danwee

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by danwee 3y ago
> Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI Isn't it known that what takes the most time (in software engineering) is to understand a given business problem, decompose it in manageable chunks that can
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by danwee 3y ago
> If you're still using VS Code, you're falling behind. For a moment I thought that what would come after that sentence would be "... Use Jetbrains IDEs instead"
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by danwee 3y ago
Europe probably.
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by danwee 3y ago
I think all the jobs I have had in the past (over a decade) as a software engineer were BS. - I have worked for a bank. You tell me why do we need yet another bank nowadays, and why on earth do we need to make a fancy SPA with effects and a
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by danwee 3y ago
The post talks (mainly) about documenting code, but what I usually miss is documentation about the whole repo/project/service. For any piece of code, I can manage to figure out what's going on (unless it's written in a w
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by danwee 3y ago
How so? If there are boring bugs to be fixed, someone will need to fix them regardless of the methodology used.
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Ask HN: Do you consider yourself a better developer than the average one?
2 points by danwee 3y ago|3 comments
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by danwee 3y ago
> You are welcome, I just saved you weeks of onboarding, confusion, and devs passing around .envs on Slack. Don't get it. At one company I worked, .env files for the DEV environment were open (the file itself was stored on Vault, so
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by danwee 3y ago
> When you call a taxi company there's no certainty if or when they'll actually turn up. Ah, that's a good one actually. So, with Uber is there any certainty? Do they give you money back or something if the Uber doesn&#x27
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by danwee 3y ago
I have never taken an Uber. What am I missing? It's just that they are cheaper than conventional taxis? I never had a bad experience with conventional taxis either: I just get in, say address, pay, and get out.
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by danwee 3y ago
Google? If you analyze the situation from the perspective of "Who benefits from it?", then the answer is clearly: Google benefits from it (they are so good, they can mitigate gigantic DDoS attacks). So, I don't think it'
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by danwee 3y ago
> Just the other day I was trying to update eslint dependencies in monorepo only to have builds broken, tailwind stop working on next.js project. Then little tailwind prettier plugin fell off. Some things support ESM, others not yet. Per
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by danwee 3y ago
I love to try multiple color schems for code and the terminal... but if I see no actual screenshots then I'll pass. I mean, isn't that "common sense"? The very first thing one wants to see in a colorscheme is how it look
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by danwee 3y ago
> Online job platforms like Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, etc. Maybe that's the problem. Those platforms are full of garbage job ads. I've never used such platforms (but again, I could be missing something).
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by danwee 3y ago
I don't think this logic is solid. > Avoiding the stress of multiple interviews is almost certainly costing you tens of thousands per year If we are still talking about Western Europe, where almost no one reaches the 100K eur/
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by danwee 3y ago
> So shifting through many garbages to find the one(or two) golden ones is a good effort. I guess that's my trick, then. Somehow I can filter out garbage by just: - reading the job ad - reading the company's website/social
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by danwee 3y ago
Is it only me the one who finds the usability of cameras on smartphones unbearable? I'm not talking about the software but the hardware: smartphones are thin and not as easy to grab/handle as real cameras. Anything that takes more
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by danwee 3y ago
Congrats for launching the product! > These days it is common to apply to dozens of positions (some users track over a hundred opportunities). Honest question: is it that common? I'm an average software engineer in Western Europe. W
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by danwee 3y ago
Depends on your contract I would say. I'm working for a company (not FAANG) that has recently mandated RTO (partially, 2 days/week) but they couldn't enforce to some employees like me because in our contracts it's stated
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by danwee 3y ago
Noob question: why don't governments issue a private key to every citizen so that they can identify themselves "easily" in web forms and the like? The government would keep the corresponding public key. You could go in person
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by danwee 3y ago
> It’s relatively straightforward to find a url friendly string representation that is shorter. Are we talking about shortening the whole URL or shortening specific UUIDs? If the latter then I imagine one would still need to keep track o
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by danwee 3y ago
It's easy to distinguish which jobs are fake and which are legit. At least in IT I can do that. Linkedin is crap, but it's one of the places in which you can get to know which companies are out there.
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by danwee 3y ago
I won't be the one defending Linkedin, but: - I got all my jobs via Linkedin (e.g., either a recruiter reaches to me, or I reach a recruiter working for company X, or I search through their job ads, etc.) - I do not use Linkedin for an
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by danwee 3y ago
So, how do you guys use UUIDs for real? I worked in a company in which they were using UUIDs in Mongo, and of the most painful things were implementing API endpoints that filter resources. Imagine you have an endpoint in which you are filte
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by danwee 3y ago
Am I the only one who either: - waits ~6 months (from release time) before upgrading to a major macOS version - usually skips 1 version in between (e.g., I'm on macOS Monterrey, haven't updgraded to Ventura. I'll upgrade to S
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by danwee 3y ago
The rational part of my brain says: networking matters, for obvious reasons. Having said that, I have over 10 years of experience in the software industry, and my network "size" is essentially zero. I get along well with my peers
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by danwee 3y ago
No. But people in my area were laid off. This is usually not a huge deal in western europe because of the notice period. In Germany it's usually 3 months, so if the company tells you "You're out" (which is extremely unli
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by danwee 3y ago
That's right. It won't make you rich. Just take into account that 100K eur/year is unheard of in other european countries.
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by danwee 3y ago
I didn't mean that there is a problem with such countries. I meant that prices are generally more or less the same (e.g., in the supermarkets, the price of an iphone, cinema tickets, etc.) but salaries are lower (at least in the IT ind
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by danwee 3y ago
From my limited perspective (non-German software engineer working in Germany), Germany is still a great country for people like me: - prices are not that expensive like in the nordic countries. If you cook at home most of the week, you can

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