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by virgilp 7y ago
I'd totally buy a Razr if it had good camera and battery. Which unfortunately it doesn't. Yes it's more than any base iPhone but it's also a lot cooler phone design, and runs Android too.
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by virgilp 7y ago
Not true. Recently I found myself using duckduckgo more. Partially because they added ddg.gg and it's not such a pain to type.... but mostly when I just can't find stuff on Google. That was never the case a few years ago, if I d
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by virgilp 7y ago
-people always travelled, automobile just optimized it -people always produced goods, factories just optimized it -people always used weapons, nuclear energy just optimized them ... never underestimate the impact of “just optimizing” someth
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by virgilp 7y ago
That can't be true or no startup would ever get off the ground. Just look at any Adobe competitor and see if they started fully featured (most actually brag about their lack of features compared with Adobe products) The more likely exp
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by virgilp 7y ago
Well, yes, kinda, sorta. If you go into a market that already has a complete solution available, and that solution works well, you need to be at least as good as competitors. But the way you go into a market is by figuring out what doesn&
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by virgilp 7y ago
That's not what makes a distributed monolith, IMO. Or to put it differently, it's not what makes a "monolith" be equal to "bad" in people minds. You want to avoid the badness, don't want to avoid the label
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Failure + failure = success? Well the world is not so simple. Apple + Next = ?
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by virgilp 7y ago
I don't want to be nasty, but the site has all the features of a scam. No link to additional information works; it's just a form to send you my email address in exchange for the vague promise that you'll help me make money (h
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by virgilp 7y ago
In that case, why switch from Sketch to Figma and not to, say, XD? I feel like "multi-platform" was not _the_ reason people like Figma better than Sketch (maybe it's part of it, but not all).
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by virgilp 7y ago
> My team recently transitioned/is still transitioning from Sketch to Figma, and I can imagine that many other design teams will be making the same move too. I'm curious why. I would've thought that the main advantage of F
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by virgilp 7y ago
I never would claim that your algorithmic skills define you as a professional - on the contrary with age I got worse at contest-style coding while getting generally better (I believe) at the trade. It's just that my experience is that
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by virgilp 7y ago
Either bad interviewer ( focused on syntax rather than problem-solving skills), bad day, or simply this: > people would do amazing stuff despite failing basic algorithmic tasks. That's what makes hiring decisions so hard.) It's
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by virgilp 7y ago
I don't know what "hard leetcodes" look like... even in my teens I failed to solve _some_ problems. But what I can tell you is that I switched jobs less than a year ago, I was given as part of the interview process a link to
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by virgilp 7y ago
For context I have 2 medals at IOI in highschool. I'm not the most competent in the world (best in my country took 4, all of them gold) but still I'm not too shabby. Am I as good as I was in my 20s? No. But the truth is that most
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Spending your weekends learning the latest JS framework because you don't want to be someone "who doesn't keep up", is not fun. It's not about JS frameworks, but if you don't keep up with technology _beca
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by virgilp 7y ago
Disclaimer: I don’t think it’s _flawed_. It’s simple and useful But it has some flaws in some situations - I would describe it as “less than ideal”. Rich Hickey describes some problems here: https://github.com/matthiasn&#x2F
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by virgilp 7y ago
> I think they used to just write your credit card details on a piece of paper. Why would you allow anyone to do that? :O
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by virgilp 7y ago
Of course I would forget that.. that's kinda' the point of storing it somewhere where I could go back to it, many years later (also I wanted somewhere where it was stored with a verifiable timestamp so that I could share it X year
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by virgilp 7y ago
I don't know. Have you tried it? I worked on a Kafka streams service written in Java that processed "changelog" messages (it involved one query to CosmosDB per message, and logging the result to Kafka for downstream processin
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by virgilp 7y ago
True story: inspired by some dude on the internet, I thought I'd try my hand at "predictions". I made a post with my technology predictions for the next 10 or 15 years (not 50, I'm not THAT naive). I don't have a pe
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by virgilp 7y ago
> Lemme know if you guys are ever looking for a remote automation engineer w/tons of cloud experience ;) Maybe - but how would one go about contacting you? (I have my email in my profile, should you wish to contact me).
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by virgilp 7y ago
Kinda how Dropbox is different than rsync (imperfect analogy, but still pretty good I'd say)
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by virgilp 7y ago
Well, UiPath's valuation is currently 7B... But yeah. They have an "academy" for training RPA developers, forums/ social presence, big sales teams, a process for developing automation, an "automation framework"
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by virgilp 7y ago
Isn’t this the “robotic process automation” market? (though that one is a bit more than what you are saying)
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by virgilp 7y ago
It's always useful to read the URL, they can change the title but are often reluctant to change the URL :)
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by virgilp 7y ago
The better way to think about it is that you want to be close to the money. If you can quantify your contribution easily (I was the lead on product X that was a huge success/ brought in $Y additional revenue) you have little trouble ge
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by virgilp 7y ago
The linked article actually mentions that ("there are people with title 'senior' that can't do fizzbuzz"). So the fact that some "senior network engineers" did something stupid doesn't prove your poin
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by virgilp 7y ago
Look, I don't even know what your point is. I thought you were claiming "you can't/shouldn't hire someone who doesn't know well the technologies that you currently use". If it's not that, then don&#x2
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by virgilp 7y ago
Come on. Even highschool kids know that AWS exists, that doesn't make you "senior". How did you go from "Knowing an ecosystem well on a senior level won’t happen in a few weeks." to an example of someone reinventing
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by virgilp 7y ago
Really senior level is about talking to people; “Knowing the ecosystem well” (if by that you mean a specific tech stack) is almost irrelevant. Senior is more about solving the right problem than solving the problem “right”

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