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Too much noise in my workplace, can't focus on my code,
bought 300 bucks noise cancelling headphones,
best money i've spent19 -
Sometimes when I code, I plug in my earphones and listen to music, focused, in zone.
* I let everyone think that.
** I actually don't listen to anything.
*** Keeps the buggers away!10 -
Me: So, I need stay focus on my open source projects to get some GitHub stars...
Five minutes later ...
Me: oh look new movies on Netflix !
Daaaamn !!!1 -
My morning motivation on the wall next to my desk.... Have an ever growing collection of Oatmeal art now....
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What I do when I sit down to work:
Get a cup of coffee or tea,
Sit down open up some music; rock if I'm feeling okay or slow jazz if I'm feeling anxious,
Open my text editor (Atom, I love it so much),
Open git desktop,
Look at what was my last commit,
Remember where I left off,
Look blankly at code for a few minutes,
Then I pull up phone and start writing stupid shit like this on devrant.11 -
Need to work on my focus. I feel like it's one of my greatest weakne ... hey look, a DevRant notification.1
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Your fucking single page whatever the fuck app doesn't need React! Stop overcomplicating everything and getting distracted by shinny new frameworks, just focus on solving the problem!2
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Ever since I started working at a company that has a real focus on software I have less to rant about....😒3
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I got some stickers from the German party 'Die Piraten'. They support data privacy and focus on Internet related things.
The stickers are just awesome.
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Man I really hate it when people think that coding doesn't take any concentration and can just interrupt you while you're thinking about how to solve problems
So the other day I was working on how to solve a problem with filtering data with JS, and I had to urgently update one of our pages on our website. I had to update that page according to the content of a Word file, which I didn't check how long it was.
About 15 minutes later everything was ready and published, so I set myself back to my problem.
I get an email from her, "you mixed up things" and she showed up in my office. "There are four pages in this word doc and you copied wrong parts", I was like "ok, I'll fix it". Fixed it two minutes later, went back to code.
Received another email, with another subject, again with another problem. Start getting pissed off for being interrupted for nonsense. Fixed it instantly and put my manager in the email loop so she is aware my other colleague pisses me off.
And again, another direct email "can you fix this?!". I started ignoring her requests because I need some work to be done, and I already lost 2 hours. Got again interrupted by her personal visit to point me which things are wrong, repeating everything twice as I am stupid to her. Man I can't code in peace. I fixed her shit, exactly as she wants and decided to pay my manager a visit to tell her I'm really pissed about being interrupted all the time.
Five minutes before the end of the day, she comes panicking in the office about ANOTHER WORTHLESS issue. Told her it's nothing and went away.
Day is over, thought it was over - a whole afternoon spent correcting her fucking page that gets 10 visits a year.
On the next morning, "there is something wrong with your form, can you check it?!!?" with an attached screenshot. FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU STOP ANNOYING ME WITH YOUR FUCKING SHIT CANT WORK ANYMORE. PUT YOUR FUCKING PAGE RIGHT UP YOUR ASS AND FIX IT YOURSELF.
She doesn't have any access to the back end.
Guess I'll have to fix it then...9 -
After 8 hours of focusing on two monitors at work, I go home so I can focus on my own two monitors.3
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Whoever invented glossy screens for laptops should be shot! I can't get in the zone for coding while staring into a freaking mirror!!5
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I rarely codes in the morning, it's just not the time. I can't focus.
My inspiration comes at night. That's the right moment for me. I sometimes wish that my office hour is at night 😂
How about you?14 -
That's how computers look in our school (with main focus on science)...
"Windows XP"
"No internet"
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Network admins deleted the VM my team's git server ran in.
I'm trying to focus my fury into a work appropriate message to their boss.
"fire everyone" is my first response, what would you do?7 -
I enjoy listening to Metalcore while coding. It really helps me calm down and focus/concentrate (the irony of that whilst having someone scream right into my ears 😂). It also helps me chill and regulate my emotions better. Am I weird? What helps you focus and code better?32
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!rant
Since I joined DevRant my productivity went down...
Well... Im not sure if I should be happy or sad about it.7 -
I love to work in pubs/bars, this special kind of noisy environment works so well for me. I even go "into the zone".
Lets talk about this. Is anyone else the same? Just curious.
These are my 6 reasons:
0) Beer. 🍺
1) None of the activity in a bar actually interests to me, if you know what I mean. In my house, every single noise/movement will get my attention.
2) After some time all the noise blends into a kind of "homogeneous hearing blurb". Like a mantra. Maybe there are even white/pink/brown noise benefits (guess).
3) I go to places where I enjoy the music and atmosphere.
4) I like bars and pubs anyways. I feel good in these places.
