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by danjac 3y ago
There's a happy medium. Even a startup can do with some well-maintained READMEs. But the problem with startups is churn, which makes for docs that rapidly go out of date, and the only thing worse than no docs is out of date docs that l
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by danjac 3y ago
"Always hiring" could mean rapid growth: for 2-3 years though that may mean a lot of chaos as you are constantly square-bashing new hires into teams. On the other hand, it could mean high turnover. Looking at their Glassdoor revie
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by danjac 3y ago
Agencies do not exist to build great software. I mean sure, it helps if their output is good enough to guarantee more work, but that's not why they exist. Their purpose as a business is to generate billable hours. Customers do not hire
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by danjac 3y ago
It's not happening fast enough. For greenfield projects, new startups, sure. But the rest of us stuck in legacy-land the toxic waste dumps of these over-engineered behemoths will be with us for years to come.
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by danjac 3y ago
He's a made man, as the Mafia used to say. Once you're in the circle you can keep failing upwards.
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by danjac 3y ago
Where else are the investors investing?
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by danjac 3y ago
In the 90s complete amateurs were able to make "visually interesting results" with little more than Notepad and a copy of "HTML for Dummies".
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by danjac 3y ago
Any artist or designer has to learn their medium before they are allowed to produce designs for it. If you want to learn to sculpt, you have to learn what you can and cannot do with clay; if you want to learn to design clothes, you have to
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by danjac 3y ago
If you are wandering the desert, dying of thirst, and you find a bottle of Coke, you should probably drink it and not worry too much about getting diabetes.
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They don't want it thanks to decades-long misinformation campaign waged with fossil fuel money. The Finnish Greens are pro-nuclear, perhaps because they are not beholden to the same sources of funding as their German counterparts (and
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by danjac 3y ago
Sigh. Oligarch money still flowing, then.
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All true, but right now those risks pale in comparison to the ongoing disasters caused by fossil fuels.
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Above all, journalists should be skeptical of Nate Silver.
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by danjac 3y ago
The German Greens are slowly inching towards nuclear, now the original 1980s membership are dying off and the Gazprom funding is running out: https://www.dw.com/en/german-greens-lay-out-nuclear-power-po...
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by danjac 3y ago
It's not too bad. At least, not nearly as bad as naming your language after the most common English verb of motion, especially when your company is literally Google itself.
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by danjac 3y ago
Not sure what fly.io offers vs Heroku or others (I have played with it some time ago but not used for anything serious), but for an equivalent I'd be looking for automated load balancer setup with SSL, easy scaling up so I can go from
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by danjac 3y ago
There's a sweet spot of early startup or side project where you don't have the time, budget or people to manually set up and maintain servers on your own or deal with the complexity and cost of Kubernetes or AWS, especially when y
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by danjac 3y ago
I use Dokku on top of Hetzner for my hobby projects - hosting is super cheap, for a little extra I can add a mounted volume for storage, and if the project outgrows a single server I can always just break out of Dokku and use some Docker co
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by danjac 3y ago
For hobby projects - where I dare not touch AWS for fear of going bankrupt from a misconfigured service - I found the sweet spot to be Dokku on top of a Hetzner or Digital Ocean instance. It provides a Heroku like interface on top of cheap
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by danjac 3y ago
> It's historically very abnormal for adults to be so fascinated with dragons and other escapist features. Literally the oldest surviving epic is Gilgamesh, which features Tiamat, the mother of dragons.
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by danjac 3y ago
Also, what happened to proper lighting? Even in a night scene, we would actually like to see what's going on, otherwise I might as well listen to a podcast drama.
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by danjac 3y ago
Given actual vs perceived social mobility in the US compared to Europe, it could be argued that the US reached that point some time ago: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/02/14/american...
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by danjac 3y ago
I quote: "IDEs are easy mode and waste of resources. Its ok to start with them as a noob, but down the line i want to customize every part of my toolchain. (And thats just horrible to do in VSCode etc..)"
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by danjac 3y ago
I agree that vim is a perfectly fine text editor. Yet half the (neo)vim people in this thread are yelling it's the One True IDE that can, in fact, do everything, and if you are using VSCode or IntelliJ or whatever then you must be a no
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by danjac 3y ago
> Again, I would like to stress, I am not trying to make any objective claims as to how correct your approach is. I am simply observing that there seem to be broadly two categories of programmers. Those who feel like investing time in le
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by danjac 3y ago
Yes I did, and no it didn't really help. Sure it was a much slicker starting point, but when I needed to do a bit more (ie. configure a formatter) it just added more obfuscation than anything. The "pre-cooked" part does help
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by danjac 3y ago
> I agree that neovim is not for people who are not interested in learning their tools. That, right there, is one of the biggest turnoffs I have encountered from the community. The sheer disdain in that sentence alone. I learn many tool
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by danjac 3y ago
I don't need an IDE for Python. Of course I can use a plain text editor if I want. Hell, nano even. But right now, today, at work, I have a large legacy Django project to maintain, and it's kind of nice having little things like
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by danjac 3y ago
I use vanilla vim when I have to ssh into a server and work on some config files. As such, I much prefer it to nano, and it's installed, or easily installable, on any Linux server. For that use case, it's absolutely great. No comp
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by danjac 3y ago
My feeling is that neovim per se, as a piece of software, is fine, but that it belongs to one of those developer communities that prizes freedom and infinite configurability over the day-to-day practicality of getting things done. So somet

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