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Conversation started Feb 20, 2019 at 15:21.

Shadow Wizard

Feb 20, 2019 15:21

!!/coffee g3r

SmokeDetector

@ShadowWizard brews a cup of Affogato for @g3r

g3rv4

Shadow Wizard

So, how is g3rv5?

oh wait...

Nov 14 '18 at 13:35, by g3rv4

or... g3rv4.1

So that was final? ^

Maybe... @g3rv4 beta? :D

g3rv4

I'm tempted to say that with the lack of sleep, I'm working as g3rv1

Shadow Wizard

rofl

So you really need that coffee, don't you? ;)

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:24

oh yeah, straight to my veins

Shadow Wizard

Well, I manage with 4 hours of sleep, which is one hour less from what I had before having children.

g3rv4

damn, you'd get your full sleep with Amelia... she slept 7 hours straight yesterday

Shadow Wizard

I enter hibernate mode in the evening, that helps.

g3rv4

but she started at 8pm (and we go to sleep at 12, so we enjoyed those 4 hours by being adults)

Shadow Wizard

My brain is asleep, but body still doing the routine stuff. :D

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:25

sounds useful

Shadow Wizard

My son inherited that ability, it's amazing, e.g. he's doing bath while he's asleep. For real. Daughter doesn't have that ability thogh.

@g3rv4 whoa... so unfair. My baby daughter (2 years old) never, in her whole life, slept more than 3 hours straight. Never.

g3rv4

daaaaamn... our baby had her first 6 hours in a row before she turned a month

Shadow Wizard

e.g. if she falls asleep at 9 PM (which is very rare, usually 10 PM) she will wake up max at 12 AM and want a bottle of milk.

g3rv4

I guess... we're... lucky?

Shadow Wizard

Then suppose she sleeps at 12:30 again.... she'll wake up no later than 3:30 again and want another bottle.

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:28

so hard to tell right now :P this whole experience is...

how old is she?

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 2.01

g3rv4

2 years old :facepalm:

Shadow Wizard

Well, most burden is on wife... I'm used to not sleep.

g3rv4

I can't read or follow a conversation it seems

Shadow Wizard

lol

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:29

it's going to be fun first day after paternity leave

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 yes you are! :)

@g3rv4 oh you're still on a leave?

g3rv4

I took 6 weeks off full time and now I have 12 weeks part time (we get 12 weeks to use how we think is best)

today is my first half-day :)

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 nice! My workplace offers no such thing, wife got the standard 3 months and took 3 extra months.

g3rv4

it's quite a perk... by law, in my country I would have had 3 days

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 wow... that's... not much.

Law here recently changed or is still changing, something about the option to split the leave between the parents.

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:32

nope, wife would get 3 months though (although as she's independent, she doesn't have neither an income nor a job to get back to)

Shadow Wizard

e.g. 2 months for the mother, one month for the father.

But it's still dependant on workplace, they can deny such thing.

Otherwise many small businesses will just fall apart, I guess. (Even with some compensation from the government)

Anyway... go get some rest... or work on the translation app.... ;)

You still work on that app? @g3r

g3rv4

yeah, I totally see the point... although... when a company does what Stack does, you get lots of good vibes from your employees

yeah, I do... we're using it on the 4 intl sites

I'm hating past self for deciding to use react though

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 true, but then again, you also have risk to become short of money and things like Black November happen. So it's not all bright.

g3rv4

@ShadowWizard welp, I've always worked for US companies at-will, so that's always been a risk I'm aware of

Shadow Wizard

When you give too much, you might not have enough left for yourself.

@g3rv4 nice! The room is still alive?

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:36

I've never worked in an office in my country, and all my employers could fire me from one day to the next... OTOH, I make way more money than what I'd be paid in my country, so I can have savings for when that happens

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 eh. Why? Can't it be undone?

g3rv4

@ShadowWizard it is, I saw someone unfroze it and asked, so yay!

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 kudos!

g3rv4

@ShadowWizard it can, but the day I sat to try to undo it, I realized it would take me 3 or 4 days for no real benefit... and more importantly, it would be boring work

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 yet again, guess you're lucky to find remote jobs like that... or just very smart. :D

@g3rv4 hmm... well... our chief developer has habit to rewrite his framework (yes, he wrote whole framework) once in a year or so. He spends full week on it, usually, and it let him do things much faster.

So maybe it's worth to spend those days, if it means faster development later on. Or less bugs. :)

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:40

@ShadowWizard luck played an important role... started working on RentACoder, got a steady gig, worked 6 years there, started a blog about a technology I liked, people started contacting me to work with them... then I was hired by a company, got lots of mooola, the company bankrupted and I found myself applying for jobs. Nobody would make an offer after I applied to hundreds of places until Stack did :)

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 whoa... weird that in the beginning people contacted you, then you say you applied to hundreds of places to no avail. Also, what's "mooola"? lol

Anyway, glad things turned out the way they did! :D

g3rv4

@ShadowWizard yup, that's how tides work :) moola = $$$

Shadow Wizard

Spanish?

g3rv4

at some point I was rejecting offers, then I couldn't find a job I liked

Shadow Wizard

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:42

(moola = money... moooola = lots of it)

Shadow Wizard

heh, never heard of that.

Journeyman Geek

@ShadowWizard naw

It's american I think

Shadow Wizard

Slang, yeah. Saw now.

@g3rv4 So, people like Bill Gates have mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooola? ;)

Journeyman Geek

Lol

Shadow Wizard

I wonder... how much each "o" is worth?

g3rv4

Feb 20, 2019 15:46

it's exponential

Shadow Wizard

heh, my question is still hot with 13.9 hotness points.... guess it will cool down in couple of hours though as it gets no new activity or votes. :)

@g3rv4 you happen to have some inside info about the future of Hot Network Questions? I am really curious what it will become, as Tim said it's going to change drastically or just go away. ;)

g3rv4

@ShadowWizard not really... I'm working on the Enterprise team now, and we don't have HNQ there (since customers don't really have a network)

Shadow Wizard

@g3rv4 ohh... well, maybe they're better without it. :)

Conversation ended Feb 20, 2019 at 15:53.

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