jfinnery

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by jfinnery 1y ago
From observing the career trajectories of the tradespeople I've known who likely match or out-earn me, yes, the ideal (and, from what I can tell, not terribly unachievable[1]) path is to be running a crew (or two... or three...) with y
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by jfinnery 1y ago
Working in software doesn't confer social status and never has. Money, maybe, but not status. Lawyers' wages are badly depressed, supposedly, yet "I'm a lawyer" instantly confers better social status than "I&#x
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by jfinnery 1y ago
Pretty sure enough (doesn't need to be a high proportion of them, really) office workers can re-train as e.g. locksmiths or plumbers fast enough if the money is really there that a substantial bump from this effect will be short-live
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by jfinnery 1y ago
You could spend the time you'd have spent reading the news instead reading actual books on history, poli sci and political philosophy, ethics, economics, et c., and then figure out who the right person to vote for is and what the right
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by jfinnery 1y ago
After a lot of consideration of this question (I have also all-but written off Rails work, after doing a lot of it) I think it's a combination of two things, one technical, one business-social: 1) Rails and Ruby will gladly let you mak
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by jfinnery 1y ago
Can confirm, I'd charge a laaaarge premium to ever work on an existing Rails codebase again. Did it several times over a period of 15 years and they were always a wreck and unreasonably painful to work with. Every single time. I'd
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by jfinnery 1y ago
Thanks so much for the response! I get it, that’s cool, just making sure. Will be giving it a try regardless.
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by jfinnery 1y ago
It’s mostly a thing among kids heavily into sports, in my experience.
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by jfinnery 1y ago
The way US cops talk is a whole thing. It’s one of the most-distinctive job-related American English variants. Even more so than white-collar “business English” (“let’s take this offline and circle back to it, as per my prior email”) Some o
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by jfinnery 1y ago
Any way to run the Docker version without the external DB requirement? I have a bunch of things running on my home server and so far every one is a single image with no external requirements, which is very nice. Everything that needs a DB j