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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> Relax and view it as a challenge: learning how to deal with people that you view as too aggressive/competitive. You make a very good point here! Every company has issues and decisions that you don't agree with for var
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by gedrap 10y ago
I don't think it's a binary thing where you are either playing totally fairly or completely unethically. Most of the businesses have to make tough decisions to survive, not all of them are fair (to users, employees, etc). However,
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by gedrap 10y ago
Well, looks like you are not in a position to change these policies. Therefore, if you regularly feel "a combination of frustration and shame working for them" rather than just a short period of negativeness / sadness that go
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by gedrap 10y ago
But what about all the internet fame? This is a really really dick move by the author.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Nope, I read it. Maybe just didn't explain my point clearly enough. He mentioned that he is using Google Cloud instead of storing images in MongoDB and my question was what's the big deal about it? It doesn't seem like someth
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by gedrap 10y ago
Services can be used and are used when a developer wants to try something fancy in an otherwise boring, simple tech stack. No one says that, it's usually covered as 'best tool for the job' but oh that can be very dangerous.
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by gedrap 10y ago
Exactly. Somewhat dramatic, but equivalent of saying 'decided to use postgresql instead of flat files, therefore scalable'. That's why I was really wondering if there are people who find strong reasons to do that.
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by gedrap 10y ago
When it comes to services, I think it's worth to talk about one common use case which comes with different motivations and problems: adding new features to old, probably poorly engineered, monolithic application. Features that are not
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by gedrap 10y ago
Very true, even though not speaking specifically about the hackathon-starter but for any similar boilerplate project. If you enjoy prototyping and making MVPs, having a boilerplate that you are personally comfortable with and which covers m
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by gedrap 10y ago
>>> Where would I have put my images? In the database: MongoDB. It would require no configuration and almost no code. Why... would anyone actually do that in anything more than a classroom example for an application like the one de
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by gedrap 10y ago
Misleading? Yeah, I can see what you mean. But did it deliver? Absolutely. We can't reduce all the media to some newswire. Creativity is an amazing thing. Sure, it might not match your personal taste but that's also fine. Differen
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by gedrap 10y ago
There were one or two part time engineers, who were freelancing while still at the university, for some time before I joined the company. When I joined the company, there was no monitoring, no tests, no automated deployments (drag and drop
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by gedrap 10y ago
> I think that the fact that these are post-mortems (e.g., dead startups) skews things a little. That's a very good! So it's 5% of startups that posted a post mortem (and it didn't disapear into ether), rather than 5% of a
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by gedrap 10y ago
It probably counts as failure because of poor management, rather than absence of amazing engineers ;)
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by gedrap 10y ago
It was mentioned in the post that companies such Tesla, Theranos, etc are the exceptions and that's absolutely correct (it would be very naive to think otherwise).
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by gedrap 10y ago
Whoops! It happened quite a few times that some artist submitted their work (photos, illustrations, etc), our experienced editorial team polished them and the attention and traffic really kickstarted their career. Here are some selected sto
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by gedrap 10y ago
> For >95% of startups, however, technical diligence is a waste of time for a more fundamental reason: in today's world of SaaS tools, APIs, and cloud infrastructure, most startup ideas don't have significant technical risk.
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Body count rises as Philippines president calls for drug addicts to be killed(asiancorrespondent.com)
203 points by gedrap 10y ago|334 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
A year ago or so, on the front page, there was a post saying that the minimum salary increase after the suit might be done so that there would be less liquid assets (cash in the bank) to split. Because, if I remember well, Lucas wanted to g
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by gedrap 10y ago
Yay. I often find threads where I have an educated guess that there will valuable comments but the thread is very new, not many comments yet, ends up as yet another HN tab that I left open and then go through them all once or twice a week..
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by gedrap 10y ago
What I find more annoying is that it's on the right hand side even though all the other actions (vote on post, vote on comment, reply) are on the left hand side. Seems like a trivial thing but that is annoying quite a bit. >>>
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by gedrap 10y ago
It's hard to say without at least having knowledge of the industry as it's naive to expect that it's the same job market as with the programmers. While it all looks ridiculous from the outside (and media makes it easy to see
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by gedrap 10y ago
But aren't these horribly entitled and grumpy users... toxic?
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by gedrap 10y ago
You might want to go down the super honest route (ask for permission), but there's no precedent for it, cookie disclaimer doesn't count, and it would just hurt you. Unless your target audience is a subset of HN audience or other u
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by gedrap 10y ago
In ideal case, yes, but there's nothing to prevent from just downvoting things that are against your personal opinion. Therefore, it would be abused/ignored. It's not that most of the people are rational and self-critical - m
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by gedrap 10y ago
But people are vocal against pretty much every significant change, aren't they? Think of all the times when Facebook iterated and change the format of the profile. There will always be vocal minority which will never be pleased, no mat
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by gedrap 10y ago
Em, yes and no. I am not a huge fan of tracking as much as possible for the sake of tracking because it's possible with no plan how to utilize the data in mind. When it comes to Google Analytics and etc, I really prefer having a plan i
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by gedrap 10y ago
> This could use a (2015) tag. Whoops. Edited. > The article is a bit rambling Sort of, yeah. The tone is certainly distracting some readers from the message. But I believe the message is very important, especially as data-* is becomi
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Programmers Need to Learn Statistics or I Will Kill Them All (2015)(zedshaw.com)
27 points by gedrap 10y ago|9 comments
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by gedrap 10y ago
Awesome! Drop me an email (in my profile) if you want to talk/brainstorm/share progress, would love to hear about it :)

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