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pxska

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    Ask HN: How do you differentiate good development advice from dogma?

    I'm ~4 years into my career and have been learning a lot from various books and talks, e.g. "The Pragmatic Programmer" or Eskil Steenberg's "Architecting Large Software Projects". …

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    I'm about 4 years into my career (mostly self-taught and learned-on-the-job), and I actually found Eskil's talk inspiring. The part that hit me hardest (in the good sense) was "don…

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    I don't personally use AI for code completion inside my editor, however I do use ChatGPT like Google nowadays. Whenever I had a question in the early days, I just typed it into Goo…

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    In one of my previous companies, we had a separate project on GitHub (think of it as a Jira epic) where we collected various feedback after every release. Not to say we weren't exp…

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    I _finally_ understand what I need to do with the `height` value in CSS now. I usually understood everything pretty well until the "final boss" part of the article. Everything make…

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    Just a random idea, but if you were to hustle in the first few weeks of your job and leave a good impression, wouldn't that translate you to actually being expected to be a quick d…

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    Some random advice would be to listen to Mr. Robot's soundtrack found here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1xDNuLHKQHghKR9SmkR9pD?si=... – since the soundtrack is solely made to…

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    Sounds like a cool system, would love to break it! :-D Actually, you talked about that every note doesn't need to be categorized – I think differently, however I think that it shou…

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    Only the Air's do not have fans, the Pro ones do, as far as I know.

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    I have been using a Macbook Air M1 for the past year for development and here are a few of my tips: 1. Definitely don't go for the 8GB model for whatever you do (except for light w…

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    I'm really scared about the fact that Apple might remove the charging port overall and just start using wireless chargers.

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    Honestly, knowing how to google things constantly seems like a mystery to people. I often get people saying "how do you know all these things?" and just have to reply "I'm really g…

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    I remember a thread a while ago on here, where the top reply was something along the lines of: "Every person is responsible for a handful documentation topics/threads/articles and …

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    Love it! It feels like a glorified RSS viewer, but with much more thought put into what people actually want to read and know on the 21st century. I would probably put much more th…

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    I use Docker Desktop as well and when you don't have to run x64 containers through QEMU, the images work just fine. I have to run containers through QEMU at the moment and while it…

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    I agree with this answer – the Dell XPS machines are beasts and you might eventually even find yourself caring for the "fancy things", e.g. a touch screen. To add to this list, I s…

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    A very tough question. I feel that it might be quite hard to lure a curious person into Computer Science, who doesn't know anything about the field yet. One of the books I liked (s…

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    Professionally I keep switching between Chrome and Firefox (currently on Chrome) ony my Mac. Firefox has the source-code viewer, some nifty CSS stuff etc, while most of the service…

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    Just my two cents on the topic, but I'm guessing that Instagram was never really mean't to be used on desktop – it was developed mobile-first and just ported to desktop when there …

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    You could try out Voog (www.voog.com)! It is an Estonian company, but checks all your boxes.