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by _benj 5y ago
I love that!
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by _benj 5y ago
I think intentionally writing shitty code is not a good advice, but it does help with taking us out of the rut of perfectionism and over-engineering stuff! For me I try to follow two principles: First, write boring code, and I mean boring,
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by _benj 5y ago
> When new employees start work on something, they want the back story. I've been working recently with a new hire and it was quite interesting to see how valuable the documentation that I wrote was for him to get up to speed. TBH I
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by _benj 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220110231147/https://www.washi...
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by _benj 5y ago
On a more serious note, that’s a really cool project! As it happens, I spent quite a bit of time last night learning about the qmk firmware and was looking around for a “keyboard development board”… Do you think that you’d aim to grow the f
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by _benj 5y ago
But, is it clicky enough? ;)
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by _benj 5y ago
There’s a ton of good advice but I’d like to add my two cents. Your boss also has a boss that (s)he is also trying to make happy to keep his job. Regarding design decisions, timelines and everything else, look at that from the business’ per
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by _benj 5y ago
really? to me it just looks like a small browser based on Qt...
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by _benj 5y ago
I think that we limit ourselves when the question is either/or. Personally I use JetBrains for work and for languages that I'm still learning (Ruby and RoR), vscode for almost anything web because their support for JS is unreal. I
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by _benj 5y ago
I've been enjoying a lot neeva, not affiliated at all, just a happy user :-) I think they are $4.95/mo or something? haven't payed a cent yet since there are a few discounts that they do to prompt you to learn how to use it (
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by _benj 5y ago
> …the risk that your boss might be a mentally ill person who does not like you. When the little sicko in charge is you, there are no legal repercussions for this sort of retaliation. Uff, that strikes close! I think that the the pursue
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by _benj 5y ago
I've used Buildroot in the past to make very specific linux build. It has a little bit of a learning curve but you end up with a linux that you control pretty much every aspect of it. https://buildroot.org/ If the goal
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by _benj 5y ago
As I was reading that book most of it was certainly “common” sense, which was most certainly not common! My take was kinda “well, being (or even just trying to be) a decent human being is a super power that I needed to be reminded of!”
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I guess it depends on the type of hackathon and project. Not to long ago I participated in a hackathon in which we make a super simple video game. Even though the majority of the work was making the game, the 2 hours used in making the scra
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by _benj 5y ago
> Implement twice; pick the better version. This! I like most of the ideas and it sounds like a fun exercise to try a few for 1-2 weeks, but I think that implementing something twice could yield so much value! In my role I prioritize cod
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by _benj 5y ago
It really depends on what you want to do next. I found myself in a similar stop about a year ago and I came to the realization that I wanted out of the startup frenzy, and thus I started looking for companies that where 1. established/
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by _benj 5y ago
For React, I agree with the complaints. The change from class components to functional components and the addition of hooks for we was a step backwards. As for vue, most of my experience is with vue 2, never really spent a lot of time with
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by _benj 5y ago
Glad to see you here Lee! > We're just supporting Rich and helping the project grow! I'll admit that I have a negative bias towards this... in spite of Basecamp+RoR, Mozilla+Rust, or all the great OSS HashiCorp makes, it's
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by _benj 5y ago
This is such great news! I've been vaguely aware of svelte for some time now but it wasn't until a few months ago that I started using it professionally and it is such a joy to use! I recently did an onboarding and explained why s
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by _benj 5y ago
Honestly, as a customer I love notion's and slack's "magic link" instead of using a password. I think the next step would be trying to hack/crack your solution ;) It'd be pretty interesting to see what you came
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That is def not a weird question. I've noticed that I also make a bunch of silly mistakes when my brain is tired, like, after a long day of meetings or other things that are affecting me. If this is consistent I take it as an early sig
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> Something in my brain seems to generate lots of complications to the tasks I am doing, and I lose enthusiasm and self-confidence. Uff, I feel this so deeply! I'm still struggling with this but I'm currently in working on a pr
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by _benj 5y ago
Just picked up the book and seems to be taking about me in specific! Thanks for sharing it :)
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by _benj 5y ago
this is why I love HN! Thanks for all the work you put in homebrew, I really appreciate it. Just upgraded to Monte Rey a few days ago and I was kind of fearful that some of the things that I needed where not going to work... nop, every sing
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by _benj 5y ago
Fedora is my goto distro when I need to get stuff done. I've used it professionally and it has worked just fine with all the proprietary software I needed (jetbrains, zoom, slack, spotify, etc...) Although Arch has a special place in m
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by _benj 5y ago
This sounds a lot like my first few jobs too! My resume was more along the lines of “things I’m aware exist and I could learn if needed” than what I actually had experience with! But my first two roles where not tech companies thus the hiri
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by _benj 5y ago
> If you were a child with a Nintendo DS like myself Well, apparently I'm officially old ;) WOW, think about my mom or wife's grandma, and even though they are very unlikely to download a Mario Kart game, they are more suscepti
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by _benj 5y ago
disclamer: work for carvana... the cool things is that fueled by all this growth, in spite of carvana being a large-ish company there's still so much tech innovation and greenfield projects in this space which makes it quite fun to be
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Still looking for that lobste.rs invite? Email on profile :)
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As others, comments determine for me if the article is worth my time. (Thanks to all that read the articles in the first place!) But at the same time, I've gotten so much value out of the comments, a lot more than the actual articles,

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