mkl95

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by mkl95 4y ago
Germans are living beyond their means. 10 years of austerity should fix it.
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by mkl95 4y ago
Abstraction. If you use HTML/CSS/JS to solve some problem there is a high chance you are reinventing some package that's freely available via npm or Yarn. Even a leaky abstraction can be better than reinventing the wheel.
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by mkl95 4y ago
It's even more hilarious after you read this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30853778
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by mkl95 4y ago
I joined a VC-backed company a few months ago. Back then there was an air of confidence in the team. Now I'm getting mixed signals from management and they seem low key insecure. Turnover is slowly but noticeably increasing. I will app
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by mkl95 4y ago
Are there still 500k per year web3 gigs out there? This may not be that surprising
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by mkl95 4y ago
Engineering management is oddly similar to some martial arts that are plagued by bullshit artists despite having a few legit uses and practitioners. Also, if you don't have solid project management you shouldn't bother with engine
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by mkl95 4y ago
Still 4x+ February 2020 rates, so let's hope they keep plunging.
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by mkl95 4y ago
WebGPU feels like a godsend, I hope it gains popularity ASAP.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Too many of our smartest minds are working on trivial tasks and spending their time in corporations where they feel invisible. The vast majority of my friends who work for big companies say they’re bored, unchallenged, and under-employ
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by mkl95 4y ago
What does math learning mean? A basic understanding of boolean algebra can get you far in programming. Some fields such as graphics programming and machine learning do apply advanced mathematics, but you are likely to use a high level abstr
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by mkl95 4y ago
Velocity metrics are good when treated as a symptom of other issues. They are particularly good at detecting engineers who don't know what scope means.
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by mkl95 4y ago
You can be poor while easily meeting your energy needs. A classic example is remote rural areas where virtually all inhabitants own some plot of land. Even if they are poor they can feed their fireplace with some wood, for free.
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by mkl95 4y ago
$60k per year gets you in the 96th percentile here, and you pay ~25% in taxes. If you live here, it's really hard to convince companies to pay you more than that. It would be easy to blame my employer from a richer country, but the act
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by mkl95 4y ago
Ericsson do some R&D in Southern Europe as well. A friend of mine works there for a below market average salary.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> Did you mean "average European software company"? A lot of the German Mittelstand companies are the opposite. Instead they sell into a niche through trade shows (another thing probably going away). I do. My area has Mitteltst
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by mkl95 4y ago
The state of European software is not good. The strategy at the average European company is to spend most of the money on a sales people army and have a few engineers build the product. This strategy often fires back as the customer base gr
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by mkl95 4y ago
All of these issues are mismanagement symptoms in my experience. Complicated tasks that are described with one line in broken English. Cryptic bug reports. The list goes on and on.
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by mkl95 4y ago
My longest interview process lasted around 7 weeks. During this time I basically met all my bosses, from my direct manager to C-level. I was going to do some formal engineering challenges initially, but they were eventually removed from the
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by mkl95 4y ago
I'm OK with pairing a significant amount of time if it's async. I find traditional sync pairing draining after an hour or so. If you are pairing all the time something has to be off, it's not efficient at all.
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by mkl95 4y ago
It's worse when you consider basic foundations of the system such as healthcare have been declining for a while. What are they even doing with all that money?
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by mkl95 4y ago
Let's say you wanted to test something quickly. You could 1) Clone your VM in 1.5s as described in the article 2) Clone your database in a few seconds with Database Lab Engine [1] 3) Something else? [1] https://postgres.ai&#
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by mkl95 4y ago
My country has plenty of companies that offer 2 1/2 day weekends ON PAPER. The reality is that unpaid overtime is endemic here and you are likely to work as much there as you would at a place with a regular workweek. I don't want
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by mkl95 4y ago
Another way to perceive it is that a great developer is one who has consistently contributed to great projects. Any generalist who shows up to their job every day could potentially achieve that. There is a large overlap between being a gift
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by mkl95 4y ago
On the other hand most engineers envision "improving things" as refactoring, applying code gymnastics, having more complex architecture etc. despite I/O being the most common culprit (bad/missing indexes, dumb queries, h
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Building Git(shop.jcoglan.com)
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by mkl95 4y ago
JetBrains Fleet ( https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/ ) may already be doing something like this > Fleet provides a polyglot experience, offering smart support for many languages and technologies out of the box, with sup
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by mkl95 4y ago
I understand Visual Studio Code as a sophisticated Language Server Protocol frontend, and it generally does a good job at that. The IDE of the future will have Jetbrains grade UX with a heavy emphasis on LSP interfaces that "just work&
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by mkl95 4y ago
> The French government taxes real estate based on its rental value, which increases when owners build additions or improvements such as swimming pools. What if you haven't rented your property for a long time, or ever? Either the a
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by mkl95 4y ago
Unless you use instanced rendering via some GPU API it's going to take some galaxy brain code to make that work.
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by mkl95 4y ago
> With animate objects, though, and with humans, in particular, we do not know the cardinality of the set of equations that define their trajectory. Does it really matter? You can imitate human motion by multiplying a bunch of matrices t

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