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by gorpomon 7y ago
It's presented too dramatically IMO, but the core argument is one we need to raise awareness of: you use energy and emit carbon so a company can run code that in part grooms you into being a better consumer of their products. Brick and
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I just encountered this: a product with numerous reviews but many of them talking about a different item. I assumed it was some id getting migrated or not migrated and as a result reviews ending up on the wrong item-- it didn't even oc
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by gorpomon 7y ago
Just reply that you can't make the meeting, you don't have to give them a specific reason.
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I love reading about Deep South Ventures websites-- the projects are simple but inspiring. They're kind of like the other side of the coin to YC-- they make business seem possible but in a completely different way. Heads up-- something
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I have pretty good insurance by most standards, but a trip to the ER or emergency room for a serious case of food poisoning would be pretty hard to handle. Couple that with often having some important event coming up (project deadline, trav
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I always chime into these articles with the exact same sentiment: this is a business problem, not a developer problem. Developers love simplicity and semantics. But when a UI gets to a certain level of complexity (I say 10 interactions per
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by gorpomon 7y ago
If this article had a "Buy me a beer" link I would have done that 10 times. This team has likely personally saved me 100 hours of pointless labor.
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by gorpomon 7y ago
On a recommendation of another HN user, I picked up the book Atomic Habits recently. That book says it clearly: you don't rise to your motivations, you stoop to the level of your systems and processes. The book also taught me how the h
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by gorpomon 7y ago
Three years is a long time. I've taught bootcamps where I had to do it in 4, 6 or 12 weeks. Three years is luxurious. Here are my initial thoughts: - For a timeframe this long it's less "let me teach you" but more "
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I simultaneously admire modernist architecture while desiring to never live or work in it. It's pretty to look at it, but it is literally and figuratively hollow.
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I ask in the spirit of friendliness, is this really an issue, or is this something that feels like one? I'm hard pressed to imagine WordPress having login forms done in a JS Framework, and that's a big chunk of the web. If they ar
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by gorpomon 7y ago
Complexity in JavaScript is not a code issue, it's a UI issue. Complicated UI's necessitate frameworks, not developers. When a website hits a certain level of UI interactions, I arbitrarily say around 10 per page, then HTML/C
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by gorpomon 7y ago
I would say it's a mix of all of those things. I have been lucky in my career, but before I went into development I was most assuredly unlucky. I do pick good companies, I've declined jobs from places that paid more but were a qua
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by gorpomon 7y ago
It sounds like we've just had really different workplace experiences in software. I've never seen a scenario where a trained employee replaces a more senior one. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's just not s
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by gorpomon 7y ago
IMO that devil's advocate argument is incorrect. There is no trap in working to increase an employee's skills. If you train someone at work and level them up-- they're not in class 8 hours a day not contributing. They are wo
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by gorpomon 7y ago
For low-skilled factory workers a union is largely about defending their rights and making sure they're treated fairly. For a tech worker, a union is largely about providing a worker-focused counterbalance to your companies decisions.
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by gorpomon 7y ago
>> As an engineer you don't make those decisions, you just implement them. Don't like the decisions, go somewhere else. Want more/total control over decision making? Start your own company. Don't you want more out
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by gorpomon 7y ago
A lot of counter arguments here say that this isn't necessary because we can easily find new jobs. Yes that's true, but that's not what I want to always have to do in my career. I don't always want to cut and run. I want
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Ask HN: Countries with coding schools that need teachers?
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by gorpomon 8y ago
This just makes me like him more.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Very true, and something I need to do again for my site.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Yep, definitely industry specific. I'm currently working in manufacturing, so on the other end completely.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
As a front-end dev, I'm trying to bake this into my process as much as possible. I am only around 20% of the way to that. Last year I focused on baking in testing into my process, now I'd like to do the same for accessibility. Big
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by gorpomon 8y ago
I'm breaking a rule of the internet here by attempting to clarify my comments: > Maybe. The O.P. seems so sure in his conviction that "South Asia's" culture in this regard is superior without evidence. It's not a
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by gorpomon 8y ago
This all rings true, but it doesn't have to make you feel like America is broken. I'm of South Asian descent, where finances between generations are even more intertwined. In America we've created a narrative of one generatio
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by gorpomon 8y ago
I love my dentist. I always leave feeling super clean and well cared for. Doesn't hurt that the window is a striking view of gorgeous skyscrapers.
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by gorpomon 8y ago
It's a really great idea, and the way people are taking to it is really nice to see. I even see people understanding after a few eye rolls the importance of her more Shinto inspired things (such as being thankful to items). From her I
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by gorpomon 8y ago
If Instacart can't afford to pay their employees, then they should not operate. They are stealing tips from their employees to make profit. It is unethical to use their service. Stop using it and write them an e-mail explaining why. Fe
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by gorpomon 8y ago
It's a bit in the weeds, but I think the author has a wrong JTB. They author deployed multiple changes, and just incorrectly assumed that their PR was the one that introduced the bug. They author had incorrect knowledge about what was
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by gorpomon 8y ago
Mid 90's internet user here. A lot of CD's in the mail from ISP's and AOL, we'd try a new one out periodically that offered free internet access. For a while we used Juno's free internet tier. It had a permanent pop

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