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721.
by blunte 6y ago
If something looks weird, and you know your company to usually be staffed by intelligent people, then you should first understand why the code is the way it is before you change it. This also would have been a good case for a 1 line comment
722.
by blunte 6y ago
The “why” is the important bit, so your tldr is not helpful.
723.
by blunte 6y ago
I very much agree. Simple, consistent, even boring is much less friction or cognitive load for the user. We have passed the “look what cool effect I can do in a browser”. Hopefully soon we will also pass through the control-your-car-entirel
724.
by blunte 6y ago
We do this all the time already when we write various interface services to access a common data store. Each service provides whatever interface is appropriate and performs any desired transformations. It's not clear to me what the re
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by blunte 6y ago
I have done and still do all my development on a Mac and deploy to Linux. I run 3-5 rails servers, redis, postgreql, mysql, jetbrains ides, slack, meet, spotify, vscode, and probably two or three other apps I forget now. I do all this on ei
726.
by blunte 6y ago
There is surely more to this "sale" than meets the eye, pardon the pun. Unless someone has billions and wants to just p*ss away money for laughs, there is no legitimate explanation for buying something like this for such a price.
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Remote work is here to stay – and it’s changing our lives(csmonitor.com)
1 points by blunte 6y ago|0 comments
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by blunte 6y ago
And to think, Java was a tough sell to companies at one time. I had to sneak it in (same way we snuck Linux in) by building some invisible infrastructure thing with it, having it run without fail for months, and then saying, "Oh hey,
729.
by blunte 6y ago
Wise (was Transferwise). Literally made my monthly alimony payments less painful and much cheaper compared to international bank wires. I'm talking about saving 200-300EUR per month on fees. (No I have no affiliation with them.) Sla
730.
by blunte 6y ago
5 years ago I would have agreed. Now, Google is heavily polluted with SEO garbage, junior-level blog posts churned out by what must be student assignments to "write a blog post about this week's programming assignment", and t
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by blunte 6y ago
In some areas, vaping is seen as something only the dregs of society would do. In other places, it's just seen as an alternative to smoking. But smoking itself is seen as a low class or high class activity as well depending on where
732.
by blunte 6y ago
From TFA (and making assumptions about the woman), I don't believe these were "deepfakes". It sounds like it was just the usual Photoshop kind of stuff. And in that regard, it's just another sad story about some people
733.
by blunte 6y ago
For the historical HN crowd, a MacBook Air less than $2000 is definitely entry level. My high end Dell XPS was $2600, and the M1 Air blows it away for half the price.
734.
by blunte 6y ago
Even the Aeron is uncomfortable after a while. I left Aeron chairs after 10 years and switched to standing. 15 years later, I feel so much better. Also, it’s now so much faster to come and go from my desk.
735.
by blunte 6y ago
This gives brutalism a more direct representation.
736.
by blunte 6y ago
But is it reasonable to call that its most essential form when that form is so anatomically wrong? In other words, if a chair so badly fits most humans, should it be called a chair? A sphere can be used as a chair, and it is even simpler o
737.
by blunte 6y ago
This essay really sums up the greater problem and impact of the modern rent-seeking economy. It applies to domain parking, ticket scalping, mass property buying for holiday/airbnb renting, etc. https://medium.com/swlh&
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UI Failures: Netflix(michaelteter.com)
2 points by blunte 6y ago|1 comments
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by blunte 6y ago
In the spirit of recent illustrations of UI failures, this shows a confusing Netflix UI which likely causes people to un-like shows they previously liked.
740.
by blunte 6y ago
"Hours in seat" provide diminishing returns, just like "lines of code produced" do. It has been a measured fact that productivity per hour curves in the negative direction after about 7 hours per day (in sum, not necessa
741.
by blunte 6y ago
This is the classic problem of people being allowed or enabled to do things they are not properly educated about - not a criticism, but an observation. This can be applied to anything: child rearing, writing, presenting, singing, dancing, p
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by blunte 6y ago
$200k base is not shabby at all, unless you live in SF or NYC. $200k is about 168k EUR, and that would give you a really nice life in Amsterdam (which is one of the more expensive EU cities). Assuming you like the character of the city, an
743.
by blunte 6y ago
Metrics are not an end, but they can be a start... and they are a necessary part of the feedback loop.
744.
by blunte 6y ago
One of my tasks as a young developer was to make a shell script faster. The systems engineers (who used this script to setup and configure large scale network management systems) were complaining that the "menu" took 60 seconds o
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by blunte 6y ago
Thanks to Brexit (well done...), Amsterdam is expected to be the new biggest trading center of Europe. https://www.ft.com/content/3dad4ef3-59e8-437e-8f63-f629a5b7d... I was already aware of at least two big trading fir
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by blunte 6y ago
Having lived most of my life in the US, and only the last 8 years in NL, I wouldn't move back to the US to an onsite office unless the pay were at least 3-4x higher. If I could work remotely from the mountains in Colorado again, I woul
747.
by blunte 6y ago
I guess this is worth remembering. There are a lot of lower paying dev jobs in the US, but they don't get much publicity :). Part of the problem is lack of awareness, and prior to more recently, lack of remote options. There are coun
748.
by blunte 6y ago
Life is pretty great here. The low salaries are a bit disappointing, but other aspects of life (including vacation time and work/life balance) is far superior. Sometimes the money is just not a good enough reason to leave. However, i
749.
by blunte 6y ago
I think the key here is "tech oriented" companies. If the product of the company is tech, then it's more possible for the devs to make a significant positive revenue impact. In those cases, if the numbers add up (600k dev ge
750.
by blunte 6y ago
I am rather shocked at some of the numbers from his salary survey. I have seen many mid and senior dev Booking positions listed in the recent few years in that typical 50-65k range. Likewise for Catawiki. Their listed salaries were signif

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