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by noodle 1y ago
As someone who had some outages due to AI traffic and is now using CloudFlare's tools: Most of my site is cached in multiple different layers. But some things that I surface to unauthenticated public can't be cached while still b
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by noodle 2y ago
Yes, no question, assuming Rails matches what the startup is trying to do well enough. I've worked in other frameworks, stacks, etc and nothing beats the raw productivity of Rails for web applications. A lot of people say things like
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by noodle 2y ago
That's true, I'm mostly commenting on software because the article is about software, and this might be anecdata, but it certainly seems to me like patent trolls are more prevalent in software.
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by noodle 2y ago
Don't think I've ever worked for a startup that had any patents whatsoever. I think I consulted with one IIRC, and they folded largely due to their hyperfocus on tech to the detriment of building something people actually wanted t
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by noodle 2y ago
Fully agreed. IMO its a critical thing to provide engineers an IC career path that enables advancement without requiring moving into a manager type of job. Otherwise, you get people who are shitty managers because they feel they have to do
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by noodle 2y ago
> My example was to refute the parent poster who implied, in a seemingly general sense, that stock issuance doesn't impact earnings, which is false. I was talking specifically about their comp, not stock in general. Which is why I
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by noodle 2y ago
Their comp is largely stock, not cash. Eliminating them won't move the needle much on net loss.
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by noodle 3y ago
Agree with this. There are also still lots of companies hiring CS grads. They just aren't paying FAANG level comps. Kind of strange to hear people say they're going to pivot into being a garbage man if they can't get the $
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by noodle 3y ago
Depends 100% on the company you're referring into. The larger the company, the less personal it tends to be. Conversely, if the "current employee" is a leader with hiring authority and the referral will be hired onto their
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by noodle 3y ago
Depends so much on so many things. Like, what kind of app/company are you building? How big is the company/app/team(s)? Who is on your team? What are your other practices? Etc.. For example, if my team was very junior, I&#x2
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by noodle 3y ago
> modern software development is trivial to learn LMAO c'mon. This basically undercuts anything else you say here. Go teach your grandma react and see how trivial it actually is.
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by noodle 3y ago
You can see this with a "new" ANY dev, because there are only 4 years of college and far more years are required to learn the increasingly complex technology environment. I graduated with a Computer Engineering degree, did assembl
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by noodle 3y ago
> This is pretty trivial to build once you have given it some thought, it sits nicely next to the work you do building health-checks into the various tiers of your infrastructure, yet there are enough people out there willing to pay for
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by noodle 3y ago
This depends a lot on the product. Some products, companies, markets, etc simply NEED capital to get off the ground. Hardware for example is fairly pricey on average. Tech's evolution has made starting software companies and products
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by noodle 3y ago
The potential to game things exists everywhere. Tax CO2 and people will want to find ways to technically reduce CO2. For example, what if it becomes cheap enough to just convert all the CO2 to CO and we dump masses of carbon monoxide int
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by noodle 3y ago
Because the intent of such a hypothetical law would be to reduce/capture C02, but the end result of it is that it financially incentivizes generating more C02 through some unexpended/unanticipated means. An unintended consequence
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by noodle 3y ago
> It seems fairly straightforward to just ask verbal questions? This is basically my interviewing POV. If you've done the work, you can talk about the work intelligently if I ask some questions about it. If I ask you how you would
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by noodle 3y ago
Sticker pricing, at least, IIRC
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by noodle 3y ago
Strongly disagree with this. Its very easy to stand out, in many different ways. > How will emailing someone directly help if he doesn’t have a unique set of skills that helps him stand out? Because they will indicate their very direct
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by noodle 3y ago
Honestly, I don't know. I don't see enough of the "not close, easy rejection" type resumes, I see things after they've been filtered. But I'll see if I can get an answer to that question.
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by noodle 3y ago
Well, to give you my POV - my company is still hiring because the business fundamentals are still strong. We're making money and using that money to pay people. But I have friends in network who had to lay off because they were hirin
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by noodle 3y ago
> I've wondered about that. Sometimes I see jobs that sounds super interesting, but I only match maybe 50% of the unique bits of experience they want. Really depends on what the company needs. We're willing to talk to a pretty
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by noodle 3y ago
As someone on the other side, with open positions we're hiring for: There are probably fewer job openings than there were, but I don't think my company or anyone in my network have changed HOW they're hiring, but we have defi
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by noodle 3y ago
Those types of conversations are going to depend a lot on their context. Like, if your company is a large company that has a lot of operationalized tooling around corporate agile, one team saying "hey lets not do this" is not goin
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by noodle 3y ago
Modern corporate Agile isn't the same as Agile Manifesto Agile. Even though they have basically the same name, don't mix the two up. Sprints are one tool in your toolbox. Use them when it makes sense to do so. I view them as most
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by noodle 3y ago
I can't really speak for the motivations of those people, but I don't consider potential direct financial gain to be "some laughs".
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by noodle 3y ago
Yes. For example, I was a mod on a larger tech related subreddit (trying to keep it generic) that was a critical part of my tech stack and daily work at the time. The mods above me would regularly promote their POV on certain topics and do
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by noodle 3y ago
There's a lot more intangible incentives than you'd think. For example, general clout, influence peddling, an outlet for low power people to experience power, etc.. Many people don't care about those types of incentives, but
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by noodle 3y ago
I was hired as a founding CTO a few years ago from a HN post. Without going into detail, the company grew, exited, and I'm still working for them.
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by noodle 3y ago
Yeah, of course. But there's a difference in things like, "I don't want Tailwind, I want Bootstrap" or React vs Vue; instead of things like I don't like Ruby or I don't like convention over configuration. The

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