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the realistic best you can do for a quality outsourced engineer is $80k. Good ones go for $100k, and you can easily, easily get junior devs for that price. You can even get decent …

Well sure, but in Russia’s case, the average income is incredibly low and their wealth disparity is even more extreme than in the USA. I don’t know how any of that relates to the w…

OOP and Dry are compatible! I’ve actually done the thing that the above commenter suggests - create a base object with created on/by so that I never have to think about it. Whether…

The online-ification of conversation is so gross. Whenever I hear someone bring up a weird niche online thing (mostly incel/femcel/rightoid/tankie shit) I get so embarrassed for bo…

I think the beauty of the mid-internet era was the aggressive personalization of it: the connections I made galvanized careers and friendships, celebrities seemed closer and more h…

We’re pretty close. I’m not sure that 51% of the people I work with understand what DNS is, what a call stack is, what the difference between inheritance and polymorphism is, or wh…

I’d like to believe the common line that chat GPT is “just a tool” and that it can actually be used to learn/comply just as much as a university degree can be obtained by mere comp…

Sure, but if you need that thing to run every hour for a few seconds, then seconds aren’t really the limiting factor. I don’t doubt that the resource management side of k8s would m…

This is my take as well, just because you can get away with something doesn’t necessarily make it desirable to maintain or extend, and I honestly cannot imagine the effort in terms…

Doesn’t it have some weird and Very Apple design flaw where it’s hard to charge and use at the same time?

My understanding is that in Oregon, new construction property taxes are higher than on older units

The woman was presumably upset because she thought she was scammed and had caught the scammer red-handed, and probably didn’t fully understand how credit disputes happen, or had so…

I can explain if you’re genuinely interested

No, not at all, just that (post) modern techno-capitalism has grown out of the need to justify itself via appeals to humanism. Another way of looking at this is by considering the …

The thing with the microservice + do separation problem is that by the time you’re forced to do it, the cost to migrate and split data out of a single source into many (potentially…

I think a possible explanation would be that the increasing desire for more government regulation, or at least functional government, runs counter to the world, which is increasing…

Same background as you, still work a lot in Python to this day to a lesser degree. A couple of caveats: first, for strictly web-based integration tests, I agree that frequently the…

Like a lot of non-mainstream forums, HN lives in a weird world, especially after the ban on political posting (here) and the rise of greater web content moderation (here and abroad…

I agree on the DFW point. It’s rare for a commencement speech to hit the nail on the head, it almost always lapses into this “do what you love” shtick that isn’t really relatable f…

Imo the only time you should do this is when you need features/upgrades that the current paradigm doesn’t support, the existing project is well tested, and the “rewrite” can be don…

Yeah I get what you mean. I’m not like, a luddite, or anything, I just don’t agree with the authors notion that advertising is particularly all-encompassing, especially when you’re…

This is true, but I have to buy in to open myself up to it. Until they start giving away whatever VR headset it is, and until hell freezes over and I actually put it on, I’m safe. …

I mostly ride on back roads and side-streets, my city banned billboards and is very small and close enough to the woods to not feel like one. But I get what you mean.

The solution, at least for me, is finding things/places, both on and off the computer, where you can avoid having your attention stolen and just focus on something you like. I thin…

For what it’s worth, I fully agree with the author that the trends we see in housing availability and affordability are driven largely by perverse economic factors, and that the re…