5) Beer. 🍺
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Do anyone else have major focus issues? When I'm enjoying something, I can focus completely for a long time. But when I'm miserable, 15 minutes seems to be the maximum I can focus.
It's really hard when you have long passages to read for class and are unable to focus long enough to actually absorb the material.
I really want to try ADHD medicine, but I don't want to rely on it to focus.9 -
When you turn up to work and realise you forgot your headphones so you gotta try and concentrate while overhearing every conversation in the office.4
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When you've been coding for what seems like an hour and when you finally look up it's dark outside 😛
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My headphones just died because the battery is empty!
Not a good start!
I forgot the cable at home!
Bye bye peace, productivity, and focus6 -
Me on drugs at work: *focus as fck*
Me at work: shit, what the hell people around me talking about
Damn i love herb7 -
Time to shine!
Laptop [Check]
Coding Playlist [Check]
Motivation [Check]
Focus...
Oh look an Interesting YouTube Video that is probably just clickbait... *click*
Started coding 2 hours later... -
The day your boss tells you tests are some kind of self-satisfaction for developers and asks you to focus, to not introduce bugs.5
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Music is annoying.
Listening to music sometimes helps you focus, and other times distracts you because you're too busy "singing".6 -
Spent fifteen minutes finding the right playlist to listen to while coding
5 minute later, I pause the music trying to focus10 -
So my boss just announced that our department's focus should switch from C# and AngularJS to Sharepoint and MS Power Apps.4
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My dev area of focus? Machine Learning! Because it's fascinating to teach a computer to learn from experience :)4
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!Rant
How do you deal with open space offices?
I find it quite difficult to focus, the constant chatting, the constant questions, phone ringing, surprise meeting, more question, arrays of interruptions and questions again. I believe I would be a lot more productive if left alone in the total, undiscontinued silence.
Have you found your escape, your zen, your inner focus? Please share, I need some ideas16 -
My gf left me, it's been a month.
I still can't focus on anything. Suffering panics and anxiety.
Couldn't code for a month. Still can't.32 -
After almost 6 years of emotionless journey with a single focus towards my career, I have a crush on somebody.
Now I'm confused AF 😕6 -
In job description :
.....
- You should have a good communication skills .
....
At the company:
JUST FOCUS ON WRITING CODE , No useless conversation3 -
I decided to start learning go yesterday.
I had a Fun little automation task at hand and got to work...
The next time I checked the clock it was monday 02:40 AM
Getting up at 06:10 was hard...2 -
Focus? What focus? Its easier for me to define what ISN'T my focus. I don't do web UI/UX. Pretty much anything else is fair game.1
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I'm looking for ways to focus on coding. So, yesterday i deactivated my facebook and it seems life is more productive now.9
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when your company actively spreads that we are a company without managers, but the service manager is on my ass every other day lately about something. I love my job, but the guy recently started to tick me off and contacts me at random times and brings me out of my focus. Any ideas?7
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Me,: we devs need silence to be able to focus properly, and to develop good quality software.
Marketing guy: we need to hang a frame on the wall.
Other marketing guy: yeah, let's grab the drill and make several holes, fuck those devs.4 -
Damn it gitpush focus when type the damn password!! I locked my self out of my server again 😭
Time to visit the portal and login 😒6 -
Don't focus too much on learning one specific language. After some coding getting to know a new one is going to be no problem. Focus more on paradigms and maintainable code.
Oh, and don't forget, comments are sometimes way more useful than the actual code.1 -
I hate those weeks when your brain is like marinated in hormones and you can't focus on work. Fucks sake I'm trying to work goddamnit!!6
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Heard this from my professor today-
" Focus on product not on technology"....don't know how true this is.4 -
that feeling when you start looking at code after dinner, correct a bug or two, start implementing new features, tweak the code a little bit, you are really focus in your coding... then look out the window and realize the sun is about to come up. it's great 🤓
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1. A login window or form appears
2. Enter username
3. Enter p-
4. Another application STEALS THE FUCKING FOCUS
5. Enter half of the (or the whole) password in the app that stealed the focus and press Enter by mere inertia
Or this variant:
4. The username field gets autofocused
5. Enter the password in the username field, out in the clear for everyone to see
DON'T YOU STEAL ME FOCKING FOCUS MATE3 -
Headphones, a quiet room, a comfortable chair, something to drink (coffee, red bull, water, tea) and something that is interesting enough to totally focus on.4
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Coding at night with noises that bring about focus is the best. I use noisli.com
Fellow devs, check it out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯1 -
Forgot to drink water? Focus loss.
Forgot to write microtasks? Focus loss.
Didn't wear trousers when it's cold? Focus loss.
Forgot to meditate? Focus loss.
