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Unfortunately a lot of us in HN make our living writing thick clients that ultimately perform worse than server-rendered apps with little benefit. It's just too

Unfortunately a lot of us in HN make our living writing thick clients that ultimately perform worse than server-rendered apps with little benefit. It's just too easy to find a front end dev job that pays well, at least where I live.

haimez 10y ago
Maybe you should find any of the websites that profit from faster load times and argue the business value. Because that's most of the places.
- mercer 10y ago
  I've suggested just that at multiple companies, and even if the business value was acknowledged, the usual (informal) response boiled down to "it won't impress my boss as much as new feature <x>, and there's no reason for me to argue with them about this". And so we'd put another ad somewhere on the page to increase revenue, instead of decreasing the page load time down from 5-10 seconds with some truly trivial low-hanging fruit type adjustments (lazy-loading anything but the 'core' images, etc.). Or we'd do another redesign. Or add a widget somewhere. What bothers me most is that these kinds of jobs were generally the highest paying and lowest in stress and 'friction' with the client. And I'd do them, telling myself that with the money I was 'saving up future time', all the while feeling incredibly depressed whenever I came home from work or had a moment to think about the current state of my life. I always pitied the (shockingly high) number of employees in these companies, predominantly managers, who absolutely hated their jobs and constantly talked about 'one day I'll quit and do <x>' while never doing it because, well, the money and stability. Ever since I realized I was basically doing the vey same thing, I've been trying a little harder to find a balance between 'saving up'/stability and enjoying my day to day. And in my field that should be possible.

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Unfortunately a lot of us in HN make our living writing thick clients that ultimately perform worse than server-rendered apps with little benefit. It's just too

by sotojuan 10y ago

haimez 10y ago
Maybe you should find any of the websites that profit from faster load times and argue the business value. Because that's most of the places.
- mercer 10y ago
  I've suggested just that at multiple companies, and even if the business value was acknowledged, the usual (informal) response boiled down to "it won't impress my boss as much as new feature <x>, and there's no reason for me to argue with them about this". And so we'd put another ad somewhere on the page to increase revenue, instead of decreasing the page load time down from 5-10 seconds with some truly trivial low-hanging fruit type adjustments (lazy-loading anything but the 'core' images, etc.). Or we'd do another redesign. Or add a widget somewhere. What bothers me most is that these kinds of jobs were generally the highest paying and lowest in stress and 'friction' with the client. And I'd do them, telling myself that with the money I was 'saving up future time', all the while feeling incredibly depressed whenever I came home from work or had a moment to think about the current state of my life. I always pitied the (shockingly high) number of employees in these companies, predominantly managers, who absolutely hated their jobs and constantly talked about 'one day I'll quit and do <x>' while never doing it because, well, the money and stability. Ever since I realized I was basically doing the vey same thing, I've been trying a little harder to find a balance between 'saving up'/stability and enjoying my day to day. And in my field that should be possible.