480/96

Credit goes to Leisure Suit Larry (actually tho)

If you are relying on calls to be kept abreast of things as a remote worker you are doing it wrong. The biggest problem with remote workers is they miss out on water cooler chat where lots of decisions are made. Chat rooms can mitigate that and if you can’t see someone who doesn’t like to type is at a disadvantage there then I can only assume you are in denial.

463/90 and 468/94 on two attempts

Damn goofy I feel like I need to type faster now

Almost as slow as 1 key per second. I'm hoping maybe it's because they aren't used to the Mac keyboard?

React/Redux question:

I am finding myself using this design pattern a lot

Render () {

Const whatever = safeGet (value in redux/state, null/false)

return (

{whatever ? <Thing/> : <OtherThing/>}

Seems like the most obvious way to display things based on certain state conditions, is it a good way, are there better ways?

Lol enterprise. I was tasked with integrating a react app A into another react app. App A is prebundled and I have no control over it. I try to argue that its silly and wasteful to load 2 (plus? Who knows) versions of react on a page and get some hesitant nods.

So I finally go to production to poke around. First thing I see? 500kb png. I throw it at an optimizer and it loses 300kb. Way more than an extra react...

I give up.

Larry everyone does it that way.

It's actually not that hard to get multiple remote jobs. It's difficult to get ones that pay out the nose for no work, and that's pretty cool for suzzer.

But remote work is the salt mines of programming. The work is hard, lonely, generally doesn't pay well, but it does pay more than running a jack hammer in a salt mine.

So... this is the dirty secret of Newegg, Amazon, Walmart, Sears, Overstock, and basically any online service. You are, more often than not, buying from a 3rd party seller. Newegg does have their own warehouses with proper QC, so it's probably best to buy directly from their warehouses.

I would suggest shooting an email off to the 3rd party seller via Newegg. If they don't contact you in 2 days, open a case with Newegg, etc. You'll probably get an immediate refund. Newegg has very low tolerance for their 3rd party sellers, and has no compunctions about booting them off their platform.

Honestly, SF feels super non-liberal to me...

... is so much more live-and-let-live than SF. Imagine if you lit a cigarette at a sidewalk cafe in SF, then do the same in Austin. Just one of many small examples.

That's the thing, Austin is just so much more about not really caring what others are doing. Just be yourself, be natural, and don't apologize for anything. Couldn't imagine all that Berkeley stuff happening in Austin.

*****

I may have this really cool contract working with Arduino boards. I was looking at the Arduino documentation, and overall, it looks super simple to work with, like a light-weight C with a few useful APIs.

I'm wondering what kind of frustrations I would expect while working with Arduino. It looks like there is a large world of devices, options, and so on, but it seems you can do anything with these things.

I did figure out why the XML wasn't rendering via JavaScript on my website. It turned out that Cloudflare has some performance optimizations that managed to skip over the JavaScript rendering (or something). I had to add a page rule to remove performance optimization, and now everything works like a charm.

It took over a week of emailing Heroku and Cloudflare to get to the bottom of that one.

Good riddance to that ****. Being in Paris this year made me remember how much I do not miss being in close proximity with smokers. (not that I didn't love everything else about it)

I get your point. Even though I vape, I'm quite nonplussed at how bad certain cigarettes smell. I treat vaping like smoking and behave in the same way.

Yea one of the worst parts of my recent trip to Europe was people smoking everywhere, **** that ****.

gracias

One other pattern which initially looks dumb but is way better than ": null" or ": undefined" is to use {isBoolean && <Jsxcomponent />} when you don't have an "or" case when you want to render something when isBoolean is truthy.

That is bizarre. Does sound like he could use some typing lessons.

Heh, like 90% of my usage is : null

To test this theory, I redid Chris' test on my new Mac keyboard, which I have ~never used (it's my work computer, I have an external kb plugged in at the office and as I just got this newer-form Macbook a week ago I've yet to use it while not docked to my desk setup). 670/134.

Couldn't stop trying to fix words I ****ed up, 288/58 my coding rate would be lower because I rarely know the next 58 words I'm going to code to I always had problems with the number row...

I did mine with no errors and backspacing as necessary. Is that wrong?

Okay I think I may have exaggerated. The person types slightly faster than 1 key per second. But it is still noticeably slow enough that it catches my attention.

****, I must be worse at backspacing than I thought or was very tired, 326/65 this morning. That seems weird that being better at correcting your errors improves your speed. Also doesn't take into account good autocorrect. Although none of that is going to make me approach Goofy, day-am!

480/96 wpm

LOL

The number of dicks in the comments is truly depressing

506/101 with 2 mistakes

but i'm a jet lag zombie right now and typing with my laptop on my chest. will try again tomorrow to go after goofy.