jonfw

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by jonfw 5y ago
How much experience do you have and what sort of work do you do?
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by jonfw 5y ago
That's funny, I'll actually do the opposite I like to rough out code in Vim, and clean it up before I run it in vscode. Vim is so fast and I can get the majority of the structure out quickly, and than I can mouse around in vscode
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by jonfw 5y ago
Windows works via a "Bring your own VM" approach, but since WSL exists I'd expect most Windows users would just run it there
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by jonfw 5y ago
Podman can replace docker desktop. It doesn't have the same GUI but it does have the capability to run containers via familiar CLI commands on a variety of OSes, connecting to (and in some cases provisioning through podman machine) a V
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by jonfw 5y ago
You think switching from Apple to Google is a plus for your privacy?
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by jonfw 5y ago
If you've been working as a developer for more than a few months you really should have delivered some form of business value. Building a proof-of-concept that allows a company to explore an idea before being thrown in the bin is still
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by jonfw 5y ago
You can't prove it, which is why you want to find a VPN provider you can trust
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Not sure what style of accounting shows that profit, but it's very possible to be massively cash flow negative and still earn a profit on your balance sheet. While I wouldn't expect most startups to be cash flow positive after yea
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by jonfw 5y ago
The demographics of those who drive 15 year old cars and those who drive 5 year old cars are very different. I'd bet that the 15 year old demo contains more reckless/intoxicated drivers (i.e. young people)
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by jonfw 5y ago
That's still a common billing model- how Red Hat bills for openshift for instance. It's a simple and pretty good proxy for usage
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by jonfw 5y ago
Lots of other things are happening too- people are educating themselves more, people have more jobs available from their locations (remote + commute distance increases + increases in population density), etc.
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It really depends on the company culture. Yeah if the standards are higher, and your manager will give you a hard time over it, and you have to fight for a raise, it looks terrible. If the company has lower standards for internal hires, and
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by jonfw 5y ago
And in the longer term- it builds stronger incentives for employees. Most devs, if HN is any indication, believe that jumping ship every 1-2 years is the best way to move up. But if you have senior devs who were juniors at the same company
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by jonfw 5y ago
Take it as a signal of your likelihood to be promoted in the near future. If I'm interested in a promotion, and I get a strong signal, I'm going to stay. If I get a very weak signal, I'm going to go elsewhere. An interview wi
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by jonfw 5y ago
I'm just explaining what worked for me- I'm in Raleigh NC, so there were no FANGs here a year and half ago when I was in the market. But I did secure offers at the two biggest tech companies in the area, IBM and Cisco. I had no op
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by jonfw 5y ago
If you can build a specialized skill set you can make things much easier. When I got out of school with no experience, no internships and a degree from a second tier state school, I still had good luck on the job hunt. What worked for me wa
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by jonfw 5y ago
It would be much better for society overall to buy and sell secondhand, high quality, serviceable bikes than for everybody to buy a junk bike which is later trashed.
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by jonfw 5y ago
My experience working on B2B in a bigger company is that enterprise accounts can be extremely demanding. They want you to be engaged while closing the sale and whenever they feel like it for the entirety of the deal. My clients were the typ
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by jonfw 5y ago
Homes are just one thing that consumes energy, and they're no more important than street lights, factories, night clubs, gas stations, electric charging stations, and hotels. there are no bonus points for renewable suburbs
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I can also use my word as collateral, should I be taxed on that?
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It's absolutely abstract! Who is this buyer, does he really have the money, is he going to follow through, is this legal?
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by jonfw 5y ago
Every country would look pretty terrible if we judged them by the bottom of their barrel
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by jonfw 5y ago
Let's say I start a Saas company and it does really well. Somebody offers to invest at a valuation of 25$ million bucks. By most standards of evaluation net worth- I'm worth $25 million bucks now. who seizes ownership of my compan
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by jonfw 5y ago
Huge water bottles- mine is 40 oz. I figured out that I pretty much always drink 2 or three bottles of water per day, no matter what size of bottle I use. So a big old water bottle doubles the amount of water I drink in a day
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by jonfw 5y ago
They don't keep it all to themselves, giant technology companies have open sourced things like mapreduce, kubernetes, golang, react, kafka, and more.
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We will see. One thing programmers have always seemed to be really good at is producing more work for programmers :)
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> If you know the company is mostly men at the top, you might assume women have a hard time getting promoted -- regardless of the reasons. That means you might not want to work at GitLab as much as an equally qualified man. I don't
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So don't use a PIN?
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> average joe > building them from source An average joe doesn't even know what 'build from source' means
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Raspberry Pi has proven that people can find uses for tiny low-power computers if it's hacker friendly

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