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by rc_hackernews 3y ago
Graduated in 2008 right in the middle of the mortgage crisis. It was really bad, but I was fresh out of college and had no experience. Took me about 10 months to find a job in that market. The market is definitely rough, but I wouldn’t say
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by rc_hackernews 3y ago
This was (is) me. Love Rails, but found it very difficult to learn Ruby. It's very hard for me to read, but that may be because I come from a C# background. If you're looking for something like Rails, I'd recommend trying out
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by rc_hackernews 3y ago
I would say F# is as popular as it’s ever been. C# is still king, but it’s been getting a few features from F# the past few years.
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by rc_hackernews 3y ago
I thought this too before I bought it, but figured “what the hell” and bought it anyway. I haven’t played the first one, but the second one is excellent and is my favorite game of the year so far, and probably last year too. And as alrea
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
This has been my experience too. It's either what you mentioned or they have very outdated development practices.
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
In no way was my intention to brag. I'm pretty sure it wasn't the parent commenter's intention either. Just people reflecting and commenting on their experiences on this topic. I'll keep in mind how comments like that co
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
This has been my exact experience too. Wife and I...no trouble conceiving. Friends in late 20's to early 30's have had a lot of trouble conceiving, i.e. they needed to do IVF. Not sure what's going on with that, and this is p
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
This was exactly me and few months ago and is also how I burned out at my last job. You can add all the front-end stuff to that list too. I think it’s easy to say we as engineers should make things simpler. I have no idea how to do that i
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
I feel the same way and can understand where the original comment is coming from. To your point, I also think I’ve reached the ceiling too salary wise. Was talking to a recruiter who specializes in recruiting for tech and product companies.
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
Yup, fully aware. Should’ve said “Heroku-like” instead of “Heroku for AWS”.
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by rc_hackernews 4y ago
Reading this made me sad. I’ve wondered for a long time why no one ever bothered to build a Heroku for AWS. My main complaint as an application developer these last few years is the amount of time I’ve had to spend wrangling infrastructure
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
What did you end up moving to and how did you do it? I’ve been noticing what you’ve posted for awhile in regards to interesting opportunities and .NET, or lack there of. Not sure how to make the switch to something else though.
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
Oh, I agree with you. It absolutely comes down to the organization. And like you said the organizations that pay very well...don't tend to use .NET. Which is what I've been seeing "in the wild". At this point, it's
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
I feel seen with this comment and I'm glad I'm not the only one that has been feeling this way. I'm about to start a new position that uses C#/.NET and seems like a technically mature/sophisticated organization. Fin
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
As someone who programs with .NET in their day job...no probably, not. Outside of a few areas related to DDD, event sourcing, and some distributed-system frameworks (NServiceBus and MassTransit) there's really no killer app for .NET, i
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
I think it's the familiarity factor. It's pretty close to the way you'd work with C#/Java. If you were coming from that type of background, it's an easier transition. A plus, and also a minus, of Angular is that it&
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
My first two programming jobs out of college back in the early 2010's took the approach in this article. Albeit, with older technology. This is bringing back old (bad) memories of the times where I was debugging stored procedures that
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
Bought your book awhile ago from someone that mentioned it on my Twitter feed. I’m really enjoying it! You did a great job on it. I especially liked the chapter on networking since it was always something I was weak in.
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
Why do you think that is? In regards to Cloud Foundry being steamrolled by Kubernetes. There's not a day that goes by where I'm using the "current stack", i.e. K8S, Terraform, etc., and not wish I was using Heroku or som
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by rc_hackernews 5y ago
I had to reply to this because I’ve been feeling this very heavily the last few years. Not sure what to do about it either because it feels like it’s everywhere. Specifically “Agile”, the lack of autonomy, and the standup confessional. I ca
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by rc_hackernews 6y ago
I haven’t worked at a FAANG or any other company even close to that level of scale, so you can take me with half a grain of salt too. But what you said is absolutely true. It’s also something you will very much experience once you start wor
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by rc_hackernews 6y ago
Austin. And this is coming from someone who has lived in Houston for 20 years. Cuisine is often touted as one of the best things about Houston, and it is good, no doubt. We have quality and variety. It's also very cheap to live here co
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by rc_hackernews 6y ago
Not a super big impact professionally. Creating and maintaining distributed systems is hard. And even harder when business requirements, stakeholders, etc. get involved. One major take away I got from the course is to limit the more RPC-dri
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by rc_hackernews 6y ago
Thanks! I've been reading/lurking on this site for YEARS. For some reason though, the idea of posting has been nerve-rattling even though everyone is technically anonymous.
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by rc_hackernews 6y ago
Udi Dahan's "Learn Advanced Distributed Systems Design" course. https://particular.net/adsd At one point, I was considering paying out of pocket to attend the course. Fortunately, the company I was working fo