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by comprev 1y ago
When I was a contractor I had set deliverables for projects and written agreement on payments for these milestones. One project might have 5-6 milestones. 95% of the time it worked well and the milestones gave an opportunity to review prog
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by comprev 1y ago
When your code didn't work due to a typo in the magazine (surprisingly common!) or bug in the compiler itself, how did you fix it? AI allows juniors to magically fix the mistakes or suggest an alternative solution without needing to _t
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by comprev 1y ago
"carbon offset" is big business in the aviation world although I feel it's just virtue signalling. If they were serious about aiming for "carbon neutral" the plane would never take off in the first place! I admit th
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by comprev 1y ago
NextDNS has proven effective for me on iOS. On mobile devices I have the app and my home router is configured to force all DNS requests to use NextDNS servers.
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by comprev 1y ago
Probably 99.9% of daily users because they know no different.
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by comprev 1y ago
Oracle was the first company I thought of who licensed per-CPU. Many moons ago I was a sysadmin at a company and first heard about their licensing strategy when sizing up some new multi-socket Opteron servers. First time I learned about per
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by comprev 1y ago
"Never trust what you read on the Internet" - Einstein
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by comprev 1y ago
You jest, but I once had a client who's IaC provisioning code was - you guessed it - stored on the very infrastructure which got destroyed.
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by comprev 1y ago
My view is fairly simple - demand for technology is always increasing at a rate which far outstrips supply of _good_ engineers (by a significant factor). The lure of a well paid career tempts many to the world of software engineering even
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by comprev 1y ago
Germans would often say _their_ grandparents were never Nazis. Ironically, the same thing will happen in future Israeli generations when they look back at the current genocide - "No, my grandfather wasn't involved in the Gaza war&
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by comprev 1y ago
As long as you continue to call your immediate neighbours "enemies" you will always feel insecure and threatened by them. Perhaps Israel could take a radically different path and aim to call their neighbours "friends" in
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by comprev 1y ago
How is it any different from working at a gambling company writing addictive software? There will always be someone willing to do the work if the pay is good enough.
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by comprev 1y ago
https://stoor.net/pages/about STOOR did a live multi-artist techno performance between two studios in Netherlands and Germany. They might have used something like JackTrip to synchronise their instruments.
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by comprev 1y ago
Trust, but verify. We're only human after all :-) At $DAY_JOB we need approvals from peers due to industry regulation.
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by comprev 1y ago
Nice trick I'll have to try this. Thanks!
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by comprev 1y ago
Optimising CI pipelines has been a strong aspect of my career so far. Anybody can build a pipeline to get a task done (thousands of quick & shallow howto blog posts) but doing this efficiently so it becomes a flywheel rather than a bloc
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by comprev 1y ago
This is quite fascinating, thank you!
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by comprev 1y ago
IMHO knowing when to accept defeat in a professional setting is one of the most important skills a generalist can learn. As with everything in tech the answer is "it depends" :) When possible I'll ask to be either continue t
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by comprev 1y ago
I knew I couldn't go straight into the Ops world and accepted I had to start on the support ladder answering telephones and responding to emails about expired domains, lost passwords, etc. However during this necessary detour I never
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by comprev 1y ago
Apple's accessibility features enabled my mother to enjoy what little independence she had due to a rare debilitating illness [Multiple System Atrophy]. She could read eBooks & emails, listen to audio books, view photos and call he
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by comprev 1y ago
That's going the opposite direction not full circle. Hardware bad, OS good is now hardware good, OS bad.
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by comprev 1y ago
This might sound a little controversial, but have you considered other roles in IT, not just pure development jobs? I've been in Ops for 20+ years now and started on 1st line support for an ISP, although I had very few options without
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by comprev 1y ago
Portable music players might fill this niche if there was an OS which could support the hardware.
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by comprev 1y ago
Opposite of this, I enjoy reading the HN discussions about the submissions which have risen to the top. The vast knowledge in the collective HN community never fails to amaze me.
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by comprev 1y ago
Over the years I've gifted a few nice keyboards to people and their immediate response has often been "why didn't I get a proper mechanical keyboard sooner!" They had only used cheap plastic or laptop keyboards until the
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by comprev 1y ago
Many people experience this but spend many thousands more on a vehicle lease and have to nothing to show for it afterwards
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by comprev 1y ago
This is pure speculation, but I think there's probably a large variation in salaries in the 90/10 split of senior/staff+. The majority have decades of employment with the same employer rising up from junior/graduate leve
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by comprev 1y ago
Yes, mostly those two. Many staff didn't know the systems had an API as they don't really have much development experience - just a long career in clickops/Windows. Only now are their roles morphing to include programming and
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by comprev 1y ago
To clarify, I'm not working "crazy hours". I don't have a huge backlog of work that needs to finished. I enjoy researching, building and solving interesting problems out of personal curiosity. There has never been any p
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by comprev 1y ago
Where I live tech is one of the few careers which puts [senior] salaried devs in the top 1% of earners when I look at my income bracket in the annual county stats published by the Government. At a regional level it puts me in top 5%. This o

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