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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I’m not on call, but when doing interviews I explicitly ask about the on-call setup (if any). The usual setup (for backend engineers) is: - 1 week in-call every 5 to 6 weeks (depending on how many engineers are available for on call) - if y
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Is iTerm2 Still Maintained?
2 points by tkiolp4 4y ago|9 comments
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
The problem of being on-call is not only the potential issues that can appear at 3am in the morning. For me, at least, the worst part is the fact that I cannot do anything outside home like going out for a run, or to to the cinema, or for
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Your theory doesn’t work… otherwise why managers are not on-call? You’ll say “because they cannot fix shit if needed”, but the real reason is: on-call sucks, you cannot force managers to do it, but you can force engineers. I’m in the same s
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Meh. I don’t care much about how realistic it looks like. I care about how realistic the interactions are, this is: can I break a car in two? Can enter any building? Can I make a hole in the ground? Can I cut trees? Can I kiss NPCs? Can I d
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Why Australia and not South America? Better food, people, language, landscape, it’s more diverse, it’s bigger…
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Japan was already hit by nuclear weapons. Let them be at peace in the next war.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Culture is overrated. Be a professional, that’s enough.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
2FA is fine. Being forced to use a mobile phone for 2FA is wrong.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
It could be as well that the patients were never sick to begin with. The doctor was not needed to begin with (middle management is not always needed, but “we’ve always done it like that”)
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
If you are not offering something in exchange for money (i.e., you are not a company) in your website/blog then you don’t need an impressum. Obviously, if you are a legal company, then anyone can Google your company to figure out who’s
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
For me conferences were never about learning but having some relaxing time with my teammates in a different country/city for a couple of days. The best tech talks out there are on YouTube.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
To compete with Google you can’t just use their legacy tech (pagerank, mapreduce, etc.), you have to come with a better tech.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
You need a transpiler for TS. That’s frustrating.
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VMware Fusion 22H2 Tech Preview(blogs.vmware.com)
4 points by tkiolp4 4y ago|0 comments
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I don’t like it but having it as an option when working remotely from a place with bad internet is good. I like to understand the whole picture of what I do, and the cloud usually hides tons of complexity for you. This would be all nice onl
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
That’s just one side of the coin. With remote work, your pool of available jobs also increases. At least in Europe that’s a big win since the whole continent has only 2 or 3 hours of difference.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I focus on getting better at learning. That’s how I have survived the last 15 years in the software industry. Luckily enough, I like learning… but I do choose what to learn. For instance, I have been learning Ansible recently (for side proj
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Tired of working on infrastructure stuff while holding the “software engineer” role. Give me product features, bugs, interesting and boring product problems to solve. Keep your yaml, k8s, gitlab ci/cd, terraform, on call rotations. Or
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
One year later: your end up with a team of burnt out engineers that are about to quit and leave you alone.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Blame the companies that hire fullstacks.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
As a software engineer I don’t want to touch your infrastructure code. I have been lucky so far and I have been doing pure product development instead of being a devops. I do believe though in the idea of cross functional teams: designer, d
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
It’s not about the learning part, it’s about the copyright and money part. If you learn how to play song X by The Rolling Stones, you cannot just make money playing song X in a concert. Sure thing you can play song X in your father’s birthd
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I don’t. I’ve been an immigrant all my life. I actually like that I’m not attached to any particular country, or any kind of patriotism.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Been using an M1 mbp for a few months. Mainly using Vagrant and Vmware fusion (tech preview) to spin up Ubuntu vms (arm) in which I run docker. So far so good.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Yeah, but the hybrid model won’t allow you to live let’s say in the south of France while working for a company with HQ in Paris. The hybrid model kills one of the main benefits of remote work: being able to work for many more companies tha
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
That’s a godsend for me. I just really want to do my job and call it a day. No more no less. I’m a mercenary.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
You can go back to the office… but what if your teammates don’t? You’ll be in the same situation.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
What’s the difference between a Zulip topic and a Slack channel? Certainly, having one big #engineering Slack channel is unproductive (hundreds of people interacting)… but who’s stopping you from creating #engineering-utc-9 for the people w
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Ask HN: Accepted an offer from a company that is laying off
2 points by tkiolp4 4y ago|1 comments

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