danjac

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by danjac 3y ago
Sure but for these companies "did some Elixir in a weekend project" doesn't count as experience.
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by danjac 3y ago
It would be nice to work with Elixir, having played around with it. However every Elixir job I've seen requires Elixir experience, so I don't really see much opportunity for working with it professionally.
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by danjac 3y ago
Regardless of whether people liked the content or not: it only employed 23 people (not sure how many were freelance or part time), and I assume it had good traffic throughout its life. Yet it wasn't able turn a profit?
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by danjac 3y ago
The tell-tale sign is when you hear the word "they". "Yes, I know it doesn't make sense, but it's what "they" have been asking for". As opposed to saying, "Steve from Sales was on the call to a c
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by danjac 3y ago
Would be great if they did this in gyms as well. Keep the influencer scum out so people can work out in peace.
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by danjac 3y ago
My tendency now is to aim for over-simplicity in hobby projects. I already have to deal with over-engineered garbage at work I have no choice but to accept, so I don't want to bring those headaches home.
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by danjac 3y ago
Particularly as Stalin himself wilfully ignored intelligence about the imminent Operation Barbarossa, for example from the agent Richard Sorge. And he executed hundreds of capable officers in the 1930s, replacing them with incompetent yes-m
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by danjac 3y ago
Mass transit in the US is a political problem. Political problems in the US are unsolvable by design. So driverless cars it is. Meanwhile countries where political problems are not unsolvable by design (either because they are dictatorships
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by danjac 3y ago
I have never, ever in my career ever seen one "thrown away". Unless the project or startup itself dies, of course. Once something is built, and in production in the hands of end users, it is something that needs to be maintained a
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by danjac 3y ago
For anyone trying to engage with this nonsense seriously: this is just a man with a fragile ego who is annoyed that the public no longer take his brand seriously after the collapse of crypto and other SV-adjacent grifts and wants to keep hi
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by danjac 3y ago
Legally perhaps, but firing people particularly en mass is hard to do right, unless you don't care and you are just prepping for a fire sale. You can lose people who might be key contributors. You can destroy morale in the rest of the
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by danjac 3y ago
Bandcamp has (or had) 118 people. Their business is music, not a chat app, so it will have different needs, both technical and non-technical. Maybe their engineering team is slightly larger than WhatsApp, but not by orders of magnitude. Now
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by danjac 3y ago
That's all very well, but the average person does not have the money to spend on well-crafted furniture. At the end of the day, they need somewhere to store their stuff and a cheap chest of drawers does the job. Ethics about buying cho
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by danjac 3y ago
From the article there is no detail of what problem they were solving, just "we used tech stack A, we ran into issues, so we went with tech stack B". So I have no idea whether MongoDB was a good choice to begin with, or not, or wh
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by danjac 3y ago
Maybe they should take one of their courses.
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by danjac 3y ago
Again, not an area I know much about, but: there are going to be hundreds, if not thousands, of medium sized legal firms in the US handling, say, criminal defence. They can't be that different from one another that they would require
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by danjac 3y ago
By opinionated, do you mean buying specialized off-the-shelf CRM solutions for a specific industry? For example, if the customer runs a legal firm, they should buy a CRM with functionality targeted towards legal firms?
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by danjac 3y ago
Was it Kekkonen who said that the Finnish economy is like a chair, and two of the legs are made of wood? The forestry industry is still a big player, especially with the recent disconnection of Russia from the world economy. Biofuels may pl
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by danjac 3y ago
One thing I love when going on holiday is paying the equivalent of a hotel for the privilege of doing my own dishes and cleaning the place afterwards. And having to sneak out the guiltily because you know everyone else in the apartment bloc
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by danjac 3y ago
Alpine is just used for pure client lightweight interactions, such as toggling a menu (if CSS was insufficient) or (in this case) handling the audio player controls. Of course, I could even go more lightweight, and just use vanilla JS in su
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by danjac 3y ago
I built a podcast library/player[1] using HTMX and Alpine, using Django as the backend. It has an audio player that would stay open and keep playing while the user navigates around the page. This is quite easy to do with HTMX. It'
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by danjac 3y ago
That's about as silly a measure as number of lines of code produced.
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by danjac 3y ago
That appears to be an iceberg problem. While the public UI of Twitter is simple and is often used as the basis of a starter project in training courses, there's also likely to be a lot of backend admin tools for things like moderation,
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by danjac 3y ago
Isn't this basically how Mithril works?
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by danjac 3y ago
Altruistic to whom? How many big companies with turnover in the millions rely on the unpaid work of volunteer open-source developers?
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by danjac 3y ago
Even today, English is still not an official de jure language of the United Kingdom, although Welsh is.
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by danjac 3y ago
Maybe the best way is to avoid these consultancies altogether and create a government digital agency (whether at local or national level). Motivated and well-trained civil servants familiar with the bureaucracy and terminology who can maint
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by danjac 3y ago
I use Dokku for side projects, where I don't expect high traffic, I'm the sole developer and I don't want any unexpected invoices I might get from a cloud provider. You can run it on top of a single cheap VM, for example Digi
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by danjac 3y ago
While there are definitely developers who are enthusiastic about microservices for all the wrong reasons (e.g. it looks good on the resume) I think it's more about how companies deal with complexity. Companies don't just ship thei
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by danjac 3y ago
Moreover success depends on factors that may be tangential to the quality of the project. I have had more Github stars from low-quality "throw over the wall" projects that just happened to use whatever framework/language was

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