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by baron816 6y ago
What reasons would you disable JS other than to block ads and tracking? If it’s just those things, why would the developers want to accommodate those people? That would result in lost revenue.
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by baron816 6y ago
React has been around for 7 years. ES2015 has been around for 5 years. React has become the de facto lingua franca for front end development. Could you imagine some CTO or technical lead saying, "We're not going to use React becau
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by baron816 6y ago
I was going by top national universities. You think they’re smart enough to go by top engineering schools?
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by baron816 6y ago
> STEM (technical) degree from top 15 unis in the US Don’t bother applying if you went to Cornell, Rice, UCLA, Berkeley, Georgetown, CMU, Georgia Tech, UWA, etc.
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Thinking back to my college liberal arts classes, I think this would’ve been great. I wish my professors would’ve required going back and revising papers—making them more of an iterative process.
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by baron816 6y ago
Don’t forget that it’s not just “programmers” that are building a product. You’d need designers and product managers in the mix too, and you’re probably not going to offshore those people to Vietnam or Ukraine. It’s pretty hard to have thos
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That's the luddite take. You probably shouldn't take up a career in technology if you're not willing to continually learn new things to keep up with advancements.
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Another point I'd like to suggest: The motivations of the individual, the team, and the company should all aligned. Individuals should be happy to help other team members, or members of other teams. Teams should be willing to give up u
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by baron816 6y ago
Dysfunctional teams == 10X engineers: https://twitter.com/skirani/status/1149302828420067328?lang=...
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Imagine being the only employee on the team who wants to work in the office. That could be a problem. You’re young, maybe just out of college, and moving to a city hoping to form new connections with people. Yet, everyone’s now working from
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> software developers need almost superhuman focus to manage the complexity of their tasks. Manic attention to detail is a must; slovenliness is verboten. Attaining this level of concentration requires a state of mind called being ‘in th
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by baron816 6y ago
I read Range by David Epstein a few months ago. He makes the case that you shouldn't try to have a "5 year plan." You should just be prepared to adapt to whatever opportunities/challenges come your way, or allow yourse
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Goddamn British people. Why can’t they just speak English.
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My friends and coworkers have been playing a White Elephant game with movie titles—everyone puts in a movie title, we exchange them with White Elephant rules, then you have to go watch the movie you end up with. You end up with a movie you
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by baron816 6y ago
If society decides everyone should have a preset minimum standard of living, the burden of meeting that minimum should fall on all of society, not just the handful of firms who deliver a valuable service that requires providing employment t
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The middleman is providing value, is it not? In the case of the food ordering app (let’s say you’re picking up, not getting delivery), they’re increasing discovery for the restaurant, simplifying payment and the ordering experience, organiz
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How about a self riding horse for RDR?
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by baron816 6y ago
This is a pretty awful, clickbaity title. The implication is that remote work is bad for low-income earners, but that’s not the case. Inequality isn’t bad by itself. If some people are doing better without others being impacted, how could
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by baron816 6y ago
The first big project I had as a professional SWE was to rebuild a checkout page to use React. Seems like overkill for a single checkout page to be its own React app? It wasn’t. There was a lot of edge cases. It needed to handle different c
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by baron816 6y ago
You want to do the right thing, and that’s commendable, but you have to recognize that you may not have enough information, particularly as a virtual outsider, to force your own management decisions in this case. It may seem like Amazon is
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by baron816 6y ago
What a lot of these types of articles seems to miss out on (other than just being out of date, not including equity, flexibility on CoL) is upside potential. Senior engineers should be making $250-450K including equity in the Bay Area. As l
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by baron816 6y ago
I’m curious to the degree culture plays in hiring practices for SWEs in different countries. It’s not uncommon at all for tech companies in the US to hire engineers without a software engineering background or a college degree (I know an en
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by baron816 6y ago
If I were to start a company right now, it would be a restaurant. Not joking there. The whole industry is begging to shaken up. People are always going to need to eat, but I'd argue that the avenues they have to get food on the table a
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by baron816 7y ago
I agree. Hiring is expensive. Why would you decide to revoke an offer after learning of a minor crime that's not relevant and doesn't expose you to any risk?
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by baron816 7y ago
Oh, indeed. Well, the phrasing still easily leads to confusion as it could be interpreted as falling to $22 million (which is way too little), rather than falling by a range of $17-22 million. Would've been better as "revenue to
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by baron816 7y ago
> revenue to nosedive by $17 million to $22 million in the quarter. It's interesting how often news articles get millions and billions mixed up. I feel like I see it all of the time. Apologies for the digression.
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by baron816 7y ago
> Manually managing your dependency graph and memoizing in all the right places I wouldn't say it's harder, but it's certainly not simple. There are a handful of mistakes that I see repeated, but if you get over those hurd
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Ask HN: What charities have you donated to for those affected by Covid and why?
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> My son in college...could easily take care of one before it expired. Hell, we could too. I'm calling bullshit. Went through this in college. There's 165 12oz beers in a standard keg. If you don't refrigerate it (which yo
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by baron816 7y ago
> I've seen a-million-and-one junior developers screw up for-loops, too, with overly complex code that's hard to understand and debug. Everything can be abused. I see people doing side effects in their mapper callbacks, deeply

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