danwee

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by danwee 3y ago
Indeed! I would buy it if it were smaller (e.g., 4.7')
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by danwee 3y ago
I think the technical product manager role is the worst of both worlds: - not enough tech: so you don't get to work on the nice and interesting stuff - it has it's management part: so you get to work on the boring stuff
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by danwee 3y ago
I guess I wanted to say "because of the promise of money"
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Ask HN: From zero to hero Spring Boot and Kotlin
2 points by danwee 3y ago|0 comments
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by danwee 3y ago
> I was promoted to tech lead 2 months ago Did you get a salary increase as well? And if so, would they decrease your salary if you go back to IC? If you keep your salary increase, that's a good deal. If there was no salary increase
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by danwee 3y ago
> I would rather not maintain a system that was built on quicksand, where dependencies cannot be upgraded without breaking anything. To each their own. I prefer to maintain a bad system because: - I can make it better - If something does
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by danwee 3y ago
I'm not defending fraud: if fraud is made, then you pay for it (either economically or via prison). On the other hand, having thousands of people on the internet call you everything because of a mistake. I don't know, I definitely
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by danwee 3y ago
This feels strange (maybe I got it wrong). It's probably because Amazon has all the money in the world they need to develop their products, but I would expect to launch a new product with some minimal but strong features to attract cus
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by danwee 3y ago
> his year our team is hiring for 3 new people instead of 4 Na. We'll be able to do more with less... but the amount of work to be needed will increase, hence more people will be needed as well. Same old story. Compilers didn't
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by danwee 3y ago
> Outsourcing the work to a country with low wages. Even nowadays you can get highly skilled workers for like $50 a month in some African countries. But this is not the norm. In order for company X to hire people from a different country
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Ask HN: Getting Started with DAW?
3 points by danwee 3y ago|4 comments
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by danwee 3y ago
What you say is true, but the amount of "grunt work" is not constant over the years. In fact, I think the amount of "grunt work" in teh tech industry is just growing and not shrinking; I think the following look is quite
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by danwee 3y ago
I'm a total newcomer about this, but I would like to learn and start making "music". They advertise: > MAKE USE OF THE CURATED SELECTION OF DRUMS, BASS AND KEYS THAT COME PRE-LOADED ON YOUR K.O.II. Question: would I be stu
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by danwee 3y ago
I'm not sure if reading the book would help. If the manager has a technical background (e.g., they have worked as developers before) then they already know the main point of the book. If the manager does not have a tech background, the
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by danwee 3y ago
What? If anything a startup founder (in general) wants to become a gigantic corporation. The bigger the better.
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by danwee 3y ago
I'm the only one NOT using autocorrect? I find useful the suggestions that popup above the keyboard but ultimately I decide whether or not to use them. I find autocorrection (on phones) annoying.
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by danwee 3y ago
What always surprised me is not DNA, but how other non-living things can exist at all without DNA. It makes sense to me that I have green eyes since that's what my DNA says... but where is defined that a rock has a particular color or
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by danwee 3y ago
But how good is to say "Image generated by Bing AI" (or whatever)? Many of this generated images are a one-off (so, you don't get a URL you can copy). It's like saying "Image found in Google.com".
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by danwee 3y ago
> literally the threat of the sword Obviously, we need to find contemporary analogies: - the other day I opened (manually) a bunch of Linkedin profiles (each in one browser tab). Apparently, Linkedin thought it was a suspicious activity
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by danwee 3y ago
> The more organisational layers you have between you and the customers - architects, business analysts, and the like - the more disconnected your work will be from the business value. In every company I have worked for in the last 10 ye
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by danwee 3y ago
> By Thursday, I began to worry about my own job security. I had been spinning on a feature I said I would ship 3 days ago. Off-topic: is it really like that in the US? (I'm assuming he's from the US). Like, if you get stuck fo
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by danwee 3y ago
I tend to sleep on weekdays around 8'5 hours (from 1am to 9:30). On weekends I sleep usually 9'5 hours. I'm not on my 20s anymore. I don't wake up in the nights (unless I drink a glass of water before going to sleep, the
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by danwee 3y ago
In general, engineering managers. I'm not talking about "bad" engineering managers, I'm talking about average ones (which are the ones one usually get). - It's difficult to sell good engineering work to them, and he
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by danwee 3y ago
> I've felt most burned out were when I worked with people who didn't care, who I couldn't trust to care, and so I ended up being the only person in the room who cared. Been there, but I don't see it as a problem. On
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by danwee 3y ago
Off-topic: I think I've seen this page layout before https://mswjs.io/docs . Did they use a css-html template/framework for it?
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by danwee 3y ago
Funny enough, I would fail your interview. But not because I don't know how to solve the problem, but because I don't know how to solve the problem without Google and/or documentation. My struggle is: I can come up with some
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by danwee 3y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but a solar storm would wipe out offline harddrives/ssds/laptops?
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by danwee 3y ago
In the year 2023 tech companies are not "buying" (supply > demand) but "selling" (supply < demand); that means the hiring process should at least be equal in terms of time spent on it. Candidates spend way more tim
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by danwee 3y ago
Not sure if it would be any better, and I say this as someone who hates leetcode-related interviews. Code reviews are way more subjective than writing a piece code (at the end of the interview session, if the code works, then that's a
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by danwee 3y ago
But who guarantees that Cloudflare will not charge me for egress in the future? Sure nobody guarantees either that S3 won't becomer more expensive, but migrating to another provider just because right now they are cheaper without guara

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