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This is often the advice given by senior folks and I think it is somewhat similar to say that you have to "lie a bit on your CV". Still, I always wonder what would I do if I make these big promises to clients/bosses/management and I fail to deliver. Wouldn't that be worse than having said "no, I won't be able to make it in time" from the beginning?

For context, I'm early in my career (3 YOE) and I don't deal with management that much yet (I'm still shielded by my tech lead and PM), so I'm always looking for advice on how to navigate these things. I really can't just say "YES, YES, YES" when I know *very well* that something won't be possible.

Maybe it is just a sign of being too junior?

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This is fantastic and it really looks like a passion-fueled side project.

Currently working on my own education by learning C from Antirez's C course on YouTube.

I've been working as an ERP developer for a couple years now and the job is so dull and boring that I'm already starting to feel stagnant. So, I am learning more advanced things now in order to: 1. Advance my career, and 2. Maybe code some linux tool (for personal use only, for now!) and stop looking at enterprise code.

That's genius ?? Gonna try this starting right now as I'm at work scrolling through HN, lmao

Or maybe "since <<I was>> 40 years old"?

Thank you very much for this information. I hope you're doing well now!

As a migraine sufferer this sounds scary and only today I have learned about it. What was it like? If I may ask. Is there a way to prevent it? I googled it and it seems to appear rather arbitrarily and suddenly.

It's the bell curve meme all along.

Subdivisions is my favourite song of all time and I thought about Rush as well while reading that line.

That link automatically downloads a CDR file.

To be honest, you don't even need AI for something like that. You might just write a script to automate that kind of thing which is no more than a scrape-and-notify logic.

I did the same and my first result was NordVPN, lmao.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I think iTunes doesn't put any DRM on the albums you buy from there.

Could you give a couple specific examples? I'm trying to get into traditional NLP but everything I find is AI related and I don't know if it's worth going the traditional route long-term.

Sounds super fun for a weekend project tbh

I share this sentiment. I like that OP is not afraid to say that the code quality might be not the best. In the end, for projects that are made for fun and out of curiosity, it doesn't matter that much (at least in the early stages).

If it becomes popular though, you can always just refactor and improve the important parts.

Amazing. It doesn't surprise me that the most simple workflows are the ones that work best. Probably because there is not a lot of resistance (keyboard shortcut instead of searching through a list of apps / no tutorial on how to use it; it's just a text file / it's easily readable and you get to choose the formatting and structure of your text).

As a developer, however, I have to scratch the itch of always having "wrangleable" data, and yet again text files are the best at it. I am already thinking of doing this and just follow a set of writing "guidelines" so I can parse the txt if I wanted to do some visualization stuff.

It looks like a fun project. It may have not been designed to comply to the highest UX standards but to try and break things.

Hello, fellow migraine sufferers. I sincerely want you to read the fantastic essay "In Bed" by Joan Didion. It is a fantastic reflection on what it is like to have migraines and it makes me cry every time I read it because it makes me feel seen and understood.

"For I had no brain tumor, no eyestrain, no high blood pressure, nothing wrong with me at all: I simply had migraine headaches, and migraine headaches were, as everyone who did not have them knew, imaginary."

Read it; it's a google search away. You'll thank me.

It's like when you play World of Warcraft for the first time and you have this character boost to max level and you use it. You didn't go through the leveling phase and you do not understand the mechanics of your character, the behaviour of the mobs, or even how to get to another continent.

You are directly loaded with all the shiny tools and, while it does make it interesting and fun at first, the magic wears off rather quickly.

On the other hand, when you had to fight and learn your way up to level 80, you have this deeper and well-earned understanding of the game that makes for a fantastic experience.

I really resonate with this sentiment and want to share a similar story.

Where I live, supermarkets have a reception where you can leave your belongings while you're shopping. The employee in charge gives you a numbered card that matches the drawer in which they stored your things (all of this is handled by the employee) and off you go. No keys or anything, only a drawer with a card.

A few months ago I left my backpack at a one of these. 20 minutes later, as I was about to leave, I went to return the card in order to retrieve my stuff and to my surprise they gave me someone else's backpack.

I kindly asked what happened and after the manager had gone to check the CCTV footage they told me they gave my backpack to another customer. The problem? The numbered card didn't match the drawer and no one had realised. And there I was with the stranger's backpack and no way to contact him.

I agreed to wait until this man came back to return my stuff so we could switch backpacks (he had to; his work ID was on his backpack). I went home, told my family what happened, and they asked me what I told the supermarket staff. "Nothing, I'm just gonna wait" I said, and they rambled on about how I should have yelled at them and made a scene and maybe even made them fire the employee that grabbed my backpack.

I didn't do any of that because I precisely didn't want them to fire the poor minimum wage worker. Besides, I understood all of this happened because the system of numbered card/open drawer is completely broken. It wasn't relly the employee's fault; although it was his mistake not checking the numbers not matching. Yelling wouldn't have fixed anything.

I got my backpack back the next morning. No one was fired. The supermarket manager didn't even apologize for the inconvenience though, but ok.

Be kind.

Hello! I'm just starting my career as a dev now and I am definitely more drawn to academia and research than to the business world. Could you point me to some resources where I can learn more about companies or projects that work researching CS/programming topics?

Thank you in advance.