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UK-AL
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About UK-AL
Currently a F#/C# Developer in Birmingham, UK
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Comment #46482461
We also do 25 hour days.
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Comment #46392748
Lots of high paid roles are like that in reality
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Comment #46140909
The game industry inherently unsafe. Studios go in and out of existence constantly.
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Comment #46057302
Most .net projects are web API, and backend applications.
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Comment #45915170
The problem is that many games and software still only work on windows.
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Comment #45912531
You'll find a lot open source leaders, and CEOs of companies like framework are not progressive, they are libertarian. Which people mistake as progressive because it's often very s…
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Comment #45824589
Isn't that literally every distro? They're just curated pre installed packages.
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Comment #45343713
Zoxide normally aliases to z. Is this not z?
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Comment #45324418
When you have well off parents, you can literally be sent to prep schools which drill for these tests.
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Comment #45303529
Because this is what companies want, and they pay us. So that's what we do.
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Comment #45247393
Can't be multiuser
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Comment #45023477
Nix is hard to get into. The lang is weird, and I'm a functional programmer. It's not very well documented. Flakes just don't seem to be documented at all? But are used everywhere?…
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Comment #45023464
I like DHH because I like his taste. However there are lots of people like him. However he seems to have the ability to build movements, and I don't know why.
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Comment #45002355
Can be fun sometimes. Especially if you rowdy team and debates start happening.
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Comment #44996191
I've set the bridge as background Daemon so I barely know it's there.
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Comment #44964216
It was clunky because it actually enforced rules.
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Comment #44964186
The money is in working for a FAANG. So that's what Devs trains for. There's not much money in working for a small saas unless you're the founder.
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Comment #44928112
It's not just FAANG that do these interviews anymore. Tiny startups do them now as well.
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Comment #44923902
These are the places that actually pay well.
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Comment #44873657
Most work doesn't provide that anyway for the majority of people.
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Comment #44869851
People test in production in all the time via Canary releases.
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Comment #44815365
Because rewriting the kernel from scratch would literally cost billions. That's why. Literally criticising them for not achieving an impossible goal.
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Comment #44815207
Rust is important here because it's one of the first(if not the first) to use the rust infrastructure for a GPU.
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Comment #44809252
Being able to get hired at a company is often unrelated to being able to generate viable products. If you want to get hired don't focus on skills to build useful things. Focus on p…
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Comment #44809218
Founders of a lot of companies also tend to be dicks. But seems to do alright. Seems to be a double standard there