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by vbsteven 7y ago
I wonder how some of the all remote companies handle the legal side of things when it comes to paying salaries and contracts. I've been working as a (partly remote depending on customer) freelancer/contractor for 5 years with my o
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by vbsteven 7y ago
I was looking at Helm the other day for merging common base values with per-cluster specific overrides but this looks like a simpler solution and integrated into kubectl.
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Not all tech work is concentrated in "hyper capitalistic companies". Try to work on something that inspires you. For example, most of my clients are in the healthcare space. * One is a wearable device (think watch/bracelet) t
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by vbsteven 8y ago
We switched our staging/dev environments to DO because of cost. A small Kubernetes cluster and hosted Postgres does not cost much there and is very easy to setup. But their hosted Kubernetes and Postgres services are still in “early ac
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I would suspect the Django Admin is built on top of Django ORM.
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Yeah, one of my clients ran on OSS Parse for a while too but at the time of Parse.com shutting down OSS parse was not stable at all. In the end we decided to rewrite the whole thing as a Java/Spring/Postgres monolith on Kubernetes
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by vbsteven 8y ago
What does that mean, a serverless postgres? Per query billing?
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Congrats on launching. Unfortunately after the parse.com fiasco I have vowed to never again use a PaaS/BaaS service again for important deployments.
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by vbsteven 8y ago
It’s not bad. It picks up some common javaisms and converts those to the more idiomatic Kotlin version. The cool thing is that you can convert to Kotlin on a file by file basis.
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I’ve been diving deep into Kotlin lately and I am now convinced that Kotlin is the next evolution for Java codebases and the JVM. It fixes a lot of the quirks in Java with great interop support so we can still use all the jvm/Java know
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by vbsteven 8y ago
For clarification, it looks like this people.filter { it.age > 42 }
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I like Kotlins solution for this. If there is only one argument in the lambda/block and the type is clear from the context you don’t have to declare it and you can use the ‘it’ keyword instead.
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Can you tell me something about how you manage backups or point me to any guides used for setting this up? I use the same Hetzner setup for some small side projects and my backup strategy here is just a daily pg_dump and archive on S3. For
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I know these functional concepts are far from new. I use "modern" in this context because other contemporary languages like Python/Ruby/Scala/Rust etc all have versions of those and FP-style collection usage using t
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by vbsteven 8y ago
The streams api is a little verbose but this is mainly because of Java’s backwards compatibility policy. They want older code to still compile and run on new JDKs. Default methods on interfaces help to add features to existing collections b
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Good completion can help when working with a new library you are not familiar with yet. Specifically in strongly typed languages like Java or Kotlin. Usually I kind of know what I want to do with an object so I start typing ‘myObject.’ and
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by vbsteven 8y ago
The Spring and Spring Boot teams have done a lot of work on this. IIRC Spring Boot 2.1 is compatible up until Java 11, and Java 12 support should be in 2.2. Some API's are adapted to take advantage of modern Java features like for exam
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Besides practicing a lot I like reading books on the topic I’m learning. Usually multiple books and always from start to finish instead of jumping around in the book. I apply this mostly when learning programming languages or frameworks or
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Try Kotlin with the Spring Boot framework. I view Spring Boot as the Rails of the Java world and the Spring team has done a lot of work lately on Kotlin compatibility and idiomatic APIs. This week I’ve been porting one of my Spring Boot app
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Is there a model M clone that is readily available in Europe? I have heard so much about these mechanical keyboards but have never had the chance to try one. I easily have wrist and pinky issues when using regular modern flat keyboards like
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I've done a lot of checkout integrations and The Stripe API is orders of magnitude easier to integrate than the PayPal API. As the author suggests PayPal might be more popular because not everyone has a creditcard. Another factor that
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Please tell me you are not basing any plan/usage decision on computed properties in the frontend without verifying them on the backend
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Make sure you are really good at what you want to consult on. Find your niche. It helps if you've been doing the same thing as an employee for a while so you already have references. Or if possible start doing it "on the side&quot
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by vbsteven 8y ago
> Spring is close to impossible to debug, because everything is driven by annotations, configuration settings, property files, beans defined in XML, default values, or code that runs because you added a dependency even though you never e
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I am on Harvest on which I track small freelance gigs, longer consulting engagements and time spent on side projects. I like the way I can split up projects into multiple roles and track/bill differently for dev time vs admin work. I a
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by vbsteven 8y ago
Parent said that Spring Boot accomplishes that with more over-engineering and metaprogramming. I wanted to point out that what parent calls over-engineering is actually useful abstractions that make it easy to get started out of the box, an
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by vbsteven 8y ago
You can call Spring (boot) over-engineered. I call it feature full and extensible. Whereas in the modern JS world, you start out with a lean project and then add small libraries from NPM that all work slightly different for every feature yo
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by vbsteven 8y ago
IANAL, but let's say you write a new open source database connection package. It gets used by some company and due to an obscure bug in the code it deletes all the data in a live production cluster and causes downtime, maybe even loses
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I was not aware that existed and it looks like it can improve our situation. Thanks!
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by vbsteven 8y ago
I was afraid of having to do exactly that, create a new app with a new name and move all of the customers over... I ended up fixing it eventually by somehow clearing all versions in alpha/beta channels and uploading a new fixed version

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