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by berkes 3y ago
I've done a few Architecture sessions with teams. It's always valuable. If anything, you'll learn that people in the team have very different ideas about the current and the ideal architecture. Making that explicit, alone,
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by berkes 3y ago
I too wrote Ruby fulltime and professionally. For over a decade. The sheer amount of code I wrote, just to protect against nil-errors is staggering. Every third function or method had guard clauses and/or tests. Just to ensure that the
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by berkes 3y ago
The web is also rather complicated to set up and run. A simple binary that one builds or downloads and runs is often far simpler than setting up VPSes, SSL, and so forth. And typically "web" projects are ran on complex setups wher
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by berkes 3y ago
The author gave some context for readers not familiar with slack. And interviewed another former employee (albeit with minimal effort) to add another validation point.
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by berkes 3y ago
A thousand dollars a month pays for quite some freelance gigs though. The Upwork/fiverrr economy is brutal. Also, go ask a freelance writer how much they make. Or the girl in your coffeeshop or the guy behind the bar. There are many jo
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by berkes 3y ago
Even if that's a mere 0.1% willing to pay a dollar per year, that's still enough to pay a few freelancers
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by berkes 3y ago
I truly hope we will. But the more I learn about it, the more I get convinced "we" (human civilization) won't make it through. It doesn't seem like "a hump" but more like a fundamental law of nature: exponentia
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by berkes 3y ago
Not intentional. But thanks for pointing to it. Gives me a lot of new reading material!
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by berkes 3y ago
A threat to what? Because it certainly is a threat to economic growth. And also a threat to "national" safety if you decline, but your neighbor grows. But it's undeniable that, on global, and millennial scale, exponential gro
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by berkes 3y ago
That's easy: brains so smart that it eliminates all natural enemies causing an exponential population explosion. But not smart enough to overcome the challenges such an explosion must overcome It's easy because it's exactly w
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by berkes 3y ago
I had nearly the exact setup. But I never fully understood it. And despite tweaks, it kept loosing some history entries. Not a huge problem, until it was :) I have far more confidence in atuin handling race-conditions and upserts than in my
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by berkes 3y ago
I love how it looks and I love some of the fancy features. But above all, it's a solution to two real problems I had. I work in several terminals. Sometimes tabs or Windows in my emulator, sometimes screen or tmux. And all those sessio
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by berkes 3y ago
> Due in large part to C3's positive influence, Germany is at the forefront of privacy issues and legislation That's the entirely wrong cause and effect. The obvious root cause are a world war and the DDR.
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But now that you "do know better", what's holding you from signing up?
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by berkes 3y ago
> Leave the rack in better shape than when you found it. That's a metaphor for life. And applicable to many areas. E.g. the famous book "refactoring" by Martin Fowler hinges on this idea. Where we refactor a little bit, ev
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by berkes 3y ago
I do freelance gigs. And I charge what's "enough" for me, so price may play a role. And so I have several gigs a year. I'm on my third for 2024. I give talks on meetups and conferences, so my insights are seen. I prefer
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by berkes 3y ago
What is that?
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by berkes 3y ago
All of them in the last decade. But I guess we misunderstand each-other. None of them cared that I knew "a lot of stuff that isn't appropriate here". For example, a recent gig, hired me because I'm not just another Ra
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by berkes 3y ago
One reason why people hire me, is for my actual, production, experience in loads of stacks and architectures. Actual, production experience, is, IMO, a requirement to make decisions. No-one will make a good decision to ditch or embrace, say
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by berkes 3y ago
No. And if anything, WordPress did contribute to the current state. The article presents WordPress as a solution. The few good WP devs and WP hosts are hard to find and expensive (rightly so). They sit amongst a sea of cheap labor, terrible
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by berkes 3y ago
I don't understand. A collect call (in The Netherlands) would just move the costs of the call to the reciever. Why is it beneficial to call an answering machine and have its owners pay for it?
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by berkes 3y ago
I don't know enough about prettier. But in general linters (which have overlap with formatters but aren't the same) have a lot of issues that fall in the "this is not my preference. It must therefore be changed" category
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Why would it not be?
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I like that. What I also do, is ensure test coverage is over 100%¹ for important parts. Important is designated through churn (if a file or class os changed on every second commit, it must be important) and through domain knowledge (buildin
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by berkes 3y ago
My point was that Airbus has proven to be able to break into an established, near monopolized market through innovation.
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Yes, I do. But pension funds invest very different from Jane and Joe for their retirement. To answer equally condescending: I presume you realize that?
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No. That's what happens when there's no social system for pensions. In the US everyone and his dog has to "invest" in the stock market for their older days. In Europe this is happening more and more too, but there's
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by berkes 3y ago
Yeah. Airbus has proven to be unable to compete and innovate itself into an established market. /S
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I've been doing Ruby for some 15 years now and the major thing that puts me off is the community's love for implicitness. This is another case: we had a way that requires a programmer to explicitly define what she is forwarding an
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Obviously not. There are tons of large companies, many of which are often misread as American, because they are listed on the Nasdaq or another US exchange. Many EU companies have far higher revenues than their US counterparts (Airbus, Volk

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