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by kbrannigan 6y ago
I would personally recommend Laragon: https://laragon.org/ It's more polished than the older programs. It offers neat features like: quick apps, virtual hosts etc... It isolates your php stuff, you can mess with it wit
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by kbrannigan 6y ago
In my observation there's a difference between sales driven companies and engineering driven companies. Some companies are sales driven they just want profit, and want to deliver the product as quickly as possible. They hire developer
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by kbrannigan 6y ago
If I could rewind my career I would do these things. * Stay longer at my first company. It was an old school tech company most of the developers were 40+ years old. It had cubicles and outdated technologies. After 2 years, I grew bored an
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by kbrannigan 7y ago
Companies usually go through cycles of turnover. This might be an instance of that - it's a very normal thing. However do you notice a lot of senior level people leaving? That could be a bad sign. Things are subject to the network effe
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by kbrannigan 7y ago
Start with a small feature. Like a total count. Look what list of objects is being counted. Make a note of the object's type. Find what function is retrieving those objects say A list of users. What is making the AJAX call to get thos
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by kbrannigan 7y ago
Africa... starvation and primitivity There are some African countries richer than Eastern European countries. This sucks...
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by kbrannigan 7y ago
Wow! Sorry about that. This must have hurt a lot. It's funny how sometimes it's all about appearances, - Leaving slack on - Taking your laptop home with you even if you don't work - Randomly send message on the week-end. I&#
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by kbrannigan 7y ago
We have a new trick too, every task in the backlog is estimated as 1 day worth of work. Most of the times those tasks take 3-4 days tops, Even when we say otherwise, they still force the 1 day story rule...
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by kbrannigan 7y ago
This right here. I remember one night, after 9 hours at work, I was gonna log back in to make some additional commits. I even cancelled a night out with some friends, because "I really have to make this deadline" Then it hit me, i
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Ask HN: What are some B.S. tricks management pulls on naive developers?
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by kbrannigan 10y ago
I'm curious? Why are electronic forms inferior. I mean what's the alternative? I've never considered that before.