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Time Slides - The Problem With Being A Completionist

My wife and I were fortunate enough to be able to purchase season-long passes for us and our kids to our local water park. Since we live in a desert [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/phoenix-is-not-just-saguaros-and-camelback-mountain/] and our summer lasts half the year, this park is a perfect place for all

Be Like Us Or Else - Desperation, Failure, and New Job Regret

I've only held three full-time software development jobs since graduating from college, including my current one. The second one was supposed to be my big breakthrough, my time to shine and become part of a well-oiled team of kickass programmers. That was not what happened. What actually happened was six

Do Something Else

> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch

Personal Time != Company Time

A junior programmer (let's call him Luis) and I were working to find a particularly stubborn Heisenbug [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug] (a bug that seems to disappear when you attempt to study it) this last week, and it was kicking our collective butts. This thing was just

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