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by austincheney 5y ago
> I have a laptop with Hardware will never solve for poorly written software by people who don't know what they are doing. This isn't a technology failure. It's a leadership failure.
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by austincheney 5y ago
I work at a major bank and their anti-values are behaviors that tarnish their reputation. Examples of reputation damaging actions are regulatory investigations, fraud, illegal financial activity (even if unintentional or unknown to the ban
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by austincheney 5y ago
I haven't seen that anywhere I have worked. Normally this is a form of double speak. Developers claim to "focus on the product" but typically the only focus is upon the developers' core strengths first and only then
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by austincheney 5y ago
As a JavaScript developer looking at startups a few months ago I noticed the hiring pains were largely self-inflicted. The primary problem is that nobody knows what quality looks like. As a result everything is extremely beginner, based on
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by austincheney 5y ago
1. Dedicated curation. Part of what makes the NodeJS project so successful is the formal curation applied to its documentation. 2. Writing takes practice. Ignoring this due to any bias is a case for institutionalizing ignorance. At my curre
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by austincheney 5y ago
I don’t worry about design. The aesthetics I care about are consistency, organization of content, and understandability. I hate writing about past and current projects in the corporate world where it feels like you own three lines of code i
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by austincheney 5y ago
My personal recommendation is to do some self reflection on what things are most important to you when it comes to spinning up a new project and build your own kit. This is your tool bag as a developer. I have seen a lot of people try this
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by austincheney 5y ago
I wrote my own build tool many years ago and rarely extend it with new build tasks. The core tool hasn’t changed much in the 5+ years I have been using it, so why bother with something like gulp?
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by austincheney 5y ago
React is the hotness of the moment. If you want to maximize career mobility, salary, and immaturity all at the same time React is for you.
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by austincheney 5y ago
I have written many such comments on HN myself and seen many such comments from others. The motivation is generally universal. Software is an immature industry with many beginner experts that believe themselves to be experts but cry about h
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by austincheney 5y ago
Looking at many job posts senior means capable of using React and capable of talking about, but not necessarily using, TypeScript. When senior sounds like faster junior I really have trouble finding what actually differentiates a senior f
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by austincheney 5y ago
I am trying to solve for decentralization using file systems cross-OS as the primary design target. I chose the file system because it has a lot of complexity built in. If I can nail this I can decentralize anything. I am passionate about
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by austincheney 5y ago
If it takes seconds to execute more features you are doing it extremely wrong.
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by austincheney 5y ago
> Of course we do. Apparently not. A few seconds is a really big deal, but that is just download time while you are also clearly not accounting for execution time. Caching code will not save on execution time.
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by austincheney 5y ago
> When webapp logic happens on the client side, that results in slow applications (n.b. for normal users on low-end hardware, not developers on high-end hardware) due to CPU costs. Its not CPU. Its bad software written by people who are
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by austincheney 5y ago
I have never understood Twitter as a product. The idea of following people seems bizarre to me. If I wanted to follow some product or organization I would subscribe to an email, mailer, RSS, or something of the sort specific to the thin
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by austincheney 5y ago
Sounds like job interviews with some startups.
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by austincheney 5y ago
Laundering is any process to legitimize illicit income. It does not matter who owns the coins or other assets in question. What matters is if the coins represent any vehicle of fund transfer that originate from any form of criminal enterpri
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by austincheney 5y ago
> Regardless, I don't really care You do care or you wouldn't be arguing with me and sounding emotional.
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by austincheney 5y ago
There is risk in job swapping. If you enjoy chasing trends, as in an expert beginner, that may be the way to go. If you want to build products or become any kind of actual expert your career will stagnate.
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by austincheney 5y ago
The problem isn’t Reacts API. It’s the absurd extreme declarative beginner mindset and code style you will be evaluated against. If you have any real experience without React you have to really lie about who you are.
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by austincheney 5y ago
Why React at all? Is JavaScript really that horrific or does nobody know what they are doing? I suspect the goal is to widen candidate availability to the maximum, cast the widest net. I find this odd because compensation is now absurd comp
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by austincheney 5y ago
> It's not. Especially when The only distinction that matters in what you are arguing is level of education. Again, this is about a very basic command of the written word and at the same the subject here is academic research. Your
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It goes to intent, which is as important as the methodology. Intent is important enough that it is the second step in the scientific process. I can understand why this might be over someone's head, but it really is freshman level com
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Perhaps, but that isn't the argument this paper is making.
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by austincheney 5y ago
> Interesting language analysis, but I disagree with the conclusion. Authors merely stating "conclude" or "determine" instead "believe" or "feel" doesn't prove they actually were any more or l
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I see this most directly occur on HN in discussions about housing prices. People feel threatened when challenged by facts, data, or the lack thereof.
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At my current job when I was first hired a coworker strongly recommended an open source application not knowing I wrote it. In this case there was no money involved with that open source personal application. I would say your scenario is ab
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Program in almost any popular language and compile to WASM. WASM is the new Flash.
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by austincheney 5y ago
I keep joking to my wife that I will be in Ukraine this time next year. That makes her frown, but maybe caviar will be cheaper there.

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