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May. 29th, 2014 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vlionlife in seattle goes well.
the job is fun, mostly. and well paid. whee.
at home hacking hsa slowed, as it often does towards summer.
the wife likes going out with me after work.
I'm not on irc much right now because of #3 and #4.
skin games by jim butcher is pretty decent. the usual dresden files plot though, wtb another plot plox? the overplot is doing well, but the episodes are getting repetitive
sporadically doing implementation research on my old MS topic. should desporadify it
debating writing a book on practical sw engineering
odd article came out: http://damemagazine.com/2014/05/23/amazon-killing-my-sex-life - not entirely without flaws or truth. a good and true quote:
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The new tech bros have one thing on their brains—making money. They are different than the programmers I knew from ’90s, many of whom were also artists—musicians, photographers, DJs, involved in underground and alternative subcultures. They were freaks. Coding was as much a creative activity as a means to making money. If you got into computers in the ’90s, you were already a little weirder than the rest of the world, you already thought differently. Now that computing is trendy—and economically fruitful—it’s attracting a different kind of person altogether.
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so true. you can see it in cs classes and in the workplace.
the job is fun, mostly. and well paid. whee.
at home hacking hsa slowed, as it often does towards summer.
the wife likes going out with me after work.
I'm not on irc much right now because of #3 and #4.
skin games by jim butcher is pretty decent. the usual dresden files plot though, wtb another plot plox? the overplot is doing well, but the episodes are getting repetitive
sporadically doing implementation research on my old MS topic. should desporadify it
debating writing a book on practical sw engineering
odd article came out: http://damemagazine.com/2014/05/23/amazon-killing-my-sex-life - not entirely without flaws or truth. a good and true quote:
"""
The new tech bros have one thing on their brains—making money. They are different than the programmers I knew from ’90s, many of whom were also artists—musicians, photographers, DJs, involved in underground and alternative subcultures. They were freaks. Coding was as much a creative activity as a means to making money. If you got into computers in the ’90s, you were already a little weirder than the rest of the world, you already thought differently. Now that computing is trendy—and economically fruitful—it’s attracting a different kind of person altogether.
"""
so true. you can see it in cs classes and in the workplace.
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Date: 2014-06-01 01:17 pm (UTC)I so love passing on the concepts of sw eng, and ideals of craftspersonship and so on. But writing feels to me like such a solitary and one-way communication. I wish I had the skill others have in this. Sandi Metz, Avdi Grimm, Russ Olsen... I don't know how they feel about this, but their work is marvelous.