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by danjac 4y ago
I use Django not just for the framework, but for the larger Python ecosystem of packages for just about any eventuality, whether that be NLTK, pandas, or whatever (and if I didn't need the full weight of Django there's always Flas
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A reasonably-scoped take-home project is fine in isolation. The problem is the sheer number of steps required, of which the project is just one step. For example for a recent position I looked at: 1. Initial interview with some HR person: 1
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Some people here (there is a rude word for these cheerleaders of the feudal system, but I'll save that for less polite corners of social media) saying "he deserves a vacation". A CEO is a leadership role - akin to being prime
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Russia does not have a "justice system" in the way that we would understand it in the West. Instead it has (and indeed, always had) a system of patronage and bribery, where your status within the system determines your sentence. I
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I contribute what amounts to a few euros a month to a few open source projects. I do these because these projects have significantly helped my career and added to my personal enjoyment. Perhaps not much in the grand scheme of things, but I
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It also depends on the larger ecosystem. If you know Python, it's not just Python the language, but the frameworks, libraries and tooling around it that boost productivity in specific tasks: for example Django and Pandas. Rust may have
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Hetzner is excellent value of money, especially if you are based in Europe.
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"The first step is to save and discover freedom" And make sure you don't have kids, health issues, etc etc. You are shrinking your pool of talent quite a bit, don't you think?
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Sure I'm on board. I just want to check first that my mortgage provider, landlord, utilities company and supermarket all accept equity...
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True, but the advancements seem incremental rather than revolutionary (i.e. compared to the first half of the 20th century)
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Maybe, but how much advancement has been seen in aerospace 1977-2023 compared to 1903-1976?
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> There's not a single person on here who wouldn't be making these decisions right now. What about Tim Cook?
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I think the problem with agile (whatever the exact flavour) is that if you don't adopt the mindset across the organization, and just enforce it in your dev team, you just end up with waterfall-with-extra-steps.
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The "insanely detailed deliverables from design" is a red flag and indicates a factory conveyor belt mentality: product comes up with idea, hands off idea to design, design hands off to developers, who then have to implement the d
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There's a difference between, say, a tech worker not making an effort to learn the language because they can get by in English, and someone whose actual job description is to understand the politics and culture of their host country no
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This is why I absolutely avoid using Azure, AWS or GCP for my own side projects. On the company account, sure, it's your money. But I'm not going to risk my savings because I misconfigured a lambda or something.
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If so, doesn't that say something about the low quality of the current crop of CEOs? A smarter CEO might not go on a hiring spree just because everyone else does; or conversely might hire when others are firing as they know they'l
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Sure, but then one questions the need of these extremely-well renumerated CEOs. If they are guided purely by quarterly numbers, stock market trends and industry groupthink, then why not save a fortune and replace them wholesale with an AI.
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Then again, Facebook did a slow rollout - first it was just for American college students, then (if memory serves) it was rolled out internationally for colleges and universities outside the US, then finally it was available everyone. This
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What's weird is that all of these CEOs are saying the same thing: "I hired too many folks a couple years ago, welp, guess I was wrong". You would think some companies hired too many, some hired too few, others more or less
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"I take full responsibility" is the new "our incredible journey" of failing tech company cliches.
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It's a tip of the iceberg. The part you see - the UI - is a small part, the complexity is in the backend (advertising/marketing tools, content moderation, metrics, devops etc). Musk being the archetypal Mr First Principles Guy, he
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The only industry the UK government cares about is providing real estate and money-laundering services to Russian oligarchs and Middle Eastern despots.
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Maybe because there are already major programming languages at that level already, which arguably do things better: if you are going to have a Java-like OO model, then just use Java (and leverage its ecosystem, tooling etc). Whereas there i
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It depends on your needs and workflow. Personally I spend most of my time on my laptop in the terminal, browser, email and one or two other apps like Discord. I just want something that is simple and stays out of my way and I don't wan
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I wonder how much of this is due to Netflix' "algorithm" punishing promising new shows by cancelling them after season 1, or letting shows drag on way past their sell by date (Stranger Things anyone?). In the old days of netw
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Crons are fine for running Django commands that are just talking to the same services as your web views (databases, cache, email services etc). It should be fine to let them run in their dedicated VM/containers, using Ansible etc to ke
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I remember the endless Scrum meetings where we debated points with all the seriousness of medieval monks discussing how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. As a rough heuristic points aren't bad, per se, and they are a bit be
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"irl_chad" is a very apt username here... You could do us all a service by telling us the name of your company so we (especially junior developers) could give it a very wide berth.
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Both these points are unfair to junior developers. Suppose your first job out of college was in crypto? Yeah a mistake, but it shouldn't blacken your entire career, especially if you learned some non-crypto skills in the process. And i

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