danjac

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by danjac 3y ago
It's the end of an industry as we knew it. There will be demand for developers in some very specific sectors and specialities, and some legacy code support for a while, but likely most of us will be out of work within the next few year
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by danjac 3y ago
And suppose you have a spouse with a career that isn't so mobile? Language barriers? Work visas? Elderly parents? Tons of reasons people can't just up and migrate at the drop of a hat.
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by danjac 3y ago
Having lived through a recession or two, this is probably the first time I'm seriously thinking about a change of career (to do what else, of course, is the question). There's lots of people here whistling in the dark, but honestl
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by danjac 3y ago
Browser native date pickers are usually good enough and meet accessibility requirements these days. Unless you have fussy designers or PMs who insist on artisanal NIH components for everything just because.
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by danjac 3y ago
I must have hallucinated the past year when 10,000s of engineers lost their jobs while CEOs got nice share bonuses...
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by danjac 3y ago
It's not so much the war and politics - I don't see so much of that luckily - but all the "thought leaders", influencers and other grifters filling up the feed with their drivel.
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by danjac 3y ago
Job postings are mostly just fraudulent, out-of-date, or oddly over-specific and generally a waste of time for applicants who don't have an insider track through their network or a recruiter. Yes I hear "apply anyway, nobody meets
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by danjac 3y ago
Sure, but if you are planning to go from SME to enterprise you need to think strategically for the long term. You'll probably need to have more developers to deal with the complexities and hand-holding you've touched on (auth is j
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by danjac 3y ago
Perhaps. But then it's important to look at the total cost of ownership: was it worth building a complex feature for one client that adds to the technical debt of a code base and tied up developer resources that could have been better
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by danjac 3y ago
It's particularly common with big whale enterprise clients, where the salesperson is trying to close a very long sales process or the client has you by the short hairs in the contract. I remember one case where we had to implement a ve
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by danjac 3y ago
It's apples to oranges comparing different companies with different needs. Some companies may require more non-technical staff for things like legal compliance, or have complex technical requirements that are hidden beneath a simple UI
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by danjac 3y ago
With B2B sales in an industry niche it's not about SEO. You need to talk to people in that industry and you know, sell to them.
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by danjac 3y ago
Unless your product depends on eyeballs, SEO is just another vanity metric.
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by danjac 3y ago
Sure, if your aim is to build something for fun or learning or your portfolio, those are valid goals. The OP however considered their effort a failure, because they aimed at making something that would be a successful business venture (they
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by danjac 3y ago
"Build it and they will come" is almost never a winning strategy. Of course sometimes it works, you build the right thing at the right time and it goes viral, but most of the time you get crickets even if it gets to the top of Pro
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by danjac 3y ago
Russian is a heavily inflected language, so the order of words matters less. For example, in English you can say "the cat ate the bird", but if you reversed "cat" and "bird" this would be a different sentence e
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by danjac 3y ago
I did some pro-bono development work for a nonprofit some time ago. I don't think I have encountered such unpleasant or entitled clients anywhere, whether as an employee or freelancer.
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by danjac 3y ago
Discovery is still a problem.
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by danjac 3y ago
First you say that I don't understand "social mobility", now you are saying people don't care about social mobility...I mean, at least pick a lane.
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by danjac 3y ago
The US has seen decreasing social mobility in past decades. So this isn't just the US vs European countries, it's the US vs itself. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
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by danjac 3y ago
Despite these factors, the US has actually less social mobility than many European nations e.g. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/these-are-the-10-coun... When wealth is inceasingly locked up in dynastic
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by danjac 3y ago
"Once talking" is the problem. You have to get your resume picked out of the pile so you get to talk to a real person.
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by danjac 3y ago
"Companies look for talented software developers" While that may be true, and it's what they all say, ultimately they just filter on keywords. Of course, if you have a network then that's less of a problem. You are talki
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by danjac 3y ago
That is your company moving you to another role internally. I am talking about job applications.
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by danjac 3y ago
I suspect people with a good network are saying "yeah it's fine, getting offers, things have never been better", while those without a good network, who rely on going through the grind of the job application process, are sayi
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by danjac 3y ago
The problem is you can't "stack shift". I mean, of course you can, we know that if you know some programming languages you can pick up another language, if you know an HTTP router you can learn another, a MySQL expert can lea
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by danjac 3y ago
Yes, there are jobs in Europe but very few good jobs (as in a fair salary for experience) left.
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by danjac 3y ago
Right, I'm not going to apply for office jobs anyway (I don't live near a tech hub, for personal reasons I can't move, there are almost no tech jobs locally, and I'm not going to spend hours commuting just to do Zoom cal
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by danjac 3y ago
From my perspective (working in Europe) this year has been exceptionally tough. I'm working rn but I always keep options open, e.g. staying in contact with recruiters and looking at job postings. I'll apply for a job if it's
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by danjac 3y ago
Another viewpoint here: https://www.404media.co/advertisers-dont-want-sites-like-jez... Advertisers don't like "controversial" content to appear next to their ads. Which I can understand from their point of v

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