alex_lav

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by alex_lav 3y ago
Is this house the only place to live?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> In the general population, someone making 6 figures complaining about cost of living (particularly tech workers, since we are usually blamed for the problem) is frowned upon. This is one of the reasons why people generally associate wi
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This matches my experience. I've used Terraform, TerraGrunt, TF Cloud, CloudFormation and SAM in production and I'd say Terraform is by far the best in terms of functionality vs. frustration (with CloudFormation being by far the w
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by alex_lav 3y ago
An advertisement.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I know I'm playing the world's smallest violin and I will gather little sympathy since I am one of those tech workers with a big fat paycheck, but the fact that someone like me isn't thriving might be another symptom of
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Good.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
A website where users can connect with friends, peers, family etc and share content to eachother, either privately via DM or publicly via a feed. I wonder what they'll call it.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> I've been remote for 14 years, I love it, but I've worked with plenty of people who didn't and went back to an office. I've seen this level of reasonability probably less than 10 times when the remote vs. office deb
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by alex_lav 3y ago
The entire concept of capitalist "work" is in opposition to human thriving
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by alex_lav 3y ago
If you move the goalposts or are vague enough, anything can be true. Working from home is worse for the environment than abolishing capitalism, which is the driving force behind global warming. See? Conversation is useless if we ignore cont
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Did you note the portion of the comment I specifically quoted? Because nowhere does it discuss hot desks.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> on top of the worst way of working which is in-office. It's funny how both sides of this debate present their opinions as fact
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Yeah, people seem to want to nitpick that it's possible for a large, boring, stable company to have layoffs too, which is technically true, but it doesn't take a ton of logic or reasoning skills to conclude that companies that tur
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by alex_lav 3y ago
> Large, stable, boring companies lay people off as well. Yep! But if you're looking for a company that has a better chance at surviving (or thriving) through a downturn, picking a company that actually makes money is generally a be
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by alex_lav 3y ago
An old coworker was laid off 3 times in 2 years. He kinda just couldn't pick a winner. My advice to him (and probably to you if this is your position) is searching for large, stable, boring companies that employ software people. That&#
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Worth noting, the amount of people that believe they’re capable of getting into FAANG is not the same as the amount of people capable of getting into FAANG, which is also not the same as the people that actually get into FAANG. I wouldn’t b
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by alex_lav 3y ago
This has always been true. Most code is extremely ephemeral.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Great idea, unfortunate name.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Would really love some kind of pricing clarity. "Free Forever" with hard caps and "Custom" with negotiable caps doesn't really suit my needs, and I don't have any idea at all what to expect in terms of pricing
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I don't really care about the charging. A non google.com TLD asking for my google credentials is phishing.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
A normal sign in flow, that is not google.com (or a subdomain), or an oauth sign in screen, presenting as google, seemingly asking for my google creds? But is not google.com or affiliated. I'm just supposed to...trust it's google?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Interesting, TIL https://support.google.com/qwiklabs/answer/9210144?hl=en Seems super sketchy.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
The sign in page shows Google Cloud's logo, but is not Google's sign in page.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Is this a spoof? edit This definitely seems like phishing?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Because homelessness is a symptom of a whole bunch of different root causes, and treating symptoms without treating root causes can be a massive waste of time and money
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Some feedback on...what exactly? Is there a link that's supposed to be attached to this?
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by alex_lav 3y ago
An interesting exercise, but ends up in some of the worst java you'll ever see in your life. This would be a good thing to show people moving from language A to language B, as a reason to not just try and reuse language A's idioms
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by alex_lav 3y ago
I went overseas many years ago and came back with a positive TB test but no symptoms, aka latent TB. I was shocked at how seriously it was taken (I mean, rightfully so, still surprised). If I remember correctly it was a daily pill and a man
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Not directly what you asked, but I've hired two people as a result of HN's who's hiring/who wants to be hired posts.
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by alex_lav 3y ago
Yes, and someone pointed out that their new games aren’t of the same caliber as their old games, as in, their new games won’t be played in 15 years. My comment is that you didn’t list any new game as having the same staying power.

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