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UK-AL

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About UK-AL

www.alastairgould.co.uk

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