rlawson

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   Ask HN: Resources for older developers?

   227 points by rlawson 3y ago|220 comments
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   by rlawson 3y ago

   Lot's of great points. As a hiring manager for me it's: Easy to hire for Has great tooling/monitoring Supports large teams working on a project Fast (not the fastest but plenty fast) Even the downsides are well k
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   by rlawson 3y ago

   Yep - running saved my sanity on many occasions
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   by rlawson 3y ago

   I hate that for you. I had a similar experience with unreasonable neighbors. People are so unstable right now that you just can't reason with them and to be frank it's not worth being shot over. Noise proofing curtains really do h
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   by rlawson 3y ago

   This looks really nice! Will try it out
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   by rlawson 4y ago

   Also JetBrains products are much nicer than Visual Studio
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   by rlawson 4y ago

   Get certified as a Java dev - the OCA/OCP exams. It will force you to understand Java syntax. I program in Java and Python and they are very different languages and I have to be careful that my Python code doesn't look like Java
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   by rlawson 4y ago

   This is the best response possible!
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   by rlawson 4y ago

   Question. Have you ever seen someone use htmx in a capacitor/cordova app? I would rather use htmx like I have been instead of a different tech (like Hyperview)
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Came here to post just that. Really like zen queries
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    Ask HN: Will ChatGPT free software be the non-GMO equivalent of food?

    2 points by rlawson 4y ago|1 comments
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Django Chat Talk Python To Me The Real Python Podcast
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Thanks I enjoyed reading this! How did you feel about htmx use/ease of learning?
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Great writeup and definitely software that gets to market first is software that can then be tweaked as you gain users.
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    I never ran into this personally (mainly ran Tomcat on Solaris and developed on Windows) back in the day - but I don't doubt that this happened given the complexity in covering such different OS's
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Good point on supporting the complexity of these devices. As I did some research realized that's more headache than I want. What I ended up doing was buying mint Java workstation since it has cool Java logo on front and nice big Sun Mi
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Permission to come aboard?
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    We had one of those at my employer's old office that we used for a while as a coffee table. I wish I had grabbed it when it was being given away!
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Or phrased a little less bluntly: Be a professional and do the best job you can within the constraints. I mean if I hire a painter and say paint my house like a candy cane - they may think wow that will drop house price by half but will pro
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    I would love too but that may be marriage ending :)
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Django -auth out of the box. DRF or Django Ninja provide easy apis. Throw it in a container and then deploy anywhere
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    Ask HN: Most practical Sun (not Oracle) workstation?

    2 points by rlawson 4y ago|10 comments
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Very good info! Packaging in python is still to complicated but it is getting better.
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Nice! Very snappy. What front end framework did you use?
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    On Django any of Adam Johnson or Will Vincent books are great https://adamj.eu/books/ https://wsvincent.com/books/
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Nice, going to take a look!
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    My advice (25 years in the industry, dev and management roles). Job security comes from the combination of tech and business knowledge. If you know the business and can bang out the crud apps it runs on well then you are secure. Just focusi
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    I went down this rabbit hole. For me anyway, Swing was the easiest to bang out a quick UI (great UI builders, stable). But if you want to have others contribute to it or help you with it then Electron is probably the way to go (even with al
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Nice work!
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    by rlawson 4y ago

    Great thoughts, I have re-read your comment a few times as there are several points here. One thought I had after your last paragraph was I guess we are hardwired to form "tribes" so we treat our workplace as one which kinda works