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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • This is what I tell my co-workers:

    Don’t come to me with a question and ask for the answer. Come to me with the answer that you came up with and ask me why it doesn’t work.

    In other words, at least try to be the solution. You’re more likely to get help from those who can help you.

    Start writing the documentation. Fill in everything you know. There might be people you help who don’t know as much as you.

    Post about it, and give others the opportunity to correct your documentation.

    Open the source code and see if you can start to work out the API. It’s all in there. That’s where the people who are writing it are documenting it.

    If you put the effort in, then you’ve joined the team, even if no one invited you. Once you’re on the team, the people writing the code will see you as a contributor and they’ll be more willing to put the time in to help you.




















  • For me it is the faith in the non-existance of a supreme being or deity.

    I agree. I prefer to consider myself agnostic rather than atheist.

    I’m really a dishonest agnostic since I can’t really imagine a proof of deity that I wouldn’t discount as a hallucination.

    I did have a dream many years ago in which I woke up with absolute proof that God existed, but then I went back to sleep.

    When I woke later, I couldn’t remember what the proof was. If the proof was real, and God let me forget it, then he’s an ass and he doesn’t deserve my belief.