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Senior management at a Japanese tech company, 2 kids, most of my daily life in Japanese here. Can confidently talk circles around most N1s. I agree. I had plenty of strange abstrac…

Many of the comments here talk about lifestyle changes, and I think those are key, but there are some, (perhaps rarer) conditions that unfortunately won't be improved. Trigeminal N…

I don't know much about how a developer should try to build a secure application from the get-go. I don't think I've ever worked on or assessed a codebase where that plan worked. I…

Not necessarily best practices, but I recommend the Matasano Crypto Challenges to basically everyone. I make all of the developers on our team do them too: http://cryptopals.com

As a fellow Brit, I find your ability to appreciate sarcasm lacking :)

FYI: £26k is not average for 3 years experience. I know kids straight out of coding bootcamps that started on £10k more than that.

As an atheist ex-muslim blogger of very similar descent, I don't see how this is relevant to hacker news. I sincerely doubt it will generate any useful discussion.

This is a fantastic comment. I'd love to hear more about your experiences and any other insights you have about musical practice. Since you program too, do you think there is much …

> threedaymonk behaved as a nice, well-intentioned, polite person ought to. I work with threedaymonk and the reason that he came across this way is that he is a remarkably nice, we…

"Nothing flies over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch them".

Ah, sorry, my mistake.

I think you probably mean canon.

I'm usually working with one client at a time, but as you surmised spend considerable effort keeping the sales pipeline bubbling. Haven't had any time without work for the past cou…

For work that actually requires me to crack open a terminal, it's as you described i.e. in the vast majority of cases it can probably wait until the next week they've booked. In th…

I bill weekly. Clients can book time in increments of one week. Each week costs a fixed amount, though I give clients a 10% discount for pre-payment in full, cleared in my bank acc…