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by dakiol 2y ago
I think the worst is Java/Kotlin. Gradle is a nightmare and I just refuse to spend my time learning it. I just can’t.
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by dakiol 2y ago
No OP. I wouldn’t use social media sites if they require my ID. It’s just not worth it.
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by dakiol 2y ago
Same here. Perhaps the only “real” social media account I have is Linkedin, but it’s private and only used for jobs.
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by dakiol 2y ago
Rant mode on. This is what software engineering looks like nowadays (at least based on my last jobs). The times I discuss truly software engineering topics (modelling, abstractions, algorithms, etc.) is significantly less than the times I
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by dakiol 2y ago
At work I always give positive and friendly feedback, regardless of who is asking. I don’t need to put myself in a position in which the receiver didn’t like or misunderstood my feedback the wrong way. What for? I couldn’t care less about
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by dakiol 2y ago
Work is not only about what the company wants but also about what the employee needs. I don't see much difference between the ability to work from home and the ability to avoid working on weekends; the later is an acquired rights in ma
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by dakiol 2y ago
Asking whether the job requires in person presence is usually among the first questions to ask in an interview (e.g., the screening part)
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by dakiol 2y ago
Many people overlook a key benefit of remote work: the ability to live in cities where good companies don't have offices. E.g, living in Montpellier while working for a company based in Paris (700 km away), living in Düsseldorf while w
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by dakiol 2y ago
Such a PITA. Unless you have a dedicated team to handle observability, you are in for pain, no matter the tech stack you use.
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by dakiol 2y ago
Regardless of that, I don't find discussing software engineering topics productive anymore. Whether you go all the way with "boring tech" (php, ansible, mysql) or cool cloud (k8s, go, whatever), it's all the same at the
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by dakiol 2y ago
Don't understand one thing: I can read any code of any legacy code base, sure. What I cannot do is to asses if the code is supposed to do its job (e.g., the business logic behind it). Is the code I'm reading supposed to calculate
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by dakiol 2y ago
I spent 90% of the time reading and trying to understand the business logic behind the code that lies in the place that I think I need to put my feature in. So far, no methodology helps much with this part of software engineering. The remai
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Boox Palma 2(shop.boox.com)
5 points by dakiol 2y ago|0 comments
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by dakiol 2y ago
My bad. I wanted to say it’s practically dark at 3pm (even though the sun sets later). It’s not that there’s plenty of daylight until 1 second before the sun sets.
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by dakiol 2y ago
It sucks less, I’d say.
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by dakiol 2y ago
> The real solution is to book a trip to Spain in February, but that isn’t an option for everyone. Another solution (to the minimal amount of daylight in winter) is to simply not change the time (DST) in October. Let the sun set later, n
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by dakiol 2y ago
Current LLMs can (because they are still maintained by humans). I think it will be a decade still until we have software maintaining itself (i.e., rewriting its own code, fixing vulnerabilities, etc)
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by dakiol 2y ago
It doesn't work like that. I worked for a tech company in Germany and it went brankrupt. By contract I have 3 months notice period, and I got them. That's plenty of time to find another job (which I did). It goes both ways too (wh
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by dakiol 2y ago
> but its just a non-guaranteed perk that can go away anytime and eventually it will, and companies shouldn't break their backs to accommodate people I think this is the key to the question. We should start seeing WFH as a right rat
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by dakiol 2y ago
It's not about the internals of NYT. It's 2024, WFH should be already a non-negotiable perk for tech employees because: - the tech is there to offer this kind of work. It's not that NYT is somehow special about this - it&#x27
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by dakiol 2y ago
> Striking during election week is kind of a crappy move to pull That's the whole point of strikes. If you do them when they are less painful, there's no point in doing them. And in this case, is not like the public doesn'
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by dakiol 2y ago
Go is nice, but the recent trend of using generics for many stuff is making harder and harder to keep Go code readable imho. See an example here https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2024/ranging-over-functions-in... I'm
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by dakiol 2y ago
Don't get it. Is it because your Go app relies in fewer dependencies? If so, it's just a matter of numbers I believe. JS apps tend to rely on more dependencies on average... but that doesn't need to be that way. I have plain
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by dakiol 2y ago
Worst manager I had was a software engineer with 8 years of experience as engineer and 2 years of experience as manager. Knew enough about software engineering and so he was involved in almost every technical decision. Knew little about man
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by dakiol 2y ago
Wouldn’t be possible to let the LLM do the highlighting? Instead of returning code in plain text, it could return code within html with the appropriate tags. Maybe it’s harder than it sounds… but if it’s just for highlighting the code the L
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by dakiol 2y ago
I go to sleep at 1am. I wake up at 9:45am. Is there something wrong with this? I have my daily standup at 10:30, so I have enough time to drink water, and do morning rituals before I start to work. Feels good. I don’t know what would be the
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by dakiol 2y ago
Agree. Every month there’s some new “discovery” about what can make your life shorter. It makes me anxious and definitely doesn’t help at all. I cannot simply manage so many variables. I try to do a little bit of everything, to be in the mi
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by dakiol 2y ago
I can’t work with notifications enabled. Every hour I work, I make a 15 min pause or so and then I check Slack and answer if needed. Not just Slack, I don’t have any notifications enabled. I always pull. The only exception is phone calls.
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by dakiol 2y ago
May I ask what projector? I’m thinking about getting one as well
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by dakiol 2y ago
I tried to sign up in Hetzner but always got rejected. Also, the idea of providing my ID/Passport to them is odd. I’m running stuff on Digital Ocean without having to hand over any IDs or using my real name. So far, so good.

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