Show HN: Find companies with jobs using technologies you love

Post by Existenceblinks » Thu, Mar 31, 2022, 10:52 PM UTC

arcturus17 wrote: post #76

Existenceblinks wrote: post #74

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No, your example is daily infrastructure people already have. Maybe I say it too broad, there is layer of tool. You only need a few of them.

> your example is daily infrastructure people already have Of daily infrastructure people already have, because someone dared turn it into software? > You only need a few of them. I guess we can keep email, but we should strip all the software layer from waste management plants, or the archiving systems of national libraries and museums, or the operating systems that support the browsers we're typing this from, or th…

> whatever you decide is the right number of software applications

You hit right on the nail, so I don't generally disagree with you. This is how business works, there is no number! Consumerism works the same kind of way.

[Shifted-goal] Also I don't want to stop or reduce it either, I just want more quality of software, not some VC-pipedream-hype driven software.

Post by jjav » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 8:36 AM UTC

sarchertech wrote: post #26

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #9

I feel like lately something weird is happening to the industry. I interviewed some people lately during the past few months to fill a couple of react jobs, and it looks like people is really giving a lot of fucks to the tech stack and technology they use, like I feel like there are now a lot of people who are knowledgeable of everything but master of nothing and also they keep learning framework and library without…

I think the problem is that you’re hiring for a “React” lead. If companies are being for developer, they should be be surprised when they get applicants who are more focused on frameworks than fundamentals. On the backend at the Principal level, I’ve see the opposite thankfully. Most companies don’t seem to care about the specifics—the current buzzword with is that they care that I can design “web scale” systems (reg…

> (regardless of whether the company actually has web scale problems—but that’s a different problem)

Indeed. So then they'll go ahead and design "web scale" solutions to non-existent problems. I quote web scale since in the majority of the cases I've seen, the solutions don't actually seem particularly capable of handling massive scale but since they don't need to, it never gets tested.

Worked with one company with this ginormous logging and analytics pipeline which consumed most of the AWS budget, but the actual data flowing through it amounted to a handful of million entries per year. Yes year. At that scale, the wise solution is grep and awk on a $5 VM.

Solve the problems you actually have and the ones you can project to having in six months. Don't solve the problems you wish you'll have in ten years.

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