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I'm of the opinion that any large project will eventually take as long as devs will tolerate. About a half hour. We run mostly Java backend and JS frontend, same story. Tons of opp…

> As of a few years ago you can choose which rides you take without penalty. That wasn't there before and I have no reason to believe it now without evidence. Turning down rides al…

That was rude especially for HN, my apologies. I'm a big Java fan but you're right about verbosity and ceremony about startup. There's ways around it but not stuff you would read i…

I'm a wage slave, but years ago I helped a struggling consulting agency blow up. It's usually marketing. That's probably why revenues are low too. Once we had marketing sorted out …

Multi threading has zero overhead in normal Java web frameworks. It's thread-per-request so you don't need to worry about thread safety any more than you do in JS. That you didn't …

I don't think an ask thread is a good spot for a rant, but the JVM languages have changed a lot over the years. You imply that Java is big and heavy when JS/Node Python and Ruby us…

DropWizard is great. Spring Boot was based off it. It's a nice mix of simplicity and effectiveness. If you want performance above all else, Vert.X isn't too hard to use. But the as…

I heard it years ago, can't find a source either. I believe it was something related to a court case. Some legal argument that could apply if total employees was over 50% contracto…

I have also never heard of a contractor for big tech being hired full time. Ever.

It's similar to McConnells recent "My advice for corporations is stay out of politics. Not including contributions of course" The hypocrisy level continually reaches new heights

The irony is that Republicans caused this. More specifically, the Senate leader Mitch McConnell. He was instrumental in the Citizens United supreme court decision that gave free sp…

Let us remember that big tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook generally have 49.9% of their employees contractors. Why nearly 50%? Because that the highest amount you ca…

As someone that's forced to write C occasionally Rust is a godsend. I prefer high level languages but when I need the performance it's nice to have something that doesn't feel like…

It won't replace JVM/CLR. Rust community is pretty against GC and even though lifetimes are wayyyy better than C memory management they're not nearly as convenient as GC. If Rust e…

Depends on how fast your connection is. For DSL, anything will do. I picked up a TP-Link Archer C50 V4 for $22 and it's fast enough to shape and route a 12/2 DSL link while sweatin…

Yeah, I haven't lived in the sticks for some years and EV chargers might be more widespread than I thought. Rural folks still love their ICE cars though for sure

See my reply to sister comment

Linksys WRT 3200 and Netgear R7800 are the fastest popular OpenWrt routers. You want a popular ones because they are usually least broken and easiest to flash. Be warned, some rout…

Most gigs jobs are exploitative. You're not setting your own rates. You can't choose which rides you take. You can't follow your own rules. Remember when Uber was giving back to ba…

Contrary to microservice cargo cult, it's possible to build a relative monolith that scales infinitely. The bottleneck is the db, but if you have a schema where data is easily shar…

Do you indent with spaces?

I like OpenWrt better than PfSense. PfSense/OpnSense is BSD and the new SQM CAKE QoS stuff in OpenWrt (Linux based) is way ahead of anything else. My usual need for fancy routers i…

Perhaps. Canadian population is concentrated in southern areas. Majority of continental US is habitable and has population density less than 10 people per square mile.

I'm trying to convince people of this :) . In rural areas a car is frequently your only lifeline when power fails. It's a source of heat, power, and transport. Making that all depe…

I grew up in the country. Outside urban areas it's normal to have multi day power outages in the US. The less people your circuit serves the lower it's prioritized for repair. Our …