caseymarquis

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by caseymarquis 2mo ago
Go ignores the needs of the developers in favor of the needs of the architect and technical managers. I’ve always disliked it for that reason. In roughly November of 2025, “software developer” stopped being a position that humans fill direc
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by caseymarquis 2y ago
That's either a fun or terrible exercise depending on who is administering and how. However, if you said it's a Ruby role and the candidate is good enough to be picky, you may scare them off when they think your description of the
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by caseymarquis 2y ago
I recently used ChatGPT canvas to improve a friend's resume. I had managed him in the past, and he is great to work with. However, from his resume you would never know it. I did 3 hours worth of editing and improvement in 5 minutes. I
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by caseymarquis 2y ago
While LINQ does include a library of extension methods for functional programming with .NET collections (which is great), it also includes "Expression Classes". In a nutshell, this allows a user to pass a single expression lambda
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by caseymarquis 2y ago
I've been occasionally mentioning this book on HN since I read it. Linked below. The book is about how companies evolve and how teams of people work together. It uses human growth as an analogy and fairly accurately describes how compa
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
I grew up working construction on the side with my father, became an appprentice lineman, moved to aftermarket electrical installations in CNC machines, then ended up writing software products for over a decade. I've worked on a wide v
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
I thought it was more like 2^23 unique prototypes?
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
I think OP has solved some of those issues with this approach. Initially, this is a fun tool that provides value to individuals. The result at scale becomes extremely valuable. The biggest missing piece is verification of skillset. I'm
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
This is a very interesting idea. Given access to long form descriptions of what has been worked on, ideally with some kind of trusted verification, this approach seems like it would operate at scale quite well and could transform the way we
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
Men are applying and women are hiring. Half the candidates are lying on their resumes. Many candidates are spamming their resumes indiscriminately. If you've ever had to hire someone for a position that attracts hundreds of candidates
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
Comparing a JavaScript ORM to a C# ORM like Entity Framework feels like comparing C macros to Lisp macros. You can't really have a reasonable conversation about ORMs without defining the feature set your ORM has. If an ORM doesn't
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
Since the word agile has become so loaded, you can instead explain why a waterfall practice is linked to predictable problems and avoid buzzwords entirely: It takes 6 months to act on customer feedback with our current release strategy, and
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by caseymarquis 3y ago
That seems positive, honestly. It forces a focus on the developmental process over the finished product.
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
Please write a blog post about that when you get a chance to do it!
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
Interestingly, it might be easier to replace mid-skill artists than mid-skill developers (not to say both won't happen over time). The key difference is that when generating art, you can say "Make A in-the-style B.", get what
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
I migrated from vue 2 about 4 months ago seeking better typescript support and looking to move away from webpack. While I absolutely loved the simplicity and feel of svelte, I came to the same conclusion that it is not ready for a major pro
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
While not all companies are as pervasively fucked up as the article claims, all companies do have problems, and these problems typically correlate to the stage a company is in. There's a great book on this which is older than I am call
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
As an outside company without a relationship with SAP, what's the best way to build integrations with it? What's the path? How do we get access to sandbox environments, and will it cost money? I figured I'd selfishly ask whil
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
This seems like it would make a good poll. Could you convert it? My answer is the same as someone else before, and I'd love to get some numbers back on this.
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of C#, but I didn't really like Blazor when I tried it. I had expected to love it too. I found much of Blazor's boilerplate to be very ugly, I didn't like the complication involved in referencing npm libra
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
The last time I posted a job ad, 100 seemingly qualified candidates responded within 2 days. I interviewed 7 of them, and 6 out of those 7 were more than qualified for the position. Having lived both sides of this, I feel hiring is very muc
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
I take it you're not a musician?
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by caseymarquis 4y ago
I think this is a little of column A and a little of column B. Just as there are good and bad developers, there are people who are good and bad at running projects and organizations. The author feels that something is wrong. He knows he is
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
Sounds like a feature.
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
I dropped out of high school with a 0.5 GPA, I now own a sizable percentage of a software company valued at a life changing amount of money. I cannot emphasize enough: Do not do what I did. It has been an uphill battle for 14 years. At ever
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
If your manager doesn't understand that everything being broken all the time is a natural part of development, then you might need to find a better place to work. If someone I managed said "I'm blocked because Webpack is brok
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
Mostly I'm amused, but otherwise you're pretty on point. As an outsider acquiring VC funding seems very challenging and time consuming. We perform on parity with our VC funded competitors, and 10x growth will make us about 10 time
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
> In today’s startup environment, raising money might be easy I hear this a lot, but it seems like it's only true for people in specific geographic locations, who are well connected, and willing to pretend their problem benefits fro
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
I'd like to point out that the article isn't disagreeing with you. It's saying inheritance is a dangerous interface for other users of your code (across packages is their terminology). So, if you write a library, maybe don&#x
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by caseymarquis 5y ago
I would. I'd actually view someone asking for this as a positive.

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