mmargerum

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by mmargerum 4y ago
I too am a generalist and have been for 30 years. I love it all but the one thing I wouldn't do is react UI coding. It just looks awful to work on. I loved Vue2 but Vue3 is starting to look like react.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
love that: specialization is for insects.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
I reluctantly moved to an architecture position because developer salaries have stagnated and remote work normalization will put even more pressure on western developer wages. Coding isn't nearly as much fun anymore. Agile, CI/CD
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by mmargerum 4y ago
I mostly use Macs and dislike most windows laptops. That said, I am impressesed with this ThinkPad I have to use for a client.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
Now if I could just boot this from a cartridge I'd approach the last time programming was truly joyful for me.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
He was probably getting paid on the down low. That's what precipitates a lot of these outsourcing deals. 4% off the top. I'm on the. consulting end of things now and thats SOP
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by mmargerum 4y ago
i like it as a separate frame
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by mmargerum 4y ago
Vue3 looks like react to me in a not good kind of way. I'm moving on to svelte.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
Javascript UI frameworks last longer the Microsoft UI frameworks. It's not like a newer framework is just replacing an old one because of hype. React/Vue are massive improvements over Angular 1.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
laptop users
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by mmargerum 4y ago
i read for about an hour every morning. reddit, hacker news, newsletters. Gives you great exposure to everything that's out there and what's changing. I highly recommend just picking simple function you need to write and work
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by mmargerum 4y ago
Best of luck. In the right company tech lead is a blast!
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by mmargerum 4y ago
You have to be in a very functional organization to enjoy life as a tech lead . Otherwise you just end up a manager who knows how to code.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
It's ok to be happy staying there as long as you are OK with being salary capped. The salary wasn't even my biggest issue. My biggest issue was my title and compensation didn't match what I was actually doing day in and day
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by mmargerum 4y ago
Tech lead, to me, is a guy who orchestrates projects at a very technical level that includes some shallowing coding for proof of concept and helping developers when they get stuck. A lot of companies mistake tech lead for "senior dev&q
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by mmargerum 4y ago
I don't remember saying that but I do remember saying I had capped as a senior developer.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
That's also true. Most organizations don't have a real "tech lead" type of position just management and senior devs and the lines blur.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
"Senior developer " is the worst role you can have. You are the architect, manager of your devs, heat shield, meetings attender, and you still full time coding job. You get 2% annual raises for your trouble because you are salar
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by mmargerum 4y ago
No runtime requirement, single exe, and cross compiling were big one for me as well
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by mmargerum 4y ago
Go compiles so quickly i use it for all of my scripting.
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by mmargerum 4y ago
I thought guile was the language used. maybe im confusing this with guix
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by mmargerum 4y ago
I think Go is the easiest language , outside of basic, that i've ever had to learn
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by mmargerum 5y ago
Yup. product is dead to me now.
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by mmargerum 5y ago
Coulda just had a simple demo on the landing page. I spent the requisite 2 minutes trying to figure out what you do and didn't figure it out.
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by mmargerum 5y ago
Vue/React/Svelte are pretty damned productive. 1/5 - 1/10th of typical server rendered or native UI LOC. If I never write another line of code directly manipulating UI controls I can die a happy man.
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by mmargerum 5y ago
What do you get from this you cannot get from building your app in QT, Flutter, or Lazarus?
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by mmargerum 5y ago
I enjoy writing code in objC/Pascal/Go/JS/Lisp/Swift. They all have their beautiful parts IMO. Funny the one I enjoy the least is the most modern: swift. Xcode and platform lock in may have a lot to do with that
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by mmargerum 5y ago
You can use emacs + lsp along with the Xcode lsp server. works great and is way more stable the XCode. I just use XCode for storyboard editing. (add-to-list 'exec-path "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Develo
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by mmargerum 5y ago
well yeh if you can pick up c++ then swift is easy, but apple is positioning it as a first language which it is definitely not.
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by mmargerum 5y ago
Use Delphi or Lazarus. Superlative windows development tool.

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