danjl

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by danjl 2y ago
Why not look for a job with a established development team? I cannot imagine how anything could replace the experience you get from working directly with other developers. You will learn more than just technical skills. You'll learn mo
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It can also be helpful to make sure interviewers can clearly say yes or no about a candidate. If you're not there, ask whatever you need to get there. If you never get to yes then it's a no.
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Being the most popular comes with big benefits. There are far more articles about how to support issues that you run into, and many more libraries available for your use. While other libraries maybe "better"in some cases, giving u
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Pay. Simple. The enshitification is a direct result of the free business model, where the users of the service are actually the product, and the advertisers are the real customers. Even if kagi feels too expensive, you are still voting with
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by danjl 2y ago
Why not just get written feedback from interviewers rather than adding so much drama? Yes, social dynamics can play a significant role if you pull everyone into a room to hear their initial opinions. And worse if you have more than their pe
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Learning a new syntax takes a day or two, a week or two at the most. Having a site or product that helps you with that doesn't seem important, at least to me. The hard part about learning a new language is learning how to use it, not
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I understand the frustration, but this article is just conspiracy theory based anecdotal data l. The claim that the engineers don't understand the Google search algorithm is not backed up by anything aside from a casual conversation wi
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Google's customers are advertisers. Customers are the people who pay you money. Consumers are just the product.
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This has all happened before. This will all happen again. Everyone felt the same way about TypeScript. Types feel annoying at first, if you lived without them. Using untyped libraries is annoying until they all have types, which happens ove
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The third version works
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The backup mitigates the problem because, if you are banned, which only happens to fools and fakes, you can take the backup and set it up on another service. Sure, you lose a couple of days of time migrating, but that's not a reason to
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Just make the Designer the Product Manager, or get rid of the PM title entirely. After all, the process of navigating features and fixes to move the product forward is really a design job, not a management function. Also, the more the techn
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At a startup you can run your company on the communication tools provided in Google workspace. There's much more to this than calendar and email. Tagged comments for coordinating actions, using gdocs with meetings and transcription and
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There's are several third party Google backup services for the paranoid...
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Or, you can look at the positive contribution that AI is adding for developers. This is true even for curmudgeons like me that tried it early on and had bad experiences. Using AI to look up documentation, and asking the AI to summarize alte
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by danjl 2y ago
This looks cool and +1 for the 37Signals and Basecamp folks. I need to verify that I'll be able to spin up GPU enabled containers, but I can't imagine why that wouldn't work...
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Great to hear you've improved serverless debugging. What if my endpoint wants to run ffmpeg and extract frames from video. How does that work on serverless?
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Sure, but those don't support local deployment, at least not in any sort of easy way.
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Nice, but I like my servers and find serverless difficult to debug.
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I love that the only alternative is a "pile of shell scripts". Nobody has posted a legitimate alternative to the complexity of K8S or the simplicity of doctor compose. Certainly feels like there's a gap in the market for an o
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It would be wonderful if the world could accept blunt feedback. It is certainly easier to give and more in-line with what most technical people would prefer. However, we work with humans, and we have learned an awful lot about how humans re
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Actually this is good advice for giving feedback to anyone.
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Sounds to me like you need to do more testing. You should have automatic integration tests that run with your CI/CD pipeline to make sure you don't break seemingly unrelated bits, and most importantly you need to actually test the
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And how does that help the company? So you can fire them and have to train up a new replacement to make new mistakes? Or, instead, promote the manager who made a bad decision? Besides, blaming the LLM is probably even easier! I definitely a
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If the items in this meeting were put into a shared document, not only would you stay on the same page, but you would have a searchable history, which becomes valuable as time moves forward. What really triggers my red flag here, though, is
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Right. Also use the @user comments to notify people as needed.
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Use Google docs. Ideally, everything or as much as possible should be public and accessible to anyone on the team. Especially planning and scheduling documents. Each meeting should have an agenda attached to the meeting on the Calendar. Eac
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It's funny how folks see their jobs as safe, but nearby jobs that they don't understand as at risk. In this case, actors are safe, but VFX better be worried. Ben knows actors are artists and it's going to be hard for an AI to
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All the creatives are worried that Gen AI will steal their jobs. Seems to me that the most likely candidate for replacement is the manager. Their primary job is summary and communication, an ideal fit for an LLM. If you already coordinate y
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Using coding tests to hire developers is like asking a CPA to complete an arithmetic quiz.

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