Forgot to think about how I feel? Focus loss.
Forgot to eat? Focus loss.
Didn't exercise? Focus loss.
Assumed that little pain in my ribs is cancer? Focus loss.
Got annoyed by something my boss said? Focus loss.
Did I forget to listen to instrumental music instead of stand up comedy? Focus loss.
Can't find instrumental music that I like and didn't listen too many times? Focus loss.
Did I sleep too little? Focus loss.
Everything is a pitfall. I am a goddamn house of cards.12 -
It really is a great feeling to be able to put your headphones in and lose yourself in the code for a few hours without interruptions (except for devRant of course).
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I swear to god, if I read another medium post on how you managed to be focused and productive I will fucking... well... roll my eyes, make a facepalm and rant about it on devRant!
Who gives a shit if I'm unproductive and unfocused?!
Well, look at me now, I'm fucking productive while I write about you, you fucking peace off shit! And guess what? I'm not even using any of your 40 todo apps or time trackers. There is no pomodoro timer next to me or framed quotes from Steve Jobs hanging on the wall. Oh, I must be a fucking genius!
But what if YOU became unproductive?
What will happen when YOU start to procrastinate?
Do you really think the world would care?
Oh, but you are not really a writer are you? you're a developer building your app!?
Well fuck, I guess you're going to change the world than?
It's your big project. Your life's work, your legacy.
Let me remind you...
All apps will be abandoned!
All blog post will be forgotten!
Productive people will die!
Focused people will die!
Enthusiastic bloggers writing about productivity will die!
All CEOs and CTOs will die!
All developers will die!
Steve Jobs is dead!
In x years, you and I will also be dead!
Whatever you do, it's not really that important!
It's really not.
You're not going to change the world.
The world doesn't need another app.
The world doesn't need your advice on how to be productive.
You are not special.
Deal with it!9 -
when you have one of those days where your mind constantly blanks out and your ability to focus is null...
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I've been using Firefox focus for a while, and for the most part, I like it. But why the hell won't it let me go to government websites (taxes, passports, etc)?
Regular Firefox has no issues with it, why does focus?4 -
I was trying to improve the UX of my design by not forgetting the accessibility and by making the contrast as obvious as possible without sacrificing the look. I took my glasses off. I never thought I was doing this for me all this time.
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If there is anything I hate in life more than XCode is not organizing work!
A feature done few months ago on mobile, tested, passed QA and now it is not working! Why? Because API got screwed!! Why? Because someone is changing the core of the system without notifying anyone!!
Both API and that feature were not touched in months and suddenly stopped working and guess who is blamed, damn right me and the API dev when non of us even made a change -.-3 -
That moment when your rant has gone so viral that you have to force close devRant app. Coz your phone is buzzing every half an hour....10
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Headphones on, in the zone, deep into some heavyweight logic, blissfully unaware of the office surroundings.
Get tapped on shoulder. "hey, I've finished that easy task a deformed amoeba could have done. Want to see?"
NO!5 -
Me: I should be doing this SOAP service thats is due thursday.
Mind: nah let's answer stackoverflow questions.7 -
My area of focus is switching between so many areas of focus without actually having the time to do so. Why is a day only 24 hours long :(1
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I see a trend for new devs to want to focus on JavaScript while dismissing relational databases and backend languages as boring and to rigid. A week into real jobs they want help with data and .net.4
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Fucking Ballmer peak and blowing by it 9 times out of 10. But that every once in a while when you hit it. Oh it’s real. So real. Focus and problem solving rolled into one.
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I can't focus on my task and get motivated because I want to change my position in the company I'm in.
I can't change my position in the company I'm in because I can't focus on my task and get motivated.1 -
I find Nordic/Viking music very calming and I'm able to focus better. Basically, I'm more productive when I'm listening to such music.2
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Focus of mastering one language, don't jump around to every web langue out there.
Also don't follow the programming language band wagon. Focus and master the basics first HTML, CSS, Jquery. These aren't going anywhere and a SOLID understanding of JavaScript will go WAY further then you think4 -
Does anyone else have really bad focus issues? when I'm supposed to be studying I'll be able to focus for about 10 minutes maximum before I end up on my phone or Getting distracted on YouTube10
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When coding, what percentage of your time is spent fluently typing your code vs thinking about what you're coding?9
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I think I might need to own my own business and foot the bills. That way I can learn why it's a good idea to only focus on the short term costs and ignore the long term ones
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Manually updated a user who was attending a focus group's password by resetting it to a known hash...
Forgot the "WHERE user_id" part of the SQL.1 -
After I took some time off from work, I decided to accept the offer for maintenance of two projects. Those are from two old clients, so I think I will not stress too much, since I know what to expect most of the time.
