lytefm

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by lytefm 4y ago
I agree with the stale bot issue and with PouchDB maintenance activity being lower than it should. But the core features (store JSONs locally, sync them up with CouchDB) have been stable and reliable for many, many years and just work.
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> Because you require deep integration with the OS for some tasks, and the browsers will always lag behind that. Sure, but this is exactly where frameworks like Capacitor/Cordova can bridge the gap. Need some widely used native func
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by lytefm 4y ago
I'd suppose that on a personal level and for HN, activity also changes with experience. I've been passively reading HN for a few years as a junior dev after my team lead introduced the site to my before even creating an account. I
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by lytefm 4y ago
The hard part is to recognize when to start moving towards microservices. As long as the team is small enough and the core product is still undergoing rapid development, I think it's premature to use microservices. Too much overhead wi
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by lytefm 4y ago
> dearth of cloud providers for CouchDB Yeah there's IBM Cloudant and that's about it :/ but a single node CouchDB isn't hard to operate. > There's pouchDB for the browser but there's nothing for native m
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by lytefm 4y ago
> 1. its hard From my experience, building an offline-first app is much easier than a traditional client-server app. I maintain an authentication backend for PouchDB/CouchDB-based apps and have received this feedback multiple times:
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by lytefm 4y ago
> 5. Recruitment loops usually takes several weeks, rarely less than a month. So being asked to be online at a specific time for updates is unheard of (to me), because recruiters know that they may take anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks to get
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by lytefm 4y ago
If we're talking about „reading a full article + following the discussion“, then yes. But for me, 1.) has also been helpful for discovering frameworks or tools that I'm now using in my everyday work life (e.g. LogSeq, Prefect). I
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by lytefm 4y ago
> I wasn’t suggesting that you have a conversation with LaMDA about these topics. Instead, I was saying that in order to answer the question “is LaMDA sentient?”, we might discuss these questions among ourselves. I see. I thought the com
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by lytefm 4y ago
> You can go pretty far down the rabbit and explore questions like, "What is sentience?" "Do humans just respond to stimuli and repeat information?" etc. None of these questions are tested here. Would that make a diff
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I agree, it's all cultural. If we'd look at the facts, pigs are at least as sentient and intelligent as dogs. If we were to make our laws just from ethic principles, it would make sense to either: a) ban how we currently treat mam
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by lytefm 4y ago
I doubt that this is an extravert/ intravert divide and am pretty sure it has more to do with the current life situation. Young, single and living nearby by yourself or in a shared flat without a dedicated room to work in? Not too sur
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by lytefm 4y ago
Let's say you're in your 20s, single and want to travel the world. 500k requires you to live in San Francisco, commute to the office every day at strict hours and is at a soul crushing, bureaucratic big corp. 70k allows you to wor
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by lytefm 4y ago
This is why I hate it when some services requite me to enter my phone number for "security" or whatever reasons. It's easy to burn/block a dedicated Spam email for a website. But it's difficult to change the primary
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by lytefm 4y ago
I agree. When I started using Duolingo, my intention was to do at least one lesson every day. I'm rather pissed if the daily reminder comes to late. If I don't want to practice daily anymore, I'll simply switch off notificati
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by lytefm 4y ago
Still sounds like a good ratio, I'd say. Live coding isn't very, but I found live code review + occasional adjustments quite effective when interviewing candidates.
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by lytefm 4y ago
I've also gotten positive feedback for clearly stating what I know and what I don't know. I'm using a „skill meter” to distinguish between „I'm an expert in this language“ and „I've used this a couple of years ago“.
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by lytefm 4y ago
For the two interviews that I had this year in EU (1 Fintech, 1 health tech, mid-level, remote, startups), I didn't prepare much other than looking what the company was doing, considering how I'd fit in there and got 2 offers. I&#
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by lytefm 4y ago
> The answer varies according to domain, but is largely a function of team size. I agree. If both team size and code base are small, the scalability is not needed and the domain logic isn't too complicated, microservices add an over
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by lytefm 4y ago
Engineer induced complexity is also common. I've never heard about management pushing for a scalable, event-driven, microservice based architecture when a simple monolith serving a few thousand daily users would be just fine.
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by lytefm 4y ago
Also, when trying to reproduce an issue, adding logs can often be more helpful than using a debugger: With the debugger, you can only see the application state at one specific point at the time. With added print statements, you get a nice h
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by lytefm 4y ago
Nice about Veri is also that you can get your data exported as CSV from the app!
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> he doesn't want to have the extra burden of manually configuring infrastructure since none of us have any real background in systems administration. It makes total sense to use the Cloud then, especially if you already have some e
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by lytefm 4y ago
>> After updating Macos to Monterey > On the other hand, if I were you, I would suspect that first and go after Apple before blaming Jabra. This also seems odd to me. I'm still on Big Sur, my Jabra Elite 65t (different model t
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by lytefm 4y ago
I highly doubt that this is accurate. I'd say that most devs make relatively boring business software - making some process more efficient, moving data from A to B. I've met a few hundred devs irl and only a handful of them are ga
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by lytefm 4y ago
> 2) The cathedral anecdote sounds pithy, until you hear “sorry, no raise for you. But do you really need it? After all - you’re building a cathedral!” Well then find something you're really passionate about but convey the impressio
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by lytefm 4y ago
Especially later in the career, having a master's degree might be hard requirement for some jobs in Germany. If it's not too difficult for you, you feel like you're learning something and you can do some part time work meanwh
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by lytefm 4y ago
> Remote is hard, creates more work for management, is detrimental to juniors and new hires, and doesn't work for everyone. I agree. I really enjoy working hybrid myself - going to the office every now and then to have some human co
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by lytefm 4y ago
Yup and I'm not sure if adding a debugger to the mix is actually worth it. Sure, it's closer to the actual day to day work, but a great dev should be able to understand code even without a debugger.
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by lytefm 4y ago
I'd say it's still relevant. Do you want to be a specialist within a field and get really good at it, e.g. frontend web dev? Or do you want to be generalist who knows a bit about management, design, fullstack,data science, DevOps,

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