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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I just accepted an offer (contract is signed) 1 month ago. I guess I need to start again looking for a job.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
As many have pointed out, I think recession it’s here already. I just switched jobs and got a 20% salary increase. Fortunately enough, we developers seem to be not that much affected. Touching wood, though.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Replace Picasso with Kubernetes. Story of my life.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I download them from YouTube. I don’t think that’s illegal (The YouTube video has to be downloaded to my computer in order for my browser to play it. I just go one step ahead and extract the audio as mp3)
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
> There's nothing magical about testers Yes, there is: they get to do testing full-time. Engineers spend their best “brain time” designing and writing systems. Testers spend their best brain time, well, testing. That can make a huge
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
Before: software engineers wrote code. Now: they write code, they test it, they understand customer’s requirements, they monitor their code, they are on-call, they mentor others, they challenge the status quo, they give tech talks, sometime
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I don’t see how is the current wfh situation any different from before. Before: work at the office. You were competing with people who lived in your city. You were limited to work at companies in your city. Now: wfh. You compete with people
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
I’m from Portugal. I’ve been living in Germany for 3 years. Last winter I was feeling very tired when walking, even dizzy. Doctor said I got very low levels of vitamin D. I never felt depressed, though.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
They are necessary for the company but not for the employees. The top bosses cannot (don’t want to) be behind every employee to check if they are as performant as they could be.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
The responsibility of whatever topic is on the team’s (not on individuals). So if a decision must be made then the whole team should feel responsible for it.
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by tkiolp4 4y ago
For me, defeating death doesn’t mean I get to live 400 years. It means I get to live 100 years free from the fear of dying because of silly accidents, diseases, etc.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Off topic: I’m a bit surprised about Gregg’s desk (pre-pandemic). I imagine he’s getting a top level salary at Netflix but yet he’s got a small desk in what it looks to me a shared small office (or perhaps is that a mini open space office?
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Tell HN: Fridays free at my new company
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
You mean working for others? If I had a universal basic income I would still “work” in tech… but not building software as an employee on a company I couldn’t care less for; I would work in tech building stuff I care for (so I would work for
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I don’t want to run it… unless you pay me two salaries: one for knowing all the stuff about building modular and maintainable systems, and another for knowing all the stuff about infrastructure topics (conf. management, security, monitoring
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I don’t think developers write code in VMs. I use vagrant and mount folders as needed between the host and the guest.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
JSON is already 20 years old. I guess things can’t stay the way they are forever (and 20 years in the IT world is a lot).
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
To extend my comment: notice how the tech on the left side was/is usually backed up by companies or corporations while the tech on the right side usually is not. I think this is just a natural flow of software: some piece of software e
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
K8s will be superseded by a simpler yet more powerful tool sooner rather than later. Just like it happened with: - Corba, MRI -> http apis - XML, Soap -> json - Flash -> html5 - Perforce, svn, mercurial -> git Etc. We can’t thin
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
The company doesn’t have to… unless the employee decides to leave for that reason. Now adding an extra 7% is not about inflation but about retaining (good) employees. I imagine that for bad or not good enough employees, the decision is rath
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
The amount of boilerplate Go code for a simple GET is astonishing. I love Go, but sometimes I miss the succinctness of Python.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
It’s an open source library that the author made for free in its free time. You either accept it as it is (check its License file), improve it, or walk away and use something else.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
It’s an elegant solution for packages that don’t use versioning features like git tags. For every other package out there that uses git tags, it’s just a lazy solution: why on earth would I want to specify the version in the path? Git tags
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
In the source file one could just say import “username/module” And in the go.mod file the whole URL can stay require github.com/username/module v1.2.3 I only see advantages with this approach and I imagine
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
The problem about being oncall is not how many times you get called, it’s that you cannot plan anything in your free time without having to take your laptop with you.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
In general I agree, first try bash scripts and then, if needed, something like Ansible. More often than not, though, the bash scripts I produce are buggy, non-idempotent, and really difficult to maintain. One could argue “know your tools!”,
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I keep things cloud agnostic by using exclusively: - Terraform - Ansible - Systemd (sometimes Docker) This way the only thing that changes between providers (e.g., moving my whole infra from digital ocean to linode) are the terraform files.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
> Offering to hold your property for free isn't a license to steal or destroy it. Unless explicitly stated. And we all know that: 1) most of the internet users don’t read the Terms of Service, and 2) YouTube probably states in their
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I don’t think the point of living beyond 100 years old is the years that come after you are 90 (pretty bad years), but that one has more “nice” years to live. Example: - average person who dies at 80. Middle point in his life at 40. At 20 t
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I didn’t know people consider him a “genius”. Wow, I always consider him a good businessman.

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