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itistricky

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    Wondering whether “best practices” has wrecked SW engineering

    This was part of a code review in a small project in Go: 'You did not apply SOLID principles and no extensibility'. At this point I've seen this kind of feedback one too many so, g…

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    The link is weird. What is :99 at the end of it?

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    Comment #29172983

    Regardless of everything else I'm afraid that job-market-wise OOP is dominating which makes it difficult (at least for me) to do serious knowledge investment in FP. OOP related I'v…

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    Comment #29172869

    Excuse my ignorance but I'm wondering how difficult/feasible would it be to have all CO2 captured from burning coal etc and thus making them zero emission.

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    Ask HN: Which tech stacks and business domains are more age-friendly in IT?

    I'm afraid that IT is quite aversive to devs of older ages. I do not seek to understand why and to what extent that is true but I am starting to bump into it. I think though that t…

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    Comment #29080743

    Senior dev (>10 yoe). Not the type that looks down on people and not a fanboy or an evangelist of any sort. But I regard developer experience highly. I.e. I hate to have to spend d…

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    Are design patterns relevant with Golang?

    I'm really confused on this. My understanding on Golang's intentions and design is that it is an intentionally simple language lacking most of traditional OO features. The language…

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    Yeah, that -together with going through all the interviews/take homes/etc again- is the biggest inhibitor. Dunno, maybe it's time to start considering a total career change. I'm fe…

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    Thanks. Good to know.

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    Comment #29064763

    Manager agrees on most of my points but, for various reasons, he cannot/won't change anything. All he can do is chase up people to set up a knowledge transfer meeting (when excessi…

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    Ask HN: Is it unprofessional to leave a new job where everything is a mess?

    Hi, after a long job hunting period I joined a small remote first company 5 months ago. Problems showed up immediately in the form of chaos and dysfunctions in the microservices cl…

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    Agree. Having been through a lot of both take-homes and whiteboards I can say that whiteboard may be bad but at least it respects your time.

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    Is this typical of how start ups hire these days?

    So, I'm job hunting and I bumped into next task: [system description - you need about 2 mins just reading through it] 1. Implement a new SDK method [method description]. A sort of …

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    There are such managers (enablers who trust you). The irony is that usually you get them on doomed ships that refuse to change their ways anyway.

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