Fanmade

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by Fanmade 3y ago
I know several developers, myself included, who are significantly more productive in their personal projects than in their main jobs. This discrepancy can be attributed largely to unnecessary bureaucracy. I have a lot of examples to illustr
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by Fanmade 3y ago
The topic has been analyzed quite extensively in my small bubble of very experienced people (mostly software developers, some with management experience, but also other people from various fields). We asked ourselves why so often such stran
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by Fanmade 4y ago
Sad but true; these days you read so many news stories that you first think are satire, but turn out to be true, that sarcastic comments are increasingly difficult to recognize as such without the appropriate notice.
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by Fanmade 4y ago
You're almost exactyl describing what went down at my previous employer. The company already had a bunch of poorly written legacy systems which were used by about 50 clerks and written in PHP, Node.js and some .Net. They had problems w
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by Fanmade 4y ago
That's indeed part of it. Another part is that working at another company usually gives you new perspectives and you learn more. So having been in a lot if companies and in turn having seen a lot of different approaches counts towards
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by Fanmade 4y ago
I've been searching through the comments for a comment about this item in the list. I am less than 2 meters tall, but I can carry plates wider than 2 meters between my outstreched hands. Does that now mean that I am an ape? Actually, t
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by Fanmade 5y ago
> The answers I get have taught me that most programmers don't have a basic understanding of how the internet works outside of their narrow specialty Just yesterday I couldn't fall asleep because my stupid brain thought somethi
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by Fanmade 5y ago
I can give a comparison to Germany. Here at least 25 days PTO a year are mandatory for each full time job. Anything below that is illegal, most companies offer around 30. Sick days don't count into that. Even if you're on a planne
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by Fanmade 5y ago
It is not true that Ms Teams does not work on Linux. We do have several devs working on Linux (don't know which specific distros though) and it works just fine. There are some annoying pop ups saying "Teams is ready" anytime
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by Fanmade 5y ago
I'm currently one of those interviewers and we always ask about fun projects like these. We do that especially since that shows that they're not doing the job only for money, but also because they're passionate about developi
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by Fanmade 6y ago
This reminds me of the great Sci-fi book series "Old Man's War", where the soldiers get a thought-controlled computer called "Brain Pal™" installed in their head. After installation they first have to choose a name
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by Fanmade 7y ago
Ironically, we're handling this with the concept called "clean code". We do have a core, which does implement the base logic. Everything in there is domain driven, but only using DTOs and providing interfaces for input and ou
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by Fanmade 8y ago
I made a similar experience with Google, just on a way smaller scale. I still use their service on a very small scale, but I would newer use them for a larger scale. While their services are mostly very convenient to use, some of their rule
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by Fanmade 9y ago
I'm from a third world country(Germany) and we don't have cheap LTE access. I pay more than 40€/month (about 50 USD) for 4GB of LTE and I got my contract for half of what it would normally cost. The reception is very poor and