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by dakiol 9mo ago
What kind of logic is that? It reminds me some people I know that vote to extreme-right parties because "well, we know that the regular parties are not gonna change anything. These new guys may do something new. Who knows, let's v
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by dakiol 9mo ago
The moment my manager or some other non-technical stakeholders start to use AI to push software to production and it works fine, that's the moment I'll know for sure I'm out of business. I don't think that's really
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by dakiol 10mo ago
While the guy is brilliant, I doubt he could fit the role of senior/staff/principal engineer in any one-level-below faang kind of company. Typically, these roles require good communication skills and working together with other en
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by dakiol 10mo ago
I feel divided. I do love my career (computer science/engineering) and I dedicate a lot of my free time to it (reading tech books, doing side projects, HN, etc.). But at the same time, I don't give a damn about my company. I hate
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by dakiol 11mo ago
I think the article mixes different things. > That’s the way we’ve always done it. That's not ego, that's laziness. At least based on experience, engineers are reluctant to change simply because they feel comfortable enough wit
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by dakiol 11mo ago
LLMs subscriptions. Ideally I wouldn't need to pay for top-notch software (e.g., linux, ffmpeg, qemu, etc.), but here we are.
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by dakiol 11mo ago
Agree. I rather work with people who suggest stuff ("We should start using this new tool in our pipeline") than with people who ever suggest anything (typically they don't care).
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by dakiol 11mo ago
So far I've never seen yet a non-programmer release production-grade code using only LLMs. There's just so much to care about (from security, deployments, secret management, event-driven architectures, and a large etc.) that &quot
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by dakiol 11mo ago
Yeah exactly. I'm using codex, btw. So I feel weird to pretend I'm not using LLMs and I write all code just by using my brain. But on the other side, there's no much point on explaining one-self on how LLMs are used to do a t
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Ask HN: Typical tech job interview in late 2025?
2 points by dakiol 11mo ago|4 comments
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by dakiol 1y ago
I've worked in huge repos with hundreds of developers pushing code every day, dozens of MRs open per day, and all I always needed was a very limited set of what git is capable of (git commit, git co, git st, git merge/rebase, git
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by dakiol 1y ago
It's not that complicated: - you review and if to the best of your knowledge you think something can be done better you comment about it and leave a suggestion on how to do it better - then you approve the PR. Because your job is not t
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by dakiol 1y ago
> I don't approve (and here's why) but someone else can That just sucks... because with that mindset typically nobody approves and leaves the submitter begging for approvals.
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by dakiol 1y ago
> Tooling isn't the problem: The complexity is inherent to modern web development > Embrace the tools: Each tool on the list (Vite, Tailwind, etc.) exists for a reason, and they're all necessary for a modern web application.
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by dakiol 1y ago
I really didn't get what the post was about. I'm getting old or? And I thought I was clever because I work with distributed databases...
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by dakiol 1y ago
I disagree. If we are talking about distributed systems in which we have N different databases, then distributed transactions are left as an exercise to the reader (that’s why we have things like Sagas). Within a single machine, yeah, relat
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by dakiol 1y ago
That depends on what kind of “cheap” engineers you hire. If the SV engineers make 250K, you can hire: a) cheap engineers for 150K euro or, b) cheap engineers for 50K euro I can tell you that the engineers in group A are top notch, nothing t
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by dakiol 1y ago
> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools Same. It reminds me the 1984 event in which the computer itself famously “spoke” to the audience using its text-to-speech feature. Pretty amazing at that time, but nevertheless quite us
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by dakiol 1y ago
There’s a fine difference between a) splitting a big feature in parts that interact with each other via well defined interfaces, and b) splitting a big feature in parts that are suitable for PRs You can split a big feature in N MRs and that
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by dakiol 1y ago
When salaries go very down. I love my career, I don’t necessarily like the jobs; but they are jobs and I maximise income (and free time). My salary is going higher over the years (I never earned silicon-valley-faang salaries to begin with)
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by dakiol 1y ago
As an user of the internet, I wish cloudflare didn’t exist. They are in most sites I visit, they add a couple of seconds of delay always. They can shut down entire ranges of ips if the government says so (no matter if some sites hosted in s
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by dakiol 1y ago
I think it’s mainly because of the year gap. Try lying about it. I had a 5 month gap in my resume (I quit my last job without having something new) and I got rejected a couple of times without having a single interview. As soon as I put tha
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by dakiol 1y ago
We don’t need any of those. So many brilliant people working at facebook and wasting their talent.
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by dakiol 1y ago
Depends on what you show in your portfolio? I never understood devs that show half baked and simple web apps in their portfolios. What’s the point? To show your have commitment? To show that you have passion? Because those apps don’t usuall
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by dakiol 1y ago
I always got my jobs applying via linkedin. It's true that I usually find the recruiter and send them a message as well saying "hey I applied to X position. let me know if my profile fits". Perhaps this extra message makes th
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by dakiol 1y ago
I'm not sure, but that's still happening. At least it happened to me this year. I consider myself a decent developer (in every job I have landed, I was always considered the "best" in the team after not much time in the
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by dakiol 1y ago
I think it goes in cycles. I used to work with Kafka and so I learned something about it. I haven’t touched kafka for 4 or so years, not sure what has changed but I feel like I want to revisit it. Same for k8s, clickhouse, etc. Happens the
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by dakiol 1y ago
I just landed a new job, and I thikn it's a boring one. At my previous job I was fixing Java's memory issues, migrating databases and riding Jira epics. At my new job I'm fixing button's padding/marging, deploying a
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by dakiol 1y ago
But then if you cannot work on a ticket because of prio, you cannot either work without a ticket, isn't it? I thought the point here was doing work with or without a ticket.
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by dakiol 1y ago
Doesn't that work against you? Like, I imagine that at some point you want to get a raise, so your manager has to sell your work to other managers... and they are not gonna pass around links to your pull requests/commits. They mos

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