irmbrady
When my role first changed, I was very intimidated by doing one-on-ones. I never felt satisfied with the one-on-ones/catch-ups I had with the managers throughout my career, and I wanted to make sure I was doing a good job with that aspect of my role.
I initially did lots of research on how to do one-on-ones, but it was only after getting experience talking to people that I finally felt comfortable. I started getting some nice feedback from my lines, so I wrote some thoughts about how I like to do one-on-ones:
https://www.markbrady.net/blog/how-to-do-one-on-ones-as-a-ma...
I think good one-on-ones are very important to keep people happy and productive. I'd recommend any new engineering managers to spend time learning how to do them.
Discussion:
Take the Razer Naga for example (http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga). It has 12 configurable buttons on the side of the mouse, as well as 5 on top.
In League of Legends, you only require the following default key bindings on the keyboard:
(The following are crucial)
1. Q [champion ability]
2. W [champion ability]
3. E [champion ability]
4. R [champion ability]
5. D [summoner ability]
6. F [summoner ability]
(The following are less crucial, but almost required)
7. 1 [activate item 1]
8. 2 [activate item 2]
9. 4 [activate trinket]
10. B [teleport back to base]
Pressing numbers 3 and 5 through to 7 on the keyboard, by default, are to activate additional items, but it is very rare that you would have the need to activate more than 1 or 2 items in the game. I would say they are not required to be bound at all (or at least, I never press them).
Other useful keys to use in the game are Ctrl, Alt and Shift. They are modifier keys, which when pressed with the other key bindings or mouse clicks, allow the player to perform different tasks.
Of course, not all of this functionality needs to be bound to a key. Everything can be clicked with the mouse on the game's UI if need be. However, clicking the UI is rather slow, and I think it would be safe to say that a mouse similar to the Razer Naga would allow you to play League of Legends at a rather competitive level, with only using the mouse.
My question was more of a concern for the future of my current dev setup. I was hoping someone on HN would know of a better solution to install Ruby on Windows manually, without having to wait on RubyInstaller.
I will check out Vagrant as you suggested.
It is only Ruby which is difficult to keep up to date on Windows. My question was to try and find a solution.
I have tried using a VM (VirtualBox and VMWare), but it is not a desirable work flow. I currently use RubyInstaller.
The photos on the main feed are stretched on my phone, making everyone's head look extra wide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War [1]
Here is an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea
A very minor point to take away from the article; but do people actually use the media player buttons on their keyboard? I use brightness and volume buttons all the time; but I do not ever recall using the media buttons on my laptops/desktops in the same way as I would on other media device (phone, mp3 player, etc).
If I wish to switch song on my laptop, I tend to open my media player and select one which I actually want to listen to, rather than be at the mercy of shuffle.