The issue is, sometimes I have a hard time to keep concentration. In the past, I could work for 3h straight, totally focused, would pause for 20min for stretch, and then come back to work. Now I can only focus for 30min or 1h, and after a pause, it's hard to concentrate again.
There is a lot going on in my life right now, and I know the worry is probably distracting me. I'm trying to listen instrumental music, drinking coffee... But that's not enough. Somebody has any tip?6 -
Lead developer about Project X:
“Focus on responsiveness. That will probably take you the rest of the week”
The next day:
“Focus on functionality Y”
MAKE UP THAT MIND FFS?!2 -
Same as when I go gym..
Deep breaths to get calm,
focus mind on clarity & stillness
then visualize, map & draw out exactly what I'm going to do and how I'm gonna go about it.
Finally, execute.2 -
Set all my editors to autosave when they loose focus ~
Makes me go nuts when working on other machines :/3 -
Focus control.
Eg. Imagine you have two monitors, you are playing your game on monitor A, and monitor B has a copy of the instructions on it.
Often in games you can't move the mouse outside of the game window / monitor..
But not to worry, that B monitor is a touchscreen, so you touch to scroll it and what happen.. focus changes to that monitor, and your game window minimises..
But you don't want that to happen !
How do you stop that happening by the way ?12 -
My headphones 🎧 died two days ago and I can't focus on work since then. Why do they have to be so fragile?6
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Am I the only one who can't focus while listening to music?
I would rather sit in a quiet surrounding and work.11 -
Being Ill and a dev is the worst... Not being able to think straight and focus for more then 2seconds really kills any sort of work you can do5
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searching on how to do something on your project. a couple of hours later, you ended up watching on how the universe was born and theories of aliens .. #researchGoneTooFar2
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Don't get a Linux system because most pro devs use them, stick to a windows system and focus on things like your programming language, framework and IDE.
P.S windows has one of the best IDEs4 -
anyone here has experience coding high before? can you even focus. 😂 Just really curious, please share.11
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My main area of focus is consistent therapy from working with PM's.
In other news, I work on the frontend design and development of internal web applications, good times. -
So many options in web development. Don't know what to learn next or focus on. Mean stack or Asp .net or JavaEE?18
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why do java developers wear glasses?
because their ciliary muscles can't contract to focus light on the retina1 -
spent last 5 desperate hours isolating a problem with activeElement and focus to finally find out that the only thing I was missing was e.preventDefault(); in the caller
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idk why, but why focus so much on internal stuff that never will be public...this is also my favorite quote
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I can't believe I've missed out on Firefox Focus for so long. I'm a Chromium guy, but Focus beats rounds on Chrome mobile in terms of speed and browsing experience.2
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Actually, the office. Because it's a space exclusively for working.
I did home office for quite a while and still do so from time to time but i get distracted and/or lazy too easily to really get something done at home.
In the office, I have to be focused and so I am for 8+ hrs.
Unpopular opinion: 9to5 is great.1 -
Binge watched Silicon Valley and now I can focus on work. and if Gilfoyle and Monica end up together so help me God I'll lose my shit!
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!rant - developers figured out flipkart should focus web instead of mobile-only, before the company changed strategy ???
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My area of focus is to focus.
I get distracted way too easily, I often think I would get far more done if I could stay focused for a longer period.2 -
December, the last month of year. I made big plans to finish 2016 with a perfect ending.
Few places to travel, startup, freelancing and many more...
But first I need to pass my exams which are not based on programming. 😕😑 I am just not able to concentrate, my PC looks at me and I look at her. But trying to focus on the study. 😕4 -
Ok, so I need some clarity from you good folk, please.
My lead developer is also my main mentor, as I am still very much a junior. He carved out most of his career in PHP, but due to his curious/hands-on personality, he has become proficient with Golang, Docker, Javascript, HTML/CSS.
We have had a number of chats about what I am best focusing on, both personally and related to work, and he makes quite a compelling case for the "learn as many things as possible; this is what makes you truly valuable" school of thought. Trouble is, this is in direct contrast to what I was taught by my previously esteemed mentor, Gordon Zhu from watchandcode.com. "Watch and Code is about the core skills that all great developers possess. These skills are incredibly important but sound boring and forgettable. They’re things like reading code, consistency and style, debugging, refactoring, and test-driven development. If I could distill Watch and Code to one skill, it would be the ability to take any codebase and rip it apart. And the most important component of that ability is being able to read code."
As you can see, Gordon always emphasised language neutrality, mastering the fundamentals, and going deep rather than wide. He has a ruthlessly high barrier of entry for learning new skills, which is basically "learn something when you have no other option but to learn it".
