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by ritchiea 6y ago
And most of us in Berlin would say living in any other German city is unimaginable.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Yea exactly, she seems to have reached a level of comfort with her technical proficiency and years of experience that she's not even seeing how this kind of talk can be discouraging to a junior who doesn't have the depth of knowle
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It depends? Certainly for some companies but I wouldn't be the right fit if you need a highly specialized infrastructure person at Netflix or AWS or something. Sometimes it can feel like I'm only a good fit at startups which isn&#
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Companies being honest about what a job will be like is so critical. I recently had a company tell me they wanted me to wear many hats, lead a team, talk directly with customers, respond to customer needs and build things I believe the cust
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Some of us even have jobs that are a mix of high and low level engineering and we have to have the good judgement to choose when to do one or the other.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It’s clear the author of the original post is taking an elitist stance on what it means to work as a coder and trying to brand the work of others as less important & give it a different job title. Essentially saying “a real programmer d
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by ritchiea 6y ago
It helps to read her previous post on the topic to understand her point. She complained about being accused of focusing too much on problems of scale as an ex-Google/FB engineer. And she suggests her colleagues don’t have the engineeri
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by ritchiea 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Berlin, Germany | Remote possible (within a few hours of Central European time) but onsite preferred We're building a platform for investors to invest in small to medium sized enterprises. We're looking for on
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Arbour | Frontend Developer, Backend Developer | Berlin, Germany Arbour is building a technical platform to help pension fund investors invest in small to medium sized enterprises. Small to medium sized enterprises shape the real economy. U
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by ritchiea 6y ago
From the jobs I see Javascript, Python, Java & iOS are pretty much the entire market so there isn’t a lot of opportunity to actually work with other langs and get paid for it.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I live in Berlin now and Ruby isn't very popular here. It's much more difficult to find Ruby/Rails developers than React developers. The tech industry here is growing but still in its infancy, there aren't a glut of devs
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I have 98% confidence Next will be alive in 2 years. In five years if this company's biggest technical problem is needing to refactor an older front end framework then I have absolutely succeeded in my job building version 1.0.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. I'm also a fan of opinionated frameworks. I was an early Rails developer and over years of freelancing seeing both framework codebases and micro-framework or from-scratch codebases I believe frameworks make de
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Which is why I am trying to get additional background on the tool before I commit to it.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Mostly to double check my assumptions and try to dig around and see if there is a downside to Next I'm blind to. Or any gotchas or problems that arise that I wouldn't expect a year or two into the project. Maybe excessive due dili
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Interesting. Having worked with both Gatsby and Next I definitely prefer Next. But also this web app is going to need a lot of dynamic content so I would not choose a static site generator like Gatsby for the use case.
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Ask HN: Have you abandoned Next.js for another front end framework/library?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Managers need developers to write tests so that when that developer job hops the new dev on the team can actually make changes with confidence. As it happens, writing tests and adhering to best practices has a side effect of keeping turnove
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I would think the idea of C2H is instead of having an intense interview you have a performance review and talk about how you work together. If you still have to pass a high pressure interview attempt to filter you out after working with a t
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Aren’t there times when an ad hominem attack is fitting? If I have a documented history of a certain type of bad behavior and turn around to say I’m a victim of exactly that same sort of behavior. If I write a screed about my victimhood it
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by ritchiea 6y ago
So you’re objecting to equating “predatory practice” with “scam”? A bit pedantic?
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Many if not most people believe payday loans are predatory practices that prey on people without access to capital and/or financial literacy.
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I see these kinds of comments all the time here on HN “X developer colleague of mine was really clueless about Y technology they were using” and they are so unfathomable to me. I’ve worked with bad colleagues & people who made foolish c
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NYPD International Liaison Program(scholar.dickinson.edu)
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Customize your device for your comfort. Even if there are studies that show on average humans retain information better reading in light mode. That's merely the average! Variation is the only certainty in biology. It's good we hav
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by ritchiea 6y ago
I empathize with how bad corporate America is, I struggle with it all the time. I didn't intend my comments to sound like finger wagging. A lot of it is turning to advice that legitimately helped me. When I felt most like "the who
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by ritchiea 6y ago
First I would take a step back and try to view the situation with less judgment. It's easy to look at the past and mythologize it and imagine it as perfect. Maybe there are more MBAs and executives and thought leaders today but the pas
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by ritchiea 6y ago
Human factors. Developers ship a new OSS framework Z because it makes an extremely subjective improvement on framework X in their opinion. And the process of writing Z satisfies an intellectual curiosity to write something from scratch and
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by ritchiea 6y ago
To me "be civil to each other" means don't attack people because of your political perspective. It's ok to have a political idea about say, the name of an OSS package, but if you request a change be kind about it, lay ou
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by ritchiea 6y ago
The funny thing here is that RuboCop is an obvious pun on Robocop which is a satire of privatized police forces and corporate corruption. But I'm not here to tell people what they should not be offended by. Telling people "you sho

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