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by ativzzz 4y ago
Exactly - like the OP you replied to - Slope are trying to hire a Head of engineering for a salary that competent mid/senior level engineers should be easily getting. It's no tech industry, and the work is less fun
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Personally I haven't seen it, but if people want to do drugs to enhance their performance, why not? Paul Erdos did it [0] - it's not just tech workers. Coffee, which probably the majority of people in the U.S. are addicted to, is
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by ativzzz 4y ago
The way I look at is that each piece of software, lets call it a feature, has a non-zero operating cost associated with it. Maybe that's a team of engineers that build and maintain it, a team of marketers/salespeople who get it ou
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Luckily tech is one of the few fields where having the corresponding degree is not necessary and you can make a good life for yourself without following a traditional path to upper middle class (like law, medicine, finance etc) > go to a
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> What makes me nervous, though, is that we don't really understand why programmers are paid this well I understand why developers are paid this well. The marginal cost of software is (close enough to) zero [0]. This means that once
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As a web developer, you are primed to create the interfaces to these ML tools (or any tool really). The browser is the most widespread UI application that nearly every single consumer computer has access to. You can work on literally anythi
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Completely disagree about HN. Controversial topics that are thought out, well formed, and argued with good intent are generally good sources of discussion. Most of the time though, people arguing controversial topics phrase them so poorly o
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> Work is not a thing I do for money alone. I feel happy and fulfilled when I do it. It is fun! I really wish I could get into this mindset instead of dreading work. I find no fulfillment from work, in fact the most fulfilled i've f
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by ativzzz 4y ago
microservices start being useful when your monolith becomes too large for your engineering department to work on simultaneously. If you force good engineering practices and quality code reviews, you can scale this up to at least 100 devs. M
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haha but then I have to learn the entire .NET / windows ecosystem which is a huge jump considering i've only ever developed on mac/linux. I am using wsl now though and running circles won't matter because for most web ap
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most desktop GUIs nowadays are written in JS because they run in browser or if they are desktop apps it's done via electron
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as a rails dev, if I were to start a new project today I would still pick rails. It makes building web apps a breeze. The technology is mature, stable, active and still staying modern in terms of integration with modern JS you start running
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Yup and as we know we don't get paid based on the difficulty of the problem we are solving.
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by ativzzz 4y ago
I had a similar situation. I didn't get to a breaking point like you did - I quit my job as I was approaching it. I took 6 months off, focused on myself and therapy. I went down the ADHD route because I had the symptoms and tried medic
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I think any code that's posted in public should be considered free to use by anyone for anything and its corresponding license be ignored and invalid. If you want restrictions on how people use your code, don't post it publicly, o
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I imagine following the tech blogs of certain companies - you can read about dropbox's engine rewrite here - https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...
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> An easy way to increase the value and enjoyment of a conversation is to say a lot less and listen a lot more. I've found this often leads to people who you don't really want to listen to spend most of the time talking. This a
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The audience is the people who contribute to the art project and want to be part of the community. A community that serves itself for no other reason than to serve itself. Seems like a good time to me
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Never have I ever worked at a company where tor browser usage even shows up in our metrics (would it even show up in metrics? probably not), nor have we heard from anyone about using tor browser, so to us, those users simply don't exis
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This gets posted once a month and everyone who dislikes JS is like YEAA but the reality is these are great for simple websites / apps but once your app starts getting more complex all of these components will start to need to do more t
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or they're working in environments where people aren't trying to crush every bit of productivity they can
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> I usually take much more longer to known what to write in those damns forms "Why you want to work here?" usually takes me at least 20 minutes to write. I think this is only worth doing for companies you REALLY want to work at
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You won't ever need to do a major rewrite - the dynamic language web backends scale up to big levels (see shopify using rails for instance), and at that point your infrastructure will be challenging regardless of what language you are
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Creating a web SAAS product quick and cheap - rails / django/ JS eat Java's lunch in terms of speed of development and iteration - the amount of productivity a small team of 1-3 devs can have is insane for small companies
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I think full drug legalization should be the goal of every modern society. Not for the sake of the drugs themselves, but for what it signifies. A society that has full access to drugs without falling to addiction and self-destruction is a h
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> 80-90% is just showing up They key is, showing up consistently over time for years and years. That's the key, and that's the hard part > If you do it this weekend on just about any open source project, you'll official
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> I’d certainly be interested in knowing why Don't dwell on it - save your sanity and move on
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The reality is most of us do not have the skills, talent, drive or whichever other attributes needed to identify the next big thing or meaningfully contribute. > If you're a good engineer and can sell your work, contribute visibly t
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I shudder to think about what a formal specification of some of the full stack web projects I've developed would look like. They might take longer than the actual coding of it - especially because specifications change mid project as w
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I just flat out quit - no drinking, period. I think 6-8 months for me was enough to normalize and remove it as a habit and now I'm able to drink without making it unhealthy. Luckily I wasn't anywhere near alcoholic - just casual h

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