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by lmarcos 6y ago
I always thought the other way around is easier: - if you like more people, then do the tech lead technical track. Why? Because the most difficult part in software engineering is how to deal with people. Since you're already good at it
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by lmarcos 6y ago
Web-based apps? Otherwise you're at the mercy of Google and Apple.
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I would say that, unless you're just starting your career, books like Clean Code, The Pragmatic Programmer and the like are not real "revelations". Software engineering has more to do with people than with software. Have you
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> reading is just a hobby. It's a fun, intellectually challenging, infinitely variable hobby with a very long and distinguished history. But ultimately you could learn just as much about yourself and the world by doing pottery, wood
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How so? One of the most popular (if not the most) websites for developers out there is pretty much HTML + CSS. JavaScript is used, but minimally. "Modern" experience is not necessarily the same as "good" experience. Good
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> what would be the first question to ask there? I would ask: what originated reality 0. If the answer is "something" then reality 0 is not reality 0. If the answer is "nothing. It existed since ever" then I would be
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by lmarcos 6y ago
Thanks for the link!
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Something I have been thinking about related to this story: we, as humans, will never know what reality is (not just "our" reality as in "our" universe, but "everything"). You either a) have to accept the idea
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by lmarcos 6y ago
Think long term. I see many people that want to "get it fast and now"... My advice would be: be slow but recurring. Think learning in terms of years, not in term of weeks.
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I like the other alternative Packer + ansible instead of Dockerfiles as explained here https://alex.dzyoba.com/blog/packer-for-docker/
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Impressive. How do you take care of your eyes? Reading 100 books/year means that on avg. you read 1 book in 3 days. I imagine that must put a lot of stress on your eyes?
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Silly question: they have 5.7TB in their database... How come? It's a dating app founded in 2012, I can understand that one can accumulate such much data in 11 years, but sure you can periodically archive "unused" data and mo
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by lmarcos 6y ago
Nice project. What do you take into account when computing the similarly of two books? Do you use metadata (genre, author, etc.) or something else? Note that I'm more interested in the data that is used rather than in the methodology.
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That's right, there is no good alternative at the moment.
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I guess it's subjective. For me the clear advantage of building HTTP endpoints using Go (framework-less) over DRF, Swagger and others is: no magic, no annotations, no dependencies; I know exactly what's happening and I can build a
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One Year Alone in Forests of Sweden. Building Log Cabins [video](youtube.com)
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> When I get a text to a phishing site, I immediately report it to the safe browsing list. Please, don't do that. You're just giving more power to a private company (Google). It's so deceiving, I know: reporting/block
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by lmarcos 6y ago
If Safe Browsing were offered by some neutral internet organization (e.g., similar to IANA) I wouldn't mind. But it's offered by a private company: so it's naive to think that GSB benefits anyone other than Google itself.
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> I do not think Google is doing it consciously -- this is probably just collateral damage from some bot or rule. "Collateral damage" from some bot or rule just means that Google doesn't care enough about the edge cases (w
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This is sad. When you open a business in the real world, sure you have to tell the authorities about it (because it's the law!). When you open a digital business, you have to tell Google (via Google Search Console) about it... But Goog
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by lmarcos 6y ago
Honestly: - in a physical photo book. This forces me to be more selective, so only the best pics are printed (less than 300 pics) - their digital counterparts are backed up in: one pendrive, one hard drive, one cloud provider. I update the
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Which is in some way sad. I know we are not hired "to write code" but "to ship products", and that everything is done in "sprints" and we must be very agile in doing them because they're always non-stop, a
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I also think that the data itself can be used for positive outcomes... The manual tracking though (every 15 min.) is the downside.
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I wouldn't mind having this kind of data... But manual logging is something very painful to do at such intervals. In a parallel universe, one where we don't have social media but mini drones the size of an orange, I imagine these
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Genuinely interested: What are the problems of the past iterations you are talking about?
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But the replacement flight was scheduled for the next morning... That means that the passenger loses time and money (hotel/food?). Why wouldn't the airline company compensate this?
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YouTube. Dislike because: ads. Keep using it because: there are tons of videos. Why not an alternative/why I don't pay: YouTube is not that relevant in my life. If they remove the free tier, I would just stop watching YouTube vide
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by lmarcos 6y ago
> I'm growing miserable and finding I dont enjoy this whole CRUD MVC business logic type of work. I'm tired of fixing leaking pipes in mediocre code bases by people who aren't passionate about what they do. I also find app
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I think Git will stay as long as we keep representing and working with code as plain text files. Of course I cannot think of a better way of working with code that is not via plain text files (otherwise I would be already rich) but somehow
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by lmarcos 6y ago
I'm curious, which toxic personalities are you talking about? I'm not very aware of the personalities in the software engineering world, but I would like to know what other people consider "toxic" in the software industr

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