His approach served me well for my deep dive into Javascript, my first language. It is still the one I know the best and enjoy using the most, despite having written programs in PHP, Ruby, Golang and C# since then. I have picked up quite a lot about different build pipelines, development environments and general web development as a result of exposure to these other things, so it isn't a waste of time.
But I am starting to go a bit mad. I focus almost exclusively on quite data intensive UI development with Vue.js in my day job, although there is an expectation I will help with porting an app to .NET Core 3 in a few months. .NET is rather huge from what I have seen so far, and I am seriously craving a sense of focus. My intuition says I am happiest on the front end, and that focusing on becoming a skilled Javascript engineer is where I will get the biggest returns in mastery, pay and also LIFE BALANCE/WELLBEING...
Any thoughts, people? I would be interested to hear peoples experiences regarding depth vs breadth when it comes to the real world.8 -
Any other devs with PTSD here? Since the trauma I find it hard to focus on programming. Before the trauma I would code on the job, get home and code personal projects for fun. After the trauma I can barely focus on programming for work.
How do you focus?8 -
Fitting all of my open apps onto three monitors. I think maybe six monitors will hold them all. Ironically, staying focused is also something I struggle with. 🤦♂️😅
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Honestly I think you'll run out of new focus questions.
I'd be ok with seeing something different like current trending tags. -
I'm really surprised at how when I type in a domain without the protocol it automatically goes to http in this 'privacy' browser (firefox focus)3
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Founding an international organisation to teach code in organised focus groups with little or no fees, with various paths3
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It is 10:54 on a Monday and I have not had a Monster because my drug deal- um doctor, told me off for drinking it (not good for anxiety etc). This shit is tough...8
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!rant
Ok, just a curiosity. I've noticed something about the way I work. It seems that if I have too much energy, I can't focus. My mind wanders off to a lot of random things and I get easily distracted. If I'm somewhat tired, e.g if I haven't slept that much, it's much easier to focus on what I have to do. Anyone else going through the same pattern?6 -
I'm an alcoholic and a programmer. I don't drink when I'm programming so that I can focus. Programming is therefore good for my health.4
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If you enjoy coding at coffee shops, remember to wear headphones. Not only will it help you focus, it'll also block out John Mayer.2
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How rotten and half bitten is this most valuable Apple? See that they get quite some bashing for their latest Catalina release. And they deserve every portion of it, I think.
Honestly, when I saw our testers going through the different betas, which hardly installed and on which our software kept behaving differently, nevertheless they pushed their Golden Master and released. Didn't seem a good idea.
Currently I had to update to Catalina to check some small broken feature of ours and now the active window keeps on losing focus every few minutes. Have to grab the mouse and click there again to continue working. Really fucking annoying. Hope I can track it down some time.. or trash my iMac.3 -
Anyone heard of brain.fm? I'm just curious if it actually, works, and helps to focus and concentrate. Are 200 bucks really woth it?
Thanks in advance :D2 -
Listening to music and watching movies helps me to focus. But I never found a way to solve my procrastination problem...
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!Question
Is it better to try out a lot of languages to learn, or focus directly on one for web development?6 -
!rant
Today I got an interview for a cool job: Comissioning engineer with focus on PLC-programming.
So nervous, but so happy at the same time.4 -
Company not giving my salary on time and waiting for it to arrive. Worrying about paying rent and stuff is not doing good for my focus.1
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Programmer seems like an insufficient job title: translator for high-level languages with focus on user meditation seems more like it.
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Time for a 00:30 rant that has no structure!
(There is a theme tho)
TI-BASIC optimization (framecount is from TI-84 Silver, with the higher Z80 clock):
"0→S": 3 frames
"DelVar S": 2 frames
```
0
Ans →S
```
1 frame???
(Variable "Ans" holds the last answer given to the normal calc functions. This makes it blazing fast to use [for some reason])
also refreshing the real TI-8x line's LCD at its actual, normal rate is bad and *SOMEHOW* ends in LCD overvolting (makes parts of the LCD blue instead of dark gray) after ~15 frames. The TI-8x line's normal OS thing refreshes the LCD at 30-45FPS depending on their clock speed, the LCD is native 80FPS. Just figured i should point this out. (Yes, TI, you do make hardware, it's just that sometimes you should make it when SANE)
why the fuck did they make a multitasking machine that runs on a Z80 at, like, 7/8 the original Gameboy's speed (the B/W DMG, the original. The CGB had DoubleSpeed mode.)1 -
My main focus Is data analysis. Being a physics student I do quite a lot of this using the likes of numpy and matplotlib, or GNU Octave.6
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I'm so excited about something(can't tell you guys yet) but can't talk about it at work. And now I lost all my focus7
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I can't seem to focus on my work at all today -_- my server model isn't working and I haven't even started anything else...Any tips on helping me focus?3
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Never ever have to sleep, eat, shit, piss anything like that. Every damn time I do that I loose the focus/idea I had when I started.
