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by seer 6y ago
Maybe it didn’t really come across I am totally in the performance camp and love to be able to craft a beautiful, lean and responsive UI if nothing else than for seeing the joy on users’ faces when they are delighted (amazed!) that what the
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by seer 6y ago
Well yea and no, ideally you are not “throwing” that RAM away, you are paying for a more flexible software that can be more easily changed in the future, or to be able to pay much less for your developers, often both. Nobody wants slow soft
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by seer 6y ago
A lot of comments here kind of brush off the fact that this has been going on for _years_! I would expect quadratic behaviour to slip here and there in non real time code places. We make mistakes after all. I've had to revisit producti
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by seer 6y ago
Apart from the other reasons people have mentioned - the headline “we switched from postgres to $database (for example MySQL) is so unusual it warrants a justification. PG is so good that you really need to be a very niche case for there to
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by seer 6y ago
What a great attitude! I wish more businesses were like that. I had to leave a startup once, that I as a senior dev managed to drag to profitability, because I saw how they treated their customers. It was such a sad experience- while helpin
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by seer 6y ago
This drift happened to me too, mostly because the most interesting things for me were happening later in the day, I would read some engrossing book, code something or watch / play. The moment I put an interesting thing to do right afte
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An HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js(github.com)
2 points by seer 6y ago|0 comments
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Vanilla TeuxDeux – a case study for building an SPA with vanilla JavaScript(github.com)
4 points by seer 6y ago|0 comments
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by seer 6y ago
If the api has some contract with it OpenApi / Swagger / etc, its surprisingly easy to write a parser that would convert those to typescript types. TS has an awesome use as a library itself where you can write the ast with, and th
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by seer 6y ago
I used to think this way too, but working over the years with TypeScript has gotten me so accustomed to it that it’s now the other way around. I feel much more productive in TS in general. With TS its like you’re writing the unit test and y
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by seer 6y ago
I left a CTO role of a startup for similar reasons. We already had paying customers, and the company was doing OK, but there was always drive to do and more flashier things, rather than double down on helping our customers. I remember the m
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by seer 6y ago
YMMV of course - my experience with revolut has been nothing but positive. While I’ve had silly issues with my normal bank (like inability to close an account due to “technical reasons”), interacting with revolut has been stellar. Customer
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by seer 6y ago
Not exactly programming jocks, more like tech jokes, but I remember http://bash.org/?top to be an amazing source of humor back when I had my first steps as a techie 15 years ago Also a more long form source of funny develop
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by seer 6y ago
Difference is that for most of the serfs, it is possible to switch feudals and kings much more easily than in the olden days. And even in the last decades this mobility especially worldwide, has increased. This is very hopeful I think as in
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by seer 6y ago
Very good points and eloquently put. I want to add something though regarding #2 - having a code review process is not enough. You need to train people how to do good reviews. I’ve seen countless times people treat reviews “an approval” by
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by seer 6y ago
Maybe its a US thing? Grew up in the Soviet Block Countries, and fighting was very looked down on. I did encounter some, but it was more like we as kids watched a lot of US media and thought this was how we needed to behave but were more “p
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by seer 6y ago
Weird, I guess it really does matter where you are geographically, as well as your "likes" bubble. I did a similar experiment myself and found it to be a very delightful stream of content. While it did have some sexualised content
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by seer 6y ago
Totally understand the sentiment. I was very dismissive at first, as a self thought dev. Its really hard for me to learn something unless its helps directly to solve a concrete business problem I’m facing, so I know where you’re coming from
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by seer 6y ago
The way I see it, you are just a single data point to the senior people. You mention something, they hear it from a couple of other places and they are now convinced that its a good path forward. You can put your black hat and game this by
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by seer 6y ago
This is indeed a very interesting question! I’ve also asked myself that time and time again, along the path of slowly discovering what this FP thing is all about over the course of my career. It does look wonderful, it does save you a lot o
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by seer 6y ago
Question is what do you spend your newfound time on . People usually like solving problems and proving to themselves and others they are capable. If I go and fix that broken chair myself, rather than toss it and buy a brand new one, you ca
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by seer 6y ago
I recently got an epiphany reading the venerable SICP book. Best abstractions are not about wrapping everything in functions and calling it DRY. You create layers. If you have 2-3 problems that kinda look similar, you could wrap them up in
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by seer 6y ago
Would advise against that. One time our flight got delayed for six hours (ugh) at a lay over - some technical glitch so they were not sure when the plane is going to actually depart. My partner didn’t sleep the night before because of anxie
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by seer 6y ago
Not that I’m advocating it or anything, but if we took an equitable amount of money from everyone, and then burned it in a pit, might be better to society in general. Democracy, well most human social structures really, live on trust. Trust
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by seer 6y ago
Not a java developer myself, but as a longtime coder and even an author of an ORM I can relate. I think ORMs just bridged that gap of “how my objects look in code” and “how to store them” quite well. But lately we’ve been removing a lot of
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by seer 6y ago
I was mostly talking about the usual HN commentary that I see on this and similar topics, sorry if I was misleading or not specific enough. I don’t believe creators are obliged to create the most accurate thing that every expert expects, in
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by seer 6y ago
I think what people are missing is that this is a work of fiction. Any work of fiction is entitled to do whatever it wants really. So what if it white washes stuff for the masses, maybe thats a good thing. If people experience the past only
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by seer 6y ago
You're totally right that you have to know your audience and cater to it. Technical writing still requires it. What changed my perspective though is the book "Comedy Writing Secrets". It's a very different topic, but the
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by seer 6y ago
Berglas is great in that regard, as you can keep the unique names to the sensitive data in version control, but have the actual values sit in behind an acl in a secure location. You’re able to guard secretes as need, but keep the audit-abil
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Vanilla TeuxDeux – a case study for building an SPA with vanilla JavaScript(github.com)
1 points by seer 6y ago|0 comments

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