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by danjac 6y ago
Sure, I think we're in agreement here. The $dayJob is usually too limited in scope - you can't just drop in, say, GraphQL into a project because you want to learn it (and nor should you). Plus in a large enough company backend dev
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by danjac 6y ago
That's an interesting data point: personally I've never found side projects to have any effect on getting a job - recruiters and interviewers don't care in the slightest about your side project, Github profile or whatever and
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by danjac 6y ago
I'd be interested to know what the rationale for the new design was. Some kind of dark patterns? Make people so disgusted with the web version they just download the native app, which provides better monitoring and "stickiness&quo
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by danjac 6y ago
An authentication protocol that has this many footguns and insecure defaults is probably just not a very good authentication protocol.
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by danjac 6y ago
True, but as the man said in that Gozilla movie, "let them fight". If MS wants to use its legal power and influence to take on Apple's monopoly, that's fine by me. It will make more of a difference than a legion of indie
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by danjac 6y ago
Not that any of this advice is bad - a lot of it I agree whole-heartedly with - but it overestimates the amount of influence developers, let alone junior developers, have on the final design of a corporate site. If management/design wa
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by danjac 6y ago
I don't think you can just blame developers. There is a real fear in the industry of missing out and being left behind, and that if you don't keep your resume filled with the latest buzzwords you will become unemployable. Because
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by danjac 6y ago
They would have been told "great, we understand your concerns, please add a card to the tech backlog (or whatever local jargon is at that team) and we'll address it in the next sprint/dev cycle/quarter". That's
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by danjac 6y ago
Scrum works when you have the right management and engineering culture and alignment of goals. When you don't it just adds more process and overhead with little gain. Unfortunately many companies think that Scrum will magically fix the
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by danjac 6y ago
Experienced engineers are hard to get though, unless they are founders themselves. Early-stage startups tend to rely on the cheapest engineers they can find, and only hire more experienced devs when they've accumulated a pile of techni
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by danjac 6y ago
One good "tell" is when the organization requires more and more metrics, tracking, analysis and "data-driven" solutions into user behaviors. Not that these things are necessarily bad in of themselves (assuming user conse
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by danjac 6y ago
Thankfully we have modern Agile/Scrum with all its process and meetings to soak up that time and give us the feeling of business.
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by danjac 6y ago
Tbf, often contractor developers have tried to do the right thing (e.g. write tests) and been bitten ("I didn't pay for a test suite!"). Individual initiative in the contracting world usually goes unrewarded and is often puni
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by danjac 6y ago
Given the transition period is to end in January 2021, very likely with "no deal" given the current chatter coming out of London and Brussels, the GDPR will only be in force for another few months. I very much doubt the "Vote
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by danjac 6y ago
Yes but they were able to add lots of keywords to their resumes so it wasn't a complete loss.
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by danjac 6y ago
I suspect a certain government advisor, notorious for driving across country during a lockdown as a bizarre form of eye test, wants to siphon private information to data mining companies owned by his friends in order to manipulate future el
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by danjac 6y ago
> We (well, Europeans) I think the Polynesians would like a word. And the "vast economic benefits" are dubious given the total human cost of introducing new diseases into unprepared ecosystems and populations - plus the import
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by danjac 6y ago
I don't know enough about any of the relevant fields to speak with confidence about what advancements are more likely to happen in the next few decades, but it feels that the number of things we'd need to get better at to send hum
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by danjac 6y ago
Then why even call it a "Manifesto"? Why the need for a "movement"? These imply a struggle against something that needs to be overthrown or toppled. If you want to start a sensible discussion about "using the right
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by danjac 6y ago
I'd understand if these generalizations came from young and inexperienced developers still figuring stuff out, but you also see them from older developers - they might still irrationally hate on, say, PHP or Java based on their experie
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by danjac 6y ago
I dislike these absolutist statements and manifestos. The real world is kind of complicated. What problems are you trying to solve? Will a framework help you solve those problems? Is the solution better served by gluing libraries together?
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by danjac 6y ago
Another example would be automated checkouts - that came much later in Finland compared to the UK. I think there's a good point there that the duopoly stifles innovation, plus there's just a much smaller market and less pressure t
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by danjac 6y ago
It's interesting that some successful ideas were born out of tangential side projects - wasn't Slack originally just a chat room inside a game? But executing on the original idea surfaced a more profitable idea - kind of like mini
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by danjac 6y ago
That's interesting - I live right next to a K-Market and I'm not in a risk demographic so not had the need, but when I moved from the UK to Finland some 10 years ago one thing I missed was that the UK supermarkets at the time had
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by danjac 6y ago
I've worked/consulted at quite a few places where the code quality ranged from mediocre to abysmal. These companies were launched pretty much by people with an "X for Idiots" book on their lap or who hired their teenage
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by danjac 6y ago
They're just capitalizing on the leetcode interview fetish among certain cargo-culting startups.
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by danjac 6y ago
The funniest ones are those who need your thing for their professional work, yet treat you as if you were a fully paid contractor at their beck and call.
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by danjac 6y ago
Not judging you or your friends, but perhaps those who can do hobbies just for fun are in a position of privilege (enough time, money, financial and professional security) to be able to do so? The "hustle culture" is very real and
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by danjac 6y ago
I also wonder how much the current epidemic and increased migration towards WFH will affect native mobile app usage, particularly among non-driving commuters. People will be using desktops more for casual browsing, and thus likely to be usi
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by danjac 6y ago
For all the talk of "resume driven development" I think most developers - unless they are playing around with side projects and non-essential experimental stuff - prefer to do the simplest thing that will get the job done and keep

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