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want to buy my nft from me :)

A bullet journal style thing. I have a list of goals for the year that I rewrite on the top of ever page (page a day).

Then I have a break down of tasks that will bring those goals to life.

From there I make my daily todo-list. It's paper based, and I've been doing it for about 10 years.

I built a habit to do it while I have my morning coffee, and I review the list a few times a day.

My daughter (10 years old) has a saying.. "The wolf cares not for fair." It is perhaps one of my favourite sentences ever.

I should say.. they don't need to be more patient than most other trades. To get good they need to practice and learn.

What I do think coders need to know is that they are building on quick sand. That bit is the only thing I think we do that other trades don't. We can never rest, because as soon as we stop for a breath we start to sink and fall behind.

Too true.. But is there a trade you can't say that about. I suck at guitar and skateboarding. I suck at car repair and carpentry.

This is so perfect.

Not sure a doctor would agree with that last sentence. Or even a carpenter really. Cut that bit off at the wrong angle and it's not something you're coming back from. Cut a line of code wrong and the test fails, and you try again, and again and again.

Sit in a room and point at a spot on the floor.

You are a pointer, pointing at nothing.

Attempt to put shit where you're pointing and you have shite all over the floor.

Malloc creates a bucket. Now when you put shit where you're pointing it lands in a bucket.

When you're done with the bucket you clean it up.

If you try to put too much in the bucket, you end up with shite all over the floor.

If you forget to clean up the bucket, the place will start to stink.

If you change the pointer so nothing is pointing at the bucket of shit, then it will just sit there, forgotten. But the shit is still there.

No one ever forgets this way of teaching it.

I never teach people to code. I ask them what they want to build, and then we work to building that. People don't need to be patient. Beyond assignment, if, for and while, just make sure they use good variable names and function names. Code reviews take care of the rest.

Loops are easy.. You have 3 chocolates, and for each one you take a bite. If it's spicy filled, you stop eating them.

While there are still crayons in your bowl, the colors in the rainbow grows.

"what time is it mr wolf?" When you reach daddy/mommy you stop.

In their defence.. Most modern languages don't really make use of these.

I mean recursion is almost never better than a while loop (stacks don't love it), and pointers... Yeah everything in JS and Python, Elixir and Ruby is really a pointer (most everything) but the average day to day it's not something devs care all that much about.

As an ex c and c++ dev, and CS grad, I know about them. I think if I pushed myself, I could find perhaps 5 times in the last 10 years where knowing that things are pass by references in ruby was expressed as such.

I'd bring it closer to shop class.

They might make a decent birdhouse/python app, but after that most will just put the knowledge on the shelf.

See it's not really ego. I'd say most people could be good at coding. But most people could be good electricians, and plumbers and mechanics, and carpenters, and ... well and heaps of other things.

It's that it all takes training, and time in. It all takes reading and learning new things.

It's not a question of could they be good. It's a question of, do they want to. I don't think most people want to be good at it.

"If a programming language doesn't change how you think, it's not worth learning." ~I forget who

I always find it funny when people say things like this for our trade. I'd never imagine the likes would be said for Copy Writing or Sales, or Plumbing. Like James from the bookkeeping team decided to start rewiring the light fixtures last week. Spacing out the lights a few feet further apart, and using higher watt LED's saved the company X.

I never hear Elite Plumber or Elite Dentist. (Though I'm sure they exist)

We are no more Elite than any other profession. But we are professionals, and we do train.

I love the bit about China accessing wechat user data. I cannot imagine that happening to an American or Australian company. Isn't the assisted access bill specifically just that. I mean that's it's whole reason for being. Build it here and we want to look at your users.

I'm good with the screen size. I love it in fact.. It's the perfect form factor for me. I've got a larger pro from work, and much prefer my air. The only caveat, is harddrive space. XCode is a hog, so opt for the larger HD.

Neil who? What year is this?

Nah.. it's not a thing.. :) It will die once it becomes known how little it offers, and how slow it's going to work.

I love that sentence.

Yeah.. rails hits this same nail with jobs.. I use jobs in a synch manner, and it's great. It's a rather functional way of working within an OO world.

Totally.. and adding read replicas in the mix too. Even rails allows you to stipulate the DB each model lives in, in a rather trivial manner.

I don't think it's a real problem in general. I don't mind if Gates, Musk and the likes have X cash.. It doesn't affect my life.

In general the poverty rate of the world is dropping super fast, and every year more and more of the world is raised out.

I do worry about facebook and twitter because I fear the power they're growing. But I don't care much about their balance sheets.

There's a third option to the inherent equal worth vs freeload. That is, that people are just not of equal inherent worth.

I'm a coder, and I do not believe for an instant that I am as valuable to the population on the whole as a nurse or a doctor. I mean even even just reading your last full sentence one might argue you feel the same.

If you were trapped on an island, would you want a DR or a coder with you?

I 100% do.. I love it.. I've used it on smaller teams, and even those who were "less technical" didn't have an issue. Advantages, as I see it are that it's so seamless. PR's and branches are even more intuitive than Jira. It ties into the repo's wiki, perfectly too.

IMHO the biggest draw is that it's such a simple system. There are no surprises in it. It never does anything un-expected.

Well said. I get it in SO, but here? Upvoting or downvoting doesn't make sense. We're all smart and we can take being wrong. Strong opinions held lightly.

Totally.. I mean things like rails are a bit over 15 year old, but elixir is 10 year old.. GraphQL was 10 years ago too. ReactNative was in 2015, so 7 years. Docker was 2016. Tailwinds was late 2017.

Startups happen all the time, and that includes the creation of new frameworks and new programming languages.

To the "where to find gold"... That I don't have a clue. If I did, I'd be there.

I suppose you could argue it's really just a mind set.. I took from it the idea of classless. Which I've not really used. It would mean you'd have to have a deeper knowledge of the tags that are available. Which as you said, would boil down to about the same as classes.

Troll

I think it's rather personal. I never plan to retire. I want to die coding. The extra cash isn't really a motivation. I've quit a job that I sort of liked, to take a job that paid 10k less, but was something I ended up loving. I didn't notice the difference in my spending habits.

What is "lean muscle" regardless of fat?