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by granshaw 5y ago
Misread as assets in seats. Still works
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by granshaw 5y ago
I’ve worked for a few remote places, including one which was remote-first before it was cool, and I don’t think the schedule flexibility part rings true Everyone was expected to be available 9-5ish for potential collaboration/question
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by granshaw 5y ago
Especially the typos part. In Ruby and plain JS sometimes you feel you need unit tests even for the dead simple stuff cause there might be a typo in there... and such tests are an awful chore to write and much more efficiently caught by sta
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by granshaw 5y ago
Is this true though? I think engineering salaries very definitely plateau at a certain point, much more so compared to other professions even
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by granshaw 5y ago
IMO what you’re describing is usually not considered “decentralized”, but rather “open protocols” or “open standards”
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by granshaw 5y ago
Amen. Plus the high of getting a new sale or getting good direct feedback from your customers Also love how customers don’t give a ** about who you are, just how good your product is. Very different from typical employment where there’s a c
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by granshaw 5y ago
Very true. I dunno what OP is on about saying they’re interchangeable. In a similar boat now after having had a taste of entrepreneurship but running out of runway. I used to be a model tech worker but now being back at a regular job just s
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yup. And as illustrated by OP's example links, avoid Stimulus Reflex (NOT stimulus.js) for production too. Apart from the stated reasons, the fact that websocket connections aren't scoped by User by default is a really, REALLY sha
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by granshaw 5y ago
By far the most common HN commenter nowadays seems to be your typical pedantic tech worker geek that has no entrepreneurship ambitions whatsoever I genuinely wonder whether there was a time when the majority here were actually entrepreneuri
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by granshaw 5y ago
One feature I’ve needed to build into all my csv parsers is to be tolerant of some “junk” rows at top, and automatically find the row where the actual headers are, which might not be the first row. Do you handle this case? Eg Mac Numbers ap
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by granshaw 5y ago
FYI If you’re on a Mac you can do that right in Preview
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by granshaw 5y ago
Let me tell you, delivery pressure exists even right at the very top. You think there’s no pressure as a CEO/COO beholden to 30% top line growth this quarter? I sometimes think about being in that position and it seems pretty scary too
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by granshaw 5y ago
Core to all of this is that anything provided by an employer could be used against you. Even if I wanted therapy sessions I’m not going to share my work related issues with an employer provided coach, hell no. One thing I’d like to see is i
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by granshaw 5y ago
Wow that’s really sad to hear, hope both of your situation has improved
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by granshaw 5y ago
Really? I think FAANG, which is generally the highest paying in software, is percepted as sexy, at least to the layperson and to recruiters. If there are really sewage industry jobs that pay better than FAANG, please tell me more cause I&#x
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by granshaw 5y ago
Yeah I grew up in Southeast Asia and it’s no different.
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by granshaw 5y ago
> why wouldn't you just stream them a full operating system where developers didn't have to target the web with all of its oddities Ahem, that ship has long since sailed. We have an entire generation of developers now where all
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by granshaw 5y ago
Would you still pay for it if the source were available? (Fellow indie hacker here)
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by granshaw 5y ago
Honestly I thought it would be higher
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by granshaw 6y ago
Could be even worse – web devs writing shitty webapps that are fast on their Macs but dog slow on non-Macs
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by granshaw 6y ago
Interesting that you’ve had no replies yet I actually feel like there’s a lot less readers from the VC/entrepreneurship crowd on HN than in the early days (or maybe they were never a big percentage to begin with) Feels to me like by fa
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by granshaw 6y ago
Unless every other university also implements it, then it’s just par for the course
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by granshaw 6y ago
It’s a tradeoff - you’re starting a business. It’s risky and time consuming enough as it is. You go with what’s quickest and where the users are. Thinking of vendor lock in is low on your list of priorities and rightly so. When you grow big
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by granshaw 6y ago
I don’t think we should be lumping those not showing up to work at ALL together with those who do participate but in a harmful, egocentric (whatever) way One is still arguably fulfilling their responsibilities under their employment contrac
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by granshaw 6y ago
Wish there was as much pushback here when some of these same owners instituted the 17-game NFL season
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by granshaw 6y ago
The big tech monopoly in China is even worse - with the players owning basically all communications and payments too
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by granshaw 6y ago
Can’t tell if serious...
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by granshaw 6y ago
Yes my example was if updateDate literally just updates the date - I take this a step further too, Eg if the function has some extra checks, I’ll name it maybeDoX(), which is a somewhat uncommon practice in common programming languages
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by granshaw 6y ago
I have a rule called “name it what it does, not how it’s used” which is a mistake I often see with junior developers and sacrifices information density Eg it’s more helpful for readability to do “onClick => updateDate()” rather than “onC
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by granshaw 6y ago
It’s also 100% based on academic and test taking skill - would be good if a more well rounded assessment could be used instead

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