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I've been where you are, once about four months ago and once six years ago. Both times I stayed longer than I should have. Both times I hit the same burn out symptoms you describe:…

I'm currently working with a lot of younger developers and I think most would benefit from reading this type of article. The first bullet point is one I find myself referencing ver…

I had a similar experience once but a little more extreme. On a take home interview test they were asking to build a full backend analytics setup plus a data viz UI. I called the r…

Think most companies resist using lower level languages due to their ultimate purpose being to build products that provide value and sell them. They are generally far less concerne…

Yeah, I'm lucky enough to be able to locally use the prebuilt binaries of seabolt for OS X. I wasn't so lucky with my deployment of it, which is on an alpine container. Definitely …

Interesting to see neo4j released an official Go driver. Java, Javascript, Python, dotnet and now Go have an officially supported bolt driver.

I'd agree with this, I've had good experiences and downright painful ones with performance reviews. I've always found the process outcomes are heavily influenced by the relationshi…

Came to say something similar; I see it with library choices a lot as well; poor library choices ~= sloppy programming. I've had a lot of issues in the the past with 'conventional …

Yeah, I've not delved deeply into the details of his life but that would make sense. Have to imagine she was there providing that day to day support and helped give him purpose.

There are many reasons to celebrate Stephen Hawking but the one I personally am most impressed by his ability overcome an ALS diagnosis in his college years and go on to live a lif…

I generally agree we are products of the environment/circumstance we are born into but it's left to your free-will and choice as to how to best persevere in that environment. I've …

I've had a lot of success with paired programming in different team/project environments and really have only done 'mob' experiments. I didn't find there to be a lot of benefit to …

I'm not sure I'd classify myself as a loner(married, fairly large social circle) but I definitely value my self reflection time. I do think I tend to be more 'dense' in my social i…

Getting x509 issues. Output is below: $ httpdiff https://www.google.com http://www.google.com Doing GET: https://www.google.com http://www.google.com Error doing GET https://www.go…

This was a pretty thought provoking read for me; it put into words some of the beliefs I have operated by. However it's also important to remember that to be 'doing' you need to ha…

I had similar experiences with pairing; often it was mandated by folks in charge who didn't seem to have a great grasp of what the benefits were. Productivity/velocity tended to su…

This was initial thought as well, seems like both would fit the needs specified, multiple column search etc. I've had good experiences with both ES and Solr. They both have pretty …

I've always considered IntelliJ as the Cadillac of Java IDEs. Eclipse(or plug-in modded Eclipse) seems to be the most common in places I've worked. NetBeans seems to be less popula…

I'll agree with the working out regularly being good for your health, both mental and physical. Exercising has gotten me through some tough spots in my life and it has always been …

I mostly have a case for the extra grip. I had issues with dropping it and have basically a grippy rubber sleeve for a case. I've probably dropped 10 or so times and I'd guess 1 or…

I work in a very large company that has primarily Java for web apps and back end processes in COBOL/Mainframe environments. I've been steering things towards Groovy or Ruby for new…

There's a novel I read years ago that had a similar idea. It was a Clive Cussler book: The Mediterranean Caper. The smuggling plot had a modified submarine containing the narcotics…