lucidone

Your insurance system is a scam, but socialized health care is preferable to the alternatives.

Eh, I wouldn't want to have a beer with him or leave my dog with him. He's doing well financially but that's about it.

It helped consumers a lot.

I find AI useful, I use it most days to write snippets of code or to rubber duck with. It hasn't changed my workflows that much, just replaced Stackoverflow with ChatGPT. Feels like the sweet spot for me, everything else is noise.

I wouldn't mind RTO so much if the cities where most tech jobs are were affordable. I'd rather be a millwright in my middle-of-nowhere mining town with a 10 minute commute in a 250k house versus a software developer with an hour long commute and a million dollar mortgage in big-metropolis. For now, I am making hay while the sun is shining and getting the best of both worlds while squirreling away as much cash as possible.

They should have leaned into becoming a developer community (the developer community) instead of focusing on Q&A. StackOverflow jobs were a great resource. Add an ad-hoc discussion forum and chat and it would have be great, like the modern IRC.

I am nobody important living in rural middle of nowhere, but visited SF twice for work, and it was the most horrific city I have ever been to. I am a big man and didn't feel very safe.

Grass is greener and so forth but as a Canadian I find our current government paternalistic, pandering, reactive, and stifling. Not every problem should be solved by the sledgehammer of our public service, regulation, and bureaucracy, all of which are highly inefficient and wasteful. It's tax season - I pay nearly half my wages to the government in income tax - all so they can redistribute it to those who they deem worthy and unworthy (similar how to they might deem some content harmful and other content unharmful). Let me make my own decisions!

Every day I get new followers on twitter that are sex bots and onlyfans catfishes. Nothing else. Seems like the platform is a wasteland.

I encountered a niche but common bug and figured out a workaround. Mentioned my blog post about it in the relevant GitHub issue discussion for the bug. Gets a low but steady amount of traffic to-date.

Laravel or Rails spitting out Blade or ERB templates respectively. As a solo dev you have everything you need in both ecosystems and you aren't doing 2x the work with a separate front end and back end.

.erb templates are just as good as they were a decade ago.

This is because of Wordpress. Wordpress work pays less than application development typically. Writing an application with Symfony or Laravel pays market rate for an equivalent dev in your ecosystem of choice (Rails, Django, whatever).

Most applications that would leverage this (e.g. server-side rendered Rails or Laravel or Django) already have those templates as partials for their views, so leveraging the functionality is trivial.

Doesn't surprise me given Salesforce is all about squeezing their (generally) non-technical customers with arbitrary licensing restrictions and "best practices" that lead to paying for more and more.

OP and those who feel a similar sentiment should give C# a shot, it's what they want regardless of whether they know it or not.

Front end development doesn't have to be awful, particularly with how much JavaScript the language has improved alongside browser APIs. React made sense at one point because the abstractions it employed were common in other contexts: lifecycle events (intentionally avoiding the "hook" word here) are present pretty much everywhere in programming abstractions (on initialization, on deinitialization, on update, and so forth). These were aptly named "onComponentThing"s and grokable.

Hooks, and particularly useEffect, ruined it for me. I have given up trying to understand why changing button states or presenting modals has become so obtuse and frustrating. I don't care about updating my react-router and rewriting it again for the third or fourth or whatever time. I don't want another new testing library, another new "best practice", or another repeated mistake in the reinventing-the-wheel-cycle the React community seems obsessed with.

It's all so exhausting. I write Rails now with erb templates and some dumb javascript to toggle modals and change button colours. It's not cool but at least I can understand it six months later.

For some reason rich people assume their riches makes them wise. Humanity hasn't changed much (at all) since culture was recorded. Read philosophers if you want philosophy - Andreessen is a (poor) sophist and he wants to sell you something.

What's the difference between the two?

Haven't ever used Rust and probably won't. Regardless, the melodramatic cliquey "I'm leaving the project" bluster as of late reminds me of my 14 year old self on various vbulletin forums and grants me conviction avoiding adopting this language and its ecosystem. I prefer the tools I use for building businesses to be administered by adults.

Had a friend laid off and saw his job posted not a month later (with the stereotypical #hiring LinkedIn corpojargon). Many employees make a big hubbub of the org being employee-centric, people driven, blah blah blah. I almost joined their org because of how my friend talked it up last year. Despicable.

American tech workers were really lucky and still are lucky. I envy their salaries even in the midst of the current "tech winter". North of the border we are paid a hefty discount - probably why we're employed at all - with income tax and costs of housing eating into the savings we could have. Still enough to sock away a bit every month, but it feels like swimming upstream sometimes.

Companies generally exist to make money. Law and medicine are fields I personally do not want optimized for profits. I believe a better approach to be making governments more efficient and more aligned with the interests of their constituents (e.g., rewards for meeting targets that indicate a benefit to society - improving gdp, reducing health care spend, reducing criminal recidivism, whatever).

The comment about healthcare (life-altering health outcomes at play) interviewing being less of a rigorous process than screening the devs for icanhazcheeseburger is spot on. What the fuck is wrong with us?

Wondering if HN can give me a hand. Been trying to segue from dev to devops (or platform eng) and certs seem like a good way to indicate interest and some level of competency in lieu of job experience. Had devops interviews before any nobody wants to take a chance on me or feel like it'll cause problems since I am mid career as a dev. What are my avenues if not certs to get my foot in the door? Targeting AWS. Have a dev blog and github with projects.

From a developer perspective, trying migrate a behemoth of a salesforce instance to their new tooling (Salesforce DX) in order to introduce version control and pipeline checks has been an absolutely horrible experience.

I don't think it's a problem necessarily. "unless" is more obvious to me since since it visually stands out more than "if !required_thing" while I'm casually scanning the code. So, in practice, it acts as an indication from the author of the code to the reader that "this line of code is a guard since we're using an unless".

I'm not a very experienced Ruby developer but RuboCop does a pretty good job at guiding and teaching you to use `unless` as a guard in method definitions, e.g.:

  def my_method(required_thing)
    raise 'required_thing is required' unless required_thing.present?
    
    ...
  end

In practice, this hasn't been as issue as a consequence of the tooling and ecosystem around Ruby.

Rails remains a best in class framework for web application development and ruby (in my opinion) a fantastic programming language (amazing object model + standard library).