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by dakiol 2y ago
Typically, it's Friday and it's sprint planning: - a bunch of Jira tickets get assigned to be worked on the next sprint. The vast majority of them are product features, and a tiny bit are about tech debt and known bugs (if any) -
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by dakiol 2y ago
My passion for computer science (programming, playing with tools, gain knowledge) is and has always been “up”, as in, I still enjoy doing it in my free time. What has gone “down” is my feeling towards the tech industry. I don’t like manager
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I guess it depends. Like, you really need to know Gradle to be effective in a non-trivial Java setup. But Gradle is a beast (over 1000 pages of doc), and it could slow you down. On the other hand the Go tool chain is superb, but you need t
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by dakiol 2y ago
I have to agree. And I’m all for “give everything to the engineers”, but I cannot rationally justify tech conferences. The only thing is that it creates cohesion among your team (if all of them go together to the same conference), but one c
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by dakiol 2y ago
The second snippet of code seems to come from a template. Perhaps your colleague had already worked on on a similar problem before (e.g., python code to runs processes)?
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by dakiol 2y ago
Same. Worked for years for a company that offered VSOPs. They never went public. Hopefully I negotiated a decent base salary. So, as long as they offer a decent base salary and on top of that they add vsops, I’m fine. The moment they offer
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by dakiol 2y ago
My take is: - “big” tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft came up with these types of tech interviews. And there it seems pretty clear that for most of their positions they are looking for cogs - The vast majority of tech companies
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by dakiol 2y ago
I worked for a startup that used Kotlin. The language itself is not that bad (if you ignore the engineers that want to use every single time all the features the language has to offer), but the ecosystem was awful. We were using Gradle, and
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by dakiol 2y ago
Strange. It’s rather straightforward to create a (fake) linkedin profile with a couple of hundred of connections (I have one of such profiles, just for fun). I cannot understand companies that think having a linkedin profile makes you look
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by dakiol 2y ago
I always thought that the most flexible approach was: - good old mutable relational tables - a separate db to store immutable events (could be the same kind of db you use for business transactions or something fancy like big query) I feel l
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by dakiol 2y ago
It would bother me so much to track my health on a daily basis. Too much paranoia. It’s like looking at the stock price every day. I much prefer to track my health twice or so per year.
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by dakiol 2y ago
I never understood the “encourage others to take ownership” manager thing. I mean, I can do the same and encourage others to do things and that would let me with very little actual work to do. Like, why would I even be necessary as “manager
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by dakiol 2y ago
Just don’t. We are not in the 2010s anymore. Adding dozens of dependencies to your startup is death by a thousand cuts.
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by dakiol 2y ago
Fair point. Although I wasn’t thinking about the utility of primary/high school in relation with CS. For instance, I studied (I believe) over 6 years english (probably more) in primary/high school. I couldn’t maintain a conversati
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by dakiol 2y ago
In general I like to work with other fellow programmers. What I dislike are product managers and engineering managers (because all the Agile/Jira/Scrum/performance that comes with them)
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by dakiol 2y ago
I studied computer science over a decade ago. What I learnt at the university was: 1) perseverance. I wanted to learn about writing programs and OS and hardware… but I had to first pass all the mathematical lectures. It wasn’t easy. 2) How
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by dakiol 2y ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t care about OKRs or whatever companies are following nowadays? I tend to work around 2-3 years per company. Get a salary bump when switching. My first year is rather slow/smooth because “I’ve been here for
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by dakiol 2y ago
As applicant, I would pay if: - it guarantees less competition - I’m guaranteed to get an interview. I’m not paying to get directly a No as an answer - it guarantees the company is actually hiring for that role Unfortunately, I don’t see ho
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by dakiol 2y ago
Perhaps I missed it, but at what point the author sets an LLC or something similar? For me, that’s the main blocker: in Europe it costs money to start a business, some paperwork and taxes is involved, even if you don’t make a single sale. A
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by dakiol 2y ago
I don’t know. Like any other tool, it depends on how you use it. I worked for a unicorn with presence in multiple countries and they were using Mongo as main db in multiple microservices. Around 1500 engineers. It worked fine. I’m not sayin
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by dakiol 2y ago
It’s about the field (computers, software). Not about the country. As a non english nor german native speaker, I appreciate English text/audio as much as possible in any situation.
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by dakiol 2y ago
It’s hard to learn the ins and outs of dozens of programming languages. One doesn’t usually just use one or two PL over their entire career. I have worked professionally with at least PHP, Java, Python, JS, Go, and Ruby. That without taking
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by dakiol 2y ago
I don’t really enjoy pair programming. I like pair “thinking” (if that’s a correct term). I like to think about a problem and the design space with others… but writing actual code with others doesn’t really appeal me. It’s like 2 people pai
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by dakiol 2y ago
What’s wrong with taking “too much” peoples time? I mean, it’s a colleague, asking questions… it’s not that you are going to work more because you’re allocating time to help others.
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by dakiol 2y ago
IMO, if I have to choose between managers that are technical “enough” and glorified babysitters, I go for the latter. Little knowledge is dangerous and causes more pain than help. At least glorified babysitters know that they don’t know eno
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by dakiol 2y ago
Constantly pushing for higher quality is not healthy imo. You end up burned. I don’t want to be a high performer (I end up burned) and I don’t want to be a low performer either (end up fired). Something in between is something ICs shouldn’t
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by dakiol 2y ago
> It's very confusing As a very naive person myself, isn’t “being very confusing” one of the main points of AWS? They know they are big and nobody will get fired for using AWS. So, the more confusing their products are, the more ben
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by dakiol 2y ago
With modern team structures it’s difficult to have ownership all the way to prod. My team consists of: one product manager, one staff engineer, one or more lead engineers, one or more senior engineers, one engineering manager. The PM wants
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by dakiol 2y ago
I have been using an iphone6s (ios 15. Received an update 4 months ago). for some time already. It works fine. Granted, I don’t use it for “important” stuff, but it works fine for browsing, checking train timelines, Uber, radio, youtube, wh
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by dakiol 2y ago
To be fair, I read it as "_completely_ worthless for _some_ people"

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