About me: I am actively seeking a B2B-based full-time position, traditional full-time employment or part-time/freelance work. With 4 years of experience primarily as a .NET developer I worked in various domains building small and large scale solutions. In my free time, I enjoy learning and experimenting with new technologies and working on personal hobby projects, which, to be honest, often end up unfinished in the graveyard. That's something I really need to work on and finish some stuff ;)
I am not afraid of learning new things, in fact, I find it highly interesting, and it's one of the reasons I pivoted from my previous profession (Biology/Molecular Biology) into a development role. While I value my personal time, when I'm "on-call," I am fully dedicated. Transparency and direct communication are important to me, as are healthy team dynamics, and I strive to uphold these values.
If you have a challenging/fun project that requires a dedicated C#/.NET developer who can work remotely, please feel free to reach out.
Any feedback that is not job-offer related would also be very much appreciated!
About me: I am actively seeking a B2B-based full-time position, traditional full-time employment or part-time/freelance work. With 4 years of experience primarily as a .NET developer I worked in various domains building small and large scale solutions. In my free time, I enjoy learning and experimenting with new technologies and working on personal hobby projects, which, to be honest, often end up unfinished in the graveyard. That's something I really need to work on and finish some stuff ;)
I am not afraid of learning new things, in fact, I find it highly interesting, and it's one of the reasons I pivoted from my previous profession (Biology/Molecular Biology) into a development role. While I value my personal time, when I'm "on-call," I am fully dedicated. Transparency and direct communication are important to me, as are healthy team dynamics, and I strive to uphold these values.
If you have a challenging/fun project that requires a dedicated C#/.NET developer who can work remotely, please feel free to reach out.
Any feedback that is not job-offer related would also be very much appreciated!
I still play it when I'm looking to kill some time. It's held up pretty well. There's an active modding community, which has produced (and maintains) Heroes 3 HD.
Heroes 3 HD is a really cool addition that scales the resolution, offers some balance patches, etc. It also lets you install the fan-made Horn Of The Abyss mod that offers a new faction (Cove), new maps, and some miscellaneous tweaks.
I come back to it occasionally. I'm no longer interested in an extremely slow grindy turn-based game, but it turns out that the game isn't actually all that slowly paced and games taking 12 hours when I was a kid was just because of how I played it. IMO the gameplay never feels dated and it's still a candidate for the best game in the series.
Visually it benefits a lot from being at the very end of the 2d era rather than the start of the 3d area. The HD patch makes it work at modern screen resolutions, and as long as you don't mind pixel art it's really quite good looking.
I'm looking into buying a iPad with a pencil for better organizing my work and personal notes with added searchability. The only thing I'm afraid off, as I have ADHD and as a result trouble learning/retaining information, is that the iPad + pencil won't have the same effect as pen and paper.
Anyone made the switch from paper to iPad and can't share their experience?
I tried to switch but I never use it anymore. There's a weird... I don't know, almost burden to it.
Pen and paper is always on, always available. The interface is completely blank and unassuming. You have a page, you have a writing utensil. Text is always visible, nothing needs charged, there's a pleasant tactile sensation, minimal noise.
On the iPad, you have to turn it on. Launch the application. Navigate to the right notebook or page or whatever. (Unless you use Notes, maybe, and there's a double tap to launch option) There are ambiguous icons everywhere. Sometimes palm rejection doesn't work and you zoom, move the page, or mark on the page. There's a bright backlight, distracting notifications, the sound of the pencil tapping on the glass. It doesn't lie flat without a case. It all just feels very unnatural to me. I never got used to it.
Of course there are benefits. Optical character recognition for instant search, backups, unlimited 'paper', multiple notebooks in one thin place.
If you're going to be writing a lot, I'd recommend something like the Paperlike screen protector - the increased friction makes writing noticeably easier.
I've gone through a bajillion iterations of this: notebook + pen, tiny carry everywhere notebook + pen, surface pro + pen (this was really good for sitting down studying and class, not good for quick notes obvoiusly), and right now am on samsung zfold 3 and pen as a replacement for all classes of notetaking.
I have three note taking times:
1. Meetings, online or in person
2. Instant. Examples: vet suddenly telling me medicine mgs for my lizard. At hackathon and someone telling me some new software I wanna try. Unexpected philosophical insight from podcast while at gym.
3. Reading book (anywhere: cafe, train, desk, couch)
4. Studying time (at desk)
For said methods, the crosssection of effective note taking strategies I've found to be:
Spiral notebook and pen: meetings, reading book, studying time. Too big to have on me at all times for instant.
Smaller notebook (like, traditional moleskin sized) with pen: effective at all, including instant IF I had my backpack on me, so not truly great for instant.
Surface pro + pen: good for meetings and study time, somewhat ok at reading notes, phenomenal at reading notes if reading on the device itself (splitscreen reading app with onenote). EXCELLENT for classes and meetings because of quick multi-color pen functionality.
Upgrade to notebook resulted from surface pro: use multi-color pen instead of simple black pen. Now same study benefits as smaller notebook, with increased effectiveness in meeting and classes. Missing: cut + paste from surface pro, uploading to onenote to read on phone, etc.
Teensy tiny notebook + pen: best at instant notes, kinda shit at all other notes because so tiny, like think detective notebook. Possibly improved by better strategies, just had conversation with actual detective who made me realize I was probably using the notebook wrong.
Foldy phone with samsung pen thing: Similar to surface pro in effectiveness, better in terms of portability and always having on me (making its instant effectiveness better), worse in terms of its simply kinda small. Would love to use this for reading notes as well, right now can "kinda" split screen but it's really too small for that, would prefer in-same-reading-app note taking feature, yet to find good app for that (considering my books are epubs, this is probably impossible. PDF markup not bad though! in samsung notes app. Surpsrisingly good app). Thing about instant notes is, it's hard to hold, and still slower to get going than a tiny notebook + pen. I'm going to attach a little ring to the back and see if that makes me feel more confident holding this absurdly expensive device in one hand while writing on it while standing up.
TLDR: Technological investment cost of ipad + pen could be worth if you really like the digital features of cloud, multi-device, organization etc. Otherwise, recommend much cheaper option of smaller ipad-sized notebooks + multi-color-in-one pens (check jetpens). Also, this is more fun imo than using digital device, and retains better tactile experience (good for me with ADHD: can click pen as fidget activity).
Earth and its systems are too complex and left with too much unknown variables to be confident in messing with them without the danger of creating a feedback loop that makes the matter worse.
Take for example invasive species of plants and animals -- some of them were deliberately spread to non-native habitats in hope to regulate X but are now wrecking havoc in local ecosystems and pushing out native species.
I don't understand this. If people cared (or perhaps comprehend) complex feedback loops, we wouldn't be in this mess. If the majority of the human population starts suffering, including you and I, we will certainly do whatever we can to stop prevent that suffering, short term. I don't think there's any evidence, from any point in history, that suggests we'll, as a collective species, shun our instincts of self preservation, and die for the unknown of possible future problems.
Let's say India (they seem especially vulnerable) starts having mass heat and starvation, where they're losing significant parts of their population, and decided to slow it, immediately, by launching some solar shields. Do we shoot it down?
I think "never" is ludicrous. Once people start dying, people will demand and plea for something to be done, or heads will roll.
