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by jaabe 7y ago
Well I do interview self-taught people when their CVs are stellar, but I’ve yet to find one that was the better option. I’m sure you can potentially get a CS degree and never learn anything but I don’t get the point that makes. I wouldn’t h
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think everyone can learn to write an app by following a few YouTube videos. This is how we’ve got our project managers and lean-operators to write RPA projects in python after all. On the flip side, I’ve never personally met anyone who we
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by jaabe 7y ago
You can certainly have a degree in CS and suck, but the odds of that happening are much lower than with people who don’t have a CS degree. Why should I waste the resources if I have enough decent candidates? The rockstar developer is kind o
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by jaabe 7y ago
I’ve hired a lot of people, I do a lot of networking and I work as an examiner for CS students, I’ve never seen someone who was self-educated remotely compare to someone with a degree. It just doesn’t happen in a country where anyone who wa
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by jaabe 7y ago
I’ve never hired someone who was self-taught, not because self-taught people can’t be equal or better, but because you’re trying to buy security and stability. The most expensive mistake you can make as a manager is hiring the wrong person,
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by jaabe 7y ago
No. But I probably should have been more clear. I mean, first of all, there are more cities than Copenhagen. I have a 3 room 92m^2 apartment that is 15 minute walking distance from Aarhus H that cost us 2.2 million. Secondly, I’d personally
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by jaabe 7y ago
But does medium have readers? I mean, I read medium articles when they appear here on HN, but I’m not really a medium reader, and unlike personal blogs, where I will bookmark you if I find you interesting I’ll never come back to a medium au
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by jaabe 7y ago
In Denmark where I live you can loan 1 million Danish kroner at around 5k each month. A decent downtown apartment in a bigger city or a house in the suburbs is 2-4 million. Renting the equivalent is 10-15k, and with renting you obviously sk
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by jaabe 7y ago
Do you have a medium account? Because I don’t, and I don’t think anyone in my network does either. I can see why you would use YouTube, videos aren’t easy to self host, but I’m really not sure why anyone would chose medium above self-hostin
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think there is a lot of tinkering available still. Raspberry pis and IOT are areas where you can really go nuts. I do hope we’ll see hardware open up again, and maybe we will with the increasing focus on sustainability.
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by jaabe 7y ago
In Denmark we have a fairly recent political party called Liberal Alliance. They were funded by billionaire, bank owner and businessman Lars Seier Christensen for almost 10 years and at their height achieved 7% of the votes and a spot in ou
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by jaabe 7y ago
My wife is using my old mbp late 2015 and it does everything she needs a laptop to do. If I hadn’t gotten myself a usb-c setup both in the office and at work it would also be doing everything I need a laptop to do. We’ve gotten to a point w
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by jaabe 7y ago
As I understood it, scripting languages will still be available to the user, they just won’t have ancient versions preinstalled. Of course that also means you can’t rely on them being installed at all as a developer. Which means you should
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think the top submissions have declined somewhat over the years. Maybe it’s just my personal taste that’s changed, but I like two types of articles. The ones that are interesting and the ones that are actually useful to me. There is still
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by jaabe 7y ago
I’m Danish and I realise our benefits and rights are generally a lot better than most places, but I would never work 70 hours a week unless I owned the company. So I think you have the right idea in leaving as soon as you can.
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by jaabe 7y ago
Is it? Because I’m fairly nearsighted and have astigmatism, which can make text on screens very blurry when there is a low contrast, and it’s a lot worse with dark mode. Still, I agree that having both a light and a dark mode is better than
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think this is horrible advice, and while it’s anecdotal I’ve seen no reason to suggest that not writing code comments leads to higher quality code. I once managed a developer who at a time could have written this very blogpost. He was als
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by jaabe 7y ago
If actual usage reflected front page position we’d all be talking about C, C#, JAVA or PHP. I follow a few job agents because I do part time work as an examiner for applied CS students, and I occasionally advice on what languages they shoul
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think it’s a lot easier to be anonymous if you keep them, but never use them for anything real. I quit using Facebook two years ago, but I didn’t stop posting the occasional picture of some event I attended. I simply uninstalled all their
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by jaabe 7y ago
We’re required to have password expiration by law in the public sector of Denmark. So I’m sure we’ll continue to have it for at least some years to come. I must admit I never really understood the function of it. Obviously lifetime access i
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by jaabe 7y ago
There is Runbox, a Norwegian fastmail equivalent if you’re looking for something non-American, but g-suite e-mail offers privacy.
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by jaabe 7y ago
It’s a quite interesting question. Our national tax ministry has had almost nothing of expensive scandals over the past 15 years. Two years ago they setup a focused devops team inside their organisation. I don’t know the exact details of it
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by jaabe 7y ago
Why does it need refactoring? Because you think you can write it better or because you can actually improve its efficiency? If it’s the former, don’t. If it’s the latter turn it into a task and have it prioritised.
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by jaabe 7y ago
I’ve worked in the private sector though, things weren’t better there.
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by jaabe 7y ago
When you buy big enterprise systems you enter contracts that aren’t easy to exit. You also bind so much money into those contracts that you don’t really want to leave them either, even if the company sucks at delivering. Maybe you’ll fight
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by jaabe 7y ago
What high quality software? I work in the public sector in Denmark, we operate 300-500 systems from private suppliers and none of them work, none of them are particularly cheap either. Our medical software on life supporting machinery is ab
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by jaabe 7y ago
I work in the Danish public sector and we currently have 300 systems from various contractors. Almost all of them are moving toward a C#/JAVA api based backend and an Angular front. Only one of those systems uses Vue. None of them use
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by jaabe 7y ago
Having worked both in the public and private sectors I think it’s actually the exact opposite. If we miss a deadline, or if a system goes down when it really wasn’t supposed to the consequences can be as severe as someone dying because life
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by jaabe 7y ago
It’s completely anecdotal but I do hire people and I work as a part time examiner for CS students, so I do come into contact with what motivates people. Unfortunately I see a lot of fear driving people to push forward, picking up technologi
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by jaabe 7y ago
You don’t actually have to setup your web-development environment like the hype dictates. I mean, work in a Danish municipality with more than 5k employees and 60k citizens who directly use our, mainly web-based, solutions daily. We build a

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