_benj

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   by _benj 4y ago

   I guess because of sanity and simplicity in its architecture? I once wrote a software in Rust, a simple API, one binary in one DigitalOcean instance started by systemd, and nothing else. The things has been working nonstop for years making
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   by _benj 4y ago

   LC is a bad measurement for your abilities as a software engineer since it only measures a very small subset of what software engineering is, heck, of what programming is! You spend a lot more time in plumbing and debugging than implementin
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   by _benj 4y ago

   Look for: 1.Can you sell? Do you have enough knowledge of the market? You’d be surprised how many “founders” I’ve talked with that haven’t made a simple google search of the competition and why/how their product is different 2. Runway
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   by _benj 4y ago

   Hi there, I’d say apply to a couple of roles and calibrate as necessary. I relate to the feeling of not being “good enough” but TBH in the current market condition if you are able to either implement new features, find bugs or build new pro
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   by _benj 4y ago

   I loved this! It ties so well the another comment about the speed of computers on the front page: > On a 3GHz CPU, one clock cycle is enough time for light to travel only 10cm. If you hold up a sign with, say, a multiplication, a CPU wil
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   by _benj 4y ago

   Idk if you are referring to Severance, the tv show in Apple TV, but I haven’t seen a show so powerful as that one!
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   by _benj 4y ago

   I’m a Software Engineer. I joined the gopher slack (community for Golang developers) and monitored the #jobs channel. A post called my attention, chatted with the poster who happened to be the hiring manager, and a few weeks later I had the
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   by _benj 4y ago

   You are not alone in that experience! Tech has so many fields that those curious find it easy to jump all over the place and get eventually get bored and explore something else. What I would say is, remember that whatever work is just work
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   by _benj 4y ago

   I used this during my masters and it is really a remarkable piece of software! As compared to Word it’s a lot more explicit and has way less magic than Word (i.e. margins and new lines didn’t had different heights depending on Enter vs Shif
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    by _benj 4y ago

    Two come to mind: Tomato rice, which is just placing a tomato in the rice cooker when cooking rice. I add more things nowadays like corn, onions, meat, salt and pepper. But I enjoy how easy it is to make and eat it with some sriracha :) The
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    by _benj 4y ago

    iPhone autocorrect…
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    by _benj 4y ago

    autocorrect :)
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    by _benj 4y ago

    thanks for the suggestion! will take a look
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I agree that "most software development" is not about serving the creative spirit of the coder, but it'd be a shame to lose that! And if in some way we could have our cake and eat it (i.e. enjoy the creative process of coding
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I’ve been playing around in Pharo [0] and it’s such an immersive experience! My first reaction was to compare to eMacs in that the editor/environment is the program and it can be edited, customized, extended… but Pharo/Smalltalk
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    by _benj 4y ago

    Something that I've been doing lately is programming as a hobby. Now, even though it sounds odd since programming is what I do for my profession I've come to realize that at the end of the day I still enjoy tons the thrill of expl
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I once used facil.io and quite enjoyed it!
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    by _benj 4y ago

    > Clock in and keep browsing HN but now with guilt... You are not alone!
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    Uber, Meta to Reduce Hiring(theregister.com)

    2 points by _benj 4y ago|0 comments
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I liked that reflection. I’m lucky enough that my manager is very intentional in actively avoiding and mitigating any possible work related anything during the weekends. When I get a call (as opposed to a slack message) it’s only because so
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    by _benj 4y ago

    Sorry you are feeling burnt out, been there, it sucks! The way I've come to solve this for my self is separating programming into professional programming and hobby programing. For professional programming, I do it to make a living, to
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I seldom provide a cover “letter”. If I’m emailing somebody I’d include one or two paragraphs about what I find interesting about their company/product/etc… or if applying via a career page I’d put that on the cover letter field.
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    by _benj 4y ago

    +1 for dribbble I’d recommend juniors that are looking for projects for their portfolios to find something in dribbble that they find interesting and implement it
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    by _benj 4y ago

    Nice! I tried it the patient way and, with enough luck, lines actually clear when they are completed!
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I haven't spent enough time with dune to form an opinion (go and cargo are absolutely marvelous though) but a quick search[0] reveals that dune is not the only option. [0] < https://github.com/ocaml-community/awe
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    by _benj 4y ago

    such a good question! I don't think I've ever had a particularly strong guttural reaction to a language, but I'm definitively biased and either see things that I quite like or dislike in a new language I see. As I think about
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    Real World OCaml – 2nd Edition (2021)(dev.realworldocaml.org)

    186 points by _benj 4y ago|79 comments
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    Pharo – The Immersive Programming Experience(pharo.org)

    2 points by _benj 4y ago|0 comments
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    by _benj 4y ago

    for sure!
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    by _benj 4y ago

    I’m sorry you are struggling to get a job :( been there, it sucks!! There are two things I would tell you: 1. Skip the recruiters! In tech I’ve come across some amazing and helpful recruiters, but that is a tiny minority. I used to hear the