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by fierro 8y ago
see: gitlab
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by fierro 8y ago
everyone from high school is a real estate agent
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by fierro 8y ago
I think he meant that it changed the nature of error handling, and thus changed the way developers think about bugs and the way we encounter them. Errors are returned from function calls, and callers are expected to check the value of that
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by fierro 8y ago
lmaoo Go2 will fix this btw
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by fierro 8y ago
I choose to split out a new service if I need - independent deployment of this service - independent scaling of this service - independent implementation stack for this service
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by fierro 8y ago
I was not implying it's wrong to disagree here. It goes without saying everyone is entitles to their opinion. I'm just searching for the term to describe what I mentioned in my comment.
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by fierro 8y ago
"cloud isn't the big market" sorry lost me there
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by fierro 8y ago
anecdata; I have never met a dev or a shop that uses Azure. Maybe the SF bay area is so heavily AWS/GCP that's all I hear about, but I have had the same experience as you
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by fierro 8y ago
excellent analogy
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by fierro 8y ago
where is this job located, that matters a lot in evaluating if you "got screwed" by being at total comp 225k after 2 decades. For comparison, 175k was my total comp at Bay Area job out of college.
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by fierro 8y ago
lifestyle creep is real
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by fierro 8y ago
is there a word for this misstep or bias or whatever it would be called? When you make an un-credentialed analysis/criticism of another entity's action when that entity specializes in and is ostensible optimized for that action?
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by fierro 8y ago
innovation takes time. There's no obvious reason to me that automated deliveries can't materialize in the future.
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by fierro 8y ago
preach!
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by fierro 8y ago
lol yep. my friends in Medellin make about 500$ a month and live great. They get to eat out occasionally, party, go on trips. Nothing lavish, but sustainable.
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by fierro 8y ago
interestingly, Texas keeps a record of the last statements made by death row inmates uttered before execution. I'm not sure if other states do this. https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.h...
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by fierro 8y ago
interesting you mention UCSF. I just met someone working in the lab that is doing this research, and was astonished to discover patients are awake during brain surgery for this exact reason; to discover and preserve the parts of the brain
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by fierro 8y ago
Just having strong typing alone has reduced the number of bugs for me, speaking anecdotally
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by fierro 8y ago
"Go is a crap language, you didn't even state any 'facts' why Go is good!" >> does not provide 'facts' why Go is crap
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by fierro 8y ago
exactly. Like an irrational number.
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by fierro 8y ago
it sounds like what you're describing is encoding. It's all bits, right, and the nature of the data (the thing itself) is determined by the way you assign meaning to those bits. Can't really blame frameworks for operating i
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by fierro 8y ago
loving all these armchair scientists thinking they've found "the" flaw in a company they read one article about
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by fierro 8y ago
I feel HN really needs to start making a distinction between salary and compensation. Especially for mid level to senior deva, equity and bonus can make up over 50% of total compensation, changing the nature of the question and the convers
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by fierro 8y ago
Come to SF then you will think nyc transit is quite strong in fact
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by fierro 8y ago
More capital allows you to balance risk better (in this case, buying a bunch of IOUs, vs an individual holding one)
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by fierro 8y ago
Precisely
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by fierro 8y ago
Yeah he said 500k. I Initially thought the same as you, 1-2mil. 500k for a senior dev is actually not too far out there. I have an L3 friend at Google (l3 is new hire level) who has been at the company for almost 2 years and who's tota
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by fierro 8y ago
and the apps script that can run inside Google Sheets is pretty neat as well
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by fierro 8y ago
all merchants who accept credit cards incur fees for doing so and pass that cost on to consumers. Not using credits cards is giving up the opportunity to recapture some of that cost in the form of rewards. There is not a good reason to no
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by fierro 8y ago
Every storm is perfect

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