I agree. I don't like receiving more than 1 voice message per week from a person. It's terrible when they start sending voice messages as 50% or more of their messages.
- Text messages require brevity.
- Depending on who you're talking to, Voice messages ramble on and on, without getting to the point. As a result, it can take minutes to understand a main point, rather than seconds as in the case of text message.
Just learned via another comment that playback can apparently be sped up to 1.5x or 2x. That's good, I'll have to look into that.
Scale back the "dream" and scale up the "grind". And of course, modularize.
"If you have a big dream and a small grind, you'll never accomplish the dream. But if you have a small dream and a big dream, you're much more likely to get it done" -- Paraphrasing Dr. Eric Thomas. [1]
Wow, another library (react-location) that shows TypeScript as its primary documentation language. And I see more and more jobs hiring for TypeScript developers.
I see Microsoft's 3 E's campaign strongly in action with TypeScript.
Microsoft are actively hostile towards JavaScript now. I have been monitoring the progress of vscode's support for JavaScript and noticed that it now clearly a second class citizen. The TypeScript compiler now declares valid and working JavaScript as having errors, and these are displayed to the user in vscode. One example is the usePrevious hook as mentioned on the react website. If you mouse over its signature in vscode, you will see it is undefined -> undefined. This is because useRef() has no argument, and the generic type is inferred from this argument, and JavaScript has no way to do useRef<T>();
Turning this off is as easy as flipping a switch in the settings. In the interest of making things easier for beginners (which is a good goal to have) I think it makes sense for type-checking to be enabled in JavaScript files by default.
>"While I have a lot of respect for the creators of TS,"
Creators of TypeScript are Microsoft.
To any readers unfamiliar with TypeScript and Microsoft's ethics,
be sure to research their past corporate ethics to understand whether or not they are trustworthy as a company (or at least those who lead their overarching market strategies.
Here is one example, and to me, it describes where TypeScript is going (imho):
"The strategy's three phases are:
---> Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
---> Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the "simple" standard.
---> Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions."
For this reason, out of sheer convictions in anti-unethical corporate behavior, I steer clear of TypeScript, and I encourage others to do so as well-- especially those who care about corporate ethics.
I think acceptance and comfortability with error messages (i.e. small failures nearly every step of the way) is the basis of one's career as a developer. We start knowing almost nothing, producing tons of errors as we go (which reduce relative to experience). And learning what those errors mean-- they guide us into proper development.
Errors are good given that they lead to learning. Frustration is fun.
1. Title:
A 29-year-old marketing expert used a weird resume to ___get 30,000 interviews___ in a week
2. A subheader bullet point:
Vidal's bot was used 30,000 times, and he ___got 14 online interviews___ and 11 job offers as a result.
Does 30,000 somehow equal 14?
(Answer: only if you equate 30,000 self-service chatbot conversations ("interviews" as claimed) as as meaningful and valuable as an actual human-to-human interview. Basically, this article has a deceptive clickbaity title.)
(I emailed BusinessInsider's corrections account about this.
[email protected])
.... you can't check out PoE2? There isn't even a playable beta. From their website:
"We don't have a release date for Path of Exile 2 yet, but we're unlikely to start a Beta until 2022 at the earliest. In the meantime, we are continuing to release Path of Exile expansions on our regular three-month cycle. "
Yep. A year ago, I worked 2.5 months, and quit, and the cash I had from those 2.5 months kept be afloat for about 9 months after leaving the company. Granted, I am super frugal, minimalist, and don't have kids/wife.
Now though, I had to take cash out of savings due to vehicle mechanical problems + not landing job as quickly as I hoped-- I've also not interviewed a ton, so I need to play it as a "numbers game" again.
I certainly shall, now that you mention it. Hopefully it will help me put my mind at ease.
(I look to Lao Tzu on this... on maintaining internal peace and intention towards abundance "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future.")
About to be broke again. 35 years old approaching.
I do not recommend living in a tent, but it's doable. And I may be living in a tent again in 2-3 months. No worries thoguh, it's up to me to pull me out of that predicament, and I know it can be done. It's largely a matter of online presence, a decent resume (even if partially BS as a matter of necessity in terms of... surviving), luck, and strategy.
A former marketer, so I am used to marketing myself strategically, with sprinkles and even dollops of BS if necessary, in order to literally survive and afford food.
As they say-- Necessity is the mother of invention. And this situation is largely owed only to own previous decisions and misjudgements.
Hey - just going on my impression here, but why beat yourself up? If this is what you like, then you're doing well; I'm sure Thoreau had doubts and fears - that's very possibly why he wrote about it. If it's not exactly what you like, you're just like the rest of us. Everyone is struggling and, IME, generally doing the best they can. Some people's struggles are more apparent to others (money, some addictions) and some less (and those with less apparent struggles often act like they have none). Compassion, for yourself and for others, is the ultimate weapon.
You sound courageous to me; it's inspiring to read how strong you are. I hope you find some peace tonight. Someone said to me, in a past life, 'what if you just stopped beating yourself up today, just for a day?'. Turned out that I really didn't need to do that any day. It's not like I wasn't trying, or that I'm not still trying and struggling.
