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by gombosg 4y ago
Absolutely, see all the Github and Stackoverflow clones polluting search results all over the web. :D
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by gombosg 4y ago
Absolutely good points! I used to work in a (Scrum) team where 80% of our projects were in maintenance mode exactly the way you described. It felt horrible to work there as an engineer (at least for me who enjoys creative processes and deve
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by gombosg 4y ago
I'm working at a startup's engineering & product team as an engineer. I think it's not fundamentally different from how most software engineers work. We work on: - The why: business/leadership, and to some extent, pr
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by gombosg 4y ago
Ahh, good to know. I jumped ship with a full ENEX export to Joplin about 4 years ago. Haven't looked back since then, although my needs are simple, not power user-like.
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by gombosg 4y ago
Backend for frontend! Specialized microservices that serve some frontend-consumable APIs e.g. when other internal APIs are too cumbersome to use or change too frequently.
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by gombosg 4y ago
One advantage is that it supports displaying events from multiple Google accounts at the same time. :)
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by gombosg 4y ago
I think that often it's not just coding style (yes, a linter should catch indentation errors), but coding conventions/requirements to enforce an idiomatic code structure in the code base. Linters can't catch that. E.g. how to
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by gombosg 4y ago
This reminds me of this video: Jordan Peterson - What Kind Of Job Fits Your IQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2mxdrTP-os
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by gombosg 4y ago
Wrist rests work great for me, maybe everybody's body reacts differently. What helped me a lot was 1. learning touch typing (a lot less strain on fingers & wrist), 2. using vim shortcuts which leads to less mouse usage (I'm ju
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by gombosg 4y ago
I think that this is the worst part. We gradually forget how to do nothing, how to stare out a window and just daydream or read something. Not being busy or productive every moment.
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by gombosg 4y ago
> Now that app makers have realized we're muting our phones and disabling app notifications, they're doing them within the apps... It creates dependency and anxiety. This is so true and so widespread that I haven't even re
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by gombosg 4y ago
Haha, I had fun making this a week ago, to learn more about the inverse: "Number of 'layoff' posts on HN vs NASDAQ" https://imgur.com/a/v4qPut5
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by gombosg 4y ago
At $job we're using the DACI framework for this kind of architectural decision making and it works really well! The framework defines roles (driver, decision maker etc) which helps with the process. So a document (with a template simil
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by gombosg 4y ago
I'm a bit skeptical here. We should ask the question: why are we reviewing code in the first place? This has some hot debates on HN every now and then, and it's because reviews are not just automated checks but part of the enginee
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by gombosg 4y ago
You mostly can't break computers, except when stuff actually breaks in production and it hurts users/customers a lot. And thus we have engineers responding to incidents and writing postmortems. :D I have learned a lot from alert a
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by gombosg 4y ago
Awesome article! > Typing can be the bottleneck Agree! Learning touch typing (at 30 :)) was a big relief for my fingers and wrists. Also it's important to have a good mechanical or scissor keyboard so that typing actually feels good
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by gombosg 4y ago
Perfectly, according to test results! :P https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...
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by gombosg 4y ago
My experience at $previousjob... Another issue (and argument for job-hopping/frequent job switches unfortunately) is that it's often easier to get a promotion i.e. a higher job title by switching jobs rather than going through a l
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by gombosg 4y ago
I used to use HomeBank ( http://homebank.free.fr ), now just a LibreOffice spreadsheet. I think for personal finances, it's perfectly fine to just record monthly total expenses as a bulk sum, for each account. Unless 'so
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by gombosg 4y ago
Engineering productivity is not measured by LoC but by business outcomes, that's also what the author of the article is arguing about. I'm not so fond of the phrase "software engineer" in that it's not a hard engine
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by gombosg 4y ago
Absolutely agree! What I've seen as a good compromise for startups is to pay generously (~30-40%) above the best local rates but of course below US/SV rates. You can be confident that you're earning more than you could in bas
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by gombosg 5y ago
Yes, for JVM, it's not that trivial and non-blocking code is definitely not mandatory. Our app backend has been written in a blocking fashion and we are gradually transitioning to non-blocking code. Your question is very valid as the J
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by gombosg 5y ago
Yup, I agree that the author is missing the point here. You can mix these syntaxes and have, say, "await Promise.all" without guilt.
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by gombosg 5y ago
As a fullstack dev, I worked with - Spring MVC (Java Futures) - Spring Webflux (Reactor observables) - Scala (Scala Futures & for comprehensions) - TS async/await - Angular observables - React hooks (which combined with Redux, Reac
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by gombosg 5y ago
I mapped it to the ctrl key. Very convenient!
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by gombosg 5y ago
I often find this for some libraries. Like the new library Foo.js "inspired by Bar and Baz, but better", where the documentation is made up of, say, two simple examples and that's it. Fortunately, often this is not the case a
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by gombosg 5y ago
Also you can think out of the box and realize that you may not need a monospaced font for development, but a font that has the advantages of monospaced fonts. I've been using Input Sans for years now. See at: https://input.d
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by gombosg 5y ago
It's crazy that we're living in the world of (almost) infinitely available information, big data etc. in 2022, but recruiters are still often secretive and shady. For the general audience, let me drop some advice here that helped
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by gombosg 5y ago
For non-English content, it's similar, with auto-generated Google Translated trash content treated as more relevant than content originally written in the same language. I used to struggle sometimes with DuckDuckGo but 90% of the time
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by gombosg 5y ago
That browser toolbar was called stumbleupon.com :) Good memories of a somewhat different web!

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