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#2LoL I always think this will work then I remember WiFi speeds suck compared to my UVerse connection and so I stay at home and the cycle repeats.
Glad you made it work though :)
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#3LoL I always think this will work then I remember WiFi speeds suck compared to my UVerse connection and so I stay at home and the cycle repeats. Glad you made it work though :)
Worse: I couldn't get into the WLAN (students only), so I could only use my phone's Internet connection w/384Kbit/s -- but that was good, you get so effective with such a low bandwidth (using Google's mobile client, doing only must searches etc.)
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#4Lmao. Love the ending.
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#5LoL I always think this will work then I remember WiFi speeds suck compared to my UVerse connection and so I stay at home and the cycle repeats. Glad you made it work though :)
Bad interenet is a feature.
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#6Getting into a place where Internet connectivity is either not available or is very spotty helps. I've done some of my best programming in trains.
Sure, not having access to documentation sucks, but not having access to HN and Twitter compensates for it well :-)
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#7Getting into a place where Internet connectivity is either not available or is very spotty helps. I've done some of my best programming in trains. Sure, not having access to documentation sucks, but not having access to HN and Twitter compensates for it well :-)
When I'm disconnected, I tend to just leave a bunch of comments in code with ONLINE in them and what I need to look up and recover my train of thought.
I then switch to working on a different part of the program, or a different program altogether, and come back to them when I'm next online.
This has worked pretty well for me so far, as long as I'm not under a time crunch.
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#8Getting into a place where Internet connectivity is either not available or is very spotty helps. I've done some of my best programming in trains. Sure, not having access to documentation sucks, but not having access to HN and Twitter compensates for it well :-)
When I'm disconnected, I tend to just leave a bunch of comments in code with ONLINE in them and what I need to look up and recover my train of thought. I then switch to working on a different part of the program, or a different program altogether, and come back to them when I'm next online. This has worked pretty well for me so far, as long as I'm not under a time crunch.
That is a good point. Another tag like TODO and FIXME :-)
I've noticed that I eventually get "push anxiety" when I work offline for longer periods. Once we even had to do a detour on a road trip from Poland to Helsinki to stop by a colleague's office in Sweden to be able to push code I had written on the way. I guess I simply don't trust my laptop...
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#9Is being able to work in a university library as a member of the public standard practice in Germany? (Or is the poster an alumnus, perhaps?) I'd love to do that here in the UK but they're key-carded to the hilt.
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#10Is being able to work in a university library as a member of the public standard practice in Germany? (Or is the poster an alumnus, perhaps?) I'd love to do that here in the UK but they're key-carded to the hilt.
I can't speak for Germany, but in the United States practices vary. You can't just walk into the library at the University of Wisconsin, but at North Carolina State you can.