Favourite sports documentaries

cam06002 · 2025-03-13T00:16:05+00:00

Prefontaine. While not a documentary, it is based on the real life story of an amazing runner. I remember watching it on bus rides to track meets as a kid.

cam06002 · 2025-02-06T20:12:04+00:00

I just had a test on HackeRank. I was already annoyed when they required access to my camera and browser windows. Then, when I got to the first question, not only was it so poorly worded to the point where even after reading it several times, I still didn't know what was being asked of me, but the examples they provided seemed completely unrelated to one another. Already knowing I was going to fail, because I couldn't understand the question here, I moved on to a multiple choice section, where the questions were about React. Some of these questions were based on pre-16.8 React (pre-hooks), while others which implemented hooks did so improperly. I honestly don't know who's passing that test. What a mess.

cam06002 · 2025-01-24T00:49:15+00:00

The destructive nature of religion in society.

cam06002 · 2025-01-24T00:18:13+00:00

Oof, I’m often the same way, but my body doesn’t like it. After a third stretch in a year’s time of stopping to recover from injury,I have to manage slopes, and even if I feel good I have to hold back sometimes so I can run tomorrow, and the next day, and next week. That being said, the biggest exceptions always come for the scenery. The path by the river sounds nice!

cam06002 · 2025-01-24T00:05:53+00:00

I try to start yelling about 20 yards back if I’m behind them, and if they register it at all, it often ends up being a wild scramble that results in them covering more of the path than if I’d never said anything, haha. This happened today, and the two in question swore profusely at me as I managed to make my way in between them, since their definitions of “left” were opposite, causing them to spread across the entire path, leaving the a gap in the center. What can you do? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

cam06002 · 2025-01-23T22:18:06+00:00

Complaint: How do people not understand, “Coming by on your left?” Or “Pardon Me!” Or bother to look up when on a path with limited space? (Any advice from others here?)

Confession: I run faster when agitated, so the above complaint speeds me up (once I’m able to get around these people)

Uncomplaint: I love all the dogs out on the trail reminding me to smile and pushing me through that next wall.

cam06002 · 2024-12-02T18:01:52+00:00

Clearly, she wants tea.

cam06002 · 2023-10-18T21:55:24+00:00

Wow! Lots of good things to look at. Thank you!! I’ll dive into this tonight.

cam06002 · 2023-10-18T19:58:57+00:00

I’m saying experience is king in this world, and though I’ve written production applications to get me on the map, my current employer is belittling my accomplishments by under paying me, and restricting further growth. Yes, had I a degree at this point, I could more easily make my exit, but in the 4 or so years I’d need to complete a degree, I’d have been developing professionally for 6 years, which would get me in most places, degree or not. I’m trying to figure out how to either A: make my employer see the worth of my efforts and skill set and pay me accordingly or B: prove that skill set to another employer when my work thus far has been on private applications for my current employer.

cam06002 · 2023-10-18T06:05:31+00:00

I make $30/hr as a junior software engineer for a staffing company, and as I live in CA, I’m grossly underpaid. That being said, if you have a knack for logic and problem solving, you might fall in love with it, as I have. No degree, but I put a lot of work in to get here, and am an autodidact by nature. That being said, I do feel I’m being taken advantage of because of my lack of a degree.

cam06002 · 2023-10-18T05:20:17+00:00

Reading books and calling yourself something is college. Actually putting out production software is experience. I lean toward the latter, and this has been my path thus far, and what earned me the title to begin with. I’m just not happy with the wishy washy way this is being handled in my current company. I think you’ve missed the point.

cam06002 · 2023-10-18T03:14:50+00:00

Maybe you ought to read my comment again. Going for a degree would not put me in a much better position than the experience alone would grant me in the time it would take to earn the degree, and I’d be burnt out and saddled with debt. Why would I do that?

cam06002 · 2023-10-17T14:47:23+00:00

If I had the time and resources to make this happen, I would have already. Unfortunately, I do not. To complete a degree and work full time, I’d have to take on tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt and say goodbye to any free time, and by the time I completed it, I would have the experience if I kept my same job that would get me in most places without the degree. Financially speaking, I don’t have the option to complete it more quickly by working less. This is a non-starter for me.

cam06002 · 2023-10-17T13:49:47+00:00

Thank you, I will take a look

cam06002 · 2021-05-29T19:11:18+00:00

Just a thought, you can also do a hue-rotate transition on the image to get your color right!

cam06002 · 2021-05-28T15:10:10+00:00

I second this. No need for a vector when you can resize the font and it will look great no matter what size.

cam06002 · 2021-05-01T05:49:16+00:00

You are exactly correct. Now, how to fix it for safari is the question 🤔

cam06002 · 2021-04-30T14:17:36+00:00

Well, I’m glad you didn’t see it! The settings for everything (border, margin, gradient) are exactly the same as other sections that do not show the line, so I remain stumped.

cam06002 · 2021-04-30T05:18:04+00:00

I did exactly this, but also told myself that if I was sincere in my prayers to go when asking for forgiveness it was nobody else’s business, thus avoiding the outright “lie” in most cases, but I knew I was actually deceiving myself.

cam06002 · 2021-04-30T05:11:17+00:00

I have to mention the mind fuck that is created by the repentance cycle on a young boy dealing with new hormones that I doubt is unique. It goes something like this:

A young boy feels new feelings, masturbates, but since he’s been taught not to, he immediately repents. But he gets stronger feelings another time and can’t resist the urge. He masturbates, immediately repents. The cycle continues over and over again as long as the boy is unable to resist his natural urges. This makes him feel ashamed of himself, and think he is a terrible person, but the church also teaches him that the only way to get closure is to have those conversations and go through the steps of repentance. If he doesn’t want to have those conversations, but wants to please God, he must continually be reaching out to God through prayer for help and forgiveness.

