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by borplk 8y ago
Wow. This is so well written and succinct. I love HN for these comments.
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by borplk 8y ago
> Maintain a metaphorical "strategic popcorn reserve". Did you just come up with that? It's absolute gold.
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by borplk 8y ago
Too many weak points of failure on that setup for an alerting system.
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by borplk 8y ago
I don't get easily excited so if I were to set the bar there I would struggle a lot with finding jobs.
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by borplk 8y ago
If you are indie avoid it until you have 100 users and some revenue. The last thing you want is to be fiddling with k8s when you have 3 whole users and $0 revenue. Unless your niche strongly requires fancy architecture start with a $5 VPS a
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by borplk 8y ago
A huge reason some people consider frameworks like Django obsolete is because they are focused on an older web paradigm of constructing elaborate html pages on the server side and pushing it out and letting some basic extra js stuff augment
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by borplk 8y ago
This thread is so sad. Companies pay 6 figure salaries but somehow when it comes to the office environment they treat the same people as if they are chickens.
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by borplk 8y ago
As another person said I also haven't checked recently but I remember "accessibility" being a consideration in captcha systems even 5-10 years ago. I expect by now they should have more accessible alternative methods.
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by borplk 8y ago
Generally it is. It's "become a manager or get out". Like everything there are exceptions but you and I are probably not the exception.
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by borplk 8y ago
My upload bandwidth is low enough to make offsite backup not practical (~1mbps). Anyone else with the same issue? How do you handle it?
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by borplk 8y ago
If you have to ask the question you don't want to do it :)
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by borplk 8y ago
Designing boxes and skins to milk the dollars from the parents of teenagers.
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by borplk 8y ago
Require "crunch time" to be fairly compensated as it should be (overtime rate) and see how quickly and suddenly crunch time is not needed anymore. At most companies "crunch time" is just a label stuck on "squeezing
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by borplk 8y ago
It's somewhat surprising (and not really) that more companies are not competing with each other seriously on real benefits like this to attract and keep talent. Most jobs provide no real extra benefit. They have a bunch of fake gimmick
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by borplk 8y ago
There just aren't enough (better) alternatives in the market.
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by borplk 8y ago
Another factor contributing to this being the norm is the fact that web applications are always under pressure to count the bytes over the wire so there's a tendency to break things up into smaller chunks. Otherwise people would be moa
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by borplk 8y ago
I recommend waiting a good while before upgrading (like 6 to 12 months). Or at least do some extensive testing with your hardware on a separate disk. I did some testing and faced hard freezes and bugs (looked like Nvidia PCIE issues).
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by borplk 8y ago
Often those people are high up enough that they are not going anywhere. For example an executive/management team that over-commits the organisation and creates a culture of rewarding technical debt and punishing maintainers. Rather tha
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by borplk 8y ago
This is so frequently true that people are tempted to make it a strong NEVER. But that is also a mistake. There are some legitimate cases where you really should be rebuilding. You may not have seen such a case since they are rare, but they
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by borplk 8y ago
The difference is doctors basically "keep moving up". Unless you screw up massively, once you get in it only gets better. For engineers, you get "used up and thrown away". The default pathway for software engineers is no
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by borplk 8y ago
Yeah I'm not saying it's not important but it's still sad and embarrassing to brag about it at the top of the list of your company benefits. So the deal is "salary that isn't going up + a bunch of gimmicks". In
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by borplk 8y ago
US and many other countries. It's a sad brag that shows just how low the expectations have come down to.
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by borplk 8y ago
Companies aren't trying at all. Just go look at the job ads and see what pathetic items they list as "benefits". - natural sunlight - monthly social events - snacks - ping pong table All either basic workplace expectations or
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by borplk 8y ago
And contrary to common belief there's no development methodology that makes up for incompetence and lack of trust.
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by borplk 8y ago
The "benefits" of open offices are just PR/marketing speak and corporate white lies because they don't want to state the real (and ugly) reasons.
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by borplk 8y ago
> they won’t hold the annoyance against you. It's a bit simplistic to think that. I've never been a fan of these overly technical solutions to what is actually a social issue.
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by borplk 8y ago
I agree but keep in mind it's not that easy to choose to work on those interesting stuff at bigco. If they want you to oil the gears on a legacy application that's what you do. You have to either get lucky, go in specifically to w
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by borplk 8y ago
Considering (and somewhat assuming) you can get back to freelance stuff with relative ease I'd say take the opportunity.
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by borplk 8y ago
Usually nothing. For super serious stuff it's a different story but in the average small-medium SaaS case you may end up with an apology email and $9 paid back or something to that effect.
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by borplk 8y ago
I've seen my fair share of MongoDB dumpster fire codebases as well and one thing that makes it so much worse is it's almost always MongoDB + noob developers who picked MongoDB because a blog post told them it's all cool and i

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