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Have you guys used modafinil to stay focus for long hours be it coding or studying. I worked 15 hours none stop3
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Is interview preparation and competitive programming the same thing? If they are different which one should one focus on?
🤔🤔🤔1 -
Does anyone else feel like their brains aren't working, like they cant focus on anything and this has been going on for more than a week now?
I know there are things to do. I have gone through huge pain created github issues for those things but my brain just seems to reject the idea that it can solve those issues. Just feels like playing a game or just killing time would be best!
Needless to say I hate it.
Happens/happening with others?2 -
So been working with the COSMOS framework and I have litteraly spent more time reworking the CLI to be so much more functional... Still haven't implemented a simple echo command but hey... Shit looks pretty that's all that matters... Right... Right?
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PSA: surpise-sending play-by-play instructions via chat on how to answer questions in a phone interview happening IN REAL TIME is not helpful and makes me look like a blubbering idiot
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Guys! I just want to share this very well written article. It does not only apply to music production but also to our personal pursuits in life. Hope it helps those who are struggling, like me, putting one's crap together.
http://musicsoftwaretraining.com/bl... -
Focus...
I am on vacations and I thought: well, let me take a look at Shopify. People uses that, may be learning it could be good.
So I created a Dev account, a sample store and opened the docs.
"Oh, you should use this and that JS library and work with React (link to react)"
So I clicked the link and now I am learning React...5 -
Can't focus on work because Ethereum and litecoin are on the rise. Dreaming of driving lambos on the moon 😅
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Dear DevRant: You should really, really make the textboxes get the focus when they appear, when adding a comment or a rant...
(or is it just me?)4 -
I have hard time focusing at all. I can't even focus 100% when I am driving my bike. My mind tend to go other issues or thoughts when I am doing anything in my life.
Any tip to improve my focus on the current task.14 -
My focus is AI but the only thing most people can respond to that is #Skynet smh 😑😑 like please tell me again about robots taking over1
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What do people feel about remote work?
I got into my current work about 8 months and we all were remote working.
In 8 months, we met in person several times and worked together at one place for a week or two.
We have never overcome the feeling of a disconnect when we work remotely. There's less focus and less clarity on things to do.
Is this common? How do people be focused and productive in remote work?
Also how do people communicate effectively?2 -
I can't get anything done
I know I want or have to do something, but I always waste my time on something completely unrelated.
Afterwards I feel bad, and when I notice what I should've done and what I actually did I get a bit depressed
I just don't have the self-discipline for this shit, and I have no idea how to get it3 -
On my way home I was thinking about learning something new. Now I can't focus at all, and it seems that every effort towards learning anything that's programming related is in vain. What's wrong with me?! I thought I liked this.1
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Area of focus?
Whatever the client currently needs.
Because, who has time to specialize when there are bills to pay? -
How do you keep a private life? I'm trying to focus on improving myself and here, Facebook(friends...) etc comes by -_- I'm really mad at myself.9
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Full stack development building web, desktop and integration solutions. I'd say of all I prefer .Net MVC so try to focus there when possible. It's just fun.1
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Finding it hard to focus. I'm into UI, backend, frontend, iOS... Exploring FP. We've just had our first child and I need to put my time and energy into what will a) provide healthy financial remuneration b) be more enjoyable than frustrating c) be relatively futureproof (if that's even possible). For some reason I have a huge distaste for JavaScript (as an ecosystem) which has led me to look into Elm. I've enjoyed Ruby but something in my mind tells me Functional programming is more logical for me. It's a whole new approach and skill to level-up on. I love programming my own back-ends, but for me, design is so important and I want to be part of the visual, tangible part that people interact with. I'm a one-man operation which means I do design, full stack Development, client liaison, financials, client acquisition. Freelancing is a double edged sword - I don't know when the next project will come, but I also need to focus on the projects I have without taking too much on. At times I think employment would be good, despite having it's on drawbacks which I read about repeatedly on here. Any advice?1
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What are your tips/tricks for staying up and alert?
Started a new QA job. 3-11am because the client is in another time zone. I'm up but staying up and alert is a challenge. I might need better coffee. Still falling asleep5 -
Played a game and ate pizza DURING our android class! It was disappointing because we students should learn and focus but man!!! Pizza made it fine! Lol
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Ever tried programming while having serious hayfever..? Welcome to my life today :')
Can't. F***ing. Focus.2 -
Not a rant, but a question. Ok, it's also a rant, because I'm really, really unsatisfied with what I'm doing.