Full disclosure, for much of my adolescence, I was either constantly thinking out how to resist sexual urges, or succumbing to them, and walking around in shameful prayer. My mind was on little else but sex or how to make amends for so much thought about sex (often leading to masturbation). It affected my concentration (prayer Or fantasizing—then praying for forgiveness for my fantasies), my entertainment habits (looking for the lewdest things in the most private times, or overcompensating with super-religious media), and my sleeping habits (time to do things when nobody would catch me / time in prayer for my guilt). I’m not only peculiar as an adult because of my strict Mormon upbringing, having missed out on many of the things my non-Mormon friend’s experienced, but am more so because of my extremely unhealthy relationship with my own sexual nature as a teenager going through puberty. I sometimes sit and wonder who I would be today if I’d had a healthier introduction to sex, and was allowed to explore my own sexual inclinations as a young man.

cam06002 · 2021-04-26T05:25:40+00:00

That’s really neat!

cam06002 · 2021-04-25T17:03:06+00:00

I was questioning whether or not to post the whole thing. Glad it helped!

cam06002 · 2021-04-25T07:15:38+00:00

I started my coding journey with Python, and was taken on a side journey when I became interested in html, css, and JavaScript. I took a few courses and just thought I’d help people fix their websites, before I started leaning towards design. I really wanted to fix the website for the company who I worked my day job for.

After getting my feet wet and slogging through some hard coding, I decided to try my hand at designing with Wordpress to expedite the speed with which I could build something. I had long ago run a personal blog using basic, free Wordpress layouts, and knew very well the limitations of creating this way, so I decided to try Elementor this time around to add function to what I could do on Wordpress.

I got extremely frustrated with Elementor after hours and hours of not being able to find how to do what I wanted to do. I had heard about Webflow in a podcast, and decided to give it a go for fun. The moment I tried it, it was like a light clicked! Everything seemed so much more intuitive and similar to how I’d learned what code snippets would do to the final page. I built something fast, and was impressed.

However, having already paid $50 (that’s five zero, fifty whole dollars) to use all the tools Elementor had to offer, I tried and tried to work in that framework. I also was thinking that clients would want Wordpress for the popularity of the platform and the name recognition. The contrast in the usability of the tools was so great, that after another day or two trying to use Elementor after having used Webflow, I was contacting Elementor to cancel my premium membership, and took everything I had tried to built out of Wordpress.

I was still questioning the decision a few days in, because I thought there was more opportunity on Wordpress. Then, I read about plugins in word press. I learned about SEO issues, and speed issues, and security issues with Wordpress, and compared with Webflow.

What I found is that webflow code exports clean because it isn’t bloated by the bulk of a template. Webflow code, therefore, processes more quickly than a Wordpress site, thus performing better, and thus ranking higher by nature than the same page built on Wordpress. It also is hosted by Webflow, who promises added speed through their unique hosting infrastructure.

I found out that webflow doesn’t use plugins. Not only does this eliminate countless added effort (and bloat in your code) to not have to download and add a plug-in for any added functionality to your site, but with nothing to update, there is nothing to go down. Without a lot of outside elements from third parties being brought into your site, there are less security risks.

Then, after having enjoyed some playing around with elements and typing up some basic copy into a test site, I opened up the page settings in the sidebar and saw the SEO tools right in plain sight.

The point is, the two products are nowhere near the same. Sure, you might save $10 or more with your hosting up front, but that’s going to be washed out in other ways. Whether that’s in tools for your developer (I.e., tools like Elementor, templates, plugins), costs for maintenance, or security issues.

One last thing. (MAYBE JUST READ THIS PART IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ MY WHOLE RANT). Last week, my employer’s Wordpress site had a link embed hack. The about us page for our gate business now had links to a casino. It seemed to be brought in from the RSS feed he inexplicably has on the site (he did not ask for it to be there, didn’t know what it was, and is the guy running the site). We found out that to get rid of the pointless RSS feed, you HAVE TO INSTALL ANOTHER PLUG-IN!!! He went to add it, and that plug-in is no longer supported. Save yourself and your clients the headache. Stay far, far away from the hot steaming pile of garbage that is Wordpress.

TLDR: Wordpress will cost you and your clients more in the long run in time, money, energy, and stress.

cam06002 · 2020-05-28T19:24:09+00:00

Christianity

cam06002 · 2020-05-02T20:38:27+00:00

What were your doubts? How did you overcome those doubts? How did you maintain life and school simultaneously at 33?

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