dakiol

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by dakiol 1y ago
Don’t get it. Cheaper ways of doing software have been always available; that doesn’t mean they are the best way. You get what you pay for, as usual. Anybody thinking that 2025 AI is some sort of magical “free lunch” device, is just delusio
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by dakiol 1y ago
I’m in group A and B. I do programming for the sake for it at home. I read tons of technical books for the love of it. At work, though, I do whatever the company wants or whatever they allow me… I just do it for the money.
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by dakiol 1y ago
Hijacking the thread: also looking for some super cheap VPS for running Go servers (don’t need more than 256-512 MB). I know i have digitalocean for ~$5/month, but i’m looking for something more like $1 or €2 per month.
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by dakiol 2y ago
AI won’t become “normal technology” until the open source versions are more powerful than the closed ones. Just like Linux is the “best” kernel out there, and that doesn’t prevent other kernels to be proprietary (but that doesn’t matter bec
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by dakiol 2y ago
For now, I pressume. I guess it's a matter of time until the AI features can no longer be disabled.
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by dakiol 2y ago
You can be the “best” programmer at home/internet, and just another employee at work.
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by dakiol 2y ago
But fixing a bug requires time from your side (mainly doing the investigation) and from others (code reviews). So if the whole team is working on an “important” epic (this is, one with a deadline, like any other epic) and you come out of th
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by dakiol 2y ago
imho I think the pagination example alone wouldn’t get you hired even if told correctly. In over a decade of experience my “coolest experience” related to pagination is about not using LIMIT and OFFSET because it’s not performant… but that’
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by dakiol 2y ago
Please, no. I don’t want to travel hundred of kilometres each time I want to apply for a job.
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by dakiol 2y ago
One can easily rehearse answers that sound natural. You could start with a partially wrong answer, realize midway and correct it. Easily fakeable. All the “ums”, “let me think for a second”, and even failing to answer 10% of the questions o
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by dakiol 2y ago
If your resume is not a perfect fit, you don’t get an interview. So either it’s a almost perfect fit or no chance to get the job. What’s wrong about that?
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by dakiol 2y ago
The guy had to invent “cool” scenarios because companies think they are Google and working in backend doing normal things won’t get you hired. One could easily have prepared the whole interview with AI without failing to explain details (li
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by dakiol 2y ago
The main downside of hybrid work (or office work) is that you're limited to the job offers in your city. If I want to work for a software company that has HQ in Paris but I live in Lyon, well I need to move to Paris. That sucks.
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by dakiol 2y ago
You guys wear footwear at home? I never wear anything (not even socks, except when it’s really cold outside, so like 2 weeks per year).
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by dakiol 2y ago
I always felt that running with slim sneakers (very thin sole) was best for me. Of course I never run on asphalt (somehow it always seemed to me crazy). So, running barefoot is not that crazy if you run on grass or sand. Running on asphalt
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by dakiol 2y ago
Most of the product companies that hire remote hire within their country. At most they hire within 2-3 h of timezone difference. So, it’s not that “poor” talent from abroad is taking jobs from Americans/Europeans. Consultancy companies
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by dakiol 2y ago
For me the worst thing about being on-call is not the actual work outside business hours (it’s usually not much), but the potential work: if something happens I need to jump into my laptop within X minutes (changes from company to company,
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by dakiol 2y ago
I think it’s the whole American continent (north and south) that’s way behind Europe/Asia regarding safety in the streets.
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by dakiol 2y ago
Anecdotally, I work on backend/cloud and my senior frontend engineers do earn not as much as I do, but close… and their environments are always less stressful (major outages are not caused by frontends usually and when so, reverting to
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by dakiol 2y ago
Slightly related: does anyone do eye “exercises”? As in, for 5 minutes, move the eyes all around in a 360 degrees fashion, alternating with left to right (and right to left) movements. I use the computer many hours per day and that means my
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by dakiol 2y ago
Return labels. Sometimes they include (besides my full name and address) my phone number and national ID. Don’t feel like printing that in a store.
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by dakiol 2y ago
But what about privacy? Don’t you mind printing a copy of your passport or payslip or any sensitive doc via a print service (e.g., in a kiosk)
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by dakiol 2y ago
I think as humans live longer and longer, the youth years should expand correspondingly. I think nowadays one can easily live until 100 years old (at least I know plenty of oldies in their late 90s around here in western europe). The 40s ar
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by dakiol 2y ago
Was that feeling happening constantly at any time or only during the time you didn’t have anything else to do? I do plenty of physical exercise during the day, and I don’t like to take with me the phone (because it’s big). When I go out for
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by dakiol 2y ago
As a software engineer I generally can help little when a non-trivial incident occurs whether it is via war rooms or deep investigations. I do have some kind of access to some logs, traces and metrics (datadog, for instance), but at the end
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by dakiol 2y ago
How much does it cost to keep the mac mini on for a month? I’ve been thinking doing the same.
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by dakiol 2y ago
$10k/month (after taxes) for the rest of your life? Ok, I agree. But if it’s just for the next couple of years, it’s certainly not a game changer.
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by dakiol 2y ago
I wouldn't say that's the conclusion. If there's only one true thing about work is: management doesn't care about you. They can fire you for any reason, and thinking that by working on stuff nobody else wants to work on
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by dakiol 2y ago
Am I the only one who prefers stability instead of a constant rush of features in their text editors/IDEs? If it’s AI related I like them even less. I know I can stick forever with Vim, but damn, I tried Zed and it felt good.
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by dakiol 2y ago
I would do a PhD if they paid me enough. I don't mind if I cannot find a job that pays well with a PhD (I actually don't need a PhD for that); I would do the PhD because I like doing research. What would bother me is to spent ~4-5

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