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by seer 6y ago
While I totally agree that hooks reduce code size a lot, and have used them to great effect, the feeling that hooks are weird has not faded. I know exactly what they do, and usually help co-workers with weird edge cases, but I still have a
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by seer 6y ago
I usually look at this in the form of “layers”. If you have a lot of duplicated logic, its a lot nicer to abstract those concerns into a “layer” of functions / classes. Whats important is to not have leaky abstractions though. The mome
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by seer 6y ago
The biggest “aha” moment for me was when I started working with graphql. The tooling would statically analyze your queries, and produce types for exactly what you were requesting. Then you would just have a bunch of raw queries laying aroun
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by seer 6y ago
Funny enough, most competent hiring managers I’ve had the chance to speak to on the matter, agreed that if you’ve worked in the service sector, especially by necessity, you end up a much better hire _because_ you are usually more humble and
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by seer 6y ago
Granted I've worked only for smallish companies (<2000 people) but most places don't have specific policies _not_ to do it, especially if you do your due diligence security wise, and don't show the company in bad light. If
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by seer 6y ago
Thanks for the reference, I personally didn’t do the connection. But wanted to mention that its so cool that offices no longer look like that, at least where I live. It used to be similar, even worse as a post soviet country. But it’s now s
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by seer 6y ago
That’s why I’m such a huge proponent of company sponsored open source. You wrap your infra/core functionality into an os project, and keep the businessy things in the private repo. You get to work on it during your work hours. It inevi
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by seer 6y ago
I guess it is just a US thing. I read a lot of HN so naturally had the same very skeptical disposition, until we went to see one of those plants in town. Started recycling at home the same week. Metals, Glass and paper are profitable to be
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by seer 6y ago
There are so many things the author got right throughout the Expanse books - physics, politics, character progression, character impact. He just added a pinch of sci fi to make things interesting and different, but in a good way. It starts
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by seer 6y ago
Go to the police station and ask them to give you a “note” Fun fact is that you need this note even if your dealing with another government agency. When applying for Bulgarian citizenship, I was required to obtain such note. I would have gu
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by seer 6y ago
While this is great if you know exactly what you want to achieve, it does “lock you in” those constraints on a more fundamental level. More times than I can count I’ve seen business requirements change to require those “unrepresentable” sta
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by seer 6y ago
In Bulgaria (EU) they often ask you to provide proof that you are currently not being prosecuted, but apart from that, the only time I’ve been asked to get a criminal record was when applying for a citizenship. And having one is not somethi
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by seer 6y ago
The venerable “Firefly” series explored this a bit way back in 2002. The idea was that since china is _the_ superpower even the lowliest scum would know a curse word or two in chinese. Was quite an interesting concept back then.
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by seer 6y ago
While this is indeed what is currently happening in the world, I think it would be relatively “easy” to convince the poorer countries. They can be pressured in so many ways: “If you want to look like us you have to do it”(cultural). “If you
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by seer 6y ago
This got me thinking... people _will_ start putting infra into space sooner or later, just for the better latency. Imagine the new availability zones in aws/gcp/azure :) Could definitely lead to more investment into space, more mo
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by seer 6y ago
One of the most “high” moments I’ve ever felt in a game was the successful lunch of my first orbital craft. That first orbit I felt so excited I had to stop the game and run around the house. I tried to explain it to my SO but she couldn’t
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by seer 6y ago
Might not be the most likely scenario, but a runaway green house effect is certainly possible. If a positive temperature feedback loop happened to the earth’s atmosphere we could definitely end up like Venus, where no living thing can survi
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by seer 6y ago
Oh if only I was not a programmer! KSP has taught me so much about subjects I was interested in, but afraid to put in the time in - rocket science/engineering, orbital mechanics etc. I’ve not tried Factorio myself but I’d wager it will
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by seer 6y ago
I for one would welcome a new alternative to sql. It might not be _this_ alternative, but why not try. SQL is very hard to learn properly, with all of its gotchas and inconsistencies. There are running jokes for noobs truncating their table
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by seer 6y ago
Isn’t there a knob to control the angle of the projectors? So that if you have heavy cargo at the back you can adjust the angle? In the country I live in you’ll get honked to oblivion if you mess with that and blind the other drivers.
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by seer 6y ago
Thanks for the tip, we’ll try it out. Yeah no doctor managed to find the cause of the inflammation yet, even after years of tests. Every doctor is like “yeah you should be fine” its kind of infuriating.
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by seer 6y ago
My partner has some sinus congestion issues and we’ e been trying to find a remedy since forever. We want to try this thing but want to make sure we’re trying it correctly. Have you encountered a more thorough explanation of this technique,
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by seer 6y ago
While that’s certainly true for the most of us there’s also a risk-reward calculation involved. Imagine if you went there like 20 years before that, and developed the tech and know-how how to survive and operate. You could charge a premium
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by seer 6y ago
I've been following https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped for awhile. It should give you TS types from sql files (and even sql template literals) directly. Though I haven't used it in prod. Might be worth a look.
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by seer 6y ago
Hm not sure I understand how google secret manager relates to berglas to be honest, thought those two were separate apis... As for berglas itself, we also use it and have been very happy with it. Since you put just the names of your secrets
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by seer 6y ago
I can feel the pain on all 5 points. One thing I did notice though is that NodeJS has such a huge breadth of packages that its _very_ hard to actually pick something good. But there is almost always an alternative that's maybe not as p
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by seer 6y ago
People in HN might be interested to know that Bulgaria has one of the (second place I think) biggest difference between average salary in IT and average salary for everybody else. Being part of the EU it’s easy to find an IT job, with all t
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by seer 6y ago
You're totally right that "motivation" is probably the key to learning anything. We're taught that kids have aptitude for different stuff from birth, but I think the curiosity and intrinsic motivation parts are the most
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by seer 6y ago
Maybe I've been lucky up to this point myself, a kind of survival bias or something, but a "lightened" version of Scrum has always made so much sense to me when it comes to developing software. Our requirements change, they o
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by seer 6y ago
That sounds overly harsh. What we do in our team is "postpone" those discussions. When people have went through their updates, anyone who wants to stay is free to do so and can continue that discussion, usually in the same channel

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