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by papito 4y ago
It's entirely possible that you take a long break from work and find that you don't want to do anything . That means that you burned out completely. Just say that in an interview - that you needed to take a serious mental break,
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by papito 4y ago
That depends on what you do with that. You can also look at this as an investment in yourself that will substantially increase your income later. If you have something to show for it after you sabbatical, you can actually win long term.
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by papito 4y ago
I don't know. I just lost my job and I have fewer savings than I wanted (six months just about), and I am feeling phenomenal. I started finally working on my own long-neglected passion projects, and I feel excited about coding again. S
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by papito 4y ago
While this is a true horror story, this is how I feel about microservices. Simple things take forever because the unnecessary complexity is through the roof. I do not experience the "developer ergonomics" that I used to. Every mic
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by papito 4y ago
Seems to me like a lot of these are solved by a dedicated search engine? I see it in this business all the time how people try to reinvent the wheel and end up writing their own search engine, thinking it's just another small in-hous
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by papito 4y ago
Sure. How about Fox News? https://www.foxnews.com/world/russia-funding-environmental-g...
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by papito 4y ago
It's more sinister than that. Russia was financially extremely incentivized to let this happen and indeed, it seems the so-called "environmental groups" in Germany and elsewhere are really fronts for the Russian government:
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by papito 4y ago
The front-end (read: Node) community is fairly young. They are still to learn that complexity kills . The hard way. As for GraphQL - it's great for clients. As a backend engineer, you still have to do the work and a LOT of it. This is
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by papito 4y ago
In a world where engineers just keep piling on cloud toys and oh hey microservices to solve very common problems, pretending that database and HTTP roundtrips are basically free, your choice of framework and language should not even matter.
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by papito 4y ago
There is more going on here. This is beyond just some pragmatic accounting on Musk's part. He literally fell for Russian disinfo claiming that he was on some "Ukrainian hitlist": https://twitter.com/uamemesfor
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by papito 4y ago
So is mine, but I cut the cord 10 years ago, when my Internet + TV bill hit $250. Cable bills basically keep going up until you leave. Now, because of inflation, $100 is not even what it was 10 years ago, so I am not sure why people are get
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by papito 4y ago
I seriously wonder how people would receive the Go language if they had no idea about the people behind it.
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by papito 4y ago
WhatsApp and Instagram, both acquired by Facebook, were actually a gold standard in lean development. 1o to 30 people for a massively popular product. If these companies were creating sprawling and unnecessary micro-service-based infrastruc
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by papito 4y ago
No one is going to challenge Facebook head on. Google tried and flamed out. Zuckerberg is afraid of new forms of social media that will expedite the death of Facebook. This is why he bought Instagram. Was it really a competitor? Nope. But i
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by papito 4y ago
Important doesn't mean "good". These apps literally rewire people's brains to stop being able to take in long-form information. No wonder that we get stories of students now revolting against challenging courses: http
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by papito 4y ago
One benefit of working at a small and even failing startup is that you get to do a lot of things, wear many hats, and ultimately learn a ton . It's rewarding. In a large tech behemoth, you are just a code monkey, where every day is ju
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by papito 4y ago
When you bring up Elon Musk in a negative context, you walk right into it. HackerNews is a special place :)
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by papito 4y ago
His thread on Russian tire maintenance took off like wildfire, and his Twitter fame got a little into his head. He suffers from the very known effect of narrow experts "expanding" their opinions to fields they have no business in.
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by papito 4y ago
These are guided by specific drones (Orlan?) that Russia is running low on.
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by papito 4y ago
Walk me through it. The Russian army, which has not shown any qualms about rape, torture, and murder, is given reign over a huge slice of Ukrainian territory without a fight. Am I pro-bloodshed, or are you pro-genocide? I am sorry to get pe
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by papito 4y ago
Or perhaps they are discovering work/life balance. America runs on the dread of losing your job and health insurance. You have no choice but to overcompensate for it. Respond to Slack after 8PM, respond to an email on a weekend, don&#x
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by papito 4y ago
Busy doing what? Posting dumb "peace plans" on Twitter?
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by papito 4y ago
Musk never expressed any interest in running a social media company. At least he talked about electric cars and space travel since he was a teen. In addition - zero understanding of free speech vs. moderation. Anyone who runs a discussion o
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by papito 4y ago
Pessimism can be just aversion to risk. Those that can afford to fail can be more optimistic - because they can try again. You will be more pessimistic if failure means losing everything, no?
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by papito 4y ago
SQL is a technology that engineers should know in an out, and while in early 2000's you could not move an inch without knowing it, I find that the new generation of devs really considers database calls a freebie - hidden behind abstrac
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by papito 4y ago
There is such a thing as a "coffee power nap". I won't go into the science of it, but it basically makes sense to fall asleep after having a cup of coffee (but not at night). That said, you may fall asleep, but you don&#x27
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by papito 4y ago
Just basic due diligence about performance and knowing your storage engine can easily get you to and even at unicorn level. Stack Overflow regularly bragged about how their eight servers and a few MSSQL replicas were basically always in a
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by papito 4y ago
Not everyone vacations in a war zone all the time.
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by papito 4y ago
Ah, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Geocities. I miss the days when the Internet was full of magic and wonders, and not dumpster fires.
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by papito 4y ago
The deployment strategy depends on a lot more than that. Team size, team workload, product nature, customer expectations, average story size and complexity. Hard release cadence is amateur hour (outside of major software pieces like operati

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