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by nickjj 5y ago
I once wrote about using GnuCash as a freelance solo developer at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-gnucash-as-a-freelancer... . I started using it in 2017 and still use it today. It's still really solid and mak
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by nickjj 5y ago
> most SWEs I work with simply refuse to learn these things Are the SWEs over worked with unrealistic deadlines? Also how did the SRE present this information to them? I think both factors can drastically have an effect on the outcome. F
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by nickjj 5y ago
gzip is remarkably efficient to reduce duplicate repeating strings. You could have 10 classes or raw styles repeated 50 times and all instances of those might condense down to 1 string of WWUElinMSS1J1TQwMFFISi7KtsMiZAuVKU.
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Thanks a lot for listening to it.
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I really like this methodology and it still applies today across techs, such as with Docker and Kubernetes. It feels like one of those things that'll be around for another 10+ years. If anyone is interesed in seeing each pattern applie
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> I don't know what the counterfactual would have been I don't think anyone can answer that. If you take this line of thought to completion then nothing is quantifiable because there's too many ways for events to have an u
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by nickjj 5y ago
> $160k / 2724 pages = $58.73 in revenue pr. page. It likely ends up being a lot higher revenue depending on the author's life style. Books and courses potentially have a lot of "back-end" value from opportunities tha
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by nickjj 5y ago
Is the BEAM's byte code interpreter comparable to something like opcache with PHP? [0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/intro.opcache.php
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I edited over 100 podcast episodes with DaVinci Resolve 17. It's a really great tool not just for video editing but audio editing too. Unfortunately Resolve 17 was never able to export mp4s for me without introducing both video and aud
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I think there's varying degrees depending on what your goal is. Besides VMs you could have a different user login for each compartment which means things like browser profiles, shell history and other things will get their own settings
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> Advocating for people to switch from alcohol to xanax to quit drinking… this is utter madness and I strongly advise anyone who reads this to completely disregard this advice. Yeah, absolutely. This recently happened to someone I knew w
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> So if the stock does good, you get screwed. If the stock performs poorly, you get screwed too. Did something else bad happen at the company? I guess our definitions of screwed are slightly different. It sounds like they are giving you
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by nickjj 5y ago
> I did earn enough money, but I immensely regret all the time I didn’t spend with my family over the years How many hours a week did you average at work? A lot of tech jobs will expect working 9-6. If it was over 40-45, did the money sc
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Thanks for linking that. The purpose of each episode is for anyone to walk away having a reasonable understanding of why and how a company built and deployed their app with XYZ technologies without needing to know anything up front. There&#
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> Often for hours. It really is, if you're on a block where a bunch of people use a maintenance service it's very possible to have 2-3 hours of commercial leaf blowers at least once a week for a few months. It could be twice a
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> Hmmm.. Is there a market for that? I don't think it's as bad as the parent comment makes it out to be to accept payments. You don't need to register a company, you can act as a sole proprietor. This requires no paper wor
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> perhaps to tweak said flow. Yeah, that was the goal of my opener. I'm happy with my set up but there's always "unknown unknowns". I use like 50 Vim plugins but never felt the urge to add more functionality to my she
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by nickjj 5y ago
Is anyone else mostly rolling with the zsh (not oh-my-zsh) defaults? After so many years of using Bash I switched to zsh almost a year ago. I use the vanilla zsh set up with 2 plugins: - https://github.com/zdharma-continuum&
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I've been blogging and making videos on https://nickjanetakis.com/ for around 7 years now. I focus on topics related to building and deploying web apps, dev environments, git and lots of assorted things you may experie
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Haha yeah. Depending on what games you were into, the term "Voodoo" in general may also unlock this part of your brain: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sHeuZ-m1tek
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I wonder how much of the 1.8% "Other" video cards is a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee. It came out at about the same time as the Voodoo 3 and was more of a budget friendly but still good card.
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Yeah that is an interesting point. It's really easy to drop in an initializer, make your patch, let it ride in production for a while and then contribute your patch back to the main project than it is to set up a fork and all of the ce
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Yeah, it's not an easy problem to solve. But it is worth pointing out because you can't trust plans for figuring out if something will work or not. However they are great for letting you know what's about to get CRUD'd,
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I like Terraform but I've grown to not fully trust its plan output. There are lots of cases where you can plan something successfully without errors but then when you go and apply it you'll run into errors and now your infrastruct
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You'd be able to exit the process if it's not a good fit using this method too. Perhaps even during an initial call before there's any type of contract mentioned. Going for interviews while you're currently employed is a
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> I can't imagine anyone on either of the coasts is going to jump at it. So for clarity, they will jump to do 10 hours for 5-7 technical interviews at $0 but won't do 10 hours of paid contracting work where they get $2,000? I c
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> So they have to be unemployed while interviewing with you? If you're doing 5-7 normal interviews that could end up being 5-15 hours worth of interviews. The time issue is shared with both styles of interviews. I know I said 5-30 f
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> I think it’s the liability it incurs. A two week commitment. I just can’t see doing it for $4k. It’s just not worth it. In my opinion it's the opposite of a liability. You're getting practical experience to know what it'
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> For $200/hr I’d rather spend the time on my own life. The alternative is spending 7-12 hours doing 5-7 technical interviews for $0.

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