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I have had a few stints of trying out emacs. I used spacemacs, doom and rolled my own. It never gained any traction for me. I think the reason for this, is that the amount of time …

It might be due to your home sitation as well. I have my wife and kids, so I have the opportunity to go and chat with them or grab some lunch. I remember when I WFH'ed on my own as…

Nothing wrong with a friendly face, its more that it can throw you out of your flow, especially when trying to debug some code. This describes it best: https://heeris.id.au/trinket…

Interesting that he decided to take the approach of not copying any code, that must have been a helluva challenge with the early boot phase assembly.

Quick question. I develop with VMs a lot and use vagrant to set up an sshfs share from my local repo mounted within the VM as shared drive. This sort of does the job, but it's a bi…

Dam dude, what sort of people are you working with or interviewing for, that they see having a wife or family as a negative? That's just crazy. Is this valley based start ups or so…

Just keep learning and don't go stale and stay associated with tech that is going redundant. This is what I have always done and its done me well. I am 48 now and having a blast in…

Me to mate. I think its silicon valley thing. I am 48 and having a blast in my career now, I am getting my hands on all sorts of interesting things to learn. The only people who I …

Just in case anyone reads this and gets very worried about getting older and being destitute, its certainly not always the case. I am 48 years old and having a blast. I am team lea…

"that sits in front of " does that denote that miminal refactor / re-architecture is needed for a rest based application, trying to get an idea of how easy it is to start using key…

Thanks. There is in fact a CTO who is very supportive. > Don't try to make everyone happy. Excellent point, I am thinking of printing that out and framing it somewhere.

So glad I don't work for a company anymore where I have to base my OS choice solely on using MS office products.

I use a kanban board. [Backlog] [Active] [Done] All new tasks go into [Backlog]. In the morning I move the backlog cards around based on priority, the higher or more urgent items p…

gah, sick of people posting paywalled medium links. I honestly think hacker news should assess if medium links should even be allowed.. I cannot read them as I hit the monthly quot…

Working..I was working at home before, so its not a real big change for me, apart from my kids are at home.

At least they have a public health service to worry about in the first place.

regarding screen time, from the source you provide: "We don't know if it's being caused by the screen time," said Dowling. "We don't know yet if it's a bad thing. It won't be until…

Is Blippi the son of Timmy Mallet?

got to socialize those loses!

That's ignoring intent they expressed to implement very long isolation measures for the elderly. Thier approach might be flawed, but let's debate it based on what has actually been…