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by hrktb 5y ago
I didn’t touch PHP 7+ for kore than hobby projects so things might have changed, but to me PHP’s main issue (and to some extent JS) was the need for a strong defensive coding discipline. There is no specific flaw that is a roadblock, just a
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by hrktb 5y ago
There's the caveat on education. From the other side of the fence, if a candidate has an atypical resume, the best course of action will be to interview to check their level. You can't ignore the possibility of them being good aut
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by hrktb 5y ago
Moving from PHP to ruby, language speed has never happened to be a subject. During coffee time banter, sure, but in real performance related issues, what we face came down to query optimizing, cache management, algorithmic issues and data p
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by hrktb 5y ago
> web-app based phone app platforms (react/ionic etc) Those are cost cutting choices that don’t automatically lead to porting to other platforms. Small players will still churn a single app for iOS based on their site’s react code,
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by hrktb 5y ago
My impression was that people went to SO to solve issues, and to documentation to think and build features. I’d see those as complementary, and don’t expect documentation to cover most questions/issues you could have.
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by hrktb 5y ago
So TF would come where you would otherwise use gcloud commands, if I get it. One part of the cluster building that caught me off-guard with GCP is that cluster options effectively change over time, as the k8s versions march forward. For ins
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by hrktb 5y ago
Reading the sister comments, I kind of understand the appeal of terraform for huge/multi cloud infra systems. Now, managing changes in code doesn’t look too far from dealing with kubernetes’ json/yml config and applying them to th
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by hrktb 5y ago
Arguably you have a chance to change things from the inside once you’re in. I know it’s not a good advice in general, but regarding recruiting in particular, it’s a more realistic proposition.
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by hrktb 6y ago
To me Facebook’s main issue is having a revenue model dependent on advertising boosted by engagement. This is the main reason we end up with filtering bubbles, contents that needs to be consumed fast and push people to react, relying more a
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by hrktb 6y ago
Over time I came to compare facebook with the car culture. It plays a central role to a ton of people’s lives, provides a widely needed service to communities and allows some lifestyle that wouldn’t be possible otherwise. But with a incredi
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by hrktb 6y ago
I have no knowledge of Boeing's internal state, so tried to get a proxy of their general attitude [0]. Every company big enough will have its share of shitty issues, but even taking it with a grain of salt it doesn't look to me li
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by hrktb 6y ago
Why can't it be both ?
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by hrktb 6y ago
Yes, I think at an individual level there needs to be clear rules and expectations, and the sense of belonging to a coherent group sharing the same values. It's more at an organization level where I see the need to have niches accomoda
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think consistency is overrated, and a cause of countless undue issues. We seem to mostly agree that diversity is important, and having employees from different background help bring different ideas and solutions to the table, react with m
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by hrktb 6y ago
I read OP's comment the same way, but also think the counterpoint is valid. People living in these "slow", offline first places are self selecting, and it's not for everyone. My parents moved to a tropical island, have b
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by hrktb 6y ago
Phone numbers are not secret. These service ask for it mostly to be sure to get the right one (checking is expensive) and/or to have plausible deniability of your contentment when they abuse it later.
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by hrktb 6y ago
a) happens routinely. It's not just that you effectively suck, your boss also sucks and needs to learn from it. Basically a) is your chance to recalibrate the expectations, and if you don't do it you'll be stuck forever meeti
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by hrktb 6y ago
Writing horizontally the dot would be above, so I'd assume there's support by composition. It would still be a problem of IME and font support. On input, there's already so many shortcuts and hacks (e.g. SHIFT/CAPS is al
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by hrktb 6y ago
It goes both ways though. Up until now the nice chat zone was limited to people on the same floor. With WFH we got people in other countries joigning the chats on equal footing. The info density difference also seem to be compensated by eve
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by hrktb 6y ago
If it was the main reason, wouldn’t it have made more sense in more politically stable regions, like Germany or France, which are in good term with the US as well, and first level EU access as a bonus.
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by hrktb 6y ago
I don’t know how most people view it, but caring for the people in HK became for me a plea for them to get out, because there seems to be no way left for them to keep integrity while still living in their home. Following the events was shee
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by hrktb 6y ago
The most valuable part of CI where I work right now is it being run on a reference setup, with persisted builds and logs attached to each merge requests. We are all supposed to run tests, coverage and benchmarking localy. The point in CI is
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think that yes, I am effectively exposed to random baseless lies, and only a few of the voices crying foul will ever reach my eyes. For instance I read a headline about future rising petrol prices due to the stuck Evergreen boat, and hone
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by hrktb 6y ago
One issue is that it’s asymmetrical. Made up statements have more resonance and shocking value than well thought rebuffs or ridicule. If you accuse your opponent of eating babies at breakfast, other parties will have a hard time to find som
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by hrktb 6y ago
You have a point. Then unions’ raison d’être is to counterbalance management, so them ending up using the same tools and having the same flaws would still be OK to me if they provide an opportunity to get what you wouldn’t have gotten other
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by hrktb 6y ago
Going through all of your point, it felt like every “unions” mention could be replaced with “management”. Protecting themselves ? check. Politicized the work environment ? check. Abusive practices ? check. Skewed view of the world and crony
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by hrktb 6y ago
“Customer is king. Employees are serfs”
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by hrktb 6y ago
> But how much do you personally pay for the artists' products per month All in all, entertainment budget is a good amount actually. For the sake of the argument, it’s easier to set the time frame 30 years back, and talk about CDs a
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by hrktb 6y ago
As usual it depends on your case. You can have a big immune response, but still within the range your body can take, and you won’t be feeling ill. I think kids will often have very visible effects after vaccination, while adults in their pr
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by hrktb 6y ago
If it was his partner asking that question it would be different, their relationship is their problem. Coming from the parent it’s a another can of worm, including the very notion they have a say in their adult children’s basic life choices

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