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by ostenning 4y ago
Germany is hostile to entrepreneurs, class mobility and is backward when it comes to how their taxation, pension and healthcare systems are structured. Basically anyone who is not a typical cookie cutter employee will find it difficult in G
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by ostenning 4y ago
The biggest problem facing the front-end space today isn't so much of complexity of a particular library, rendering technique, or view/model architecture, but rather lots of bad ideas glued together, creating nightmare scenarios f
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by ostenning 4y ago
Things like tailwind are indicative of the hype train that frontend developers subscribe to. Unnecessary
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by ostenning 4y ago
Agree with the freelancer suggestion. Freelancers generally have a more equal business relationship with clients and clients will respect you when you decide to block off time for other projects, and/or your health. Freelancing comes w
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by ostenning 4y ago
I stumbled onto Huberman some weeks ago. He is a really great podcaster and exceptionally intelligent. I really enjoyed his talk about dopamine and addiction. Highly recommended!
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by ostenning 4y ago
Same thing happened in Germany years ago
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by ostenning 4y ago
Its common place these days for tech organizations to promote social and political issues. The issue for me here is - what if hypothetically the political viewpoint is misguided? What if this was 2003 and the statement said "Due to the
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by ostenning 4y ago
I have an EE background but worked in webdev for many years. I got pretty bored with webdev, and had the opportunity to get into embedded Rust development, so I did. Its been really awesome, learnt so much both in embedded but also hardware
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by ostenning 4y ago
When watching the Next.js Keynote it really felt as if I were watching an Apple keynote..
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by ostenning 4y ago
I had pericarditis (which i initially thought was myocarditis until I had an MRI) shortly after vaccination. People on this forum literally urged me to go get a booster despite my experience. The overzealous opinions go both ways. How about
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by ostenning 4y ago
My feeling is that crypto is done and dusted. Too many people got burnt during the last cycle peak and I think its reputation has been completely destroyed. Any semblance of technological innovation was dwarfed by the scams and damage it di
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by ostenning 4y ago
I think a big difference between then and now is how we interacted amongst each other. I somehow feel that the old days there were more community events and structures to keep people working together to achieve a common goal. Now it just fe
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by ostenning 4y ago
Debt driven speculation on housing is like speculating on drinking water - Its just wrong and ultimately negatively impacts the social fabric. Thankfully debt wont be affordable for much longer, I hope interest rates don't fall any tim
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by ostenning 4y ago
It shouldn't be easy to rewrite history but it should be easy to change the email of the author retroactively
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by ostenning 4y ago
My academic background is Electronic Engineering and embedded development but found myself in fullstack and then frontend development roles for over 7 years. I began to experience what you described, essentially a bunch of hype technologies
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by ostenning 4y ago
Webdev is risky as an older person if thats all you know because its the most popular, and therefore most competitive. My advice is to use webdev as a backup to a specialisation of some kind, ideally something you can grow with. Embedded is
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by ostenning 4y ago
Not sure about this one, especially if pension funds collapse like they will probably do in Germany
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by ostenning 4y ago
The reality is human beings haven’t evolved to spend all their lives in front of computers, no matter how much you love working with them. Maybe try something else for a while completely unrelated to your career, a sabbatical etc
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by ostenning 4y ago
Imo this is why it’s useful to discern a engineer from a developer. A developer can pickup a high level abstraction easily without ever needing to think about low level issues, and then comfortably stick to that silo for many years
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by ostenning 4y ago
I think people do care, but what are we suppose to do? Its psychologically taxing to consider how fragile our world is, and how insane some world leaders are. The most logical thing is to keep our heads down, continue with living our lives
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by ostenning 4y ago
CEO Should absolutely be charged with criminal negligence. Throw the book at him.
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by ostenning 4y ago
Not entirely sure but op wanted advice on a laptop, not a phone
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by ostenning 4y ago
Studies and articles like this are disingenuous and take away legitimacy from the real environmental challenges we face. People need to take responsibility for their actions and realize we live in an imperfect world - you cannot blame a flu
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by ostenning 4y ago
Removing beef from your diet is actually quite easy, even as a person who semi regularly eats meat
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by ostenning 4y ago
The 1992 Rostock attacks on the Vietnamese and Roma minorities - what an insane thing to happen. I’ve come to the conclusion that humanity doesn’t learn from its past.
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by ostenning 4y ago
Definitely feels that way. I would choose Rails today because its an older technology with a proven track record. Companies tend to go with hype technologies because thats what developers want to learn and so there are more hiring possibi
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by ostenning 4y ago
Or data that is serialized from the server to the client isn't consistent on both sides leading to differences in rendered output
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by ostenning 4y ago
The Rust ESP32 ecosystem isn't as mature as STM32 unfortunately, I would be cautious about beginning a production ESP32 product written in Rust. STM32s however are a different story... I'm using the stm32h7 microcontroller with Ru
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by ostenning 4y ago
Regarding preemptive operating systems a lightweight solution is to use rtic.rs which I have found pretty great for my time critical applications
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by ostenning 4y ago
Agree completely. I used Next.js for many years, but I probably wouldn't choose it today. SSR adds complexity and blurs the distinctions between client and server and as a result everything is harder - especially tooling and glue code.

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