MongooseStudios

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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
That video keeps coming up in conversations all over. It's like the universe is trying to tell me something. I just wish I knew what it was. =)
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Isn't that part "the industry" being what it is?
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Don't forget a healthy dose of vendor lock-in!
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
I'm in this article, and I don't like it. lol
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
To my eye you seem to be extolling the virtues of the work. Which I still love.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
"Used against people." Those are good words. I am also deeply tired of that. I'm absolutely guilty of being one of those idiots that still thinks we could have nice things and products that work for reasonable prices if we
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
The idea has been very high up on my list. But I need to pay the bills until I can put something together. I'm not interested in the current trend of "building" a company that burns VC money to prop up a garbage product jus
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Curse my foolish desire for food and shelter!
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Oh that's an entirely different flaming dumpster, but I feel that too.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Do those cycles happen to correspond with the tech market crashes? =)
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
I actually specifically look for those smaller companies. I don't live in Silicon Valley, nor have I ever made Silicon Valley money. I've never wanted to live there and I haven't wanted to work for FAANG since Google did aw
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Ask HN: Is anyone else just done with the industry?
147 points by MongooseStudios 1y ago|178 comments
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ and https://ludic.mataroa.blog/ I used to read the free parts of The Pragmatic Engineer but I can't remember the last time I saw one that wasn't talking about some new
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
This is why E2E testing isn't a waste of time. I used your homepage like a user would for a few moments and provided value.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Did it tell you that your embedded video seems to be struggling to buffer content? How about that there isn't a way to seek to where I was in that video after it failed to resume playing and I had to refresh the page? Did it tell you
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
I, for one, also kicked the Owl to the curb.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Thank goodness people are starting to put 2 and 2 together. I'm so tired of interviews that want me to be a salesman.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
I don't use AI at all. So now you know a developer that doesn't have the same frustrating ritual. Unfortunately I'm also utterly unconvinced by "you're holding it wrong" and "you gotta prompt better&quot
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
There's nothing wrong with the internet itself. The reason all of these "problems" exist is because they work on a lot of people. Many people WANT to have endless content shoved into their eye-holes while they passively scr
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Because it takes minutes to set up a Discord server and everyone expects them now. Setting up a good old fashioned forum would take more effort.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
5 rounds of interviews (including the inevitable HR screen) and a 4 hour take home is kinda absurd. I just self-selected out of a process of similar length that lacked a task that some executive decided should take 4 hours to complete. I&
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Tricky question since nothing has really got it right so far. My initial question would be whether this is a new type of social media site, or if it's a social media adjacent thing trying to be a directory mixed with a job board. IE:
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
The premise is interesting, but there are some things that I dislike on the surface. 1. I don't want AI matching, I don't want AI anything. 2. Rep/skills based on Github contents? Firstly isn't that a form of the gateke
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Job boards aren't the problem. The problems begin and end within the boundaries of companies. ATS, recruiter, hiring manager, 6 30-60 minute interviews. Those things are the problem. If I had the money I could go hire a half dozen s
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
I don't use it for anything. If that means I'm "being left behind" then I welcome it. I'm quite happy to continue using my brain to solve problems, and understand the solutions.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
$0 =)
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Sounds like you should make your own thing, and not let anyone else have a say in the matter. No co-founders, no VCs, no consultants. You spent 10 years learning how to do it.
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by MongooseStudios 1y ago
Location: Texas Remote: Yes, exclusively Willing to relocate: Everyone has a price, mine would be very high for relocation. Technologies: Lately mostly Go(lang), but I've done a lot of different stuff including SRE/DevO