chuck32

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by chuck32 9y ago
Have you even asked for a raise at your current job? Having been made offers from other companies that puts you in a very strong position to ask for a raise.
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by chuck32 9y ago
I stand corrected.
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by chuck32 9y ago
True, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.
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by chuck32 9y ago
I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of this site is horrendous. - There is no search function anywhe
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by chuck32 9y ago
"I try to put in at least four hours of work every day, including weekends, and balance that with four hours of year-round kayaking, hiking, house-work, seasonal snow-sports, or some other physical activity." Well done for achievi
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Secrets of Silicon Valley – are we sleepwalking towards technological apocalypse(theguardian.com)
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by chuck32 9y ago
It does seem that Silicon Valley used to have a hacker / technologist culture (think Steve Wozniak, Robert Noyce etc.) while now most of the new companies are often just traditional businesses but with slightly better tech and rebrande
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by chuck32 9y ago
I don't think its a good idea because in reality most devs are one or the other. My theory is that most backend developers claim to be "full-stack" in order to get the job even though they really are much more focused on back
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by chuck32 9y ago
Wow this thread is depressing..
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by chuck32 9y ago
Perhaps because the reality of being a developer is that its a pretty boring job most of the time. Once you have worked at a few different companies on a few varying projects with a few different technologies you realise that 90% of the tim
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by chuck32 9y ago
> You become adored, respected, have a lot of money and power. These are very grandiose visions of what being a developer is like. The reality is much more mundane.
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by chuck32 9y ago
Why not try writing contributing to open source projects in your spare time? Maybe try and get a low-paid freelance job or two. Test the waters. Once you have contributed to opensource/done freelance projects you will find it MUCH easi
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by chuck32 9y ago
> His advice is in the context of functional programming languages. Thats not what he says. He says that these ideas "can be useful in any programming language". Which is the point that I disagree with. > there's nothin
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by chuck32 9y ago
Allowing your codebase to develop organically is a lot better than trying to fit the square peg of your domain into the round hole of the chosen framework. Its a fair argument to make but honestly I've never worked on a web app
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by chuck32 9y ago
This follows from my experience with building F# libraries, but the ideas are quite general and can be useful in any programming language. This is just not true. The whole article really doesn't apply to any mainstream programm
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by chuck32 9y ago
In Manchester there are plenty of opportunities for rails work. Also companies around here seem a lot more flexible about semi remote working i.e. you commute from Manchester to Liverpool/Sheffield/Leeds etc. once a week but work
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by chuck32 9y ago
In the UK (not in london) as a freelancer in Ruby on Rails I charge £40 / hr. For contract jobs (you basically work exactly like a permanent employee but get paid as a freelancer - so no job security or benefits and contracts usually l
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by chuck32 9y ago
lol what do you mean by "not getting private time"?
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by chuck32 9y ago
Damn! Not sure exactly which country you're in but the minimum wage of most western european countries is between €8-10 / hr. There are cleaners who make the same money as you! Seems like you've got to up your game. Don'
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by chuck32 9y ago
> Why are you so concerned with what others do? This is a discussion about whether or not to use frameworks isn't it? I'm argueing for using a framework rather than against, isn't that the whole point of a discussion? >
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by chuck32 9y ago
> I went frameworkless on an mvp last year. I was able to code and implement features using raw apis quickly. I reached MVP status and launched. One year later, no users and I'm closing the site. I'm sure glad I didn't was
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by chuck32 9y ago
> It's quick and easy to get started with frameworks, but you inevitably try to do something that's very difficult to figure out how to do. Instead of just writing code that does it, you have to search the docs of the framework
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by chuck32 9y ago
Annoying? Perhaps. But toxic? I don't see how..
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by chuck32 9y ago
Having been a contractor for a short while (~1 year) and having worked with many different contractors over the years I've never seen a situation where management has been like "this part of the codebase is too much of a mess for
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by chuck32 9y ago
This is absolutely an example of this. Don't take it personally. The guy was probably grumpy to everybody else that day too. Its the result of a general consensus in Germanic countries that forced happiness is distasteful (as has been
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by chuck32 9y ago
"At the end of my break I look forward to work in developing solutions that involve distributed systems or work in setup, management, and monitoring of complex distributed systems (dev OPS role)." I think a far better way of getti
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by chuck32 9y ago
Sorry, this is really bad advice IMO. "1year or more out there are entirly new stacks, new libraries, new versions, new ways of building things etc." You think there are any dev teams which change their entire stack every year? As
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by chuck32 9y ago
Ok well it sounds like you've done some pretty solid work there and should have things to talk about in an interview. Have you ever gotten an feedback from employers or recruiters as to why you were not picked for a job?
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by chuck32 9y ago
Seems like you are looking for a company who will accommodate your needs (i.e. "Don't care what tech stack you've used") but maybe you need to think about what you can do yourself to accommodate what companies need from