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Ask HN: Ex-SWEs, what are you doing now?
13 points by emerongi 3y ago|1 comments
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by emerongi 3y ago
It's also because the employer has invested a fair bit of time/money into you and would like to see you take more responsibility after doing so. This is most obvious with juniors, where besides the salary cost, there are hidden co
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by emerongi 3y ago
I prefer either being in-office or being completely isolated and having complete freedom if working from home. Working from home and having to work by a schedule and do daily video calls feels like taking the bad parts of both options.
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Today you, tomorrow me (2010)(old.reddit.com)
1 points by emerongi 3y ago|0 comments
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by emerongi 3y ago
For what it's worth, there's many people who agree with you, myself included. Modern society has created unnecessary work, stressors and pressures that are quite artificial. Everybody goes along without questioning it, at least no
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by emerongi 3y ago
You don't think $250k comes with high expectations as well? Salary doesn't always correlate with stress - min. wage workers are probably just as stressed, if not more -, but from my experience, my stress level has increased the mo
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by emerongi 3y ago
> Greenfield projects are 1% of a SE job. 99% is dealing with the after-effects of the decisions made during the 1% ;).
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Burnout(drewdevault.com)
304 points by emerongi 3y ago|124 comments
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by emerongi 3y ago
I used to live in an apartment where the upstairs neighbour would just randomly start trampling super hard. If it had been a constant noise - like the cars driving outside - my brain would probably have gotten accustomed to it. It seemed to
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Helix 23.03(helix-editor.com)
228 points by emerongi 4y ago|93 comments
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by emerongi 4y ago
I noticed that if you drag a habit to the last position, but a little bit too far, the app crashes. Excellent app otherwise, I really like the simplicity! :)
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by emerongi 4y ago
> It has ways to indicate "things are in flight" but for distant deployments you probably still need to write JS to manage some in-page elements for reasonable feeling UX. Most JS UIs behave like this: open a list view, watch a
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by emerongi 4y ago
A plumber's house always has a dripping tap.
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by emerongi 4y ago
Companies that use newer or niche languages are more forgiving and understand that there's fewer specialists, therefore they are more accepting of people who don't have much experience in the language. Competition is still high in
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by emerongi 4y ago
> What should I do to get to a point where I feel confident enough to actually send in applications? If you apply for a junior position: no need to do anything. Everything is relative to what kind of a job you want. LeetCode problems are
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by emerongi 4y ago
If you only care about the final image size, then `docker build --squash` squashes the layers for you as well.
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by emerongi 4y ago
You can think of maintenance as one sub-branch of software development, usually containing tasks that do not create immediate value for the business, but need to be done to be able to add new features. It's also a good way to make it c
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by emerongi 4y ago
How to turn a 1x developer into a 10x developer? Stop using Hibernate. I might still have psychological trauma from it.
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Less gym time, same results: Why ‘lowering’ weights is all you need to do(ecu.edu.au)
202 points by emerongi 4y ago|211 comments
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by emerongi 4y ago
A type system saves a lot of time when reading code that has been written by other people and has evolved over time. In Elixir, I often end up adding debugging statements to code and running it, just to check the data structures. A type sys
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by emerongi 4y ago
There's definitely a movement towards simplicity, adjacent to the movement towards complexity. For example Phoenix LiveView, which provides a SPA-like experience to the user while keeping the logic server-side. Making a beautiful, rich
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by emerongi 4y ago
> The AI has no idea how this particular case differs from the sample code it was trained on It can eventually figure a lot of things out if you provide the correct requirements and examples. However, the caveat with all of this is that
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by emerongi 4y ago
What I did is that I looked into a couple of forward-thinking pension funds in my country. These are ones that only invest in index funds and have very low fees. From those, I picked three index funds that felt good - one covering Europe, o
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by emerongi 4y ago
> site I'm going to rewrite I personally wouldn't expect a CTO to spend too much of their own time on building a website. Usually the CTO works more in a strategic capacity, ensuring the company is spending time on things that
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by emerongi 4y ago
Premature optimization is the root of all evil. It's almost always better to start by using a specialized service, even if it's overpriced. Later on you can evaluate much more adequately if you'd save money/time by build
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by emerongi 4y ago
Gitsigns was good enough for my workflows: https://github.com/lewis6991/gitsigns.nvim Besides showing the git signs in the gutter, it can do staging, diffing, navigation between hunks, line blame, can show deleted line
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Ask HN: Are there senior positions where you get to focus purely on programming?
1 points by emerongi 4y ago|1 comments
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by emerongi 4y ago
Git is not that convenient to use on the phone.
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by emerongi 4y ago
Personally, I'd like to take notes with vim (or helix), however somehow it's still an unsolved problem to sync files with end-to-end encryption between devices, without also having to use some specialized application. Obsidian is
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by emerongi 4y ago
I feel like I take positive experiences as granted and don't feel like they are noteworthy. Negative experiences are something to avoid in the future and I remember them extremely well.

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