logan5's comments

Does anyone have advice on how to export the saved links from Facebook? It is not included in the archive that they let you download. I have way too may saved links over the past few years. They are the only thing that is stopping me from deleting the account.

I switched from Chrome to Brave a few months ago. https://www.brave.com/

I had a non-English song on my Mac and iPhone prior to Apple Music subscription. Now, my iPhone has a very different non-English song altogether.

What seems to have happened is, Apple incorrectly matched the original song to another non-English song. Later, it deleted the original song on my iPhone and gave me the incorrectly-matched version.

I've used X100T for a while. It does the job well. When it comes to zone focusing, it could not compete with a Leica camera, mainly due to it doing 'focus by wire,' hence not being able to give tactile feedback.

I've been to a few interviews with startups. Some of them didn't care about not having their language on the résumé while some of them did. The impression I got is, you can just tell which one of them are looking for a code monkey and which ones want you to take a bigger role of contributing as a software engineer.

I second that. I've also got a friend who is in a similar situation.

Exactly. And if you keep seeing similar posts on a regular basis from the same set of people (close or distant), it gets repetitive and boring. How often do you need to know that x is doing y?

That is assuming you have found all your old friends that you wanted to find. Else, you can't leave.

I wouldn't describe it as the worst but I'd say it is not gripping. Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows are gripping. Remember, the 5th book was also a very dense book because JK Rowling wanted to fill in a lot of information that hadn't been given in the preceding books.

So, in terms of how it keeps you excited, it failed but the book packs a lot of other useful information which were referenced in the books that follow.

Work environment doesn't necessarily always help. It comes down to how experienced and brilliant co-workers are plus whether they care deeply about clean design and clean code. In some places, there are A programmers from which you will learn a lot. In other places, it's broken windows, so the attitude of the people is 'it works, so why bother.'

To answer your questions, I find awesome code and techniques through books and from the internet. Keep reading new books even if you have become familiar with the language. Try working on your own projects because different problem sets demand different way of solving things which will not be offered through normal work environment. Write small games, puzzle solvers, etc. Understand how things work and be familiar with the tools which you can then incorporate back to your work.

Another way of improving your programming skills is by learning a completely different programming paradigm. That will make you think differently when solving problems even if you don't end up using that particular language.