---Was talking about a previous company who made steps to shift from it for pricing reasons. Seems they where misinformed.
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Derpdiherp commented on The dispassionate developer blog.ploeh.dk/2021/03/22/... · Posted by u/algui91
Maybe it's the jobs that I've worked, or the country I'm in ( UK ). But I've really not seen this shift towards looking at portfolios of open source work rather than CV's. Every company I've worked for has requested a CV, and often does some form of test or in person interview centred around programming problems. The tests vary in quality and depth.
I wouldn't think of myself as a passionate developer. I have a family, I value my free time. I spend work time growing my skill set as it's required, anything else I do is rarely related.
I have a feeling that there's a silent majority of developers such as myself, that do enjoy programming and have a "passion" for it, but do not let this passion dissuade them from family time, or having more varied down time.
I think for a lot of people it's a dangerous game to be spending every waking moment working for a company, then spending your down time scraping together stuff for open source contributions etc.
I salute those that can and do though.
You never see the modes of the harmonic minor in these things - always the major modes ( aside from the relative natural minor of course ), as a metal head it'd be useful to see one. Still very cool.
I retract that - if you use the search bar you can get modes of any scale you want, this is fantastic!
You never see the modes of the harmonic minor in these things - always the major modes ( aside from the relative natural minor of course ), as a metal head it'd be useful to see one. Still very cool.
Derpdiherp commented on The wild economy of tabletop board game funding npr.org/2020/07/05/887283... · Posted by u/slackpad
I'd really like to get into more board games, but so many of them have an occult flavor to them.
Suggestions? I have Catan, Ticket to Ride, and Carcassonne.
Given the ones you suggest in your post, I'd say:
Agricola
Race for the Galaxy
Tiny Epic Galaxies
Splendor
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Derpdiherp commented on Core Memory Shield for Arduino tindie.com/products/kilpe... · Posted by u/mhb
This is only tangentially related, but as someone who is incredibly new to the Systems programming world, what would people recommend for getting into Arduino programming? How different is it from programming the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi?
The Arduino IDE is fine to begin with. Eventually you may want to grow into dealing with more of the family of Atmel chips, tiny85s can be fun for miniature projects for example.
You'll start to outgrow the Arduino libraries at some point though and may want to switch to the Atmel compilers directly.
For resources the Arduino.cc forum and tutorials are a great place to start. Should be able to find some project ideas as well.
Derpdiherp commented on Dwarf Fortress is coming to Steam with graphics polygon.com/2019/3/13/182... · Posted by u/danso
I've played DF a lot.
Biggest problem that I had is that it eventually becomes a challenge to manage the framerate. I realize there are ways to fix this that are intertwined with the gameplay, but I'd rather play the game instead of butchering kittens and other things in an effort to keep the game performant.
Second issue is with military organization. I never really became confident in my ability to get the squads doing what I wanted them to do (wearing the proper uniforms, training with a crossbow).
Despite this, I've had a lot of fun with the game. Building, farming, and managing a metal industry is a lot of fun. The barrier to entry is still pretty high, and I don't think the announced additions are going to change that.
(haven't played in the last year or two, so my criticism may be outdated)
No the criticisms are still valid. There's still severe frame rate issues under quite a few circumstances. The military thing is more subjective though, it's still a complicated system, but such is the way of DF.
As much as I can see why Tarn wants to keep the code closed source, I really wish he'd allow someone to help him with some optimisations.
C++ Developer - must admit I used to use spaces, then switched to tabs.
This was for several reasons - firstly - makefiles will not be parsed correctly if you start using spaces rather than tabs, so it's a good habit to get into to use them elsewhere to save headaches. Secondly, almost every developer I've met will want to use a different amount of spaces for indentation. When using tabs they can set whatever they want using the text editor or IDE of their choice.
This is my line of thinking anyway.
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