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An NFT of the Menu from the $105M market cap New Jersey deli(opensea.io)
2 points by ritchiea 5y ago|1 comments
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by ritchiea 5y ago
You could but an NFT with the deli menu has already been done https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Thanks that is actually great advice. I added an addendum suggesting let agencies know he could use interview coaching but avoid details like where he's applied already or to how many companies.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Have you been looking for security based roles and pen testing type roles? It sounds like you enjoy that type of work moreso than you'd enjoy a typical software dev job where you're building web forms or APIs that return JSON etc.
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by ritchiea 5y ago
This is great advice. I would add: don't wait for them to coach you, tell them what your strengths are and how you've had trouble finding a job at big tech companies. Let them know you're open to smaller and lesser known tech
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by ritchiea 5y ago
The UK has aspirations to be American, see: leaving the EU, deregulation and attempts to dismantle the NHS. Sadly the UK are not the only European country with these types of aspirations. My best guess is that there are tightening relations
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Possibly but particuarly on a small team there is a cost to operational complexity even if you're comfortable. If the team could be developing features but is dealing with an infrastructure problem that could easily be dealt with via a
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by ritchiea 5y ago
I am a bit of a PG critic myself at times but he became rich from selling his own startup. He became richer by starting YC but he didn't need to start YC. Based on his essays he basically had enough money to be set for life from sellin
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by ritchiea 5y ago
Not even just luck, there are biases in who gets funding in the first place. PG himself says he's biased toward founders that remind him of Zuckerberg and other past founders. That group is very predominantly white and affluent with a
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My One Lesson from 3 years as a coder in Europe(twitter.com)
2 points by ritchiea 5y ago|0 comments
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What it means to “Know how to Code”(writing.andrewritchie.info)
4 points by ritchiea 6y ago|0 comments
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What It Means to Learn to Code(writing.andrewritchie.info)
1 points by ritchiea 6y ago|0 comments
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Interesting note: Douglas Crockford's version of JSON's origin story is great. At Yahoo Crockford wanted to return data from an API as a Javascript object because it skipped a translation step and avoided messy XML. And his bosses
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It’s dismissive to call it luddism. I am a big anti-GraphQL voice but in the specific cases where I tend to work: on small cross functional, often full stack dev teams. It’s a layer of formal promises about the API that I find extremely unn
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The great thing about GraphQL is that it's declarative and you have to write your own actual logic to define how the fetching of information works! It only does half the work SQL does! Everyone should switch to GraphQL ASAP!
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Reed College
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It doesn't take 2 weeks to set up an app in a language with a big community of developers, well maintained libraries and at least decent documentation. It probably takes a day or 2. Maybe a bit more if you are venturing into a new ecos
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by ritchiea 6y ago
One charge of mine lasts months, why on Earth would you need 2 mice? Worse case it runs out of battery and you take a 20min break to get enough charge to last you the rest of the day then make sure to charge overnight.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It's a practice that's so ingrained and so taken for granted that I suspect it will not change unless a big popular package gets hacked and the vulnerability effects a significant portion of apps written in a popular language like
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Ok so you're going to argue to an engineering manager or product manager that you need a day or days to do a full code audit of each external package you use? Or write your own library instead? That's, if anything, more unrealisti
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Some developers are fearful of writing original code. Others realize it's not going to be appreciated by their colleagues to write their own package manager to solve a problem most of the industry disregards. Imagine arguing for gettin
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by ritchiea 6y ago
You can call it laziness but lots of developers correctly assume they'd be out of their jobs or at best out of favor at their company if they raised a fuss about dependency management rather than use (flawed) industry standard tools an
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I hear game dev is the worst paid as well!
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Great for her, amazing that she was working at the type of organization that actually wants to keep people around. This coming from someone who recently had my work praised for 6 months then was let go just before my probation period ended.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I wasn't a freelancer at the 2nd company, I signed a full time employment contract with the expectation I would be employed indefinitely as long as I fulfilled my duties.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Here non-EU foreigners aren't eligible to receive social benefits like unemployment income until after we've been here and paying into the social safety system for 2 years. So the 2nd company should have known they were letting me
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I commented on this in another reply here but I think in the first case it was a founder that was just unprofessional and had difficulty getting along with other developers. And in the 2nd case it was a company w/o any product or dev t
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Thanks for the advice. I really was trying to find the right situation for me in both cases, I may just be bad at doing that. In the first case, I made sure that the company had been established for several years, and had actual clients and
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Ask HN: Differences between Berlin tech/startup culture and NYC culture?
43 points by ritchiea 6y ago|16 comments
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I've been reading WSB since yesterday and while I understand the outrage about blocking trading. They started blocking trading with $GME trading in the $400's, and a slew of redditors on WSB, Discord & Telegram pushing penny s

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