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by borplk 8y ago
self-hosting doesn't imply automatic and better uptime than the hosted version. most people are much better off letting dedicated teams of tens of people take care of the hosted version for them.
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by borplk 8y ago
> low-effort criticism It's a clear blunt suggestion to get out of their bubble. No one outside Google would hear that explanation and say "Yeah totally makes sense one of them is an enterprise file share and the other a docume
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by borplk 8y ago
This will be extremely confusing for anyone.
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by borplk 8y ago
Spent a ton of time and still decided to stick to names that differ by a single "r vs l" letter. Wow. Don't mean to be rude but go for a walk outside and speak to 3 people outside the bubble.
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by borplk 8y ago
Many hackers have a dismissive attitude towards design. It gets worse when they seem to be proud of it too. Just checkout any GNU project or other "hardcore hacker" projects like OpenBSD. You can spot their design feel from a thou
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by borplk 8y ago
The incentives are screwed. Companies chew up young energetic employees and spit them out when they get used up and burned out. With their short term and selfish thinking the burned out employee is someone else's problem.
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by borplk 8y ago
> sense of absurdity. nailed it
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by borplk 8y ago
Checkout envoyproxy.io
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by borplk 8y ago
One of the worst articles I have ever seen.
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by borplk 8y ago
Thank you for that link.
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Ask HN: What's it like working for typical consulting companies?
7 points by borplk 8y ago|6 comments
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by borplk 8y ago
The shortage is a myth and corporate propaganda. They have collectively adopted a strategy of constant moaning because they always want more and better candidates for lower prices.
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by borplk 8y ago
Spot on.
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by borplk 8y ago
I agree with pretty much everything you say but the reality for the majority of people is they can't afford to "just walk away" when those things are so widespread. It was in another recent thread someone was insisting you sh
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by borplk 8y ago
I don't have all the answers but I'll just say keep it dead simple and reliable. The last thing you want is an unreliable emergency solution.
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by borplk 8y ago
Where do you find local clients?
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by borplk 8y ago
It's like those "pass the ball" games.
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by borplk 8y ago
Call me when the RAM on laptops and ultrabooks default to a baseline of 16GB and upgrade up to 64GB. We've been stuck with 4-8-16GB for wayyyy too long.
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by borplk 8y ago
Society imposes a very heavy fine for the breakup of a marriage and it becomes a huge gamble. Either it will work out and you'll be happy and you'll recommend it to everyone. Or it will destroy your life. If marriage was "che
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by borplk 8y ago
That's a bit of an outdated meme. There are lots of micro libraries because there's zero barrier to putting something on github and NPM, and there's a huge population of people wanting to practice and demonstrate their progra
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by borplk 8y ago
> I would tell your employer that you're suffering from extreme burnout both personally and professionally as you've described, ideally with HR involved as @exolymph suggested. This is IMHO naive and bad advice in the majority
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by borplk 8y ago
Do NOT tell your employer specifics. Tell them something generic like you are tired and need a good break to refresh. Don't try to justify or explain details. Ignore the fire, there will always be fires, the company needs to learn to c
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by borplk 8y ago
Hard to tell without knowing more. However generally NO! It's similar to accepting a pay reduction. You accept more responsibilities for no additional expense to the company. Rewarding them for bad behaviour. It also signals a lack of
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by borplk 8y ago
It's seen as a relatively easy way to make money (if you make it work, hard to get good traffic without a community, etc). It's a web page with a form and they charge from $99 to $399 per submission.
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by borplk 8y ago
I get it. But what you are describing is quite optimistic/idealistic. Most companies will say "no thanks" and move on to the next candidate in their list. There are much smaller things that companies treat as deal breakers, l
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by borplk 8y ago
> Whatever my next job is, it has to give private offices, end of story. Given how incredibly rare private offices seem to be these days I can't imagine what kind of leverage you must have to be able to stick to such a requirement.
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by borplk 8y ago
I spent a lot of time looking at sites like betalist and producthunt in hopes of finding some interesting projects. But they all seem so forced and artificial and hype marketing garbage. Reading online discussions I get the impression that
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by borplk 8y ago
Cinnamon hands down has the best multi-monitor support out of any other non-tiling desktop I have tried.
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by borplk 8y ago
No comments. They were cool back in early 2000s when Web 2.0 was hip and the internet was more friendly and innocent. There was no Twitter and social networks were limited. Having comments was viewed as giving others a voice who would other
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by borplk 8y ago
The main reason for this is that most people/recruiters/companies are too lazy and uncaring and incompetent to identify the better candidates without relying on buzzwords. Chasing buzzwords is the path of least resistance. It&#x27

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