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by bartread 4y ago
This reads like a very theoretical perspective. In 23 years of software development I've picked up or handed over, both solely or as part of teams (mainly the latter), dozens of projects across seven companies. Some of these were proje
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by bartread 4y ago
Nitpick, but I think you mean Fiverr rather than Fiver. There's also: - PeoplePerHour.co.uk (UK based, not sure of international presence) - Freelancer.com - Toptal (but I think they have some sort of approval process that may be a b
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by bartread 4y ago
Oh, it's early for me too, but I can at least function well, and without becoming incredibly short tempered and frustrated, on a 0000 - 0800 sleep pattern. Left to my own devices, and with no alarm clock, I tend to actually wake up at
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by bartread 4y ago
Not when I've got in after 1900 I can't.
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by bartread 4y ago
I'm in my 40s. Same. This morning I had to get up at 0615 for the second morning in succession due to a couple of appointments. This is absolutely not normal for me and it's completely painful. Obviously sometimes it has to happen
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by bartread 4y ago
This is, no question, absolutely terrible but the comments section on the post is a little wild: "Asking for references after clearing interview was also Dik move tbh" (sic) Is this a straight troll? Because if it's not, stop
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by bartread 4y ago
> Obviously that points to larger problems though. Does it, though? Given that the readership of this site is ostensibly hackers and hustlers, including plenty of people with side-businesses from which they are at least trying to earn mo
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by bartread 4y ago
I have, at two different companies, in fact, and 1000-line chubbers at a couple of others. The 5000 line functions weren't great, but they weren't that bad because the code was pretty straightforward, doing one thing after anoth
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by bartread 4y ago
For myself and my company, I'd agree but, let's be honest: we have no idea about this person's use case, culture or geographical location so we shouldn't make judgements.
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by bartread 4y ago
> others will copy those bad habits into enterprise software. Who cares? You can't martyr yourself to other peoples' ignorance. Right tool or technique, right place, right time: people bear their own responsibility for learning
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by bartread 4y ago
I like it. Never noticed a forum with a wall of shame before even though I lurked on a few old skool car forums in the mid-2000s. I do remember a heck of a scrap occurring sometime 2005/6 between 300zx.co.uk and a couple of the other
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by bartread 4y ago
I'd like to apologise for the overly aggressive tone of this comment: I was drunk when I posted it. I have long since learned that drunk posting is a bad idea and yet, sometimes, I still am unable to resist that temptation. Anyway, thi
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by bartread 4y ago
I agree with you, although I'd prefer to see (at least) a three way duke out between Intel, AMD, and ARM. I really don't think living in a world where there's (basically) only one CPU architecture and instruction set is going
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by bartread 4y ago
> but the fact that this was developed under capitalism I think you're ascribing something to a particular ideology that's actually much more aligned with the fundamentals of the human condition. We've tried various politi
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by bartread 4y ago
> Can we please stop with this "not aligned with human interests" stuff? It's a computer that's mimicking what it's read. That's it. That's like saying a stapler "isn't aligned with human inte
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by bartread 4y ago
Yes, it's worked really well for them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%932011_Toyota_vehic... . I worked for a company that swallowed the (so-called) Toyota schtick hook, line, and sinker. About 14 years a
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by bartread 4y ago
How are the first two going?
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by bartread 4y ago
I feel that. It wasn't getting laid off but some time ago I experienced a set of let's call them "professional betrayals" that, from a certain perspective, I've never really recovered from (because I'm no longe
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by bartread 4y ago
I was tempted to feel bad for Hertz but then, on the flipside, what kind of deranged numbskull do you have to be to hire a bloody management consultancy [0] to build you a website and mobile app? [0] Yes, yes, I know Accenture have develo
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by bartread 4y ago
Sure, except that's not actually the case at all. I don't know if dang is the only HN moderator, but even if he's not I've never seen any evidence of anyone in that role here just capriciously remove or lock discussions
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by bartread 4y ago
> I feel like I have to jump so many hoops and spend so much mental bandwidth just to get the permission to code. This comment speaks to me very deeply. It isn't like this where I work now, but I've worked a couple of larger en
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by bartread 4y ago
> Git is the most overly complicated software ever for its purpose Sorry, but I call bullshit on this. Git has a lot of features. Most people probably don't use or need most of those features. Maybe it's like Microsoft Word, wh
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by bartread 4y ago
Or terrible at writing emails, or configuring high volume sends, so that they don't look spammy. I work for a market research company. Most of our projects gain survey responses via market research panels - or panel marketplaces - so w
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by bartread 4y ago
Yep, same. Incredibly irritating way of handling the problem. Not at all helpful.
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> #4) Hacking is Cool As an old I strongly object to the corruption of the terms "hacking" and "hacker" in the diatribe following this heading. I'm a fan of hacker culture, in the old sense, and encourage our dev
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> I never want to use that airline again, and would happily chargeback. The problem with that idea is that sometimes Airline X is the only game in town for certain destinations. I have an Airline X that screwed my then girlfriend now fia
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by bartread 4y ago
> Game studios are notoriously subpar when you start comparing them to FAANG, big enterprise sotware development shops, etc. I don't think this has changed substantially. It's supply and demand: lots of people want to build gam
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The responsibility companies have towards people are generally defined in (i) the contract of employment, (ii) company policies, and (iii) legislation within the relevant jurisdiction. Outside of anything defined in these areas a company do
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by bartread 4y ago
Blind dates, and this is nothing to do with physical attractiveness, have in my experience been a disillusioning opportunity to find out how little my friends actually know me, to the point where I started refusing to go on them any more ar
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by bartread 4y ago
I had a Saab 93 estate (station wagon, for the benefit of non-UK residents) with this feature and loved it. I'd often use it and then also dial the brightness all the way down. Really helped to reduce visual fatigue when driving at nig

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