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by danwee 3y ago
I'm using ChatGPT... who needs Google for translation? Either you know a little bit the target language and you are able to spot wrong translations (both in Google translate and ChatGPT) or you don't know enough about the target l
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by danwee 3y ago
Who maintains the code written by those remote junior devs? If the answer is: the team that owns the project, then effectively, these remote junior devs are producing legacy code the moment they finish their job. If the answer is: the remot
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by danwee 3y ago
But you do realise that other engineers may do it, right? Ultimately the managers or executives are the ones behind it.
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by danwee 3y ago
Google engineers or Google managers/business units? I don't think regular engineers have the voice to drive these kind of things. Sure, engineers are the ones implementing it, but at the end of the day it needs the approval of man
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by danwee 3y ago
Honest question: does the company one is applying to needs to know our age? Let's say I'm 45 like you, but I cut my CV to include only the last 13 years (because I like to keep my CV one page only and because what I did 20 years a
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by danwee 3y ago
I would love to work as an Infra engineer. The biggest downside is that then you have to be on-call. I couldn't hate more being on-call. As a regular software engineer I hate being on-call for "normal" issues (e.g., a bug in
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by danwee 3y ago
Agree with the sentiment (statically-typed languages are cool), but TS is not ideal. Is the best we have if you want something JS-like, but try to explain the following monstrosity to a junior colleague who's starting with TS in the co
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by danwee 3y ago
If the company doesn't have a decent on-call plan for such issues that happen outside of regular hours, then why on earth should I be the one who has to fix that? The company is not making me a favor by giving me a job, nor I am making
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by danwee 3y ago
> If you work more then you should get paid more I guess you meant "if you produce more then you should get paid more", right? If so, yes I agree. But if you imply that just by working 25% more hours peer week than my peers I s
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by danwee 3y ago
There is a huge difference between "doing the bare minimum" and working outside of your regular working hours. One can do nothing at all working 10h/day, while another can provide high value working 9-5 (or even less). Obviou
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by danwee 3y ago
Indeed, but I think we are too late for that. It's not like the usage of GOTO: someone who mattered wrote that its usage should be considered harmful, and hence nowadays GOTO has practically a niche usage. If only someone that mattered
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by danwee 3y ago
What an argument. Sun: can I live forever in a cave so I don't get any sunlight? No, you can't (in practical terms). But you can use sunscreen and you can limit the number of hours you get exposed to sun (don't be a dick and
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by danwee 3y ago
> But alcohol is a cheap, readily available blunt instrument against this pain. No matter how bad you feel, if you down a litre of booze, that pain will definitely, and quickly, stop. Never happened to me. I'm not a drinker but I ha
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by danwee 3y ago
BTW, really dislike when companies call us such names. I imagine the reason is to create an atmosphere of security/family, but on me it creates the opposite reaction.
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by danwee 3y ago
> * Most phone calls could have been an e-mail, with screenshots, facts, and numbers in it. On the phone, the caller has to read it out aloud, and I have to write it down. That is not efficient. - You assume people know how to use e-mail
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by danwee 3y ago
Maybe offtopic: are take home projects or whiteboard excersises still needed for senior and staff positions? I had the impression that for anything below senior, yes these things were required, but for anything equal or above senior, the fo
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by danwee 3y ago
Perhaps I'm a bit cynic here but this whole mess, turmoil, and hype is so far playing in our advantage (as "engineers"). If any, the real ones that are losing are the companies themselves (because we could work much much effi
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by danwee 3y ago
If I'm interviewing person A and person B, all things being equal, I'll go for the one that has a degree on CompSci (or equivalent). That's it. It's not that difficult. Obviously if person A doesn't have a degree bu
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by danwee 3y ago
> Every time I fought the double daily standups, the pointless plannings (where we plan when we know nothing, and by the time we get to work on the tasks, everybody forgets what they agreed on), I failed. That's because indirectly y
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by danwee 3y ago
Roles are meaningless, every company have their own. If you think you are senior, you'll put the "Senior..." in your linkedin profile (and CV) to get future offers. So I don't think you're taking a step back at all
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by danwee 3y ago
I thought it was clear, but perhaps my English is not at that level yet. All the bullet points except the last one were more or less tongue in cheek. Sure, long names are required some times, just like super short names have their place as
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by danwee 3y ago
Look, do suggest whatever you want, but if I'm maintaining an important codebase, I'll reject BS like: - features without tests - extraLongNamesJustBecauseYouHaveWorkedTheLastTenYearsInAJavaShop - domain logic in my "Http con
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by danwee 3y ago
Well, you only have to pay $3.5K to find out!
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Ask HN: Is 12factor.net Still Relevant?
15 points by danwee 3y ago|6 comments
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by danwee 3y ago
It's the year 2023, and the human race cannot simply just talk to fix issues. Incredible. To kill (or hurt) other human beings to protect "your" land or "your" loved ones baffles me. Yes, I love my loved ones (wow)
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by danwee 3y ago
> You have to do “team” things too, and part of that is knowing what your team mates and boss are doing and expecting. How are you planning on doing that without talking to them? You can talk without having weekly scheduled 1:1s. If ther
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by danwee 3y ago
> Their VR "visions" differ but only at the margin. No matter how you execute it, we are talking about people (homo sapiens) putting a major something on their heads that dramatically takes over their visual field for the pursu
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by danwee 3y ago
> Regional trains are as clean as any other trains. ICE really aren't that nice (and I find it hard to accept the price difference on that basis - the only reason why I'd ever take ICE is because I don't feel like taking 5
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by danwee 3y ago
For the ones who don't live in Germany: it's just for regional trains. So for instance if you would like to travel from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt (~200 km) people usually take ICE trains (direct, around 1h 45min. and 90 euros if you
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by danwee 3y ago
> It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the moving pieces Exactly my thoughts! Isn't there something (open source and as good as Prometheus+Grafana) that doesn't have as many moving parts as the stack used by OP? I can imagi

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