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by _rwo 11mo ago
> And finally you have a brilliant idea of hiring a second $150k/year dev ops admin (...) in my experience you always need a "Devops team" to operate all that cloud stuff; so to paraphrase - suddenly you're spending $
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by _rwo 2y ago
> And it is hard to spot the mistakes because they can be quite subtle aw yeah; recently I spent half a day pulling my hair debugging some cursor-generated frontend code just to find out the issue was buried in some... obscure experiment
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by _rwo 2y ago
don't bother; this company is in constant hiring mode; you can check previous "who is hiring" threads to confirm; random example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40228613
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by _rwo 2y ago
LLMs are great for self-contained boring tasks; recently I have started to refactor ruby tests with a simple prompt (getting rid of various rspec syntax in favor of more explicit notation at cost of code duplication - so kinda like unminify
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by _rwo 2y ago
Typesense has been a godsend; amazing piece of tech and on top of that fairly easy to operate even in HA mode; if you can fit your dataset in memory I really recommend giving it a try
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by _rwo 2y ago
> Bandwidth is not as expensive as people think Now we only need to explain that to AWS folks
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by _rwo 2y ago
> besides "it's really quick" I can see the appeal, as the demo looks really smooth; then again, I'm a terrible slow developer, so personally I find saving few ms here and there irrelevant to my daily workflow
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by _rwo 2y ago
I second that - similar experience; and it was like two years ago; seems they are in constant hiring mode without need to hire anyone, I will never that - why waste time?
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by _rwo 3y ago
> If you haven't tried yet, there's Hacknet that's similar to Uplink albeit a bit simpler, but still fun Perfect timing as it's on sale on gog :) thanks for the suggestion, will ride that nostalgia wave and check out
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by _rwo 3y ago
TIL you can create kanban boards in Obsidian :mindblown: thanks!
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by _rwo 3y ago
> You shouldn't expect the same productivity Hmm, in my experience rarely anyone looks at a real productivity; you can thread water/even waste everyone else's time, but if you do it 5 days a week it's fine at _current
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by _rwo 3y ago
> (...) and going back to plain old virtual servers Some of us never left ;)
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by _rwo 3y ago
While applying for new job once I made a self-unpacking CV in ruby using this trick; whole binary content was compressed with zlib, I also added some blank padding to get some 'nice' numbers, so I could stuff like DATA.seek(1337 *