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devnullbyte commented on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/minimaxir
Just commenting to say that I feel similarly to you, and I seem to be the only one among my coworkers that feels it to this extent. Good to know that there are others out there.
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 a singleton and I did not like it as much, as I was on my own for a good 8 hours a day. We are very social creatures. You only have to look a prisons. You're surrounded by criminals, quite a few who are manipulative / hostile or just hard work from untreated mental conditions, yet the form of punishment is to place you on your own into Solitary confinement.
devnullbyte commented on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/minimaxir
I'm not sure I enjoy this argument. Why is getting distracted by a friendly face so bad?
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/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png
This for me is why WFH suits me so well. In my morning I get around 4 hours of pure uninterrupted coding (as long as I stay off here or reddit).
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.
devnullbyte commented on Visual Studio Code – April 2020 update code.visualstudio.com/upd... · Posted by u/seanwilson
vscode has entirely replaced any ssh+tmux+vim I’d do. I can download or even preview remote files, share my session with coworkers, and their onboarding is amazing. You can use the editor from the very first second productively, and get constant reminders of the shortcuts.
vscode completely fixed all the things that annoyed me when working with remote machines.
Great to see another update!
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 bit spotty, sometimes I can save my code, and then build the source, but sshfs has been to slow and I end up building without the freshly saved changes. Is there a better way of doing thus native to vscode?
devnullbyte commented on Rules of thumb for a 1x developer muldoon.cloud/programming... · Posted by u/ingve
I am almost 40, and I fully expect this to be my last software development job. Likewise, I've never had a negative performance review and am usually the top task-killer and bug-destroyer; but when recruiters call and find out I'm married with kids they can't seem to hang up fast enough.
I'm saving as much as I can. The end is nigh.
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 something of that ilk?
devnullbyte commented on Rules of thumb for a 1x developer muldoon.cloud/programming... · Posted by u/ingve
I don't have experience with this yet, but being in my mid 30s now, I worry about it of course. But (again granting that I don't have your experience with this) what it looks like to me out there is that there seem to be fewer jobs that make sense for me at smaller more speculative companies, unless it's a CTO type role, but I see "senior" roles at large established companies that are more attractive anyway. (The problem is that I have to go study irrelevant undergrad algorithms in order to do the interviews, but that has been worth it for the jobs so far.)
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 my career hacking away on exciting projects.
As far as org-mode, meh. I really don't see whats so amazing about collapsible to-do notes anymore. As for email, listening to music etc, I am sorry, but browsers do that job very well and with zero time needed to scour around blogs trying to get them to work.