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gamma3

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    Comment #25485585

    Some projects have been using Slack or Discord lately.

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    Comment #25485560

    I've had almost all my questions on Stack Overflow answered, usually very quickly. If you frequently get 0 answers, work on the quality of the question - clear, short, include clea…

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    Comment #24817202

    This makes sense. However, what kind of company culture does this set? If the company is OK with people being not passionate, what kind of signal does that give to the colleagues w…

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    Comment #23947956

    Over the years I worked on native desktop apps, mobile apps, a Scala backend. Now I work on a complex React app in TypeScript with a GraphQL backend in TypeScript. I can build a fe…

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    Comment #23947909

    Having both the frontend and backend in TypeScript helps.

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    Comment #23519915

    Looks good to me. Nice UX. Normal users don't care about the URL and you can still copy the full URL if you want to share a link.

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    Comment #23006548

    Whoa, those are some ugly earphones.

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    Comment #20614628

    > Why should someone ever need to offer a bug-fix bounty!? Author expects bugs in open source projects to get fixed for free, by someone else. We need to support open source mainta…

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    Comment #20076239

    Also compare to some European countries, like the Czech Republic, where all the top universities are free of charge. Training for a trade job is free of charge, too. (Paid by the g…

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    Comment #19722691

    Really nice! The Result reminds me of Validation from Scala. In Scala you return a Validation that is either a value or an error, and can pattern match on it. Also: trySomething().…

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    Comment #19687054

    One way would be to share the article with them and explain that replies directly in a channel make it harder for you to catch up. Saying that threads make it easier and quicker fo…

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    Comment #19649987

    They should cc you so you get a notification. Or talk to you on person. They shouldn't assume everyone will read every message. If it's important, they should make sure you definit…

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    Comment #19649948

    I've worked at a company that did the sprints, planning, retro, Three Amigos etc. So glad we don't do any of that at my new company! And it turns out we ship stuff much faster.

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    Comment #19649892

    I've done the same - replace social media with Kindle. It's so good. And lock screen notifications are off for all apps. I only see a notification badge when I decide to pick up an…

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    Comment #19649853

    It's possible to have structured conversations by always using threads. I've convinced everyone at two companies so far (50 and 20 people) to never reply directly in a channel, and…

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    Comment #19649829

    I close Slack and focus on coding. I take short breaks from coding every 1-2 hours, and check Slack. Replying to someone 2 hours later has never been an issue. If it's urgent, peop…

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    Comment #19290707

    I've interviewed engineers on computer science problems on a whiteboard and those who did great turned out to do great on the actual job. That's a one way implication. It is possib…

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    Comment #19236393

    The more values I select, the more matches I get. This should be the other way around. It should be an AND filter on the values.