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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Very good read that highlighted the current state of the industry - G and FB reign as kings. I'd expect the fraud cycle to restart in gaming industry seeing that display and mobile are essentially saturated.
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Expected people skills, business domain knowledge, architecture and security as well. Good articles based on the arguments but fell short of covering the major points.
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Their drivers (majority of the workforce) have no welfare to speak of. Wait until Uber becomes really big like 90s' Microsoft then you'd see the rest of the Walmart deeds. It's the expected inherent big Corp SOP, nothing new.
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Open Source Micro-Purchasing Forked in Singapore(gbuy.gds-gov.tech)
84 points by fieryeagle 10y ago|13 comments
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
I have been through very similar situations like yours during my early day jobs. It's that fire that we always had, fresh out of colleges and into the workforce, the drive to do good things, build cool stuff. Makes you very susceptible
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Not from me, you aren't. I'm an old soldier in this game (by webdev standards of 6 months for a new framework) and I have tended to switch over to the latest stuff almost every year (projects, job change etc). It's just a co
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Yeah, such a poignant read that cuts to the heart of the problem - our needs to associate and express.
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
I suppose this is how you gain fame these days, writing sensational counter-arguments instead of coding? Oh right, the author is a 'Ruby Activist', he couldn't help it. PHP has won, Node has won and now yet another language u
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
When you have the unique skill, you're better off being labelled as 'consultant'. The terms might be used interchangeably yet I've seen the power dynamics being consultant > full-timer > part-timer > contractor.
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Same argument for enterprises can be had here. Way too risky to let the existing house of cards (stack) to perch atop a product that can be discontinued at anytime (I'm looking at you, Microsoft!). Google needs more revenues since ad m
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Contractors are second-class citizens at best, at any places so what was she expecting exactly? I don't mean to deride the writer but I'm honestly not sure if the janitors would think that working at FB is the opportunity of a lif
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Here's where expectation should be set for both candidates and interviewers. The point of solving Fizz Buzz problems is to open up angles for discussion. What would you do differently with this problem, at this scale, for this integrat
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
I would give those candidates the FizzBuzz problem just to see if they can actually code from scratch or `require('fizz-buzz-solver');`. I care more about their competence than what 1 or 10-liner packages they maintain. On the con
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
<rant> The problem here is JS developers have baked in the notion of having NPM as the alternative to Google + StackOverflow + own thoughts. It's really a no-brainer (literally) to just slap another package than to bother thinkin
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Yes, until people stopped publishing isInteger and isArray as `packages`. Plus, stdlib is standard library. Can you cite one for JS? NPM is not.
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
I doubt something like 'wrote npm package that averages stuff' would be relevant without fluffing it up to impress the non-tech hiring manager. Still would ring alarm bells with devs though.
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by fieryeagle 10y ago
Just sugar-coated kool aid I'm hearing. Community benefits? First of all, I'm coding to get paid and this recent madness proved that JS ecosystem is semi-garbage. Back to the original question - do people really can't program
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
Good point there. Pseudo-anonymity (or should I say, pseudonym-based) is the first step towards better privacy and decentralised transactions, not the solution. Still, we have the means to do so, if we really want to. With bank accounts, ev
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
Only if I publish my address and leave patterns behind. Agree that it's debatable then again, wouldn't you agree that in a relative sense, pseudo-anonymous is better than bank accounts tied to your name?
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
TL;DR cashless with anonymity and decentralisation. Sounds like Bitcoin.
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
This Dilbert strip says it best http://dilbert.com/strip/2011-04-14 .
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
1) Don't expect 9-5 work if you are in anything remotely high-impact like software or sales. 2) Hard to specify since it varies on the kind of company/sector. PM me if you have something specific to check. 3) Company pays for basi
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
That's both pleasant and disappointing to hear. Believe me, if they offer you S$90k base, that's already considered a fat salary.
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
I silently added those who said that to a certain blacklist. Been through enough of 'Me - I'm in Software not IT. Them- But it is IT since you work with computer right?' ping pong matches. Ignoramuses, really.
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
Disagreed. In a free-for-all environment like FOSS, collective lack of details means more time wasted to gather/request for relevant information. Maintainers have the rights to request for such things before sifting through a potential
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
Not money, shares. Any public letters are carefully crafted pieces of PR, intention notwithstanding. The criticism probably stemmed from that angle.
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
Second this, but Joel Spolsky said it much better http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchool...
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
Professional fall-out tended to be due to professional reasons. If the root causes could be fixed or overridden with a greater cause, why could they not work together again?
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
A way to look at cable TV is like a buffet. Everything is paid for in advanced. In a buffet, you can eat until you bust and the restaurant would still break even with the food cost at worst. Most cases, profit. The rest of users always make
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by fieryeagle 11y ago
As cliched as it may sound, it...depends on how is the API consumed? Is the error code going be processed further and passed onto logger or other sub-systems? Are there possible cases of collision with other existing enumerations or type re

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