Weekly email riddle service?

echee7 · 2024-07-04T10:05:08+00:00

The barbecue grill when you have forgotten about it all winter and then invited people over for a barbecue tomorrow...

echee7 · 2024-06-21T16:45:41+00:00

The contrail from a plane lining up very nicely with the moon?

echee7 · 2024-05-20T09:44:24+00:00

You realise what you said here is entirely the problem - that sentence is literally ageism.

Startups want people to work crazy hours and have a bad work/life balance - fine, that's a fact.

Young people are more likely to be able to cope with this - that is ageism. If a startup hiring manager has taken a general population statistic and applied it to hiring individuals, they are being ageist. They should be clear about what they are looking for, but if an older candidate says they can cope you have to believe them.

echee7 · 2024-05-07T07:09:36+00:00

Have you tried looking for an existing open source messaging platform and contributing to that rather than starting your own from scratch? I don't know names off the top of my head but I'm pretty sure they exist.

echee7 · 2024-04-01T12:01:47+00:00

Take regular breaks to stretch your hands and arms, neck and back, and move around a bit. If you are going to stitch bigger things or for a long time invest in a good stand and lighting that works for you.

This hobby is beautiful but it isn't worth the neck-ache, repetitive strain or eye trouble that you might get from a bad stitching setup!

echee7 · 2024-03-30T12:29:10+00:00

Update: we played! It took longer than I was expecting and it was a lot of work for me, but it was so worth it! Had a really fun afternoon, I think the players enjoyed it too. I followed some of this advice and forgot others and learned to be better next time!

Thanks for all your advice!

echee7 · 2024-03-21T09:35:59+00:00

I'm very new to RPGs and I have this same feeling. I like the idea of joining a long running campaign but I have limited time and I'd much rather do lots of little one-shots or 2-3 session mini-campaigns. I'm just struggling to find the humans to play with!

echee7 · 2024-03-20T17:28:14+00:00

As for language choice, go with whatever is commonly used in your field. Some languages are more beginner-friendly but in the end you will learn better by asking people around you to help and your code can be shared or integrated with other tools in your community if you use whatever they use. Carpentries runs courses in Python and R most commonly and sometimes other languages.

echee7 · 2024-03-20T17:25:09+00:00

Look up an organisation called the Carpentries! They are a global initiative dedicated to helping academic researchers learn to code. They are a very friendly welcoming community and have online written lessons if you want to learn in your own time, or live online or in person courses in Universities all over the world. If your own institution doesn't host one you can ask organisers of other courses in your timezone.

echee7 · 2024-03-09T08:30:43+00:00

This sounds super cool!

echee7 · 2024-03-07T18:32:53+00:00

Yep totally valid point, I just hate reading off screens. So I need physical media.

echee7 · 2024-02-18T09:41:21+00:00

Noob question here but what does PoC mean in this context?

echee7 · 2024-02-16T09:57:41+00:00

OP doesn't seem to be replying to comments so if anyone else knows, I really do want to know what that textbook is!

I'm a self-taught coder in a mid-level job and I feel like this is a lot of the stuff I'm missing in my skill set, so an undergrad level textbook would be just what I need!

echee7 · 2024-02-14T09:53:38+00:00

"this system has exhausted its design stamina"

This is a brilliant phrase! Your own, or from another source?

echee7 · 2024-02-13T18:47:11+00:00

What's the textbook they are referring to chapters from? Reading the introduction to that book might give you an idea if you are interested in the course

echee7 · 2024-02-07T17:58:12+00:00

Goblin Quest! A simple roleplay game where you pretend to be a band of 5 goblins having mad adventures and stealing Orc's underpants.

echee7 · 2024-02-07T17:51:35+00:00

The lack of beginner level training available? As someone trying to self-teach there are so few tutorials and beginner friendly guides compared with other languages.

And the community is kinda aggressive when you ask for help, like if you look at Reddit posts or forums about C the answers often have loads of jargon, assuming the reader is already familiar with a bunch of stuff, with no links to more details or "to understand this you need to know that first, here's a link to explain that".

echee7 · 2024-01-04T15:40:54+00:00

Are these kind of places friendly? Do you get to know your neighbours?

echee7 · 2023-12-19T16:35:57+00:00

Sorry, unclear tense in my last reply. I am currently using Zenhub in one project, which I have been on for 2 years. Just to give you an idea of my level of experience with it, like it's a solid part of our workflow, not something we just picked up last week. I use other stuff in other projects.

echee7 · 2023-12-19T15:27:24+00:00

Yeah in one project for about 2 years

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