I can't focus on work at this point, I only have bouts of productivity - 30-40 minutes or so - and then I wander off and procrastinate. Is it normal? How do you manage to stay focused for longer periods of time?4 -
"We want :focus styles removed everywhere in our intranet because we don't like it"
- Very-Big-Company, multiple times "Nielsen Best Intranet"1 -
The app I would sell my soul for:
Detect when a program wants to take focus and deny it only if there has been any input in any other place in the past 800ms or so. (White/black listing would be awesome to).
Simply killing focus stealing is as counter productive as not killing it.2 -
Frontend developer mainly, getting all excited by C#, net core, apis, http, databases. A new world of trinkets and hard-edged engineering. Makes me eyes glitter.
But my day job needs me to become as proficient as possible on the frontend of the stack. As we warm up to a huge application rewrite, with me as the sole frontender, it becomes clearer and clearer that, if I am not only to survive, but leave a codebase behind me that is clean, thoughtful, well modularised and built with maintenance and performance in mind, that I must let go. I have to focus.
I feel a little sad today. Somehow, right now, the frontend world does not feel as exciting. Javascript feels loose, unpredictable...my work open as well to everyone with every flavour of opinion. Because it is observable.
But I am mortal. Time is precious, and limited. I feel I need a dose of curiosity discipline and that, if I can do so, I can devote myself not to my coming and going whims of interest, but the real hard work of learning craftsmanship once that feeling of glitter has faded.
My brothers and sisters, steady my hand. -
I don't know if I should focus on Java/Scala or PHP/JavaScript after university -_-" Both is fun.. What do you think?4
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Slack, allows me too post funny images to my team when i can't focus, and make sure they loose their focus aswell...
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I see many rants here about fellow programmers having to deal with clients directly.
I'm fortunate enough to work in a structured environment that allows me to focus on code.
How many of you actually prefer working directly with clients?7 -
If you ever need to focus on your work, grab your headphones and listen to https://coffitivity.com1
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I usually have some kind of ambient music running in the background like Noisli...Helps me focus better...1
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Since I am currently going through CS Education and one thing I would change particulary for my education system:
more focus on web development. I didn't really like those lessons but it's an important topic to learn about. But not only how to write CSS or HTML or JS but focus on security topics.
Another thing is to focus a bit more on projects.1 -
anyone else having a few hours of not being able to focus after lunch? Or is that just me?
It doesn't matter what I eat or what I do, after lunch I just can't focus on anything. Until 4-5 pm. then focus comes back again.
The only solution to this that I have is basically don't eat a full meal at lunch, but try to have healthy snacks instead.
I dunno.
Any ideas? it annoys the hell out of me.4 -
Looks like I’m going to take the analytics route to future prosperity. If I’m lucky.
I’ve followed so many directions over the past 24 months and I just haven’t focused enough on any one thing to get anywhere near skilful enough to have the courage to apply for a relevant job.
iOS development, HTML, node, Angular, CSS. I know enough of each to have an understanding, but not enough that I feel I’m competent.
So, make or break time. I have an opportunity to focus on learning Google Analytics (and data analytics in general) and potentially becoming comfortable with Google Tag Manager.
If I can’t focus on this new path and make something of it, I will be a wannabe dev until my retirement.
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So I had to deal with this a while ago...
/ 86972915 On focus and write new text into dropdown when is saved /
change_field_to_update : function (name){
var context=this;
setTimeout(function(){
/*Protection */
try{
var field_path=context.state.editAttribute.field_path;
context.on_field_blur.bind(context, context.state.editAttribute);
/*Improve this */
$("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").focus();$("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").on("blur");
for(i=0; i<=1;i++){ $("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").focus();$("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").focusout();}
$("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").focus();$("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").focusout();$("#info_"+field_path).parent().find(".dx-texteditor-input").focusout();
}catch(err){
}
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Finished vocational training! :) Fulltime front-end guy now. #happy no hassle with shitty school or something anymore - lets focus on side projects again :)
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Thinks about a great tool all day, comes up with ideas and features, figures out how to make it all work, sits down, 'accidentally' selects the YouTube icon. Look! An entertaining video! Another one! So Many! Wait, what was I doing?
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Not learning how to study and focus on something at High Schools. I'm learning the hard way, i often don't have time to plan a thing as i wish, i just have to do a quick plan, hope for the best, and eventually learn something in the end.
