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by ioddly 8y ago
For VPS, I'm very happy with DigitalOcean and Vultr both. DO also has some managed services now (hosted dbs in preview, spaces etc). I use these for hosting personal projects and backups via Syncthing. If you want more managed cloud st
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by ioddly 8y ago
What's battery life like? I'm building a (non-wearable) Pi with touchscreen but haven't been able to get a good estimate.
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by ioddly 8y ago
Higher than a manager at the same company? Be at one of the companies that offers a separate promotion track for engineering. Higher than managers in general? Keep interviewing, raising your rate and you should get there. I mean if you work
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by ioddly 8y ago
I can speak to this from the other side. On two occasions I've been hired by a solo developer and small company to develop a library and a proof of concept while documenting and explaining everything I was doing so they could carry on
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by ioddly 8y ago
Lighthouse, available in Chrome devtools, includes an a11y audit although how thorough it is I can't say.
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by ioddly 8y ago
> I replaced my workstation and gaming computer with this setup and am finally down to one-device nirvana. That's a tantalizing option, what kind of gaming do you do on it? I'm at a point where I'm ready to have one comput
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by ioddly 8y ago
Pretty happy on a Thinkpad X230 over here. Cheap as dirt and upgradable/repairable. Battery life is a few hours with a fresh battery. If I got another I'd probably pick up an X1 Carbon. After my last ASUS laptop I will never buy a
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm not sure what the price differences are in Europe but I snagged a X230 for ~that amount in the US and am fairly happy. My only regret is the TN panel screen; this can be avoided by getting an X230T or going out of your way to find
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by ioddly 8y ago
For me it was TypeScript. I had terrible slowdowns in vim for whatever reason (was using a couple different plugins, and maybe things have improved since then), and VSCode is hands down the best TypeScript editor. I then found it to be a ni
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by ioddly 8y ago
Vultr will let you spin up an OpenBSD VPS easily, although as to how supported it is I'm not sure. I'm certainly happy with their Linux offerings.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm reading it right now and enjoying it. Overall the way I view these books is if I get something from them that is worth more to me than the $15 or so they cost it is of value, I don't have to agree with or implement everything
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm using Syncthing with a VPS & backups enabled to cover the passive backup angle. For a distributed system the whole setup was surprisingly painless.
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by ioddly 8y ago
Talk about ethics. You probably won't convince anyone to pursue STEM in a presentation but if you talk about things like Therac-25 you might leave an impression on those who choose to pursue it.
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by ioddly 8y ago
Let me instead suggest what not to do: use the internet or other low protein, high distraction forms of entertainment extensively. Set limits on them and disconnect after a while. If you have nothing else to do, that's fine too, becaus
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by ioddly 8y ago
Lots of good comments here, but I didn't see a code search tool recommended while skimming. I use this one: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher But the important thing is to be comfortable popping open t
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by ioddly 8y ago
> How often do you use a 'switch' statement whose cases don't always end in 'return' or 'break'? I do, occasionally. I prefer the inverted golang switch where fallthrough needs to be specified, since th
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by ioddly 8y ago
Vultr does bare metal servers. I haven't used them personally, but I'm a fan of their VPS offerings.
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by ioddly 8y ago
> When you are billing for a whole day/week that becomes much harder. Daily/weekly are billing increments, not working increments. I still track hours internally; I billed a client last year for "one day" of work that
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by ioddly 8y ago
I typically avoid commute time and have a flexible schedule. It's still an hour and driving on 45/the beltway is stressful no matter what time you do it at :S
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by ioddly 8y ago
My issue with niche interests is not that there aren't communities out there, but that they tend to be fragmented. Facebook/Reddit attract a lot of users, but tend to generate poor discussion and long-term engagement. Specific for
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by ioddly 8y ago
I've ended up in a situation where I am commuting one hour each way to a client's office once per week. This is my choice -- I could work totally remote, but I have found it necessary in order to resolve some issues to go in. The
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by ioddly 8y ago
I just switched to every other Friday off and it seems like it will help a lot. I can never relax until like Saturday evening and then Sunday it's like welp, back to work.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm unsure how it is determined but when I asked my .app registrar they said it should be $120/year for each renewal, which was less than I paid to register it. Guess I'll find out. I believe in the original .app launch threa
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by ioddly 8y ago
> I hate the new interface and always browse on old.reddit.com, mainly because of the higher density of information that makes it easier for me to scan for posts I want to read. I'm actually trying to "redesign" an app (I
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by ioddly 8y ago
So I think you may have mixed up the acronyms here a little, as the post doesn't say CEO after the first mention. But basically, I wouldn't ever work for free, and I'm just a lowly peon. Certainly not for a company with two m
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by ioddly 8y ago
> - Again, for some other programs I use docker. I use and recommend dokku + some CI/CD to manage deployment of dockerized services. I am also interested in the answer to this question. I love the idea of having some kind of control
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by ioddly 8y ago
To add to the other answers, the type-ability of hooks is so much nicer. useContext means I'm going to be using context a lot more in TypeScript code now that I don't have to add a bunch of type definitions to every component I wa
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by ioddly 8y ago
I have also pulled some good work off the freelancing thread. Only takes one to make it worth your while.
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by ioddly 8y ago
I'm currently building a small reminder and timer device with time tracking functionality. Touchscreen, maybe battery powered for a bit if possible (it'll probably be plugged in most of the time but it would be nice to move it aro
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by ioddly 8y ago
I have a small amount of professional experience with Scheme and programming language design & implementation which I put on my resume. I've found people bringing it up is a pretty good bellwether for interesting interviews and peo

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