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by andrew_ 5y ago
I'd like to see HN shy away from posting twitter threads as news. There's almost always a hard link to the source material, and twitter threads are filled with emotional, truncated, nuance-lacking, trite clips that more often than
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by andrew_ 5y ago
damn. I've probably worked with 20 languages over the course of a career in as many years and I can't ever recall that kind of seething hatred for something as inanimate as a programming language. I'd suggest your rage is mis
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by andrew_ 5y ago
In the current company? Bad idea. They're not likely to ever value you like a fresh company would.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Fake it 'till you make it! Anecdotal, but every successful dev in my immediate circle did that at one point in their career to get over a hump or past a plateau.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I got a 28% raise by switching jobs this year. Also added supplemental income via my own LLC and taking on occasional short contract work (time management skills are key). Overall I'll increase my income by 40% when accounting for infl
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Oodles of anecdotes and hyperbole. As someone who moved from Ruby/Rails to Node, my happiness index has been steadily higher. Why is it that we get a rise out of bashing one ecosystem to favor another?
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Root logins are suffering some kind of "captcha outage." The buzz has just begun https://twitter.com/search?q=aws%20captcha&src=typed_query
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by andrew_ 5y ago
This is really the crux and it doesn't get as much attention as it should.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I don't understand how a targeted tax would help at all here.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I paste this every time the subject is raised: https://liberamanifesto.com/
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by andrew_ 5y ago
> Yet nothing is stopping people to bash us, for work we aren't paid for, for a feature we all dislike yet needed to keep due to backward compatibility concerns. Does log4j not utilize a versioning scheme that has the notion of &quo
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by andrew_ 5y ago
the complete inability for Twitter threads (and replies) to convey nuance should be enough to meet criteria for flagging.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Tangential, but still relevant; Once you decide on the cleanup for open sourcing, choose a path that's comfortable for YOU, the maintainer, and clearly define contributing rules/guidelines. Take breaks, and feel free to let the co
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by andrew_ 5y ago
We start our own companies after seeing 20+ years of dubious decision making and pointless middle management.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Every story that's come out since this mess started vidates the bad vibes I got from their recruiter on the first call, and my decision to walk away.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Side question: How happy are you with API Gateway's WebSocket service?
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by andrew_ 5y ago
This is also effecting Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic Container Registry. We're getting 500s via API for both services.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I resigned in August 2021 for a new position. Four other colleagues left in July before I split. "Evidence" may be limited to bubbles.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Ahead of public market debut, Better.com lays off 900 in 3 Minutes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29416101
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I want to register all of these as domain names.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
It's common for introspective insight to be achieved only through chemical means. This is why psilocybin is finally being researched as a potential natural approach to certain disorders.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
http://www.bash.org/?7717
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Get off of the internet. For an extended period of time. Invest in real-life relationships. Get into nature. Seek professional in-person psychological help, not help via the internet.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
We use Postgraphile heavily, it drives the entirety of our API. A few feature questions; Is there any plan to support, or has there been any conversation around: - custom directives that run custom code - custom routes on the server that do
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by andrew_ 5y ago
What I continue to find shocking is just how many people commenting on this post are lining up to accept another authoritarian measure for a very small amount of additional comfort of mind. Having just watched "No Time to Die," Ra
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by andrew_ 5y ago
> If you refuse to give blood or breath sample you automatically lose license. Please, add nuance when making such an assertion. It completely depends on the state you're in and which factors the state considers when refusing. For e
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by andrew_ 5y ago
I have high hopes for this, but they've been moving at snail's pace. They're going to need close to parity with CDK for it to be adopted. That's a heavy lift.
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by andrew_ 5y ago
Oh man, nostalgia! That ran on our first home PC, and it was where at the age of 12 I learned what a cookie was. The days!
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by andrew_ 5y ago
For me, this is one of those dodged-bullet moments. I was pursued by a recruiter there last July, and I'm damn grateful I bailed after getting bad vibes from their communication style. In Dec 2019 I was laid off two weeks before Christ

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