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Have you even asked for a raise at your current job? Having been made offers from other companies that puts you in a very strong position to ask for a raise.

I stand corrected.

True, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.

I think Hacker News has perfectly fine UI but horrible UX. Sorry if i got those definitions wrong. I think the colour scheme etc is perfectly fine but the actual functionality of t…

"I try to put in at least four hours of work every day, including weekends, and balance that with four hours of year-round kayaking, hiking, house-work, seasonal snow-sports, or so…

It does seem that Silicon Valley used to have a hacker / technologist culture (think Steve Wozniak, Robert Noyce etc.) while now most of the new companies are often just traditiona…

I don't think its a good idea because in reality most devs are one or the other. My theory is that most backend developers claim to be "full-stack" in order to get the job even tho…

Wow this thread is depressing..

Perhaps because the reality of being a developer is that its a pretty boring job most of the time. Once you have worked at a few different companies on a few varying projects with …

> You become adored, respected, have a lot of money and power. These are very grandiose visions of what being a developer is like. The reality is much more mundane.

Why not try writing contributing to open source projects in your spare time? Maybe try and get a low-paid freelance job or two. Test the waters. Once you have contributed to openso…

> His advice is in the context of functional programming languages. Thats not what he says. He says that these ideas "can be useful in any programming language". Which is the point…

Allowing your codebase to develop organically is a lot better than trying to fit the square peg of your domain into the round hole of the chosen framework. Its a fair argument to m…

This follows from my experience with building F# libraries, but the ideas are quite general and can be useful in any programming language. This is just not true. The whole article …

In Manchester there are plenty of opportunities for rails work. Also companies around here seem a lot more flexible about semi remote working i.e. you commute from Manchester to Li…

In the UK (not in london) as a freelancer in Ruby on Rails I charge £40 / hr. For contract jobs (you basically work exactly like a permanent employee but get paid as a freelancer -…

lol what do you mean by "not getting private time"?

Damn! Not sure exactly which country you're in but the minimum wage of most western european countries is between €8-10 / hr. There are cleaners who make the same money as you! See…

> Why are you so concerned with what others do? This is a discussion about whether or not to use frameworks isn't it? I'm argueing for using a framework rather than against, isn't …

> I went frameworkless on an mvp last year. I was able to code and implement features using raw apis quickly. I reached MVP status and launched. One year later, no users and I'm cl…

> It's quick and easy to get started with frameworks, but you inevitably try to do something that's very difficult to figure out how to do. Instead of just writing code that does i…

Annoying? Perhaps. But toxic? I don't see how..

Having been a contractor for a short while (~1 year) and having worked with many different contractors over the years I've never seen a situation where management has been like "th…

This is absolutely an example of this. Don't take it personally. The guy was probably grumpy to everybody else that day too. Its the result of a general consensus in Germanic count…