Cool that you managed to get it running after just 2 hours. Same thing applies to python projects, a little note in README saves so much time in the future, I always try and use virtual environments and specify a specific python version so I can just nuke and reinstall everything
TLDR: I think there should be a compromise between strict 9-5 schedule, and “WFH 100%, do whatever”
I don’t have any experience of being a parent but here’s my 2 cents on WFH in cases where you’re basically in front of a laptop for work:
I think it sucks that big offices are in these huge cities centrally where the only reason people live there is for the work, it becomes a bit of a loop at times, you could have the company a bit more on the edge of a large city.
I DO prefer when people are all in office. It’s much easier to have small work conversations without the hassle of calling them up.
I think there’s a happy medium where you have 1-2 hours flexibility in start/end times of when you work to allow parents to pick up kids etc. especially where there’s adequate work that you can do by yourself
If a team has say 2 days WFH policy, I think it’s best if it’s always the same days, otherwise you just have the same problems as before
I think software engineers are WAY WAY WAYYYY too picky and delicate about their work environment and how meetings are scheduled. For example, “if we have standup at 11am I won’t be able to have a block of uninterrupted work time”, as if software engineering required you to constantly be in an elevated state of consciousness and clarity that a 15 minute block of talking about work would destroy… so I think teams should just change regular meetings around when best suits people with the weird schedules.
Covid to me proved that people WFH does work, I would see a company that required 5 days in office for a software engineering job in a different light. I agree with the article that you can’t put toothpaste back in the bottle. We know that hybrid doesn’t tank productivity
If I have coworkers that are parents/have to look after relatives then I don’t mind if they work until 3, log off until 6, come back on for a few hours etc. I look at allowing that as a very positive thing in a company.
I’m going to be starting a job soon that’s remote, but I still plan on travelling (across EU) to the main office at some point because it definitely makes a difference if you’ve hung out with your co-workers in real life vs on slack and meetings where everyone’s camera is off.
This is my opinion. My preferences are my own and they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. Just my opinion in a comments section :)
It is certainly a double edged sword. In our team we are in control, and we have working hybrid in different kinds - at the moment completely voluntary. Some people mostly work from home, others are one or two days in the office. What I find interesting however, is that one young collegue who experienced COVID during the final years of his study, he prefers working in the office and tries to be there whenever he can (which might be >98% of the time). He is a very good developer too. It would be waste to lose him because most of the team works at home most of the time, and he doesn’t. Granted, he doesn’t have kids and we do see that both the presence of young/caring-needing kids or long travel distance play a factor in how much people work from home.
One note, the 15 minutes blocks are work killers. I'm assuming it depends on the person, but I'm currently working to reorganize my calendar so that I have big 2 hours chunks of work.
one hour + interruption doesn't work, been discussing this with my manager and pm for a while (i'm a team lead, so i have plenty meetings, but i also code)
You can using VBA functions and VBScript.RegExp. This is restricted to Windows though. Microsoft wants to get rid of VBScript, so maybe they are going through the most common use cases in Excel.
Yes, but that doesn't include getting rid of VBA. They probably do want to do that though, to allow mobile apps and web-based Excel to run interactive sheets using Javascript. Of course they've been trying for years to allow Javascript in Excel, but at least in the first versions that ran using Internet Explorer in the background. I'm not sure if that has evolved further now.
That’s super cool!!! Looks like quite a niche/technical hobby with amazing output. Do you mind sharing how much equipment costs to get similar results?
It's a wonderful niche/technical hobby, but it's not cheap. You could even say it's "pay to win". I didn't buy all of my stuff at once, and I had some mistakes, but I'd guess I use on the order of $10k in equipment.
Just to follow on, you can gets started with quite a bit less. My dad took a stab at some basic shots with his prosumer Nikon and a basic tracking tripod.
That's still $1000 body, $1000 glass, $500 tripod, give or take. So far from cheap if you're starting from scratch. But if you already have a body and some glass, it's not a stretch. Or, if you're ok with hunting for used gear, the body and glass can be ~half off new retail.
I'm assuming that'd be a non-moving/automated tripod?
I have a d850 full-frame DSLR and either a 200mm 2.8 or 500mm 5.6, with some decent tripods; but earth's rotation tends to get me pretty quickly with any long-exposure photos :(
I've seen some pretty impressive stuff done with a relatively cheap / simple DSLR setup.
The basics of astrophotography aren't that expensive, but it gets exponentially more expensive to meaningfully "zoom in". Because DSLRs with typical lenses are pretty zoomed out you can get away with much cheaper gear. You might look into getting a "star tracker". It's like a telescope mount for a camera; it'll keep the still relative to the stars but because they don't need to be as accurate they're far cheaper to make. They'll probably work just fine for your 200mm 2.8 lens for a fraction of the cost of a mount.
I think it's rotating, but doesn't have a secondary camera as described above. Maybe he spent more than $500, but I tend to doubt it, but I'm also not sure of the specifics beyond he's using a crop-frame Nikon DSLR with a lens he already had for birding (I think).
Reminds me of this project: https://github.com/trichner/gitc0ffee which is used to take a commit, append some header to it to force the hash to collide with some prefix, such as `c0ffee`
>6 character prefix: less than a second
>8 character prefix: in the order of one or more minutes
No affiliation with this, but I tested it, and it was fast!
