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Work with an engineer who looked at my desk and said "a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind"
I looked at his barren desk and asked "so an empty desk is a sign of what?"
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I have the same stuff as you do on my desk, except that it's buried by other stuff piled on top of it.
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Mine is simply: 'The Mess'.
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From left to right:
Phone
Eyeglasses case, phone
Coffee thermos
Current projects notebook, tablet, pens
2 pictures of my daughter 
PC
Headphones
Monitor 1
Monitor 2
Candy jar to keep my coworkers bribed
Software Zen: delete this;
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Mine has some Transformers figures and a lava lamp!
Code4Fun&&$$$
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Not even gonna go there! Would take too long to inventory this.
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at work fairly clean(my definition), a few drink cups, temp gauge, assorted office supplied, pens, tape, etc.. one test laptop(old) my lug-able laptop, three monitors, keyboard mice, phone, power strip, personal tablet, phone, two drink coasters sometimes the cups are even on them. Almost no paper nor books, one journal.
At home. my wife won't even look at my desk. one spare monitor, docking station for work lug-able, keyboard, mouse, one coaster one cup, Tons and tons of maps, books, journals, wires, more wires, extra tablet on floor(it might work), maps on walls, flags on walls, pictures on walls, toys(Star Wars, Small Cars, Models of Ships/planes/cars etc... Gun safe full, very full, Bar/Fridge area sometimes full, usually on way to being empty
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Desk has:
Laptop attached to a 30" color accurate monitor
Speakers
Phone
Cell phone
Box of earplugs
Tupperware container of micr gear motors and parts
Various USB thumb drives
Computer memory stick
CPU
Various Tools
Lamps for a camera
24V Power Supply and snubber
Full Inbox
Pile of work thats being worked on in front of the inbox
Business Cards
3D printed parts
Various 3x5 cards strewn about with notes
Canadian quarter
The Hutch on the desk has
2 monitors
2 All in one mobile PCs for parts
2 Laptop docking stations
Various books, software, and random references including a Pantone color book
A trophy that being repurposed as a joke
Faceshield for going in high power cabinets
On the second desk behind me......
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... and 3 Pellegrino, 4 Becks, 6 Sanpellegrino (Orange), 3 Budweiser Prohibition Brew ... peanuts.
(Gotta get to the bottle depot).
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I think I have a desk somewhere. When I find it I'll let you know what's on it...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Was checking your list of items on your desk. Are you sure you didn't forgot to mention your boots and an obese tomcat? Maybe some spare motorcycle parts as well? 
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Orson farm[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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excellent 
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reason 2 for why I had my tongue cut off.
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Is it valuable or a good idea to know more than one web stack? I've spent most my time working with C#/ASP.NET and associated tech but the majority of guys I am close with in my area use MEAN stack, in addition, my goals are to work for a startup or smaller business and they tend to use MEAN stack around here as well.
For this reason, I've been learning MEAN, which, in reality, the A and other front-end stuff is actually used in ASP.NET often anyway, so there is some overlap in knowledge.
However, my OOP brain isn't used to thinking functionally like I have to in MEAN sometimes, and it's a challenge for sure, but also fun. If nothing else, I figure I can weigh the pros and cons of both stacks and use them when convincing an employer to use either one.
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TheOnlyRealTodd wrote: Is it valuable or a good idea to know more than one web stack?
For me it is. This will enable you and your team to have greater flexibility on which stack to use for each projects that requires it. We've been doing MS stack before but now, we are starting to explore on MEAN to cater projects that needs it. At the same time, we've been exploring into .NET Core too to build xplat apps.
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There's a world of difference between SQL and NoSQL, though in both cases, the back-end can hide the implementation details, which has its pros and cons. Pros: You usually don't have to think about it. Cons: When you do have to think about it (optimization, digging into the data to figure out how to model a particular bug) it can be a real PITA if you don't know it well.
Be careful of why startups tend to use the MEAN stack. The two most common reasons I've found is:
- They don't have any money to invest in proper tooling, so they go open source (which isn't bad, per se, but...)
- As I've encountered all too often among hackers that just want to start coding their new cool idea, "let's use NoSQL!" followed by a group mind-fart: "oooh, yeah, cool tech I've been wanting to use."
More generally, yes, learning the nuances of thinking functionally vs. imperatively is definitely a worthwhile exercise, as is learning more than one web stack, if you have good reason too.
Marc
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As a rule, knowing more stacks allows you to choose the appropriate technology for each project (e.g. the requirements for Amazon's web site differ from those for your local church). The catch here is that you must know the technologies well enough to be able to determine when each is appropriate. This comes mostly from experience.
By analogy from the physical world, a good carpenter should know when to use carpenter's glue, nails, screws, or other fasteners. Each has their place, and it is a poor craftsman who believes that only one type of fastener answers all problems.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Or rather, a good carpenter should know how wire a new plug onto any of his power tools, and maybe do very simple mechanical repairs to them.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: it is a poor craftsman who believes that only one type of fastener answers all problems
What, you mean that all those other things you mentioned can be used as stand-ins for nails?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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No, I mean that different types of fasteners are used in different circumstances.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Really? Golly.
Given that that's precisely what you said, I'd never have guessed that it was what you meant.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Never heard of the term MEAN before, but often come across, and am currently using that exact stack to tutor myself on nodejs hosted web sites. All the resources I've found use Mongo, but I feel Mongo is just not right for tabular data, and will eventually substitute PostgreSQL. Overall, I think it's a good stack though.
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