lmarcos

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by lmarcos 4y ago
The problem with an hybrid approach is that it forces you to live close to the office. If I were living in Hamburg and the company I want to work for is located in Munich and requires me to go 1 day/week to the office... Well that&#x27
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I'm probably an outlier. I read around 15 technical books per year. I read them because I enjoy their content: beautiful books like SICP, TAOCP, Stevens' books, etc.; I can recommend them to anyone. There are plenty of tech books
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Same. I don't hate them (they last at most 10 min.), but as someone who has been working for more than 12 years in the industry I think managers/teams do daily stand-ups because of cargo cult.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Virtual machine. Vagrant + vmware works quite good.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
At previous jobs while wearing the hat of "senior software engineer", management always expected from teams the now common "you build it you run it" way of working. The seniors of the team were supposed to know (or to le
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by lmarcos 4y ago
> Would you recommend to use to build a new product if you are bootstrapped, 3-person startup? No. Digital ocean droplet + scp is all you need. Hell, even sftp would work if you are less than 10 people.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
99% of tech jobs in Europe pay less than $100k.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
> simply having the ability to pull up a replica of almost any *nix environment on my laptop Umm, I struggle with that. I have Ubuntu machines that run in production. They are VMs that run systemd for some stuff and Docker containers for
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by lmarcos 4y ago
That's because such developers know that they won't have to maintain such code. They will probably be gone (switch to another company) in 1 or 2 years.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Reminds me of the scene in Fight Club where Tyler explains how he makes money (he sells rich women their own fat asses in the form of luxury soap). In this case the fat is open source code hosted in GitHub, the soap is Copilot, and the rich
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Because it's easier for companies to hire and fire based on roles.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Unless you are planning to work for a long period of time (> 10 years) at your current job, it's always a good idea to try job hunting.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
For those who didn't experience the dot com bubble: how long did it last? I remember that I was studying computer science in university back in 2005, and everyone agreed in that time that that was a career with future. I knew some soft
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I think it's important to distinguish between work and career. I do as well disentangle myself from work/job. My career, though, is another story. I love programming and I do it in my free time. At work, I couldn't care less
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by lmarcos 4y ago
> Honestly, when I hear DevOps I think 'oh great, this company wants me to do 2 jobs to save on headcount'. Exactly my thoughts as well.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
During my first years as a developer I used regularly SO. Nowadays perhaps once per month or so.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I cannot stand the "dancing" sidebar in VS Code. It's used for showing the directory tree, search results, plugins, etc. I like Jetbrain IDEs (at least on my machine they load and feel fast).
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by lmarcos 4y ago
But how can one make revenue without having formally establish first some sort of legal entity? It's the chicken and egg problem: I don't setup an LLC because I don't know yet if it's worth it. I don't know if it&#x
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Put it this way. Let's say you build this job board of yours. You are just scraping the web and copying job offers into your website to gain content. What if your site gets hacked? Well, no big deal... All you got in your site was pure
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I thought this was common. I have a few recurring dreams I have had since I was a kid. I may have them once every two years or so, but since they are recurring I can remember them well. I never write down my dreams, though.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I think it's not a good comparison. Lichess is a non profit, accepts donations and has a benevolent dictator. So it's evident that its design, structure, and ux/ui has been on charge of a single individual. Whereas chess.com
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I don't need to feel engaged at work. I feel engaged with my career though. A job is just a temporal contract I do for money. I do my best (thankfully I'm not bad at it since I love my career), but usually I don't give a damn
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Sure, but what would be their argument against it? "Dev X is pushing his features on time, he's a nice college, always learning from him, but... Ah yeah, but he leaves work 1h before everyone else. Please fire him".
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by lmarcos 4y ago
It's not just giving more money. If I stay at my current company and ask for a significant raise, that usually comes with more responsibility... Whereas if I just switch jobs, that usually means more money for doing the same.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
And that's another reason I will never visit the USA.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
That's called addiction. Not as bad as other kind of addictions, sure, but still.
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Take it this way: two candidates for the same position. Both have +20 years of experience. Both pass the coding interview just fine. All things being equal, the only difference is that one candidate has a bachelor and masters degree in comp
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by lmarcos 4y ago
The point is not to learn something "cool" that may appeal you (like Clojure). The point is to learn something you truly believe is worthless, but you need to learn it to get your job done (e.g., an outdated version of, let's
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by lmarcos 4y ago
Not caring about work and just getting things done is what 90% of the population does. Do you really think they all need to check it with the doctor?
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by lmarcos 4y ago
I think you are getting wiser. You start to realize that all of this JS circus leads to unmaintainable code, so your subconscious is telling you "don't do it".

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