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by austinthetaco 7mo ago
I think this is a fundamentally flawed perspective on the role and experience of a senior. It's a managers role to coordinate junior engineers. The difference between junior and senior is knowing where and when to do what at an increas
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by austinthetaco 8mo ago
It's all contextual. Sometimes, particularly when it comes to modern frontends, you have inescapable boilerplate and lines of code to write. Thats where it saves time. Another example is scaffolding out unit tests for series of service
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by austinthetaco 8mo ago
I believe the "look at all the lines of code" argument for LLMs is not a way to showcase intelligence, but more-so a way to showcase time saved. Under the guise that the output is the/a correct solution, it's a way to sa
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by austinthetaco 8mo ago
Outside of being informative in a really fun way (I learned far more in a couple minutes than I thought I would), that website is stunning. I've been a web dev for over 10 years and I'm still baffled at how people make sites like
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by austinthetaco 9mo ago
Does that include not using AWS or anyone that is a host interface to AWS? Does that include social media like hacker news or instagram? I have no stakes here (I'm an American who doesn't run a tech business) but it seems like it
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by austinthetaco 3y ago
NodeJS is one of the most popular API servers out there. Express is wildly popular, more popular than ASP.net laravel according to the professional developer survey https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-tec
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by austinthetaco 3y ago
no. NodeJS is different than NPM (which is often used to install react/vue). NodeJS is the backend technology
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by austinthetaco 3y ago
because many people wouldn't use the product or you would have to maintain multiple codebases for the various operating systems and devices (including mobile).
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by austinthetaco 3y ago
according to the latest stackoverflow developer survey, NodeJS is extremely common and used quite a bit more than things like ASP.net ( https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#most-popular-technolog... )
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by austinthetaco 3y ago
I would think you have something else wrong with the design. I've worked on some pretty complex and large react apps that worked flawlessly on some low-end mobile browsers. Maybe you're accidentally duplicating a LOT of dom nodes?
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by austinthetaco 4y ago
Wouldn't it be the opposite to get slow mo? shoot in 30 but playback at 24?
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by austinthetaco 4y ago
I'm unfortunately able to find it, but I was pretty sure a lot of the restrictions around doing business in the EU require a certain $ amount transacted or web traffic. Citation definitely needed but that would make sense, as it's
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by austinthetaco 4y ago
You seem to be discussing individuality in style choice, while totally ignoring capacity for individuality within the style that is en vogue. Brutalist/minimalist logos with modern san serif fonts don't leave much room to explore
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by austinthetaco 4y ago
This is pretty adjacent to some of the stuff I've been thinking about as of recent. Maybe I'll give religion a try.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
I've dipped my toes into Blender, Cinema4d, and Unreal. At this point in the game what's the use for blender moving forward besides modeling? Seems like the real-time lighting in the latest UE (lumen) along with their Nanite syste
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
Lucas Pope is for sure a solo dev. He wrote a custom shader for Obra Dinn while he was also writing the storyline. It's a pretty incredible feat.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
I don't see myself ever buying one until you figure that out. I'm willing to bet you even take video calls in the making of this headset talking with different people. It's such a crucial piece in this remote work world.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
Looks like a very interesting prospect for a laptop replacement. One small question I haven't seen answered here is if you can plug in an external display, or how you plan to handle web conferences. Most orgs I've worked for like
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
I specialize in working with startups and small development teams getting their tech stack up and running or fixing growing pains. I must have worked with hundreds of teams at this point, and not once has it been standard fair. You are MASS
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
Something that gets me is how to even get started down the path of being your own boss. The insane networking required to keep up a contract queue is a lot. I'd love to setup an ecommerce business or side business, but there is so much
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
Your circle of friends who code is either small or young. This site was foundationally mostly coders for a very very long time. Often times technical articles and codebases would pop up and large discussions had. Sad to see that's the
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
and in this instance the slides on the website are also not the full informational load, the docs are.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
Analyzing usability metrics is not in the purview of a developer typically, especially not for random tech tools.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
in what way is the library ecosystem more robust? if anything library use is down due to centralization around specific frameworks and tool chains.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
it taking up more of an app's code doesn't mean that it suddenly has a need for typing. but even then, that assertion is incorrect, javascript has been making up a large majority of the codebase for quite some time now. Nodejs is
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
I really feel the same about javascript with typescript. It feels a heck of a lot like new grads or old c#/java devs trying to keep up with the times by switching to javascript, but then resisting the code structure and loose typings.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
no, it's not on them, it's on you for choosing to take money out of their pocket. They have chosen the monetization revenues that they are comfortable with, circumventing the way people make money while watching their content is h
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
that is one horrific way to guarantee the content creators you enjoy don't get money.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
No one is censoring thoughts and any conversations that are snooped on are ones you allow to be snooped on by using a free service.
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by austinthetaco 5y ago
That makes me wonder why you choose to stop by HN. Surely there are a large number of other tech-based feeds that would suit you better.

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