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by domk 7mo ago
One of our interviews is a technical design question that asks the candidate to design a web-based system for public libraries. It explicitly tests for how simple they can keep it, starting at "a single small town library" scale a
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by domk 1y ago
Working with Shopify is an example of something where a good mental model of how it works under the hood is often required. This type of mistake, not realising that the tag is added by an app after an order is created and won't be avai
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by domk 3y ago
https://domk.website/blog.html
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by domk 4y ago
Would Stripe's Connect work for you? They have all the tools for setting up a platform that onboards merchants, takes payments on their behalf and pays them out. You can sign up and use the sandbox for free, and only pay when you proce
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by domk 4y ago
This is how our team does it as well. We are 5 engineers at a startup, so inbound support tickets that need to be turned around fairly urgently are common. Having one person dedicated to on call and dealing with support saves everyone else
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by domk 4y ago
I think type checking helps with that both directly and indirectly. It helps directly by making it much easier to know what type or shape everything is. Without types, all you have are variable names and tracing the code back up the stack y
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by domk 4y ago
You say 30 mins isn't enough for deep dives. Can you change from 30 mins every week to 60 mins every two weeks to allow more time for in-depth discussions?
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Are Startups Worth It: Mission vs. Engagement(domk.website)
1 points by domk 4y ago|0 comments
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Mission vs. Engagement(domk.website)
1 points by domk 4y ago|0 comments
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by domk 4y ago
What makes Daspoll different from to the many other existing survey products? It's not clear from the website how it's better compared to e.g. Typeform.
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WWDC 2022(apple.com)
3 points by domk 4y ago|0 comments
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by domk 4y ago
Good advice. But instead of having an entitlements _system_ and API calls passing through multiple different services returning lists of features a customer is entitled to, you can follow basic OOP principles and write customer.is_entit
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by domk 4y ago
Not everywhere is like that. Smart small companies will eschew this unnecessary complexity to get more done with less. For example, we have deliberately stuck with a single Node.js/Next app in a single repo using Postgres running on He
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by domk 5y ago
I started my career in a startup and had a similar FOMO, always thinking that the big corps have figured out all these problems we were struggling with, hoping I can one day learn to how. Then I joined one and had an eye opening experience
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by domk 5y ago
Don't. Use a PaaS like Heroku, hook it up to your GitHub and a CI platform. Get your database hosted on Heroku or somewhere similar - plenty exists for anything you might need (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, Mongo...). Don't do things th
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by domk 5y ago
Yes, kind of like training, except it doesn't have a set agenda like a training session would, but is instead rooted in the circumstances of what's going on at that time. Any questions your report has? Anything they are struggling
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by domk 5y ago
In practise, doesn't increasing the coverage highly correlate with increasing the test suite size, therefore proving the effectiveness? Conversely, I struggle to think how coverage could be increased significantly without increasing th
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by domk 5y ago
I don't think 1:1s have to be weekly as a hard rule, but it's a good starting point. If bi-weekly works for you and your reports, do that. However I would argue that 1:1 is the one area you shouldn't try to minimise - as a ma
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by domk 5y ago
A lot of this seems like things that could be cut. 1.5h every day on post-mortem meetings stands out as the obvious time sink – does the organisation really have that many production issues to debrief every day? Also a fair amount of ceremo
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by domk 5y ago
Shared Slack channels. We're an early stage e-commerce startup selling mainly to medium sizes companies, and one thing that's worked incredibly well is setting up a shared Slack channel with each customer's org. They can get
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by domk 5y ago
You should absolutely do it. Chances are the startup won't be successful, but it's a life experience you won't regret having. Start building something on the side, and make sure you have enough savings to maintain your life w
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by domk 5y ago
At Purple Dot (waitlisting platform for e-commerce), we use Stripe. Not sure which Stripe product you are using exactly, but with Stripe Connect it is possible to pay out people in quite a few countries now, not just the US. If you only hav
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by domk 5y ago
This essay feels really dishonest. It tries to simplify the vastly complex problem of income inequality, on which there is a sea of existing, detailed research, into a simple "it's easier to start companies now" argument. And
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by domk 6y ago
Being a good manager is a skill like any other, something you have to learn. In the industry, being someone's line manager and looking after their wellbeing and professional development is often considered a job in itself, and people i
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by domk 6y ago
What about the argument that programming entire large systems (e.g. non-trivial applications as opposed to only algorithms) is way too complex to be described rigorously? At least with our current tools? It's the price we pay for the a
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by domk 6y ago
I think there's a difference between "getting up and running quickly" and "presenting something as a silver bullet", which is the problem with some best practices. You can (and should!) make getting started simple a
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The Cult of Best Practise(domk.website)
1 points by domk 6y ago|0 comments
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by domk 6y ago
In Czech, unlike other Slavic languages, "robota" refers specifically to the forced labour done by serfs (not slaves).
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by domk 6y ago
> legacy OSes like Linux and Windows Since when did the most advanced and widely used OSes in the world become legacy? > legacy Ones ... more and more irrelevant as it matures And what will Kubernetes run on, bare metal? Thin air?
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Automated Tests Should Build Confidence(domk.website)
2 points by domk 6y ago|0 comments

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