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by rockyj 2y ago
> European one are incredibly expensive, lose money to their makers, and just plain suck Not true by any means. There are multiple options available and new cars are being planned / released all the time. Not to mention the second-h
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by rockyj 2y ago
There is "Sand Mafia" in India also. A lot of people have sadly lost their lives and the corruption / rot runs deep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_theft
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Show HN: Fun Golf(fun-golf-2025.web.app)
3 points by rockyj 2y ago|2 comments
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by rockyj 2y ago
This is what I do not get. I just do not understand the technical interview process these days. I have 20 years of experience in software development, I have hundreds of LinkedIn contacts you can check on, a dozen recommendations on LinkedI
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by rockyj 2y ago
Agree, and the biggest chunk of this is housing and healthcare. Can you imagine a world where there is guaranteed basic housing and healthcare. Yet, all governments will do everything and anything but not ensure these two things. No matter
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by rockyj 2y ago
The app does not load for now. I guess they used Rails :)
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by rockyj 2y ago
I have been using https://cachyos.org/ with the "Handheld" build with great success for the last 3 months. Best of both worlds, Arch Linux for work and Steam for gaming (as long as the game is Steam Deck compatibl
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by rockyj 2y ago
I am in the same boat. Specially after delivering multiple high impact systems and still getting the talk - "This is great, but not enough for the next promotion". So after a while I just realized that these levels are artificial
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by rockyj 2y ago
This article provides a lot of validation from my own experience. I was always weary of DDD fanatics, I always thought I was not bright enough to understand statements like - - In domain-driven design, the Domain layer is one of the common
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JRuby with JBang(rockyj-blogs.web.app)
76 points by rockyj 2y ago|12 comments
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by rockyj 2y ago
No sarcasm. In India cars are pretty much unusable after 15 years due to wear and tear, not to mention laws like - https://www.hizuno.com/blog/motor/15-years-old-car-rules-in-... (tldr: cars older than 15 years ha
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by rockyj 2y ago
I am an Indian living in Berlin. I always am surprised at the price differences between the countries. A new small SUV in India (e.g. Citroen Basalt) with all bells and whistles is less than 10k Euros ( https://www.carwale.com&#x2
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by rockyj 2y ago
Have you seen the latest state of JRuby development or seen the posts of its development team. If you are comfortable with the idea of your main runtime being dependent on the time / finances / availability of around 5 (or less) c
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by rockyj 2y ago
Everything can scale if you throw enough servers at it. Of-course Shopify scales, they even spent time and money to build a JIT on top of Ruby. As a smaller company, does everyone have the time and money to spend on servers or optimising th
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by rockyj 2y ago
I do not agree. Rails is absolutely great in terms of features and productivity, but will fail you elsewhere i.e. it is not the silver bullet for webdev. Do not take my opinion, look at data - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by rockyj 2y ago
One could also say that your opinion is very American centric. Only US devs get "heavily" or extra compensated, the salaries in Europe or India are comparable with other professionals, specially when you are getting started. What&
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by rockyj 2y ago
Used https://daisyui.com/ which is also pretty good (and similar).
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by rockyj 2y ago
IMHO, when there are millions struggling for limited resources it creates a culture of competition. You can see this is every facet of life in India. In my time in India, I met my fair share of toxic managers (e.g. leaving at 6 PM we were a
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by rockyj 2y ago
People here will not understand but there is a lot of background and culture behind this. There was another case where a McKinsey consultant (IIT+IIM postgrad) who joined the firm and commited suicide ( https://www.consultancy.in&
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by rockyj 2y ago
It is a general programming language (with great interop with Java). You can pretty much build anything with it - web apps (backend + frontend), APIs, Scripts, etc. Anything you can do in Python / Java you can do it in Cloujure. It eve
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Shine with Gleam(rockyj-blogs.web.app)
49 points by rockyj 2y ago|48 comments
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by rockyj 2y ago
I'll bite, I tried Java after a while fully open to giving it another shot but ended up being deeply disappointed. It seemed that the language was still stuck in the 90s and features came from the frameworks so there was nothing in the
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Just enough Nix to be dangerous(rockyj-blogs.web.app)
2 points by rockyj 2y ago|0 comments
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by rockyj 2y ago
All monitoring comes at a cost and adds complexity. I wish people realized that, I struggle with this in my own team, we keep adding layers upon layer of monitoring, metrics etc.
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by rockyj 2y ago
No support for any browser on Linux. Yeah, goodbye.
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by rockyj 2y ago
Not to mention the performance / async / memory usage benefits you would have gotten on Node/Deno (not to mention lower cloud bills). I do not know why teams doing this.
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by rockyj 2y ago
Not a fan of GraphQL (the problems mentioned in the post are very real), but GraphQL specification does not say anything about the DB design / queries. It is still an API layer and you are free to model it in any way you want.
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Why I choose Kotlin(rockyj-blogs.web.app)
2 points by rockyj 2y ago|0 comments
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by rockyj 3y ago
Erm.. You do realize that in almost all indexes that matter, Germany is in the top 5% e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_D... You hear people complaining a lot since they like to and we liv
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by rockyj 3y ago
There are entire languages built with unchecked exceptions, Python, Ruby, Nodejs and most recent ones. Even with checked exceptions you can write code and miss to throw or declare an exception somewhere so ultimately the developer has to de

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