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well said.
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4 days ago
My friend was out making good trouble today 💖✨#Toronto
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4 days ago
Let's go...
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I automatically block people who call other people who arent keen on whatever shit the former is keen normies. You twat.
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When are the Best of Mastodon Randomness/Weirdass GoodShit Awards happening?I nominate @catsalad & @Alice.
5 days ago
Hmm. @emfducks can we expect Geoff the Moorhen this year?
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5 days ago
FFS insomnia. Now is not the time.
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:neocat_woozy:🚲
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I've told this story in the other place. A few months before the #pandemic, I applied to work in a senior tech role at an AI startup. At the time it would have been a learning opportunity for me to understand AI better. They asked me to create a Roman numeral calculator in #golang. I asked if it was ok to use libraries, they said it was fine.I, obviously, looked who had implemented this in Go before, and whether they had implemented it as a library that I could import in my project. What the library author hadn't done is implemented factors, which was a requirement for the take-home project.It was about 60 line of code to write my take-home project, including the library which implemented most of the calculator backend functionality.As the library didn't implement factors, I forked, added functionality—about 20-30 LoC—wrote unit tests, submitted a PR to to original repo, the original library author merge the PR upstream, got the PR merged and submitted the take-home project and the record of the PR to the start-up.They rejected it, as I didn't write enough code. Their answer: "Would you mind to implement from scratch the Roman numeral calculator?"My first reply was: "Yes, I would mind. Would you mind paying me my regular rate of €xxx/h for the time I spent on this task? I'm not going to work all weekend and take time away from my family without something to show for it."I wrote it in the shortest time possible—the work took about an hour or two. As expected from a senior, I reused existing components and didn't try to reinvent the wheel. I modified existing code, wrote unit tests for someone else's code, and submitted a PR, which was merged upstream. (I didn't expect that it would be merged in such a short time, this was just bonus.)Obviously, the startup pivoted at some point because the business model didn't work as well as they'd hoped, and they seem to be coders for hire now.* To be clear, I have Roman numeral calculators written in a number of languages on my GitHub inspired by Sandi Metz, just not one in #golang https://github.com/webhat/fantastic-lamp
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@TwoClownsEating I don’t think I’m neurotypical (I’m all the way ADHD), but I tick very few other fediboxes. I use mainstream computing devices, I’ve never run Doom on a recycled microwave keypad powered by a potato, and I’m flamboyantly straight. But I feel very at home here, and part of something bigger than myself.
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I've said it before, so but I'm one of the Fediverse's box ticking members.Neurotypical, Cis gender, Hetero, "able bodied" (for now), male, with very little knowledge of computer touching, windows user, never been inside a fursuit, even for school productions. And I like football (soccer).I realise you all only put up with me because I tick a lot of inclusivity boxes. That's ok. I'm still glad to be here as your token normie 😉Reverse woke.(For those that don't know me so well, there's a big slice of sarcasm here. Nearly every word is true, but I'm included because we are inclusive, even to people like me).