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by shoo 5y ago
yes. the value you offer as a junior with real experience from delivering a project or two is a _lot_ higher than a junior who has no real world experience. many companies will not offer a pay rise that reflects the increase in value. also
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by shoo 5y ago
you make a good point to keep things simple, "solve the problem you actually have not the one you wished you had". But, many of these ideas can have advantages even in small scale contexts. In some contexts they're not wins
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by shoo 5y ago
> Keep your domain models separate from infra implementation stuff this is a corollary of the S in SOLID -- domain models and infra implementations will have different reasons to change at different times, so they should be decoupled &gt
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by shoo 5y ago
can anyone suggest links to reading about DDD & hexagonal architecture that clearly spells out: which context each pattern applies to ; what problem each pattern aspires to solve ; what advantages and disadvantages applying the pattern
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by shoo 5y ago
i agree with the other commenters that it sounds like perhaps you're looking at a string of consulting / contract engagements, but perhaps don't have a product. consulting could be a way to explore the space and start to get
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by shoo 5y ago
Ceephax Acid Crew - Eurozone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvUzUQKOqU > warning: occasional strobe. as we've not been able to travel for ages I decided to send myself off on a virtual holiday of Europe
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by shoo 5y ago
some businesses sell dating & matchmaking services to the market of single people. it might be hard to bootstrap such a business and compete with established competitors with major market share as the value of a matchmaking business sur
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by shoo 5y ago
documentation can be invaluable when it explains the underlying requirements or constraints behind a particular implementation. if you can just see the implementation but have no documentation of what the actual requirements and constraints
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by shoo 5y ago
i believe there is an opportunity in the market for an advanced data storage technology to support writing huge volumes of information to a single 3.5" floppy, provided the legacy constraint of offering a read operation can be dispense
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by shoo 5y ago
please attach a bearer token with a signed attestation that you don't own a teapot, and re-submit your request
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by shoo 5y ago
In some IT / professional services labour markets in Australia & the UK, contract work is quite well established. Many organisations advertise contract roles on their websites or local job aggregators -- typically get quite a lot
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by shoo 5y ago
I've taken time off work in the past (by resigning), and found it very helpful to stop my mind cycling through the same worn negative mental pathways caused by work related stress & my perception and emotion about that situation. F
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by shoo 5y ago
it's a good idea to be crystal clear about which environments are running production workloads. if you end up with "non-production" environments running production workloads then it becomes much easier to accidentally blow a
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by shoo 5y ago
different business or organisational contexts have different deployment patterns and different negative impacts of failure. in some contexts, failures can be isolated to small numbers of users, the negative impacts of failures are low, and
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by shoo 5y ago
in enterprisey environments with large numbers of integrated services, its even worse if a single staging environment is used to do end-to-end integration testing involving many systems. lots of resource contention for access to staging env
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by shoo 5y ago
it depends a bit on the system architecture. if you have a relatively self-contained system with few or zero external dependencies, so the system can be meaningfully tested in isolation, then i agree that standing up a ephemeral test enviro
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by shoo 5y ago
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/ > Slack. The absence of binding constraints on behavior. > Poor is the person without Slack. Lack of Slack compounds and traps. > Slack means margi
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by shoo 5y ago
> Do you find that you're more "out of the loop"? Naively, I would expect you to become a lot more of a satellite employee, less involved in any decisionmaking yes. more decisions will be made without your ability to influ
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by shoo 5y ago
> old job wouldn't let me cut back hours, even at reduced pay, even framing it as "leave without pay", I was curious what your role was, at what the incentives might have been for your old job to refuse this. In your about
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by shoo 5y ago
Some companies have flexible work policies that give employees the option of switching to part time. My current employer (megacorp, not tech) has such a policy documented internally, not really widely advertised. I read about it, discussed
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by shoo 5y ago
"money is a form of energy" is nonsense. yet it is an interesting kind of nonsense that contributes to the discussion. I think it makes more sense to regard money as a kind of messaging technology that enables decentralised coordi
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by shoo 5y ago
not answering the question, but comparing with my own situation: I cook all my meals during the week, and clean up afterwards. On average I'm maybe spending $270 / month for groceries and maybe another $100 - $150 / month for
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by shoo 5y ago
> Corporations are responsible for something like 70% of global emissions. Corporations produce goods and services that people consume. I think it is intellectually lazy to attribute all the blame of pollution to the producer side of the
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by shoo 5y ago
one alternative idea to free trials from Jason Cohen's ancient 2013 microconf talk, 21:00 minute mark > another hack: lotta people have free trials. 15 day free trial, 30 day free trial. makes sense. customers want to test us out fi
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by shoo 5y ago
a few years ago i accidentally deleted a habit of buying alcohol to bring home, without really setting out to do so. for me that was enough to eliminate routine drinking. i prefer the new routine of never drinking at home and maybe having a
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by shoo 5y ago
one trick is to cultivate a habit or ritual to mark the end of the day. booking some regular activity to attend in the evenings that you look forward to is one idea -- then there's a reason to clock off early to make sure you can get t
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by shoo 5y ago
Voss' book is a strong recommendation.
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by shoo 5y ago
It can be very difficult to look at the realised outcome and disentangle how much of that outcome was driven by decision making, and how much was due to variability of factors entirely outside of your control, i.e. "luck". What i
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by shoo 5y ago
what's a good word for a region with a bunch of small lakes? the fens? "Data Mesh" is much trendier branding than "Data Fenlands".
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by shoo 5y ago
many points of internet karma (and perhaps a profitable career as a consultant) awaits anyone who spills the beans on how their grand data mesh rearchitecture actually turned out a few years down the track, and if the exciting new problems

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