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by danjac 6y ago
If a framework/library is very hard to use correctly - even for people who are not only experts, but contributors - then that's a huge red flag against it.
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by danjac 6y ago
Neither did Vue, or Django, or Rails or dozens of other successful and widely adopted technologies. Svelte's issue is probably that it came out a little too late: companies have adopted React, Vue or Angular, and have sufficient inerti
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by danjac 6y ago
I did some React development some years ago, and was glad to move away from it because of the ridiculous churn in the ecosystem. It was like building on top of quicksand. At the time, I thought it was because React was new, and new stuff te
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by danjac 6y ago
Isn't Vercel pretty much just for Jamstack? Not everyone wants or needs that so I'm not sure it's better.
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by danjac 6y ago
Or an easy way for a company to get the credit for a popular post, and hang a contributor out to dry if it's poorly received. Do the work and properly vet and edit your posts, and insist your employees post their own opinions on other
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by danjac 6y ago
Then why not just publish the article on Medium or whatever? Nobody will notice or care about the "Unfiltered" label, they will just associate the authors' opinions with Gitlab regardless.
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by danjac 6y ago
I mean if you want an open source Heroku or you want a cheaper option you can run on a droplet, there's always Dokku. 5 minutes' Googling would have told the author that yet not a mention in that blog post...
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by danjac 6y ago
The thing is, when I've seen code written in startups that have a "leetcode" process, it's ... not great. Lots of premature optimization and code review bikeshedding and not-invented-here, while having big issues around
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by danjac 6y ago
I suspect with some startups is to do with the ecosystem. At first glance it makes no sense your tiny no-name startup adopts a FAANG interview process; it's like running a US Marine bootcamp for your local cub scouts. However the best
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by danjac 6y ago
Too many companies don't realize that interviewing is not just about filling a position: it's also marketing and PR, and you are representing your company to the public. And the thing about marketing and PR, if it's not well
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by danjac 6y ago
Small startup doing FAANG style interviews is like a small startup adopting microservices for their 3-developer team. More red flags than a Soviet May Day parade.
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by danjac 6y ago
Looking through the comments, it appears concerns were raised for years and management refused to allow the necessary changes to save money. While you can and should be the cool head in the room, it's a route to burnout if you end up b
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by danjac 6y ago
Not sure what country the person works in. In addition it could be a situation of a small town / tech backwater and word getting around, regardless of the legal question, so quitting out of contract could get you blacklisted. Ultimatel
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by danjac 6y ago
TBH once you start using a fair number of dependencies (say, your average Flask or Django app) you end up with so many workarounds and flags like ignore_missing_imports that the benefit of mypy is marginal compared with other tools like f
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by danjac 6y ago
Not to mention being closer to the Silk Road trade routes through Asia.
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by danjac 6y ago
To you personally maybe, but not to recruiter filters.
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by danjac 6y ago
"Nobody visited the restaurant that we decided to build in the middle of nowhere and never advertised, so obviously it failed and we closed it down."
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by danjac 6y ago
> He obviously wrote a lot of Facebook's early code. Have you seen Facebook's early code? It's very much "Early 2000s PHP spaghetti written by undergrad on a caffeine bender at 3 am". Facebook succeeded becaus
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by danjac 6y ago
> Apple of course shouldn't be in this list at all, Wozniak was never a CEO and I'm sure he'd be terrible. Wozniak is many great things, but sadly yes he probably would have been: https://www.lamag.com/mag-
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by danjac 6y ago
I've mainly seen this happen when the site/application is very product/design (non-tech) driven and the developers pull themselves and the code into contortions to deliver very exacting requirements. The goal is to deliver a
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by danjac 6y ago
That's how I see it - as a sole developer on a side project, Tailwind is a great force multiplier, much like tools like Hotwire/Turbo, Dokku/Heroku for deployments, frameworks like Rails or Django etc. A large company with fr
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by danjac 6y ago
Which is understandable, if you have services at $B scale. It's a bit like teams that adopt microservices or Kubernetes for their three-person startup: just because Amazon or Facebook do it doesn't mean you should.
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by danjac 6y ago
It's like tech interviewing has become the modern equivalent of the old Chinese Imperial examination: keep your head down, don't rock the boat, study these arbitrary tests to rise in status. A far cry from the early days of HN whe
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by danjac 6y ago
"Too many designers are designing to impress their peers rather than address real business problems." This has its parallel with the developer world, where tech choices are made to impress the peer group (including those in other
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by danjac 6y ago
They might hire the best developers and designers, but the internal politics get in the way of them doing their jobs. UI in particular is prone to antipatterns such as bikeshedding and highest paid person in the room having the final say.
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by danjac 6y ago
> proprietary software is the only option, or the only complete option. If only that were true. I've watched a completely non-IT person work with both vanilla Gnome 3 and Windows 10; they found the former far more intuitive and unob
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by danjac 6y ago
I think at one time there were a number of designers who transitioned from the print/magazine/brochure world to the web. They tended to prize "pixel perfection" and aesthetics over UX and functionality. This way of think
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by danjac 6y ago
What Americans used to call the "company town".
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by danjac 6y ago
Small a, fine, it's a positive little adjective. Big A, run for the hills.
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by danjac 6y ago
The theory (I'd prefer the word "hype") and practice of Scrum are two entirely different things. And of course, if and when it all goes wrong, you're just not doing Scrum right.

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