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Vacation
I hope everyone is having a great holiday. This seems a good a time as any to talk about vacation because vacation is one of the great luxuries you get as a full time salary employee. Vacation is...
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Tact Dancing
I'm getting pretty good at this game for the 360 called Prey. In some levels of multiplayer, you can get in a ship and the ship has a tractor beam and the tractor beam lets you pick up other players....
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Why It’s Great to be a Dev
Some reasons to be excited about working as a dev in industry: What you write gets used millions to trillions of times or more. Every day has a new challenge and ways to show creativity.You are never...
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I am a vampire and
I'm writing this post as I'm waiting for friends to come over for a Super Bowl party. That's because during the party I won't be checking email, I won't be trying to fix bugs, I won't be stressing out...
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OMG Literature Classes lol!!1
As a future developer hurdling through college, are all those literature classes that are suppose to make you a "well rounded person" really necessary?Yes.You won't be tested on Greek theater at work,...
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Work Does Not Make You Old
I’m 23. I’m not “old” by any standard that I know of. People of all age ranges will always tell you they’re not old, the guy 10 years older is old. I once opened a networking event by saying all the...
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College Food Sucks
At least compared to real world food. For one, there’s no meal plan.That’s right, you heard it here and now: Real life has no meal plan that you have to buy into.Sorry, but I hated that part of school....
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Chainsaw Your Competitors
All work and no play means bugs.Ever sit in a computer science lab and suddenly hear a loud WHACK!! as someone does something destructive to their keyboard? This is the "The computer is pissing me off"...
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You Don’t Have Enough To Do
This is a frightening prospect: What if you came to work…and you had nothing to do? All your bugs have been resolved, no more documents need to be written, no new work on the horizon that you can get a...
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Money
(Note: I have not had time to craft a new set of coding puzzles for this month; I will post new ones when they are ready) Who here hasn't worried about money? No, this isn't about your salary or how...
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Avoiding the Suck Factor
Many times you will go up to a professor and say "I don't think the assignment should be Foo, it's too time constrained or too complex, let's make it Bar instead". To quote one of my favorite songs, I...
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age++
Two dozen years is a long time to be involved in software. That’s why I’d like to take this time to thank God I've only been alive that long and this is only my 3rd year in industry. Imagine what it...
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I refuse to work this week.
I'm taking a stand. In utter protest of having to work the past two months without a single work day off, I’m going to require a few changes. Microsoft may regain my hard work efforts if the following...
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"Ah, another day where I accomplish nothing"
You know what's great about getting paid to work on weekdays? There's absolutely nothing you have to do on Saturdays.Yesterday I got up around 1 PM, went to the mall to buy stuff, went to the movies,...
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Dev Magic
A tester told me the other day that I have the “dev magic touch”It’s a funny phenomenon. Mainly everything works perfectly on the developer’s machine, but promptly explodes on a test machine.Even...
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PM Anti-Magic
…Program Managers on the other hand have anti-magic. A PM walks into a developer’s office to see something and BOOM! suddenly nothing works.The other day I was trying to demo a new feature. Everything...
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"Their meetings are at 9 AM? Damn that sucks!"
You know why I like work? Because I’ve slept in more the two years I’ve been here than the 4 years I was trying to get a degree by sleeping through class.My sentiments are echoed by coworkers who tell...
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Know Your Work Netiquette
In line with this post, writing in a manner that best shows your message in your work environment will help improve your communications with coworkers. Plus you won’t annoy them.However, more...
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Snow and Culture Shock
Something to be prepared for when accepting any new far away job is the culture shock. While I’m sure it’s more of a thing for people who leave their country, it can still happen when changing...
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The Internets are down!
Today we had a bit of a network outage in our building. It was there, there and there some more. Then it was gone, gone, gone! Since most geek socializing happens over some kind of instant messenger or...
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How To Be Amazing
Step 1 - Find a problem that plagues everyone but everyone just kind of puts up with it because that's the way things are and fix it.Step 2 - ???Step 3 - Profit!
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Christmas Comes In May
Why do I like working here? Because everyone is like a kid in a candy shop when we get new equipment.This week plastic bags are scattered around offices like wrapping paper torn from carefully wrapped...
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How To Be Amazing - Part 2
Attend a meeting where people are talking about bugs, pick one and demo a fix before the meeting is over.Booya.
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With the Cost of Water These Days
In an effort to cut down on my water and towel bills, I’ve started biking to work. Thanks to free showers and free towels (plus free soap and free locker), I can now spend the money saved by showering...
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