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Re:Modal dialogs without React (or JavaScript) on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @12:31PM (#45890256)
Love this. This stuff is like the holy grail of web design, how to avoid the js
So, I'm recently on the market looking for work, and I know everyone wants to creep your GH. I also really needed to practice talking and answering things. So, I broke out Goose, Ollama, and Plan mode, and came up with a free, pointless app to record, and then listen to yourself.

If it helps, use it.

:/ i think the first step is disregarding the thought process that a "Professional job" is not a manual job....that's kind of an insulting thing to say.

Army, Marine Corps, Wildland Firefighting, Owning 3x Coffee Shops, and now Software Dev for 10 years.....

just saying.

Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:09AM (#35152730)
None of these are really factual points. Big Shops are place where you just get stuck being a YAML jockey and bantering in RFCs.
Sounds like they need a good grounded tech lead who is working with the PM to assist them in continuity, and organization.

I worked with a wizkid fellah with Aspbergers...and for the first 3 months, absolutely hated it. Then I realized there was a method to the managements madness for him, and after that I got on board. To this day I can't believe how fast that guy wrote some of the code he wrote, and how incredibly nice he was.

Being a genius isn't always better than being organized ;o)

Sorry about that!!! The Prancing Pony podcast.....literally an episode per chapter starting at the silmarillion
Re:Phrases in computing that might need retiring on Friday July 29, 2022 @08:17AM (#32275951)
This dude's blog has more elitist bullshit than a kardashian orgy
this is the best thing ever posted on HN..... going to restart the lord of the rings podcast now.
Re:DRY is an over-rated programming principle? on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:14AM (#32011627)
Do what's best for the situation, WET/DRY principles both have valid application use cases. They should be used to leverage the most advantageous effect for your usage.
Re:SpaceVim 2.0 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:03AM (#32010445)
I was the same way to be honest. I ended up taking the parts I liked from spacemacs/lunarvim and adding them. I also started doing all my configs in lua, because it's great
Re:How individual contributors get stuck (2017) on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @11:15AM (#31908806)
This is really nice...plenty to think on.
Re:Cool desktops don’t change on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:18AM (#31776182)
Me: screenshots => desktop, forget to cleanup for 3 years.
Re:Stop Interviewing with Leet Code on Thursday June 09, 2022 @05:58AM (#31679358)
In my experience most companies using leetcode thinks their shit don't stink. So i'll leave this where it is.
Companies that use leetcode in interviews are rarely worth the effort or risk/reward to interview for. Getting into a like FAANG dev team is doable by anyone memorising that stuff, but it's rarely worth it.

Try out talking to a recruiter, and find a job with a senior that can help guide your career. Your self-esteem is pretty low, and a good senior and mentor can guide you out of that rut, and into being a senior yourself in no time with the amount of work you say you're putting in.

This is the best article ever posted on hacker news....
Re:Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:42AM (#31493555)
if you're looking for this: leopold is your jam.
Re:Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:38AM (#31493512)
Logitech makes better mice than keyboards ;oP, upgrade the MX ergo to USB-C and better BT plz.
Re:Netflix lays off about 150 employees on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @04:53AM (#31420570)
Huh, they could have just passed on making/scratching another shitty sitcom and kept all 150 employees.
Re:A blog that is a single executable binary on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:17PM (#31085210)
This is what i'm here for.....bravo :P
Re:Zas Editor on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:13AM (#30954561)
I love that pricing plan.
Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:16AM (#30930773)
most devs just use the terminal in VSCode these days anyways.

Are there _really_ enough terminal users and companies willing to shell out $$$ to make more than 1 million gross per year?

This kind of reminds me of that prettification of the node repl fad a few years ago, but when they switched to pay only people were like "hard naw"

Re:Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:02AM (#30930683)
These folks are taking katanas to the tech bubble.
Re:Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:06AM (#30512128)
It's cool, I like this methodology a lot because it can piece together functionally really well.
Re:Deep introduction to class decorators in TypeScript on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:42AM (#30358397)
The cognitive overhead from decorators in TypeScript is the thing I have the biggest problem with. It's just one more differential between onboarding code fast, and having to slog through miles of code to figure out what a decorator is doing.
Re:Press stunned as Ukraine leader points finger at West on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:18AM (#30190411)
Weird article to be honest.
Re:TypeScript Features to Avoid on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:18AM (#30097694)
TypeScript has a lot of features that just generate cognitive overhead that could have been better spent just learning a different language.

I like TypeScript a LOT, but to be honest I only use about 10% of it. Anything more than that and it gets too confusing for the next developer in line to work on the code in my experience.

Re:Quake 3's frame rate dependent physics [video] on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:57PM (#16547573)
Bravo, r_picmip 5
I just want to point out that a use case is that some people like to conserve resources and the electron app is the biggest resource hog in my ecosystem....
Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:16PM (#16484618)
In this thread.....we b.itch & moan about office jobs.

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