Ordered one - I will be traveling and would be nice to switch exit nodes as needed while on the go. Not that I need to hide the fact I’m out of country, but seems like a good way to connect up the work laptop to appear on my home IP.
Anyone using glinet routers for that purposes and have any tips?
My work resets my Mac sleep timer settings on reboot or update. This is very annoying for maintaining persistent connections to servers, such as my development machine. I wrote a simple Python script to move my mouse pointer by 1-5 pixels at random intervals. Works great, and it always looks like I’m online for prying eyes in Slack.
I’ve seen singleton mis-implemented as well. For example, multithreaded implementations that can actually can make multiple instances depending on timing due to the constructor/initialization not being thread-safe.
I’m a SWE who has a long term goal/dream of working for myself. I’m sure lots of readers here have this exact same dream.
It is hard to pull yourself away from the nice salary and benefits of the corporate job. The opportunity cost of working for myself and failing for a year or two is very high when salaries are 250k+ for senior devs.
It would be great to reduce the risk with part-time work. I hope it becomes more normalized. The problem I see is the ramp time for new workers to get productive. If the workers are part-time it is longer.
For those who are concerned with “hours worked”, that’s just bad management. Set concrete goals and then evaluate worker output. Hours is irrelevant.
I hope I find the courage to try breaking out “on my own” before it is too late. The one thing we all cannot buy is more time.
I think the idea that all people figure things out on their own and will escape a life of freedom or hedonism because “its empty and hollow” have never experienced drug addiction. Agassi might have made it out but a lot of people don’t. In a lot of ways I feel the opposite of this article. I rebelled against discipline throughout my teenage years and later came to appreciate my parents and teachers efforts way more. I wish I had stuck with instruments or tried harder in my math classes. Life is hard work and building the skill of discipline when it comes to life long learning is invaluable and fulfilling.
I’m not always great about this myself, but I think a lot of this is self-imposed/external deadlines. What I like to make sure I remember is that there is always more work. Don’t rush yourself cause you’ll just be given more. If approaching deadlines you can’t meet with a reasonable work life balance - cut the scope, break it into smaller chunks, and inform stakeholders. Set expectations that you aren’t going to complete things on a frantic 60 hour+ schedule. Work finds those who are competent. Slow down and maybe be okay with not exceeding expectations all the time.
Anyone using glinet routers for that purposes and have any tips?