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by trhoad 4y ago
You can run a massive PHP application on a $5 VPS without many issues at all...
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by trhoad 4y ago
I'll be blunt: your hiring process sounds very similar to what this article is trying to ridicule. If I was handed someone else's machine preinstalled with a load of tools that you assume I know how to use, I'd probably excus
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by trhoad 4y ago
I worked with React almost exclusively for ~5 years. I got so fed up with everyone reinventing the wheel on every project, coming to Angular (late) was a massive breath of fresh air. I now spend more time building valuable features rather t
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by trhoad 4y ago
An interesting subject! The article could do with an edit, however. There are lots of grammatical errors.
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by trhoad 4y ago
My favourite bit was where half of HackerNews shat all over the idea.
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by trhoad 4y ago
After using the 38 different settings panels on Windows, I miss MacOS System Preferences.
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by trhoad 4y ago
People literally throw old hardware in the bin where I'm from
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by trhoad 4y ago
It's a figure of speech
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by trhoad 4y ago
Sadly, this attitude is endemic; the only goal in life is to make things as easy as possible for yourself, rather than leave things in a better state than you found them. You might be giving yourself "extra life" (the massive assu
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by trhoad 4y ago
TLDR; If all you can afford is the B-team then you'll get the B-Team
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by trhoad 4y ago
Buy-Now Pay-Later is largely unregulated (in the UK at least) and makes money off predatory tactics. I make no comment on the ethics of staff that choose to work for VC-backed loan sharks other than to say if you've been let go it migh
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by trhoad 4y ago
Err, what? .edu is a TLD for US based educational bodies. So the reason you don't see a cookie banner is because the majority (AFAIK) of US states don't mandate a cookie banner, unlike EU and UK based sites (like the Natural Histo
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by trhoad 4y ago
> And before we continue, let’s make it absolutely clear that we have no control of the color of the text in this very article, as it is hosted through Medium.com, which features poor visual accessibility of their site design. Further, M
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by trhoad 4y ago
See above :)
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by trhoad 4y ago
Birkbeck. Yes, I would recommend it - although as with all these things you get out what you put in.
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by trhoad 4y ago
I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for sitting physically next to people and watching what they do, picking up on non-verbal cues etc. I love working from home, but I also have the mentality that we all need t
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by trhoad 4y ago
SysAdmins are now called DevOps Engineers (or SREs), and that market is booming. It's all swings and roundabouts.
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by trhoad 4y ago
Indeed. It's also sad to see "innovative" new companies like Harry's contribute to the mountain of plastic waste.
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by trhoad 4y ago
I studied for my MSc in the UK mid-career. I didn't really do it for the potential payrise (there is/was none), I just did it because I enjoy learning about computing and wanted to do something structured so that I stuck with it.
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by trhoad 4y ago
I think the point is it doesn't work. The author had the time, inclination, and technical ability to get through the bullshit and eventually cancel. A lot of people won't.
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by trhoad 4y ago
I think the term is "bottom-up", not "bottoms-up", which has a slightly different meaning...
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by trhoad 4y ago
@Author, nice article, but the bold yellow italics make reading quite difficult (e.g. Why is "gist" emphasised?).
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by trhoad 4y ago
All I'll say is, good luck. I was/am in the same boat and unfortunately for me it'll be the difference between staying in the role and potentially moving on in the future. WSL2 is decent, but there are some fundamental incomp
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by trhoad 5y ago
WSL + Windows Terminal could be great, but if your organisation uses Windows Secure Channel, you can't use Git on it. Which pretty much renders it useless for me. I endure Powershell, but even after six months on Windows, for a profess
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by trhoad 5y ago
I bought a Brother HL-L5000D mono laser off eBay for £50. It's been going for 2 years and hasn't needed any maintenance whatsoever (or any new toner). It just works.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Quite intrigued by this, and will definitely step through the tutorial. It will be interesting to compare it side-by-side with Adonis (and possibly Nest).
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by trhoad 5y ago
There is no "popularity" tab? There's a "satisfaction" tab which basically tells you nothing. The "usage" tab tells us what really matters - that in the last 3 years essentially nothing has changed despite
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by trhoad 5y ago
> I am from Hacker News — how can I submit a formal complaint? Got a big LOL from me. I think the irony of Bytle has been lost on the crowd here! Great work by the way.
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by trhoad 5y ago
Then I would suggest the public sector probably isn't for you, which is fine! But clearly, many people do enjoy working there and are quite happy with a lower salary.
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by trhoad 5y ago
I don't know about that particular role, but I can say that many people work in public service knowing full well they could probably double their salary in the private sector, but do it anyway. Mainly because of the large amount of ann

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