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    Comment #45142866

    > it will likely retain almost no value as time goes on. If you're buying a car as an investment I have bad news for you...

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    Comment #34648866

    IME the big gains nearly always come from how data is surfaced and cached from the storage layer. You may get some nominal gains from sending less JS or having the server render th…

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    Comment #34419540

    I'm both inspired and green with envy at what the Gas team was able to do here.

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    Comment #34281406

    All these little apps are really impressive from a web development point of view. Shows a real mastery of css, canvas, browser apis, JS, etc. Kudos.

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    Comment #34225884

    what have you not liked about grpc-web?

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    Comment #34225866

    How is gRPC-Web not an RPC approach?

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    Comment #32741590

    Meth gives people lots of energy and prolonged use causes psychosis. Heroin makes people feel content and sleepy.

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    Comment #31237918

    It was setting up schemas in posgress and learning the basics of using a sql database; setting up a web api to auth users and connect to that database and serve json with Node, the…

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    Comment #31237868

    I was 24 and couldn't find any work in my desired field. I was working stupid office jobs and looking for a better options. I started taking some coding night classes and really en…

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    Comment #31231052

    Yeah and I agree with that sentiment. But to be clear I just hated that specific company's culture. I'm still a dev and I still mostly like the work.

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    Comment #31230587

    I graduated my bootcamp in 2015 and had a jr developer job with a 50% pay bump within 6 weeks. I had a college degree but in a non-technical field and 0 experience coding before I …

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    Comment #31031041

    Don't be in a rush to start a career. The career advantage to starting out at 18 vs 25 is negligible in the long run, and no one thinks twice about a 25 year old applying to entry …

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    Comment #27505652

    IME 3-6 months is not uncommon but a full year is.

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    Comment #27396676

    "Please end the system that I have benefitted so greatly from that I make enough money to be in the top tax bracket. I pay more taxes than a 1920s farmer and that is inherently bad…

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    Comment #26402121

    I recognize that my experience is probably not average - but at my high school (2004-2008 US public school) the advanced/AP classes were 80%-90% female. This was true for all subje…

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    Comment #26389886

    Seems like the gist is that large multinational tech companies pay 2-4x what local or non software focused companies do. It's more or less the same in the US. I am glad to hear the…

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    Comment #25963666

    Working in an office and being incidentally exposed to how others work, debug, talk about code, collaborate with other engineers, etc. was incredibly important to my growth as a so…

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    Comment #25751345

    How is this a show of monopolistic force? Its like a a half dozen interdependently owned companies each choosing on their own to not associate with Parler. If you piss off everyone…

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    Comment #24571157

    >How can a vehicle be "zero emission" anyway, unless the entire production and supply chain is also zero emission. Yeah, its almost like this is one step in a long, complicated pro…

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    Comment #24423907

    I bet we haven't even come close to realizing the potential of having extremely fast/high bandwidth cellular connections. Streaming 8k video to a phone seems silly but there are so…