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Kind of... Spent a while debugging an issue where the client was convinced he could not schedule new appointments in the system on the 29th. It turned out he had set another settin…

Makes sense. IMO contractors are supposed to be companies. Such as https://avantsoft.com.br that you hire for specific things and that can abstract the actual employee management, …

It seems the authors did not find evidence of a "pink tax": "Finally, while our findings do NOT support the existence of a pink tax as conceived by regulators, a more expansive def…

What is the average cost from using other methods?

0. Use GIT. 1. Add a staging environment. 2. Add a CICD. 3. Add tests. Start by easy ones (new features) to get team used to writing them. Then important flows. If your team doesn’…

The big question to me is: At what level of the tech stack should moderation happen? Should it be done by the ISP? By the IaaS? By the software provider? By developers? Ideally, mo…

Interesting study. Just reading outputs from GPT3 or other models makes it seem almost lifelike. Sometimes it is easy to forget it is just a well fit function with a lot of paramet…

Slack has an interesting model where the license count charged to the company only includes active users which is a subset of those that are registered.

It is quite tough. What are your thoughts on if it is worth it?

"Productivity porn is anything that after having been consumed makes you feel like you were productive when in reality you didn’t actually do anything." - Interesting definition.

I am surprised this hasn't happened a long time ago. It has felt for a while that Facebook has been almost entirely cannibalized by Instagram. Also wonder how much of that is due t…

Are you a very avid adopter of products from early stage startups? Forced updates tend to be more common with small companies that can't devote resources to maintaining backwards c…

Definitely a vanity metric ;)

Agree. As someone that has had to migrate systems from K8s to Elastic Beanstalks or equivalent, there are definitely situations where K8s is overkill and simpler systems can work b…

I wonder how many others repos have over 100k issues. From a quick search it seems Linux does too.

Is everyone an employee or are there contractors as well? Are there managers? how large is the team? For smaller teams (sub 10 people), I find that having 1 daily informal standup …

Why?

I would recommend discussing anything related to compensation before starting at a company (definitely before signing contracts). So would recommend sooner rather than later.

I would recommend talking to a professional. There are psychologists and equivalent professionals that specialize on this and they may be able to provide you some guidance. Not sur…