mattbrewsbytes

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by mattbrewsbytes 10mo ago
> feeling trapped and bound to the golden handcuffs to try and survive this expensive world while being forced to work on things I have little care for I consider this just work. I've worked my entire career for other people, in cor
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
AI tools are super helpful if you know what they are good for and where the limits are currently. If you work at a place where your expected "time" is constant, aka has a good work/life balance, then its important to be more
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
Cloud is not losing ground but also Cloud computing is also not suitable for every business problem. Its killer feature for businesses with fluctuating usage profiles and "busy" seasons. Think like a tax related application for b
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
I think this is the key thought process for purchasers of software/SaaS. For comparison, an average daily meal expense of $30/person for business travel exceeds the pricing of a lot of SaaS offerings. SaaS is so simple and the cos
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
I think creative types feel compelled to do new things that buck trends and are just different for the sake of being different. If you watch any amount of home renovation competition shows, there's always designers that pick some reall
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
I've heard the business term as a "reciprocal agreement" a common behavior of large companies would be to award a large contract for IT services to a 3rd party and then that company would assist in getting a market foothold i
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
Use it as a way to differentiate yourself. One methodology I've seen used with installed apps is major upgrades require a financial renewal but those can be spaced out every couple years. I love it when I find an iOS app that is paid,
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by mattbrewsbytes 11mo ago
If you look back at the dot com era, hardware companies did survive but weren't the financial "winners". Cisco is an example and a good comparison is Amazon - their bread and butter now is ecommerce, they dominate it and that
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
I guess I'm in the minority. I set aside some monthly budget for guilt-free spending (ala Ramit Sethi approach) and $70 for a game that I play for 20 hours or more of entertainment is a no-brainer to me. Back in the day that would be l
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
The chance at making FU money is what would be worth it. It doesn't sound too appealing if its 40-50% more total comp and 100% more work/stress and less time for myself plus random things like losing funding or startup goes bust a
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
I have no experience with any of this but thinking thru the other side, if I'm an IT helpdesk person getting an account reset/unlock request, I have no means to validate any identity paperwork anyone sends in. My response would be
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
> If you have a C-suite that makes decisions based on golf games, this advice is not for you. You have a different set of problems. Another way to look at it is that your role isn't in the decision making circle, even if you are on
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
I stop when I find a solution to the problem. Most of the time the learning happens along the way, not necessarily in the solution itself but all the things you try and iterate on your journey to the solution. Everything changes in tech by
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
A lot of the world's problems are people problems. Like the kind of problem that deals with the soft squishy bits of humans as a species - hunger, healthcare, etc. Its hard for me to imagine software solving those types of problems. Ma
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
I used to do Java about a decade ago and because it was in a corporate environment, add about 5+ years of using outdated Java on top of that. Web applications are what I do, have been doing for 25 years and I use Ruby/Rails now. I do w
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
There's no way getting around needing to install the patched versions of the compiler or runtime. Someone has to do it and in my opinion it should be done internally so its controlled and has verified/known sources. I think option
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
It doesn't matter what knowledge based industry it is either, its always people, communication and decision making (or lack of) that makes everything take longer. Get a committee together to decide multiple products priorities, feature
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
What gave you the impression during what I would assume is a 1-2 hour interview that the person applying for a job is foreign agent? Do the behaviors exhibited also align with other somewhat common candidate behavior like not being competen
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
Meta can't scan my phone if I don't install Meta's apps on my phone. A web browser on the phone removes the need for a lot of "apps".
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
Its fun watching things swing back and forth over time. I remember having those Sun mini-fridge size servers, all running RISC sparc based CPU's if I remember correctly. I wonder if there would be some merit in RISC based linux server
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
Syntax of things I don't remember or care about, like regexes in language X or Y. Syntax of things I used to know but I'm not up to speed on the latest versions. For example, using tailwind, I can just describe in english what I w
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
I think it comes down to quality of materials and manufacturing. It would be interesting if someone knew of failure rate data of laptop manufacturers. I bet Apple's is far lower than others, maybe this is because they control the OS an
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
My rationale given on another comment is when writing web apps, everything comes in as text so you have to parse/convert and validate parameters anyhow. Dynamic makes a lot of sense for web programming. Static should definitely be used
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
If you’re checking and validating inputs into a method and you’re writing web applications where everything is text over HTTP, having type checking notations, etc. are a bit overkill.
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
Cisco still exists and was a winner for a long time. The company that emerged hugely successful out of the dot com era was Amazon, they dominate ecommerce today. Take a look further back to the Personal Computer era in the 80's into ea
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
The key thing no LLM or AI is capable of is innovation. The basis of all their inputs came from humans. If a company needs to pivot, good leader(s) can execute that and have tremendous impact, I wouldn't trust AI to come up with that s
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
Pattern recognition. I don't mean the ability to do regular expressions. I mean the ability to recognize patterns in software development, organizations, and trends in the industry. It helps recognize when you've seen something si
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
One part of maintainability is cost. And a simpler mechanical engine without proprietary ECUs is going to be cheaper to maintain, provided parts are available. If someone encounters issues with an ECU and it needs replacement at $1k-2k they
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
Learning n8n a little more for some automated tasks on a hobby project. Maybe try re-learning sketchup to diagram some home improvement/woodworking projects. Probably overthink buying a mini PC to run Ubuntu on to do homelab like thing
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by mattbrewsbytes 1y ago
I don't see a question in there, this feels more like a blog post and not AskHN.

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