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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Really enjoyed the article piece but man, just get rid of WordPress. It's not 2011 anymore.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Then the reality is that the blog should be migrated to fully static contents. You have generators, many of them (f.ex. Zola), where you write Markdown files, run a command and run `rsync` to your host.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
As a person who actively uses Elixir, Rust and Go (in that priority order) to me there is a maddening gap between Rust and Go. While Go has the goroutines and they have made concurrent and parallel programming accessible to many, they are a
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Thank you, that was super useful. When I said launchers, I meant more like f.ex. my own bespoke mini Golang program that lists rules inside its via Landlock's DSL and then launches f.ex. Firefox. But maybe that's unnecessary becau
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Here's mine from my most recent consulting engagement: "We understand and recognize that this feature we asked of you absolutely cannot be done without the database denormalization you warned us is necessary several weeks ago, but
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria (CET / UTC+2) Remote: Yes (since 2011) Willing to relocate: Negotiable (Open to visiting/onboarding trips) Technologies: Elixir (9.5y), Phoenix LiveView, Ash Framework, Rust, Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, D
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Can you expand further on that, and maybe send some sources? Interested to learn more about this.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Bad code is not written on a bet. It's written because either competent engineers crunch, or because they are incompetent. Good code could be costly, yes, but often is not. In fact it's very often economically sound to periodica
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Well maybe you get hit with the gray arrows because you first make a sweeping generalization and then say "I have no sympathy for you". Food for thought? I have communicated the business value in addressing tech debt, as in I have
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
What is there to get? Bull-headed egomaniacs on a power trip are the norm in most of the world -- on the executive positions, middle managers included. Reasoning with unreasonable people is not impossible but drains too much time and energy
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Yep, you beat me to it. Arguing over good code is pointless. We should instead agree on various metrics on what a bad code is and try to avoid those.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
> I feel like I could polish any code to perfection forever. Then you know what to work on to become an even better engineer. My recursive function for improving code has clear exit conditions. One of them indeed includes aggressive ti
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Your analogies don't work. Nobody pushes a cook or a bricklayer so hard that they cannot have a basic level of quality to their work. A meal that makes a customer sick or an entire floor of a building collapsing due to bad bricklaying
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Rewriting from scratch is also included in "take a few hours to ponder architecture" contained in your parent comment.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
No, it's not that. No regulations prevents them from investing in our own IT infrastructure. It is harder than in the US, sure, but very far from unprofitable. In fact it's a glaring hole in the EU now due to the current geopoliti
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Startups cannot disrupt human hierarchies rooted in deep instincts built by millennia of serfdom, sadly. And yes most PMs are useless, regardless of how snarkily you attempt to push that element aside.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
"At your own pace" exists only in a handful of very privileged spheres. Maybe part of the USA scene and that's it. Everywhere else is "fall in line or get fired". You hiring? I got rejected twice from US companies w
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Sure. The problem is more like that during the interviews I was made to believe this is welcome and on day one I was told in no uncertain terms that I'll follow a script to the letter or get fired. Which ultimately happened. Shitty luc
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I'm very slowly taking an interest in Linux security as I'm starting to disentangle from my Mac and preparing to get a Linux workstation and make it my forever home for personal and work computing. So I'm very new to all this
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
So you're basically writing a program launcher? In this case this program is what you'd want to have a desktop shortcut to and not to Firefox itself, is that it?
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Yours and my experience are not mutually exclusive, I think we both see it. I dream of managers like you but I never get hired under them for some reason. (Likely regional culture, experience shows.) I'm at a stage of life and career w
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Replies like yours gloss over nuance. I don't mind prioritizing time to market as a programmer; I am not clueless, I understand that imperfect product that pours money into my employer's coffers is infinitely better than it sinkin
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Excuse me but this mostly sounds like a recipe to be burned out extremely quickly, and also blamed for everything. I think your ideas are sound but they very generously assume competent and somewhat benevolent leadership. Something I have v
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
That's just the thing though: I want to know what those other incentives are and I was never told anything else than a hand-wavy "money" blurb with zero elaboration. I mean OK, technically the ad viewing experience in f.ex. i
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I understand but in this case the quicker solution has potentially fatal flaws. With time I have learned to speed-run less things because I've been bitten by the quick and dirty solution probably at least 100 times.
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
I spend time with them, not hours every day. I am aware this is starting to get integrated and I like them more lately. Still far from AGI however, which was my original point. Any general intelligent being would be self-aware and as such s
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
If the current technology does not allow them to sincerely say "I don't know, I am now checking it out" then they are not AGI, was my original point. I am aware that the LLM companies are starting to integrate this quality --
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
> To be fair to management, it is the results that matter. To be fair to me, I don't recall ever signing a contract through which I am directly responsible for the company's financial and customer-acquisition / retention
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
Well please don't include me in some group of Luddites or something. I use the mainstream LLMs and I've noted them improving. They have ways to go still. I was objecting to my parent poster's implication that we have AGI. How
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by pdimitar 11mo ago
My hypothesis is that general computing frameworks are the next big thing. The powerful GPUs have been mostly black boxes for way too long. A lot of clever people will not want to just throw them away or sell them second-hand and will try t

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