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In my humble opinion, being monocultural as a developer is a path to obsolescence. Be T-shaped: know your specialty really well, but also a bunch of stuff more superficially.

If you have a little hands on experience with Go on top of your Java expertise, you are imo more valuable to your employer. They may even be mid transition from Java to Go, where you would be very useful indeed.

Besides, it's just healthy to keep learning new things.

Det er bra. Du skriver ganske bra synes jeg, med en grammatisk feil her og der, men det er enkelt å forstå deg. Det hjelper veldig å være der språket snakkes, så dette blir nok bare bedre ned tiden. Lykke til med studiene!

Jeg tror dette er beste måten å gjøre det på, men pass på at det egentlig er greit for den du snakker med. Noen, f.els. kassedama på butikken, prøver bare å gjøre jobben deres så effektivt som mulig så da passer det kanskje ikke. Men i uformell samtale med folk synes jeg det er helt i orden.

I legit thought this was a Wagner poster until I read the comments.

As a dev: for all their flaws, web apps are easier to distribute, portable, and have a lot of support in frameworks. They also require little infrastructure in most cases.

As a user: web apps run without installing anything, are mostly portable between my browsers of choice, and run in a sandbox to protect my computer.

Probably 90% of my needs can be served by a web app if it is well designed. If I can't have a web app, I will look for a flatpak version and failing that I will look for it in my distro.

This. Especially if you're a naturalized citizen. The certificate of naturalization is expensive and hard to replace. It should not be your only id. Keep it in a safe place.

If you are a permanent resident, you should already know that you must carry your card on you at all times. That is more important now then ever.

Note that you will need to mail the original certificate to the authorities to get your passport. You will get it back after a couple of weeks, but in the meantime you will have nothing, unless you paid to get a certified copy. It is a large piece of paper that cannot be folded, so it's not practical to carry around.

While you're at it, get your driver's license updated with the federal id. Make sure the BMV records reflect your status. Register to vote. In other words, document your citizenship in as many ways as possible.

During my recent travels I carried a photocopy of my naturalization document plus my passport. I was not asked for it, but my reasoning was that if they took my passport I at least had something. I also had a physical notebook with important info in it, i.e., not just in my phone.

It doesn't have to be that way, if you have a CI/CD process that prevents it.

Don't get your hopes up. My flights were absolutely packed about 2 weeks ago.

That is famously a bad idea.

My main one is to learn shortcuts on your most used programs. Using the mouse for everything is a waste of time, but that has been said multiple times.

My second is to create scripts to do a bunch of repetitive tasks. For example, I have a script I run on my work PC after I log on to the VPN that starts my "always on" programs (like notepad++), unlocks the hosts file, etc. I have some sendto scripts for converting files with pandoc, fetching multiple git repos in one go, etc. It just speeds up things and avoids errors versus me doing them manually.

On Windows I use PowerShell and on Linux I use bash, meaning they work without additional software installed.

Jeg tenkte ikke på at mange innvandrere kanskje kunne bare sitt morsmål pluss norsk, men det har du helt rett i. Jeg tror de som har gått gjennom norsk skole sikkert kan i hvert fall litt engelsk, men det er verre for de som kom hit som voksne.

Har du erfart at de som f.eks. snakker arabisk bruker det som felles språk når norsk ikke strekker til? For eksempel hva skjer på en arbeidsplass i Norge, det det finnes norsktalende og flere grupper av innvandrere på samme sted: polsk talende, arabisk talende, osv? Snakker de engelsk?

Ja folk og steder er veldig variert, selvsagt. Min erfaring fra jeg på Sunnmøre generelt er at de yngre snakker engelsk helt fint. Det finnes også det som unngår engelsk fordi de selv synes ikke de kan det så godt, men de forstår ofte godt engelsk likevel så lenge det ikke går for fort med vanskelige ord. Denne gruppen består mest av de eldre, men også noen få yngre jeg kjenner. Det er sjelden jeg har truffet noen som ikke forstår noe engelsk. Men det er selvsagt bare hva jeg har opplevet, ikke en universell greie.