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by fhd2 4y ago
Location: Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Generalist. Most recently largely SPA web apps, mobile apps, game development and a bit of Rust Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/felixdahlke Em
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by fhd2 4y ago
It seems a bit cynical to imply that people who care about mentoring juniors prefer to work in an office and selfish people prefer to work remote. Having mentored dozens of engineers, remotely and onsite, my evidence suggests neither approa
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by fhd2 4y ago
Well, I'm thinking about trying consulting so I started to offer free consultations to get better at it - see my profile. I can't think of a lot of generic advise: Sure, people I've talked to over the last 13 months of doing
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Oh, and for when I was running a larger ship with multiple teams, I would just focus on one team at a time, do all of the above there (with the other half of my time dedicated to more high level company wide work), then switch teams after a
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by fhd2 4y ago
Absolutely true, it was nothing but my own failure to not follow whatever "best practices" (how I dislike that phrase) others talked me into. It's lonely to be the only technical guy in the C suite of a tech company, but that
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by fhd2 4y ago
Happy holidays everyone! This is probably the one community I actively participate in. I love the range of topics, the range of opinions, the quality of most comments and the conduct. When I want to really understand something that's g
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by fhd2 4y ago
I either do low value work or, most of the time, I support others. For the juniors on the team, I make myself available for pairing so I can help train them. For the seniors, I help them by writing documentation, reviewing their work and ma
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by fhd2 4y ago
Don't agree with everything, but the opening for sure: "People Who Make Software Happen (you may know them as “programmers”) should have the option to progress their careers without leaving the code face." I was promoted to C
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by fhd2 4y ago
I wonder: Does he (a) truly believe he knows anything about tech, or (b) desperately try to maintain what he knows is a fiction, for his brand of the celebrity wunderkind? If I assume he's smart, I'd think it's (b). But to do
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by fhd2 4y ago
Parent has a point from my experience - most products I worked on never really caught on in terms of being reasonably widely used. I don't think I've ever worked on anything I'd call truly essential. From what I've seen,
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by fhd2 4y ago
I agree with pretty much all the criticism of TFA here, I just want to highlight three, in my experience very real, traps: 1. Interest rates are, at least in Germany, rather high if you didn't manage to save or inherit some starting ca
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by fhd2 4y ago
Let's call it what it is: Guessing. Guessing can be incredibly useful, and I've never seen an engineer or PM refuse to _guess_ (or "project"), because that implies they won't be held to it.
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by fhd2 4y ago
From what I've read, he bought in as an investor and forced the actual founders out. He could just as well have founded his own company, then he'd be a founder, because that's what that word means. I don't see how you sh
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by fhd2 4y ago
There is; grim satisfaction. I'm enjoying it quite a bit over the last couple of weeks.
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by fhd2 4y ago
Sounds like it'd scale well with ChatGPT :P
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by fhd2 4y ago
We already have "everything apps" - it's called a browser. I would indeed be missing that if we didn't already have it. I can also imagine how people might find it convenient to have essentially browser, messaging and pa
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by fhd2 4y ago
Seemed like a genuine question, I was trying to help by explaining my perspective.
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by fhd2 4y ago
I wasn't referring to anything in the article or about including your Mastodon handle in your user name or description. Some people though keep tweeting how they "left Twitter", cross post content etc. I find that a wee bit o
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by fhd2 4y ago
So others know where to find you - there's a bunch of tools for that, but unless you use the same one it doesn't work. Can't think of a more efficient way personally. Though I don't think anyone needs to be obnoxious abo
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by fhd2 4y ago
Hate is not the opposite of worship - he can be great in some areas and a "dumbass billionaire" in others. Looking at history, I can't imagine there's any useful technological advance (or adoption thereof) that depends o
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by fhd2 4y ago
I suppose if you count Windows, Microsoft has captured way more of the market than Sony? Comes down to how the market and what (constitutes a monopoly) is defined though.
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by fhd2 4y ago
That applies to most products I can think of. I suppose the simple answer is that if you want to go mainstream with _anything_ B2C, you need to invest a ridiculous amount of money into marketing. To get that kind of money to play with, I do
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by fhd2 4y ago
I tried to search around for this, but are any organisations doing serious work around detecting ML generated content? Like a (comparatively lame) real life blade runner. Seems there's a lot of stuff around adversarial attacks, but tha
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by fhd2 4y ago
For the purpose of our discussion: None whatsoever. That's my point. Corporate IT mandates what they know/think about, quite often unfortunately without any understanding of the specific needs of employees (like parent). I found i
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by fhd2 4y ago
Sounds like you have slightly unusual needs - I install NPM packages and the like all the time (which I haven't seen any company attempt to oversee yet), but very few binaries. Sounds like you need binaries the way I need these package
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by fhd2 4y ago
Pretty much! It probably sounds lame, but the main reason I enjoy programming is that I can, if I take enough time, reason about everything that's going on and use that knowledge to build, fix and improve systems people get some value
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I had a weird effect with it: I played around with it for about an hour and was pretty impressed - I can't really wrap my head around how it can do some of the things it does. Then I started to see the patterns, and got repeatedly disa
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by fhd2 4y ago
Sounds like they're aiming for PaaS with a proprietary framework? Works for fly.io and others - and if they found a growing niche and are targeting it well... I can picture some of the same techniques that work for B2B SaaS work there.
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by fhd2 4y ago
I started at 24 - certainly regret nothing, but I also can't say it was the smoothest path :D Trying to provide and care while being new to the job market was quite a ride. There's been some changes to make having kids less of a c
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by fhd2 4y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure they're gonna make it related to the browser market by trying to push it on Firefox users. In case it was truly an acqui-hire, I suppose those devs are worth a lot more than the Mozilla devs they let go?

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