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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Is the M3 “worse” than the M2?
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
About coding my own projects not yet. About coding within a team for a tech company, yes. I couldn’t care less anymore about tech discussions with senior devs, about product refinements, about daily standups. I’m there because it pays the b
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
> Devops is when you have developers who are empowered. That’s just half true. If something doesn’t work in production, guess who can get mysql production logs? Not the developers. Can you access production dbs (not that that’s the way t
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
More than privacy, I want safety. So, I don’t mind that much that Apple or Google got my home address details or bank cards: I know it’s very unlikely that those details will land in the wrong hands (i.e., illegal stuff). I know the data wi
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
You are right. Unfortunately, most companies out there do not operate as desired, hence the adversarial approach. I would even go further and say that if one lands in such companies (the not good ones, this is, the majority) with a non-adve
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I always assumed this, What’s the point of applying for a job saying something you know the hiring manager won’t like? I mean, sure we all have principles and the like, but if you’re applying for a job is because you want that job. Another
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
In my experience, companies won’t google you (hell, sometimes they barely will read your cv), so if you don’t explicitly say that you do indie dev, they won’t ever find out (what you do in your private time is not their business anyway)
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Ask HN: Would you quit your job because of the business domain?
2 points by tkiolp4 2y ago|1 comments
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
> I really don't miss the disastrous random access latency of optical media, nor the fear of scratching a favorite game up and potentially ruining it forever (or a friend doing the same to a game I'd lent them). I’m the opposit
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I deleted that part because it sounded the wrong way (it wasn’t my intention to question your experience, but a genuine curiosity)
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
> Atomic commits can be great. I really prefer to see intentional atomic commits with meaningful messages than 20+ files changed with a commit message: "Feature X". The most valuable “feature” of git for me is the “single commi
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Surprises me this is not the top voted answer. After years in this industry, I have zero empathy for startups and VCs, and all the empathy of the world for employees. Keep him.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
If I were working on that team, I wouldn’t like the company firing the senior dev. If they keep them, and train them, that would reinforce the idea that the company is taking care of its employees. That’s nice. I hate this rat race of being
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
No. The usual pains are: - Producer and consumer are decoupled. That’s a good thing m right? Good luck finding the consumer when you need to modify the producer (the payload). People usually don’t document these things - Let’s use SNS/
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I still think it’s about ego as well. If you happen to release a piece of software that is used massively, then you become a “rock star” (well, at least in the scope of the software engineering world). That means, you may not need to work f
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I think it’s not about tech, but prestige. You have senior frontend engineers working with React, SPAs, microfrontends, and more fancy stuff earning as much as senior backend engineers nowadays. Now, imagine for a second we say “senior fron
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I agree with everything said there except one thing: high availability is difficult to achieve with a single box. So, I would use two.
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
The vast majority of companies I have worked for, had products that required at most 3 main components: - web server - relational db - a queue system for async processing So, yeah two of such components can be handled by postgres (although
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
I don’t know. If I have learned something in the last decade about software engineering and quality is: business only care about revenue and speed, while engineers don’t have an objective way to define quality (10 engineers would give you 1
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Do you think we are going to reach a point in which it’s very hard (perhaps impossible) to maintain big codebases (like postgres) due to the lack of maintainers? Would that mean the end of such projects? Or perhaps big corporations would ta
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Regardless of AI, isn’t it equally hard to start a business (no matter how small)? OP made it (it seems), but chances are against one. I think this applies now, 10 years ago and will apply 10 years from now. We only see posts of the success
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by tkiolp4 2y ago
Problem is hardware. I don’t like macos nor Apple, but their laptops are the best hardware out there.
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Docker has been among us for years. Why isn’t efficient caching already implemented out of the box? It’s a leaking abstraction that users have to deal with. Annoying at best.
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Ask HN: How to deal with subjective comments in code reviews
2 points by tkiolp4 3y ago|2 comments
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
If I were a chinese hacker trying to do something evil, why on earth would I use a chinese handler/username? Wouldn’t it be better to use an English/European name to gain (even more) trust from open source maintainers? On the othe
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Developed countries have a low fertility rate, so fewer young people and tons of oldies. Perhaps is not going to be noticeable right away, but it’s gonna hit us hard.
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
What’s wrong with designing an API by writing its code? Code itself is a design tool (and usually any decent programming language is a better design tool than YAML)
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Time and again I use the chrome dev tools to go around broken forms (for example: a website tells me field X is invalid, but it doesn’t tell me why. I check the console errors or the JS and find a way to submit my data)
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
To be fair, that’s happening already. My stack looks like this: - framework magic (e.g., spring boot, or ror, or whatever) - library magic - terraform magic - aws magic - docker magic - VM magic - standard magic (OS, networking, decent stuf
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by tkiolp4 3y ago
Terraform is probably the most recent tech that I have seen playing two different roles in such a short period of time (in the last 6 years): a) guys, look at this! It’s called Terraform and you can define your infra with HCL and keep it in

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