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by nobleach 5y ago
My last gig was Kubernetes, and aside from all the hate it gets here, (You're not Facebook, you don't need Facebook scale) it was a very pleasant experience. So pleasant in fact that when I moved on to my next job (Amazon EC2 VMs)
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by nobleach 5y ago
Wow, using Perl scripts to convert output from my AS/400's DB2 instance into ASCII so that I could import them into Oracle 8i and display them on an ASP page... that was a memory I had hoped to forget.
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by nobleach 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd go down that road. I totally agree that for websites, Wordpress, SquareSpace, Gatsby, Hugo, and a host of other static sites work just fine. Where I find it hard to make the stretch is, these are not the type of s
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by nobleach 5y ago
Not to travel too far off the main topic, but I use this exact fact to demonstrate to new developers why I prefer a developer that looks things up instead of relying on what "everyone knows". When Jeremy Keith's DOM Scripting
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by nobleach 5y ago
I'd put coffeescript as the "Groovy" of JavaScript. Kotlin is more like a mixture of Typescript and/or Reason (or whatever the name is now) Groovy was that flash-in-the pan idea that had some really cool ideas. But then
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by nobleach 5y ago
And those of us who used Joda-Time were so pleased when it became almost a "built-in" in Java 8.
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by nobleach 5y ago
Spring/Summer 2020 Amazon was rebranded LeetCode for their "entrance level". FB was writing code in what appeared to be more Microsoft Word-like. (There was no console to check my work). But the conversations with actual huma
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by nobleach 5y ago
It's that subtle view into what your life might become that makes it so much easier to decline to move on. I'll admit, it's probably easier when I already had a job that paid well and I didn't hate... A recruiter that co
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by nobleach 5y ago
The biggest problem I have with those "canned" systems, is that there's no real conversation. I have a REALLY hard time even understanding what's being asked. In a real environment, I can ask probing questions. I have ha
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by nobleach 5y ago
There are a few problems with that approach. One is that there is rarely a good time to say, "ok, we've proven that this idea works, let's now go back and do it correctly". It's a constant stream of fixes on a syste
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by nobleach 5y ago
I interviewed with Amazon and Facebook in the Spring/Summer of 2020. The difference was night and day. Amazon felt like I was part of a huge cattle herd. The recruiter contacted me and told me they needed to hire a bunch of people in m
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by nobleach 5y ago
I left a place that was full of death-marches. Those old habits really can stick with you. It took me months at my new job where I kept asking myself, "why do I still feel stressed? No one is behind me telling me I have to deliver&quot
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by nobleach 5y ago
Having worked in an environment where there was a constant onslaught of customer issues. I can tell you that even though I was offered more than 7 hours of sleep, my days were absolutely terrible. Fire-fighting all day, and never getting to
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by nobleach 5y ago
It's built into the culture to ship, ship, ship. Shipped code is better than good code, or clean code, or fast code. At my last job, the C-level was fascinated by Amazon success stories. They wanted to achieve the same success, so they
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by nobleach 5y ago
Rails and Spring Boot both scratch a similar itch. Out of the gate, a brand new project spins up and can return output (JSON or HTML) with almost zero config. The developer is responsible for augmenting that project with controllers/se
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by nobleach 5y ago
Or Oracle.
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by nobleach 5y ago
I have an XPS15 and an M1 MacBook Pro sitting side by side all day. I'll concede the MBP is far superior in build quality. The speakers, the trackpad, the body... they're nearly flawless. XPS is running ArchLinux, the Mac is runni
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by nobleach 5y ago
That is the former CEO, and yes, he was very disconnected from reality most times.
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by nobleach 5y ago
I'd say after reading about this phenomena in other media, it's fairly common for tech workers right now. I understand the frustration of management to a certain degree, "what do you mean you don't want to come work in t
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by nobleach 5y ago
Just a note about folklore.org. This site is just fantastic. I've spent many hours reading the fun stories that Andy's posted. They have a way of instantly transporting me back to the late 70's/early 80's Silicon Va
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by nobleach 5y ago
Yeah, Jenkins can be really unpleasant. Groovy as a language isn't so bad - I just don't use it anywhere else. So... like a few other languages, I have to look things up every time I need to mess with it.
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by nobleach 5y ago
Both Gitlab and Bitbucket Pipelines fall under the "sufficient" category in my book. I've used both in large productions deploys and, they for the most part, get the job done. Gitlab has moments where it doesn't work - a
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by nobleach 5y ago
If this is the USDA we're talking about, they mop it up, and have countless MEETINGS about what should be done. Then a task force is convened. THEN they do nothing.
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by nobleach 5y ago
All modern editors (except Atom) do a substandard job of actually BEING Vim. And frankly, I don't believe being Vim should be a goal of other editors. As someone who has to use IntelliJ when doing Kotlin/Java, I miss all the wonde
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by nobleach 5y ago
Yeah, I've used Vim since the mid-nineties too. At first it was my "edit a config file in my RedHat 5.2" tool. Later, the more and more actual software dev I did, it became a daily driver. I am pretty sold on the "Vim wa
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by nobleach 5y ago
I tried to get into that for awhile. I tend to look at the line number where I want to jump, and do <number>gg instead. It has the benefit of allowing me to look at a file and get an idea of what's on lines 400 through 425 (for e
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by nobleach 5y ago
Yes, while one could make the case that I should purchase and plug one more thing into my wall. Would it be impossible to place a small amount of memory on the board that remembers alarm settings? If this thing is built as a convenience, I
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by nobleach 5y ago
While I've never had issues with turning on and off lights via Alexa -> Smart Plugs, I have had my Echo Dot unable to play my wakeup alarm due to internet blips. Really? That particular function couldn't store some data in some
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by nobleach 5y ago
I've got the same but the 6.5 bed. That just means I can park it at Home Depot somewhere near the entrance to the store. The 8 foot bed does have its allure.
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by nobleach 5y ago
Yup, this was my exact experience. In Windows land, I used whatever IDE was built for whatever language I was using (Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Borland Delphi) When I started doing web, it was all Notepad++ and B

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