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by danjac 4y ago
Scrum is really for low-trust environments where management fundamentally don't trust the developers to deliver - whether because the developers aren't experienced, not very good at self-management, or too easily distracted by shi
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by danjac 4y ago
Keep your resume up to date and start applying for new positions. Even if none of them are what you are looking for, it's good to sharpen your interview practice.
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by danjac 4y ago
The Bay Area has never really reconciled being a protective property market (the old money NIMBYs) and being a high-growth business hub. One of the two had to give, and another tech market crash plus remote work becoming the norm (despite w
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by danjac 4y ago
Status pages are the Iraqi Information Minister of websites.
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by danjac 4y ago
Moreover artist communities flourish in urban spaces with cheap rent, like New York in the 1970s, Paris in the 1920s, Berlin in the 1990s and so on. Without that you just end up with Dubai or Monaco with shittier weather.
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by danjac 4y ago
To a point. I don't need to care whether you wrote your novel on Word or a manual typewriter, by the time it gets to my Kindle or a printed paperback that doesn't matter. On the other hand, if your web app takes forever to load be
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by danjac 4y ago
In a typical startup you are going to be strapped for cash and time. You need to optimize and compromise. In general, if you don't know how do something, then figure out if you need to learn it, or whether you can get by with a "g
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by danjac 4y ago
I've seen enough "hairball" Django projects in my time. That's not to knock either Flask or Django (or FastAPI for that matter), they all have their strengths and weaknesses, but there is little defence against a develop
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by danjac 4y ago
How is that different from real world history? Grow some crops? An invading army will come and steal and trample them. Mine for coal? A coal heap will bury your town or you'll die in a collapse. Start a trading enterprise? Your ship wi
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by danjac 4y ago
If you have a society with stagnant wages and the only route to a decent retirement and some generational wealth is rising home prices, then you will do everything to protect that investment. Even if that results in, long term, making your
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by danjac 4y ago
It's not really the Stone Age but rather the "Wood and Bone Age". The stone settlements, monuments, tools etc just survived better.
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Git is a reminder why even the best minds in software development sometimes really should talk to UX/UI people.
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by danjac 4y ago
Moving to the US at this point would be like buying a ticket on the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg. But sure, why not?
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by danjac 4y ago
OK, but how much time are you spending on managing these yourself? If it's non-zero then the cost between $5 and $120 for a company is trivial. For a personal side project, sure, but if we are talking about paying customers' data
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by danjac 4y ago
I would argue that if your spend is $5 a month your data is probably not very valuable to yourself or your customers. Which is totally OK for some projects, but $120 is not very much for that peace of mind and time-saving if your data is im
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by danjac 4y ago
The problem I keep seeing in startups is that a lot of startup tech founders and employees don't see a startup as an embryonic business that will grow over the long term into a money-making venture requiring calculated risks and priori
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by danjac 4y ago
I used to use it for side projects (not sure if you would count that as "production") but now go with Dokku on top of Hetzner or Digital Ocean. It's similar in experience to Heroku (at least the CLI) but much cheaper, and as
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by danjac 4y ago
There's a difference between deliberate technical debt and accidental debt. More often what I have seen is accidental debt - not a deliberate choice between tradeoffs but accumulation of poor quality code and architecture due to inexpe
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by danjac 4y ago
I think the division was between the educated and non-educated (i.e. early school leavers). As the school leaving age has risen over the past few decades, that happened to track with age. In other words, Brexit voters were what you could di
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by danjac 4y ago
I wonder if wfm in the UK has significantly impacted newspaper readership from the drop in commuters (particularly the Metro, which is targeted at casual commuter readers) that proprietors and editors - and their flying monkeys in the gover
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by danjac 4y ago
To be fair, Chas n Dave, while they had mainstream success, were born to play in pubs and could get even the most ardent non-Cockneys to join in a singalong.
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by danjac 4y ago
Hetzner at least is a pretty good competitor to Linode and Digital Ocean.
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The worst cases are startups adopting microservices. I get where they are a solution to a large company with multiple teams hitting the pain of monolithic development, but a team of half a dozen adopting microservices is a big red flag.
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by danjac 4y ago
I think you probably need to be embedded in the industry for a while so you have both a good handle on how the industry works and the connections to get a foot in the door with any new solution.
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by danjac 4y ago
The problem with "tech debt" is that in the heads of non-developers it is equated with financial debt. When you take on financial debt for a business it's a long-term investment (a buy-to-rent mortgage on a property, or a bus
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by danjac 4y ago
Seems web3 is doing everyone a favour and imploding itself right now.
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The problem is not so much whether shows are killed to early or too late, but when you blindly follow metrics to determine either way. There are plenty shows pre-streaming that got killed prematurely (Firefly) and plenty that dragged on way
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by danjac 4y ago
No, but you answer with specific analysis rather than generalizing clickbait.
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99% of the time the right answer is "use the best tool for the job at hand that matches your team and budget" but that won't generate the clicks.
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It's crypto we're talking about here. It's not just a few covert skinny dippers but a whole nudist colony.

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