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by koreth1 3y ago
“Let” assumes they want to do mentoring and training. Which a lot of people do, but not everyone.
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by koreth1 3y ago
I always look, and I'm always happy to see something meaty enough to actually talk about in an interview. Somewhat to my surprise, I've found that at least 90% of candidates who include a GitHub username, when I go look at their r
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by koreth1 3y ago
Maybe, but it wouldn't have been a slam dunk, because "have a dedicated writer" isn't a magic wand. I would have spent hours interviewing tech writer candidates instead of writing docs. I would still have spent a bunch o
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by koreth1 3y ago
The places I've worked with tech writers have tended to be larger companies, yeah. At startups, if any of the engineers has passable writing ability, they get tech writing on their list of job duties, in my experience. My previous comp
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by koreth1 3y ago
That's less true for communities that are focused on things that change over time. For example, TV show subreddits have plenty to talk about each time a new episode is released. Or maybe a better example, the Java subreddit has its sha
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by koreth1 3y ago
The projects I work on generate OpenAPI docs at runtime based on annotations in the server source code, so they're always guaranteed to be in sync with the actual API. We've had to add some custom logic to clean things up a bit (e
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by koreth1 3y ago
> Istanbul is flourishing because it's the Turkish capital The capital of Turkey is Ankara, not Istanbul.
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by koreth1 3y ago
> My goal is to help people set up RDS and I don’t care about commercialization. This feels like the same philosophical difference that leads to debates about GPL vs. Apache licenses. The "how dare someone else make money using my w
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by koreth1 3y ago
That's a pretty common pattern in event-sourcing architectures. It is a completely viable way to do things as long as "eventual-consistency is acceptable" is actually true.
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by koreth1 3y ago
Globally, a very small percentage of bilingual people fit the "I decided to learn a different language and then used it to temporarily live in another country very different from my own" model. Much more common is, "I speak m
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by koreth1 3y ago
At low scale it can definitely be true. My startup spends $0 on ops salaries because it's possible for an AWS-proficient backend dev to not need more than an hour or two a week to maintain the entire production infrastructure. Our AWS
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by koreth1 4y ago
Beyond a certain scale, sure. But at small scale, you can completely avoid hiring an ops team, or hire a much smaller one, which can more than offset the cloud provider price premium. My current company works in a niche market with a smalli
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by koreth1 4y ago
Probation periods seem to be a thing in some countries but they’re not universal. I have never had a job with one. Also, even with a probation period, a bad hire can damage morale and waste a lot of the team’s time.
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by koreth1 4y ago
> Human localizers struggle with this, especially when the source files they're provided with do not have sufficient context (and they cannot see the GUI in-context) to infer meaning. And sometimes the lack of context is self-inflic
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by koreth1 4y ago
My team took this approach when we open-sourced our web app. Apache licensed and anyone is free to do with our code as they please, but GitHub issues and PRs are set to employees only. But whether this approach makes sense really depends on
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by koreth1 4y ago
From what I can tell from reading about this, it seems like people are mainly worried about brute-force password-guessing attacks. Lots of people pick lousy master passwords so there is the possibility of some real damage being done. What I
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by koreth1 4y ago
I remember git-svn being pretty commonly used back in the day (circa 2007). At that point a lot of open-source projects were still using svn and if you wanted to use git locally, git-svn or something similar was how you did it. My first exp
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by koreth1 4y ago
Surely it's possible for GitHub to add features that aren't related to making it more social or "fun," though? For example, they could improve their support for stacked PRs in a number of ways; that's an area that i
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by koreth1 4y ago
"Second reminder: Did you forget to fill in our survey about your recent experience?" I didn't forget it, I ignored it. Take the hint and sod off.
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by koreth1 4y ago
This was my guess as well. And based on my experience working on international payments, an additional headache is that in some cases, depending on exactly which jurisdictions are involved, some of the parties can be forbidden by law from g
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by koreth1 4y ago
> While its quite proven that slow, chaotic, and unpredictable environments are so much safer. The "slow" part, for sure. Harm in a collision is largely a matter of kinetic energy. The "chaotic and unpredictable" part
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by koreth1 4y ago
It seems like some of these issues with Java are out of date. Java has had a well-defined place for package-level documentation for close to 20 years, since 1.5. It goes in package-info.java (docs: https://docs.oracle.com/ja
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by koreth1 4y ago
> (not that scrum was more predictable in-practice, it just seems that way) I use the phrase “the illusion of predictability” a lot when I talk about Scrum. Sadly, some people really cling to that illusion despite overwhelming evidence t
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by koreth1 4y ago
> The investment thesis is that if 1-click checkout were to take off, it would become a winner-take-all market where every shop wants to use the 1-click provider with the largest customer base. Not saying you're wrong about that bei
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by koreth1 4y ago
That gives me flashbacks. I worked on a payment system that had to pull data from third-party service providers that only made it available in the form of downloadable spreadsheets from godawful slow and unreliable JavaScript-heavy web port
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by koreth1 4y ago
There are undoubtedly lots of reasons, but I bet one of them is that air conditioning is much more common and uses a lot of electricity. The US extends much further south than Europe (the states along the US's southern border are at th
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by koreth1 4y ago
"Be excellent to each other." -> "It may be better to be different."
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by koreth1 5y ago
> Also engineers get better (and happier) when they do challenging tasks! Better maybe, but happier, I'm not so sure. At my last job I was the main developer in charge of hitting our zero-downtime target for code deploys and system
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by koreth1 6y ago
Makes sense. Thanks for the example!
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by koreth1 6y ago
Java is better about this than most languages but they still break things sometimes. For example, in addition to the module system, Java 9 changed the implementation of some of its XML rendering libraries and caused meaningful behavior chan

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