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by danjac 5y ago
That's very typical behaviour from the founders. I mean it's worked for them in the past, but perhaps they never learned the value of a little humility.
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by danjac 5y ago
They're going to end up recruiting from the brain trust that gave us Parler.
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by danjac 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this will become a case study in future in how to self-destruct a successful company with a single bad communication, much like Gerald Ratner (although this may be due to long-term grievances we're not a
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by danjac 5y ago
Setting aside arguments whether "Politics at work" is good or bad, this looks like an avoidable HR and PR disaster. 1. This was announced on social media, apparently catching Basecamp employees by surprise. 2. Several employees (g
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by danjac 5y ago
> The funny thing is that Bitcoin will basically only have value as a collectible as long as substantial numbers of people believe this essay’s argument is false. Is this the "greater fool" argument against Bitcoin?
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by danjac 5y ago
Yes: I noticed in Tallinn the police cars were called "Politsei" (from German Polizei ) in contrast to Finnish "Poliisi" (from Swedish Polis ).
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by danjac 5y ago
Sure: the point is that every language has its own set of difficulties and hurdles, and your existing knowledge of other languages may remove or lessen some of those hurdles. So a Farsi speaker will not need to learn the Arabic alphabet fro
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by danjac 5y ago
Sorry that sentence wasn't clear: Finnish is easy if you know Estonian, and Polish is easy if you know Czech.
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by danjac 5y ago
Finnish and Polish are relatively easy if you know Estonian or Czech. Arabic is probably easier if you know another Semitic language such as Hebrew, or at least another language written in the Arabic alphabet, such as Farsi or Urdu. Also &q
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by danjac 5y ago
> but at the end of the day I'm optimizing for my own quality of life. All well and good, but the economic and environmental effects of everyone "optimizing for their own quality of life" without regard for others means ev
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by danjac 6y ago
It depends on motivation: is my motivation to learn something new or play around for fun? Then I'll choose whatever I'm interested in learning. If the motivation is to build something I actually need independent of the stack - in
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by danjac 6y ago
These two examples do feel like strawmen, and are somewhat simplified. For example, "product-led" in this example lumps together PMs, designers and developers into a single group, whereas in fact there is conflict inherent in feat
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by danjac 6y ago
Same. Although I have a Spotify account, if a podcast moves exclusively to Spotify (e.g. Rogan or Last Podcast on the Left) I pretty much stop listening to it.
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by danjac 6y ago
I'm not sure whether it's due to the language or community, but it's the same with Go: there's a preference for libraries and very light frameworks over full-stack like Django/Rails/Laravel.
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by danjac 6y ago
I once passed some take-home test from a small startup. They then requested a further take-home which a) would be monitored (it was a remote position) and b) would require some six to eight hours and c) would have to be done over the weeken
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by danjac 6y ago
FAANG jobs are one thing: they are so big they have to have filters, even if those filters lose good people. Small companies cargo-culting FAANG interview processes on the other hand...
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by danjac 6y ago
If you were to compare it to a homeowner, tech debt for the average startup is more like someone deciding to build their own house with neither relevant skills, planning permission nor expert advice and desperately trying to keep the whole
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by danjac 6y ago
In the UK the governments of the 70s and 80s stopped building houses and started selling off their existing housing stock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_Act_1980 > By 2013, some tenants who had purchased the
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by danjac 6y ago
While the empire continued until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 (depending how you define "empire") the Justinian plague did effectively end the campaign to retake Italy and reunite the Mediterranean under Roman rule. But it m
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by danjac 6y ago
Spotify has basically invented this new thing called "radio".
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by danjac 6y ago
> I use Kubernetes on AWS, but don’t fall into the trap of thinking you need this. I learned these tools over several years mentored by a very patient team. I'm productive because this is what I know best, and I can focus on shippin
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by danjac 6y ago
Often the developers have very little choice. They're handed a spec and told "go make this" and what they make has to be pixel perfect. Personally I think that very very few businesses actually need to do this, and adopting t
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by danjac 6y ago
Arguably beyond a certain size and other than some basic rules around things like good behaviour and ethics, I'm not sure you can have a one-size-fits-all for a company (or any other) culture.
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by danjac 6y ago
Fiefdoms are bad, but is a company monoculture necessarily a good thing? Perhaps different teams (especially if geographically dispersed) can adopt a culture that works for them rather than follow some top-down mandate that they'll fol
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by danjac 6y ago
I think the comparison is not so much lines of code but conceptual overhead. With Flask you create an app instance and call @app.route() with some Python functions and run the app. Granted it's probably not going to do much, and by the
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by danjac 6y ago
It may just take a few minutes of the day, but it's probably the most irritating and demoralizing few minutes of the day.
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by danjac 6y ago
You can use Slack. If you have a problem, raise it in the relevant channel or reach out to the relevant expert. There's no reason to make that something that has to be done once a day. If you want to know who is working on what, again
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by danjac 6y ago
I've used more component-based frameworks like Bootstrap before, but I've found it's easier to have a set of utilities and build my own components on top of that.
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by danjac 6y ago
This is a great idea...unfortunately a company that skips on Django security patches and bug fixes will very likely be doing the same for everything else (frontend libraries, servers, etc). But there's not much you can do when you&#x27
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by danjac 6y ago
Just upgraded my side project to both Django 3.2 and Tailwind 2.1 (with Jit enabled). No issues at all, other than some deprecation warnings on some 3rd party packages that will probably be fixed soon.

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