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by pxue 5y ago
The go code I wrote in 2015 looks and works exactly the same way new Go code I'm writing today. Even with all the upgrades. You have no idea how amazing that feels.
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by pxue 5y ago
Is your work time demanding? Why not try spending 25% of your work day on a business project you love? Make it profitable and do it full time.
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by pxue 5y ago
Open up city zoning laws so "local" food actually effing mean local and not within 8h truck shipping distance. Lots of city dead space, roof tops, useless alley ways that can be turned into gardens that provide simple food source
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by pxue 5y ago
That's what Ponzi scheme sales person would proclaim, until not true.
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by pxue 5y ago
Output/performance shouldn't be determined by pay, ie pay is a lagging indicator of output/performance.
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by pxue 5y ago
Nop. But likei said the tradeoff is clear, ease vs control. Im sure we would have had this talk when on-premise transitioned to the cloud. Same arguments apply
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by pxue 5y ago
So much finger pointing, always with the "they". Root cause: too many people and a rapidly expanding middle class. Fix? Lower population, lower quality of life, or massively accelerate the rising country overall to Norway like soc
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by pxue 5y ago
Because the pendulum is swinging towards ease of creation over control. I can spin up a simple web app or a simple cloud function and get it globally distributed in minutes, for free. That's amazing
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by pxue 5y ago
Internal Google uses gcp / firestore, doesn't make sense to discontinue a part of that at this point
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by pxue 5y ago
I've worked on multiple specialty projects billed in the 10M+/year range with a handful of client stakeholders. I'm sure it made impact but at most it saved <10 people a couple of hours a day. I'd compare this phenome
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by pxue 5y ago
I'm reading Principles by Ray Dalio. In it he mentions how Bridgewater had been using myer-briggs to test and measurement their employees personalities. I've always been dismissive of the myer-briggs test. Since the tests are &quo
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by pxue 5y ago
Agreed. Imho kinda crazy the zoom slack integration works better than slacks own native calling function.
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by pxue 5y ago
No it doesn’t. Reviewing other people’s PR is a collaborative task, fixing bugs "reported by others" is a collaborative work, updating docs and release notes for "other" stakeholder's consumption is collaborative wo
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by pxue 5y ago
People thought software would be linear, 90s was big on OOP and relational dbs, and that was cutting edge.. but 15 years later (mid 2000s) that was completely out of the door, and 15 more years later it's back.
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by pxue 5y ago
Stop government subsidy of cheap cotton. The US cotton industry in turn drives the global fast fashion industry. It's a complete ease to the bottom/ecological destruction.
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by pxue 5y ago
no. because bank going bankrupt doesn't wipe away YOUR debt. it wipes away banks obligation to the governing body. also micro-lending will be as big in west as it's in China in the next decade. borrowing 10k to margin trade the st
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by pxue 5y ago
the blockchain is a huge social experiment. it's a study of anthropology masked as a hard-science experiment.
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by pxue 5y ago
If you ever need to swap out a ssd at the Apple store, they won't give you back the old drive and promises you that they'll dispose of it.. I feel like this is a huge security risk if you're doing any kind of IP development.
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by pxue 5y ago
It's a red flag because 1.5 years is really not a long time to attempt to break into a new market. It highlights that the author wasn't a good fit as engineer #2. However, instead of introspection, the author just blamed it all on
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by pxue 6y ago
Blaming porn is like blaming cheeseburger for obesity. While you're not wrong but it's hardly the root cause.
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by pxue 6y ago
Toronto DEVS SEEKING WORK Go, React/JS, Devops, Data warehouse Full detail: https://spacestation.github.io/ - We're a team of 3 full-stack developers. - 10+ years of experience each. - proficient in all aspects of
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by pxue 6y ago
Location: Toronto (Remote global) Go, React/JS, Devops, Data warehouse Full detail: https://spacestation.github.io/ - We're a team of 3 full-stack developers. - 10+ years of experience each. - proficient in all as
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by pxue 6y ago
The fact that you're realizing you don't know anything already puts you ahead of most "senior" developers. We still treat software like a traditional job, where time-in-field determines bulk of who gets sorted into what
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by pxue 6y ago
Goals absolutely exist at startups. In fact I'd argue it's MORE important to have OKRs at small companies that reflect how each person contributes toward companies KPI. Leadership's job is to help employees do the best work t
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by pxue 6y ago
There arent any real study on work place transition, productivity, and overall AVERAGE health of employees had been conducted. Even on the smallest scale of sample size, I thrived during the work from home year, yet my SO can't wait to
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by pxue 6y ago
it's simple to write ONCE you understand and learn the idiomatic code. some people call not having native string/int/whatever sorting methods is "hard to write". some people think the verbose `if err != nil` every o
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by pxue 6y ago
I don't think so. You can cryptographically sign anything much like how SSL works now. You'll have to rely on certificate authorities to assign these certs, but it works. Videos should be cryptographically signed, and verified onc
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by pxue 6y ago
they locked in the bottom up approach. Payments typically isn't something people have deep knowledge about, so management defer to devs to do the research, when that happens devs going to pick the easiest API to work with.
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by pxue 6y ago
SEEKING 2 - 12 month+ contracts Three Toronto devs contractors, REMOTE EST Go, React/JS, Devops, Data warehouse Full detail: https://spacestation.github.io/ - We're a team of 3 full-stack developers. - 10+ years o
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by pxue 6y ago
Most ppl in this thread is still trapped by concept of ownership of something tangible. Why not break out of that and think digitally. Digital ownership is like putting your name on a building, like a museum. Completely meaningless to most

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