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by gregors 2y ago
Rippling is terrible. I had major major issues with their software and an even worse customer service experience. The best thing I can say about it is the UI is better than ADP but ADP at least works.
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by gregors 2y ago
curious if their layoffs last year had the intended impact
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by gregors 2y ago
The highly overused "best practices" marketing term should really be called "most-likely good practice for most but not all situations highly dependent on context". I think the problem is people want to know "Hey wh
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by gregors 2y ago
Could be possible they looked at the sort directory and overlooked the combination test file "sorts_test"?
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by gregors 2y ago
If you'd like to see a really well done deep dive by the new Golang Tech Lead ( Austin Clements), check this out GopherCon 2020: Austin Clements - Pardon the Interruption: Loop Preemption in Go 1.14 https://www.youtube.com&#
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by gregors 2y ago
I'll agree with you if you mean - entirely en masse. I specialize in fixing legacy software systems that have ground to a halt development-wise. Blanket rewrites are almost never a good thing, but partial rewrites are a wonderful tool.
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Large Elixir healthcare system without a database [video](youtube.com)
4 points by gregors 2y ago|0 comments
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by gregors 2y ago
punning for the win!
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by gregors 2y ago
I truly believe if you were trying to invent the WORST possible way to hire people it would look very close to what they've implemented.
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by gregors 2y ago
It can be when you're supporting AD authentication on an intranet site. I did a bunch of these for government type web apps. Not the most fun to be sure.
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by gregors 2y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the clarification.
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by gregors 2y ago
Figma? I'm curious if this type of behavior is a reflection on the organization's culture in the larger sense. If so, it would explain why the 20 billion dollar acquisition to Adobe fell through.
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by gregors 2y ago
MONTHS??? Do even elite athletes making millions and millions subject themselves to such foolishness?
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by gregors 2y ago
You actually get a tax break after $168,600. After that you no longer get taxed for Social Security.
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by gregors 2y ago
As an immigrant who works in tech, I think the H1-B issue in particular is a bit more nuanced. I think the feeling is that H1-B's are used inappropriately as a tool to leverage salaries lower. I don't actually know the stats on th
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by gregors 2y ago
I'm curious about the security implications and corporate policies about uploading your entire codebase to an LLM where others can access it (indirectly or directly). Other than that, I'm very interested to see how easily opensour
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by gregors 2y ago
Just recently setup some ebook software on my linux laptop trying not only use Apple for everything these days. Calibre was the very first thing I tried but it seems like it was going to be a time sink. I can't quantify that precisely
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by gregors 2y ago
I'm a big fan of evidence base scheduling by Joel Spolsky [0]. Story points hold very little value in estimation, the discussion that occurs however, is extremely useful. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/10&
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by gregors 2y ago
It's a good point but I'm willing to bet there are thousands of devs who are smart and talented enough to land those positions who will absolutely jump at the chance to run their own business instead. There are many devs that can&
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by gregors 2y ago
Here's the thing that I'm wondering about most. Anything that current LLM's can do code-wise is overshadowed for me with what they can do product, design, marketing-wise. If LLM's actually break the productivity ceiling
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by gregors 2y ago
Graphql is by far the most painful DX and least productive thing I've seen cargo-culted. Like most things there's a time and place for Graphql but I think it's vastly overused. For backend services in particular literally any
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by gregors 2y ago
The problem with your kitchen sink example is that you'd think that they've unclogged 7k kitchen sinks so that they can you give you a great estimate. If we've built the same software before ....we wouldn't have to build
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by gregors 2y ago
Completely agree. This seems to me like common sense reasoning to me so I'm curious how the best companies in the world just seem to phone it in with leetcode.
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by gregors 2y ago
As someone who interviews and hires engineers I'm not even remotely convinced live code exercises lead to better hiring than any other signal such as a CS degree. I remember when the the coding horror fizz buzz article came out and hon
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by gregors 2y ago
I'm extremely interested in progress on this front. I'm a person who would definitely purchase an X Elite to run linux ....but only if I could get it installed with minimal effort.
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by gregors 2y ago
If this were actually true, the real under performers would be the executive team which should be replaced immediately.
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by gregors 2y ago
hmmm, yes you are correct. I thought they used to offer more for free but maybe my memory is off. Apologies. You are also right about that the Phoenix book needs an update, they changed A LOT with the way they structure code in the last rel
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by gregors 2y ago
At a lot of places the entire "sprint" culture is designed to extract maximum output from the dev team with nothing but short term goals. They know it's non-sustainable and really don't care. The toxic culture of dev pro
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by gregors 2y ago
Having on-boarded quite a few jr developers with no previous experience with Elixir (and have purchased the prag studio course for most of them) I've heard that many of them also really enjoyed https://joyofelixir.com/
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by gregors 2y ago
I think the term is Mirrortocracy https://carlos.bueno.org/2014/06/mirrortocracy.html

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