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by zerbinxx 3y ago
One practice I’ve gotten into with juniors is checking out their PR, branching it, PR-ing to their PR, and then having the discussion about what I want them to change there. This is good because it lets us isolate certain issues (and truly
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
It is true that JS and the web + JS ecosystem is absolutely overloaded with “utility” dependencies like lodash or some weird fusion experiment in a way that Python or Java is not. I personally have implemented and removed a ton of dependen
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Devil’s advocacy here (and I know this is overwrought and beaten to absolute death here and abroad daily) but is a large dependency tree really that bad? Most modern backend development assumes a ton of dependency management, tech like Dock
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
It’s pretty cool. I would personally suggest Kafka or RabbitMQ depending on your needs, as Jetstream has proven to require a lot of ops engineering to remain stable in production
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
There are lots of people selling them on things like Facebook marketplace. Seems incredibly risky for them but who knows.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
This is sadly commonplace in tech blogs: rather than taking a great opportunity to hook the reader, the writer will drop a vocab term in bold and move on.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Jetstream does indeed have message persistence: I can issue queries like “get messages on topic since 5 minutes ago” - I do this a ton. However, that seems to be the extent of the storage/query API that it exposes for historical messag
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Yeah, 90% of the time when I’m using my phone (e.g. right now), I’m at home, on my couch. I could be using my laptop or desktop which are both close within reach, but I like being able to read HN while my partner plays Zelda. I’m not exactl
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Love the story. Would also love the story of how normally non-druggie nerds get amphetamnines in the pre-adderal era.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Well there you said it, you work some places for 5+ years, therefore I would strongly consider you. The main reason is that longer stints give you an opportunity to become a master with at least one set of tools. If you interview and are ap
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Usually this kind of thing comes from “trying to keep costs down” at a poorly funded firm, usually startup-ish. I’ve worked places where the oldest engineer was 30 and it’s rough, quality and stability just aren’t in the average 25 year old
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Agreed, I will almost always take someone with 5 years of experience at a couple of good shops rather than 20 years of experience broken up across 10 different ones.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
This is my understanding as well. Rare is the day I’ve solved a production firefight by editing some algorithm - it’s almost always arcane configuration, restarting services in the right order, some network thing flapping/dos-ing the r
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
You can but part of the awkward geological/hydrological fact of the matter is that whatever you leave there will be waiting for you next year. 70k people all taking a poo in a basin with no inflows/outflows will probably have some
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Rangers are basically “the cops” of BLM land, so if there’s an issue they’re the ones who will show up. In general these guys do the best with what they’ve got and they probably hate BM and all the hassle it brings. A normal weekend in rura
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Which is why the “radical self-reliance” thing is so ironic/sad in this situation. Most people aren’t there for that, despite the warnings that RSR is part of the deal, the fact is that anyone who’s particularly interested in that kind
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I understand the usage of miasma, but flippant is just not a normal modifier for that noun.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I wouldn’t be critiquing their choice of words if I didn’t know what they mean. In general flippant is a word that describes attitudes or actions, not a toxic death cloud.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Don’t have them on hand (or necessarily put faith in them) but a couple of studies have claimed to show a link between vaping and higher susceptibility to ordinary lung disease (bronchitis) with the suspected cause being that people vape fa
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
It definitely takes a second to develop that intuition, I remember being quite confused as well. As I got more into CS, I began to think of proofs similar to how I do unit tests: you externalize or “fix” as many as the inputs as you possibl
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I agree. I’ve found ruby and its developers to be pretty friendly and open to other languages and styles.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
You certainly still could collect that half million by going into the office.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
> Encore automates infrastructure for seamless development, from local to your cloud. > Develop locally with instant infrastructure, preview PRs in dedicated environments, and skip tedious Terraform with automatic infrastructure setup
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
One good thing about the rigid institutional environment, for better or worse, is that having exposure to that rigidity and institutional side of things can at least give kids some skills in the long run for navigating the anti-human organi
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Is it really a scam if it helps kids fit in and learn? I have a pretty strong baseline bias against homeschool, but a lot of the testimonials in the article are pretty positive. For every fear people have of homeschools being dangerous or i
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The “economy” you attribute these increases in QoL to is pretty mercurial - are we talking about mercantilism during the 1700s, robber baron capitalism of the 1910’s, Chinese state capitalism of today, or Western neoliberalism of the 1990’s
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I certainly don’t, and hacker news has a certain conversational feng shui that leads to most posts reading a lot like everyone else’s. If you read through the top 10 comments on any post, the style will be extremely similar on 9+ of them, w
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
This is why consulting companies are basically organized blight - you hire them to do work but 80% of the money goes to the customer facing/relationship management side of the business and the workers get fuck all done because they’re
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Yeah. “We succeed and fail together” - unfortunately, unless this is true from a management and reward perspective, it can never be true at a team level. Additionally anything raised in a retro that contradicts a management edict will never
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Sure. To me that sounds related to the “lack of backlog refinement” and “no AC” parts of this. If there’s no text on a ticket, there’s not even a map! Good luck with the territory, in that case.

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