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Michael Giacchino is incredible, the Lost soundtrack is amazing!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I wake up to talk radio.
At the time the radio starts up (5h45), there is a song that is playing, but it changes every morning.
I'd rather be phishing!
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My favorite is my vibrating wristwatch. Tried waking up with music, failed. When music plays, I integrate that into my dreams instead of waking up.
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Ah, OK. I wake up when I want, but love this tune to crank up first thing when I make my green tea. Really kicks the day off with a smile!
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The only time I've used an alarm clock in the last 25 years or so is when I'm traveling and I have an early flight. I despise alarms of all shapes and sizes.
I get migraines , and one of the keys to managing them is ensuring I get enough sleep. If I need to sleep in an extra 15 or 30 minutes in the morning, I do it. As it is, I'm usually the first one in to work at 7:00 a.m or so.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Pretty much anything by Sully Erna and Godsmack will get your blood moving, but this is my favourite:
Godsmack - Drum Battle - Sully Erna vs Shannon Larkin (HD)[^]
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I rarely use alarm - flexible work hour I suppose.
Alexa waits me up when alarm is necessary.
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Coffee maker; dog whining. Not necessarily in that order.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Don't need an alarm clock, dogs and cats are on that. But just in terms of getting the mood up getting your steam on I like Elvis Costello's "This Year's Model". IMO it's one of those rare albums where every track is great. "Pump It Up" however is a shot of pure adrenaline.
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Yeah, that is a good song!
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I used to wake up to Sonny&Cher, “I got you, babe” but I could never get moving forward with it.
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If I needed to get amped up on the drive in it will be Rush, Boston, Van Halen (not Van Hagar), Robin Trower, etc.
This is a great waker-upper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZHHQplIX8
"Just one more morning, I have to wake up with the blues..."
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I've received an email from a prospective employer inviting me to set up a job interview. A note at the end requests a link to my GitHub code repo or sample code/projects prior to the interview.
I don't have a personal GitHub repo or code samples because, unlike probably most here, I no longer do programming as a hobby on my own time. Everything I've done in the last 15 years that the interviewer would be interested in is proprietary code I've written for my current employer, and I don't feel comfortable sharing that outside the company, even though the two industries are not related by any stretch of the imagination, so they wouldn't be able to benefit.
What would you do in this situation? Rewrite some of your code to remove any hints of its purpose or value to your employer? Write new code?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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TNCaver wrote: unlike probably most here, I no longer do programming as a hobby on my own time
Er hum, cough. never. I only do it if someone is paying. Cant stand bloody computers.
TNCaver wrote: proprietary code I've written for my current employer
You should still keep your own library of code, so you can cut and paste it into new projects, then charge the client full whack for doing sod all.
Use that.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I only do it if someone is paying Me too. Coding at home would be like a dentist going home every night and practicing on his family and friends.
I don't deal with clients. I have never worked for a code-for-hire shop (and don't plan to start now). I code for the needs of the company I work for, their web site, their intranet, their windows services, and now, their Salesforce implementation (yuck, and one of many reasons I'm leaving after 17 years here).
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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That is like a truck driver who doesn't own a car but walks to the supermarket and the movie theater. (Which is a good thing to do, but it might take the entire evening to get there.)
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I guess being honest and saying you don't have any non-proprietary code to show them, but that you've spent the last 15 years writing code about 8 hours a day so that you probably know what you're doing, is out of the question?
I should say I know people who did that too and they are horrible programmers
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That's probably what I'll end up doing, though. I'm not a horrible programmer, I don't think I would have lasted 30 years in the biz if I wasn't at least decent at it (15 years is just how long I've been doing .NET).
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Unless the potential hire has been self-employed, I think most employers are going to find that there aren't too many people who have any code samples that they can legally show to anyone.
Here's a thought: maybe it's an ethics test. If you actually do show them code that you wrote for your current employer then you fail.
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TNCaver wrote: What would you do in this situation? Look for a company that appreciates people. If you have 15 years experience then a simple 5 minute conversation should be enough to find out if you know what you claim to know.
It sounds like the company may be too big and has to follow a ton of silly rules and procedures and that may be a glimpse of what it will be like working there.
But, if you are interested, I would just put NA in the fields. If they think that lowers your value then you don't want to work for them anyway.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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