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by dave_sid 8y ago
It’s fashionable just now to hate monoliths, so much so that developers would probably be afraid to suggest anything other than creating a suite of microservices for fear of sounding backward or inexperienced. It’s a bit like if anyone ever
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Read Clean Code by Robert Martin
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Yeah I agree. The way this thread is going you would think that all errors are easy and all you have to do is what the computer tells you and you’re done. I wish I’d known it was all that simple!
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by dave_sid 8y ago
But is the code review review review the manager’s manager’s job?
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Coding on a whiteboard while being questioned by two or more interviewers isn’t really a true representation of a work situation. It’s always more stressful and some people thrive on it, some people don’t. Im not sure what the better altern
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Correctamoodo. In my recent experience, building a docker image and deploying to ec2 has been 100 times less painful than using lambda. And I can move it all off AWS and run it on a fridge in a matter of hours if I need to.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
I actually got voted down for that! Some laugh in here.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
When the market crashes, they’ll no doubt ride it out and play it by ear. I’ll get my coat.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Have cymbals actually existed for 390 years? Maybe that’s what the Rolling Stones used when they stared out.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
This is great.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
This stuff makes me cringe. Self organising teams. As soon as that’s old news there will be something else that the consultants start peddling.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
If users misuse a UI then the UI wasn’t designed well. If developers misuse REST then it’s their fault for not understanding REST.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Stop scratching my itch
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Yes this annoys me. It’s even worse when X does Y long after they became successful and everyone starts saying they need to do Y to succeed. Well Y wasn’t what made X successful!! I believe that kind of thing is just touted by consultants i
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Maintaining two code bases is not a big deal. Check them both out side by side. There they are right in front of you. Is sold as a bigger problem than it really is.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Half an hour wiring up some well understood rest calls vs tearing your hair out close to a deadline when React won’t call a new feature? Always keep it simple I say.
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Yes I agree. Hybrid platforms always foster great productivity at the start. In the early days it’s like “wow, we just produced two apps in no time at all with one codebase”. But eventually the curve plateaus, and its more like “for F * sa
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by dave_sid 8y ago
It’s incredible the lengths intelligent, experienced developers will go to, to avoid learning iOS or Android development. It’s a small bump to overcome to unshackle your project from an ever changing comfort blanket between yourselves and t
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by dave_sid 8y ago
Remember that writing code is one of many tasks of a software engineer. You need to communicate with stakeholders, understand and help shape requirements, work on estimating (yes unfortunately), liaise with testers, liaise with 1st, 2nd and
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by dave_sid 8y ago
No it's not bike shedding. The team should certainly choose the most appropriate language. Even if not all of them have experience in it. If they decide on clojure then go for it. But agree on something and move on. Also, saving lines
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by dave_sid 8y ago
I agree with you that being comfortable with a stack is not a good reason to use it. Developers need to keep up with emerging languages. Team leads also need to be doing this and provide direction. But as I said, there is more to the succes
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by dave_sid 8y ago
After developing software for 20 years, hearing the argument of ‘X language is better than Y’ gets a bit boring. At the end of the day, you can write shit code or good code in either language in the same way that you can build a shit house
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Ask HN: BandMule.com – my side project
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by dave_sid 13y ago
How do you get to Carnegie Hall?
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by dave_sid 13y ago
"proxies its string argument to console.log()" - Think it's delegation rather than proxy. A proxy would have the same interface as the target.
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by dave_sid 13y ago
I expect backbone forces you to follow good principles such as separation of concerns (data-model from UI code etc.) However, it's still possible to follow good principles using your own design and JQuery, which means you're tied
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by dave_sid 13y ago
I think Zappos still have managers, but they gave them a different name so they could release an article and get some nice PR in the current anti-manager climate. I think managers are being scapegoated as you say. I'd dare any company
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by dave_sid 13y ago
yeah it was that all along :-)
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"The ones who work at Silicon Valley startups and lecture the entire industry about how things work, then surround themselves with like-minded people to have strength in numbers" - Love this... this phenomenon sounds so familiar i
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by dave_sid 13y ago
...yet it always seems to get amazing reviews. I suspect not from people who've actually used the advice to then go on to make a successful business, but rather from people who found it entertaining then put it down again. Thinks like

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