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Want to focus on increase my knowledge of C, Linux, rust or anything related to systems programming, practically the only jobs available in the country are web development jobs or Java, nothing else. So focus on my dreams or focus on not starving to death. This sucks.1
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How do ppl just keep coding. I can't stay on it for shit. Anything that comes to mind will distract me and keep me from starting or working on.... It sucks, its not even like i dislike coding. I actuay enjoy it once i start but games wirh friends n shit always take Priority for some reason :(8
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I need help,
I'm on that task for a month and it's a shitty task where I need to write algorithms too complicated for my level and I'm totally demotivated right now... I can't even understand my own code and can't focus for more than 5min... I just wanna go home and never see that code and work on that anymore...
Has this situation ever happened to you ? What should I do ?6 -
Area of focus: Imdustrial Automation (Distributed Control Sytems)
Why: Because I love to control huge plants.3 -
3rd day back into work after xmas break and I still haven't had laser focus yet, and I have so many projects to do :-/
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None...
You might find it weird but I don't mind noise at all. If I want to focus, I can do it regardless of what's around me.4 -
Before my area of focus was the frontend and then my boss thought my skills were good enough to handle servers, now I'm here and working on the staging and production containers... Mother docker awesome...6
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Reluctantly thinking of switching to a PM role so i could focus all my code-fu to my side projects!!
what do u guys think? i know most of us hate PMs, but they do get paid more for what i think is less work (mental focus wise).
😞😞😞2 -
I absolutely love summers but the start of summer is the worst, haven't been able to focus on stuff due to dehydration and project's due soon there's much to accomplish.1
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Game development
Because:
It's a fucking blast compared to literally any other focus, at least as far as I've found. -
My focus is cloud infrastructure and developer tools. I like it because of the complexity and the feeling that enabling developers to do more is a multiplier of good I can do in the world.
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Area of focus: Volunteer computing
It's a facinating and beautiful branch of computer science, not known enough. I love working with it, hoping I can change the world. -
I have a noisy and talkative mate. Sometimes, to focus on my work, I put my earphones. But he shouts my name until I pay attention to him.1
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Sometimes I hate interruptions like
- what a nice video on yt
- great idea from 9gag
I just want to focus for few minutes, please. -
If you could go back to the time where you were a CS(or IT) undergraduate, what would you do? Change or really focus on? And tell yourself.7
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I need 100% focus else just don't read any tutorial or see any codes, otherwise it's just a waste of energy and might causing new bad habits to form up.
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Imagine a text editor having single key shortcuts of letters that do random things to the text document (like delete it, hide it or who knows what) if your focus is on the toolbars, not the textarea and it is impossible to distinguish where you have the focus, until you start writing
well, wait no more!! its called Google Keep! available in stores now!1 -
The only focus I can give is generally not consumer products. I like to work back-end, but end up creating front-end for my stuff as well.
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I have been 70% focused on front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JS,and related frameworks) and 30% on back-end web technologies (PHP, SQL mainly). I enjoy making websites and web apps that look good, but also understand the need for back-end functionality.
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It's March, hopefully I'll be able to focus on one thing at a time and stop jumping between technologies.
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Is it possible to know everything and every concepts in computer science or should I focus my career in one particular area of cs... ??!1
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Alright so this I have been feeling from sometime now, this abnormal energy to work till dawn n dusk and then realizing that this body needs time to heal back and I have to take rest before starting any work.
I want to meet focus of a saint1 -
Burr puzzles, I love the way they challenge me, they also improve focus and helps with attention to detail. Great tool for ADHD.
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What Hardware specs should I focus on when buying a server which runs virtual machines using ProxMox or XenServer?4
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All these big tech companies making facilities that largely incorporate being outside as part of the work experience...am I the only one that thinks "but what about the insects"?2
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I'm facing a technical phone interview for a full-stack engineer position. Any tips or helpful advice? What stuff should I focus on?1
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Does anyone know of any good opensource time tracking software with a focus on privacy?
I don't trust the proprietary stuff but it's useful software1 -
Me: let's focus on this aws developer - associate course and learn something new..
My Brain: hey look, Prince Harry just got engaged.. Let's read all about UK's monarchy!!!1 -
Area of focus: Tooling
Why?: Because I don't like to work on big projects. It is fun to create tools from scratch by myself -
Almost everything worthwhile has a significant amount of discomfort associated with it. We feel discomfort when we work hard on worthwhile things and when we grow as partners, engineers, team members and human beings.1
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24 hours of being awake. At Work. Struggling to focus. Using DevRant infusions to keep myself alive.
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My area of focus is getting paid doing shitty PHP, JS, CSS tweaking freelance gigs and save enough money so I can finally focus on learning electronics and make stuff with arduino, stm32 etc. Hardware interfacing is so interesting.
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Area of focus...leaving a couple tests running while I go enjoy a coffee on the balcony and focus on making the payloads more serious/articulate/real .
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Do you consider helping a colleague with more experience than you as a wating time in your own work ? Some manager told me I should focus on my work...1
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