really made the difference to me. It wasn't an easy start and required a lot of self discipline to show up. But if you have the discipline and can motivate yourself to get in the routine and make friends while doing it, it becomes much more enjoyable and the chore quality goes away.

I think the fascination comes from an early introduction to Japanese culture, even if we're not aware. Japan probably has the largest cultural footprint in America for Eastern countries. A lot of cartoons I watched growing up were Japanese anime. Then there was Pokemon. And Nintendo. And Playstation. And the Mario Brothers. The list goes on for geek entertainment. I think the question could be juxtaposed with "Why do other countries have a fascination with Western culture?" - Hollywood, our entertainment industry. Or why is Soccer/football the most popular sport in the world? - people have access to it all over the world starting at an early age.

The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was founded in 2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

Use Chrome, install the Vimium plugin: F + {Letter Combo}

The knowledge to answer this question.

Most books I read come from personal recommendations, a friend tells me they liked a book and think I will like it. If I read it and like it I might read others from the author.

Free books (and on sale <$1.00) are also an incentive and have more often than not resulted in me buying other books from the author.

Serendipity in book stores - not very frequent because bookstores are not close to me. I recently bought 3 books from various bookstores while looking at what was available. One I had been meaning to read for years the other two were by authors I knew of but had never read.

Random Internet reference, I read Stanger in a Strange Land because of the SO answer "You don't grok vi" - I wanted to grok grok.

Travel inspired, I read some Hemingway because I was going to Spain.

edit: Online reviews are like social media comments, bring some popcorn. If I want to read criticism about a book, it will be from a more reputable source. But, that is not to say I won't read a book with bad reviews from a more reputable source. Their negative spin might make me more curious.

At my current job, 2 years, we have a bug that existed before I joined. However, I was able to provide an alternate solution to it. Its hard to quantify the time spent on it because it was always around. When it became a main focus it probably took me 2 weeks to get an alternate solution.

Not sure if you are looking for specific data about "brick and mortar" classrooms or if you are open to digital and blended classrooms, too. You can see videos and papers about new educational technology here: https://www.imsglobal.org/2016-learning-impact-awards-public...

I haven't looked at all of them, but you should be able to see some data/research by the participants supporting their educational technology.

Also, voting is open to the public until 2016-05-24 @ Noon.

> 3. Higher-priority projects intervene, and when I go back to the original project (sometimes months later), additional time is needed to figure out what I was doing when I was interrupted.

This is major for me at my current employer. It is not always a project that intervenes. It is more along the lines of "stop everything and fix my problem(s)" requests that are deemed urgent.

Feels a bit on the spammy side since there is no user activity to curate the list. Catch-22.

I don't think you should limit this to the "new generation." I am at around 5 years experience in the dev workforce and believe I can answer those questions to a satisfactory degree. From interviewing and professional experience these are questions that seem to give everyone trouble. I interviewed a guy with 15-20 years of experience and he didn't understand B-Trees and indexing but his mentality was: why should I bother? that is the DBAs territory.

Obviously, my background is different. I think this is the root of your issue. Most people are learning what they need in order to get a job completed. Most of the time it doesn't involve them having to build the entire application, they are asked to work on a small portion.

All things considered, I agree that devs should understand more in depth the core components of web applications.

I am moderately happy. There is no one big thing right now that would dramatically change my happiness as a working programmer/dev. There are little things that could be changed by me or the people I work for that would increase my happiness. But I am happy with the big picture and how things are moving. Day to day is a rollercoaster. Finding new bugs can be frustrating. Bashing your head against bugs that don't make sense can be horrible for happiness, but at the same time, once you solve it and the weight is lifted off you feel great. The hardest part for me is believing in myself, that I am capable of solving something that I am having trouble understanding. That and dealing with corporate America.

I don't see myself working as a programmer my entire career. I have about 5years professionally, but how much longer, I don't know.

Most of the people I know who watch Netflix at night want it to keep playing after they fall asleep.

I like Armadillo. As a child between the ages of 5-8 my family would drive through the woods and if we saw an armadillo we would try to catch it. If you managed to catch it you got a dollar. Brightplay, on the other hand, means nothing to me.

Chrome, FF, Safari - none highlight correctly.

I believe in good repetition. But what is good repetition? Nano on a dot file 5 times? For the command line it should involve commands that will save people time. Teach them: 1. how to use find and grep, and other commonly used commands. 2. introducing them to vi and explaining why people use it (instead of nano) 3. user configuration with a brief on the FS structure (what is in etc, usr, opt, etc...) 4. lastly, but most importantly, how powerful and dangerous the unix command line is. Why you should learn shell scripting. And getting started with shell scripting.

To me, that list would go from beginner to intermediate++

anecdote: I graduated in 2008 from HS. When I graduated from there the most advanced computer class offered was essentially how to open up photoshop, word, and excel. A little bit of this is adobe flash go have fun. And make a pure html web page with inline styles - no css. Now that HS has a 3d printer. Once, the computer teacher sincerely asked me how to make a href open in a new window.

I graduated college in 2012 and I learned what css was and why it was better. I took an intro to java class. Learned some stuff volunteering for NPOs doing website work. When I graduated I knew I wanted to do something in IT but not program. Now I am a software dev.

Turns out its easy to get a job and teach yourself how to code when nobody understands what coding is.