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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Genuine question: what stops you from going out for a walk to have time for yourself? I have been doing it, and I have to say I never thought I would like to just walk around the neighborhood just for the sake of walking.
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Ask HN: I can’t do oncall rotations. Am I done as a SE?
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I don’t get the “build server” example. It is expected that the author works crazy hours and do the extra mile to get the job done… but that same expectation does not apply to the teams/individuals that own/maintain the build serv
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Work less. Keep you brain with enough energy for the important things.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Exactly. It’s a subjective topic. When I was younger I used to think in terms of “good code” and “bad code”. Nowadays it’s all about “zero code” and “some code”: the best code is the code that’s never written. I leave style issues, good pra
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
The problem is not how often disasters happen, the problem (for me) is that they will happen and you will have to fix it. Every minute the servers are down is money the company is losing. Just the mere possibility of that ruins everything.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Personally, I find it very cumbersome. Just look at the very first example they show on their website ( https://swagger.io/docs/specification/basic-structure/ ): it’s not pleasant to work with.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I would say devops is the most stressful role in the tech industry out there. If something goes down on a Sunday morning, you have to fix it; and sometimes the fix is not an as easy as restarting a server.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Indeed. Besides, there are not so many offers in such sectors.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Anecdote: I bought my MBP 2015 model 15 inch in 2016. It’s my only laptop and still works like the first time (battery cycle: around 600/1000). Zero problems. Still on Catalina, though. I removed like half of the stock software that ca
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I usually use Ansible for that. Check it out!
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I’m one of those “All is fine, leave me alone” who is planning to leave the company soon. My reasons: - I take pride on what I do, I really care a lot about my career, but my main motivation for working 9-5 is my paycheck. I want more money
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
People is giving content for free to Twitter. Should they start charging for it? Twitter is not on the same league as the NYT.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
First they came... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_ ...
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
> Also, people dealing with shitty compensation for years or staying at the same job, because they are afraid that no one else will want them or that they aren't worth 3x the compensation they have today. Well, perhaps it’s just tha
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I agree. But sometimes the obvious and simple solution is not the simplest one. Taking your example about the database: if your table is over 70 million rows and you are using Mysql < 5.6, trust me: it’s simpler to add an additional tabl
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I like the idea, but there is now way I will pay $300 for it. They are just offering you less for more price, nice trick.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
The trick is to disable all notifications. Always use the phone as a “pull” device. A reply can wait until the next day, and if it’s important they will call you (more than once).
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
In your example, the moment you move from UK to Cayman Islands, the Spanish government/tax system will know (unless you make sure you hide it... but this is another topic). At some point you won’t be a UK taxpayer, in that moment the S
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
> 65k times more than the entire IPv4 space Last week I was thinking about a system to automatically cut my hair the way I exactly want (precision up to the millimeter and per hair). So, one way would be by using cheap microrobots*. The
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Looks great, congrats! I’m curious, how do you guys handle VAT taxes? Also, I didn’t know about the .so TLD; did you choose it because the .com alternative was already taken or because of other reasons?
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Strangely enough, software engineering is mostly about humans rather than about software. Take any side project of yours (no matter if it has been hacked together or if the best practices out there have been applied): add pressure to make m
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Something similar happened to the company I was working for a few years ago. They suddenly were unable to keep using Stripe for card payments. They implemented something I never knew if it worked out or not (I left the company shortly after
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Is this a joke, right? Pardon my ignorance but how is that Phoenix server side rendering is any simpler than React client side rendering when we have PHP and HTML that solves the problem just fine? In a more serious tone: I like to write we
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I think it’s exactly “resume driven development” combined with “they don’t know better”. Let’s imagine I am one of those cynic developers and I am faced to work for 2 companies: - company A is using WordPress to deliver the website OP is ta
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
So, projects fail because of (arrogant or inexperienced) developers but not because of managers. And then you wonder why engineers say “many managers do not know what they are doing”.
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
You worked on that app yourself alone, right? If so, I believe your app belongs to a different plane of existence. Programming (one programmer working alone without too much money/time pressure imposed by others) is quiet different fr
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
Agree. I realized too late about this. Nowadays I give at most 30% of my mental energy to the company I work for. I thought people would notice, but it turned out they were already doing the same! When looking for a job, I usually discard j
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
I do think that civilization will collapse. We are too optimistic, we don’t see ourselves failing; we have watched too many Hollywood movies and we think we will save ourselves no matter what. Think for a moment what would happen if we, the
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by tkiolp4 5y ago
> have productive discussions, share pictures, invite each other to parties, and not make the world darker? You are fighting against the very core of human nature. Some of us like to keep it nice and good, some of us just want to watch t

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