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New comment by cabraca in "Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry"

cabraca — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 17:50:08 +0000

> I have sometimes wondered if this was just me.

Same for me and even if you have notes you will get "thats not what i said", "thats not how i remember it", etc.

New comment by cabraca in "Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum"

cabraca — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:02:39 +0000

Afaik Flarum is open source. Also there is still xenforo as a paid alternative with available source for self hosted licenses

New comment by cabraca in "Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider"

cabraca — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:13:32 +0000

Its probably a GDPR thing. They know the IP in transit but are not allowed to store them without user approval because IPs are PII.

New comment by cabraca in "Ask HN: What have you built more than twice and wish someone had built for you?"

cabraca — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:29:00 +0000

Check out https://lowdefy.com/ they even have a sample survey app as one of their examples.

New comment by cabraca in "Docker 2.0 went from $11M to $135M in 2 years"

cabraca — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:30:02 +0000

Maybe i'm just in a bubble but none of those Docker Desktop replacements work well on a locked down corporate laptop. Sure you can get it to work somehow, manually configuring proxies, dns and stuff. Docker Desktop somehow just works. Thats why we pay for it.

New comment by cabraca in "We Are Changing the License for Akka"

cabraca — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 07:44:59 +0000

The Problem with SSPL is, it triggers at runtime. Most OpenSource Licensens trigger at compile time. GPL ... you pull in GPL Code, compile it, your code becomes GPL. SSPL? Triggers at runtime if you run it as a SaaS, not really making clear what counts as SaaS, not really making clear what counts as a third party, etc. Thats the reason it should NOT be recognized as a open source license.

New comment by cabraca in "Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending"

cabraca — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:44:43 +0000

yeah, wage adjustment will bring inflation out of control. Not the tax breaks for companies, not the 2 trillion dollar stock market bailout in 2020. It's the people getting a 2 dollar wage increase thats driving the inflation. /s

New comment by cabraca in "Microsoft begins “Extinguish” phase of dealing with Open Source"

cabraca — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 17:07:31 +0000

while i understand your sentiment, over the last few years java became a lot less oracle-centric. JavaEE moved to Eclipse Foundation, openjdk became a reliable open source alternative to the oracle version, a lot more companies are involved in the development process. yeah, oracle still provides a lot of manpower but it moves in an overall positive direction.

New comment by cabraca in "We will never have enough software developers (2020)"

cabraca — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:50:46 +0000

its not just the best ones. If you remove people from the grind for 1-2 days a week, give them a small budget and enough autonomy to do what they want, most people will fix shit that bugged them for a long time.

The main problem is how micromanage-y the current development processes are. Everything has to be a ticket/user story and has to be planned and approved by some people that never even wrote a single line of code. Everything has to have some immediate business impact. I even see scrum teams measuring for team utilization now. target is 90% atm and they wonder why productivity is down.

New comment by cabraca in "What would a recession mean for developers?"

cabraca — Sat, 28 May 2022 07:57:17 +0000

finance was just a example. replace it with the stakeholder, the PM of another team or an external partner.

> In sprint demos, I make sure my team members do not bring up any tech jargon

thats exactly what i mean. the audience does not care about the tech, they care that their problems are solved and money is made.

New comment by cabraca in "What would a recession mean for developers?"

cabraca — Sat, 28 May 2022 07:20:26 +0000

You're not wrong. I mentor some juniors and the ability to talk to a specific target audience about a topic is the most important skill a dev can have. I can teach you the tech stack, but i cant teach you how to talk to the business people or the finance department. "I need budget to rewrite that app in rust" will get you a no from the finance guys most of the time. Tell them that it would reduce your current infrastructure cost by 10% (or whatever you want to achieve) and they might say yes.

New comment by cabraca in "Ask HN: What is JAMStack? How is it different from SPAs with SSR, if at all?"

cabraca — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 06:58:59 +0000

JAMStack is the fancy term netlify introduced. Most of the time its just a static site generator like gohugo.io with a bit js and apis sprinkled into. So instead of rendering the page at request time, its rendered before deployment, deployed as static html with the js part managing the dynamic parts like stripe, apis, etc.

New comment by cabraca in "I hope distributed is not the new default"

cabraca — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:08:01 +0000

I think its the google centric view of the article. All the perks google offer in their offices are tools to keep you in the office longer. Stay for the Gym, stay for Dinner or come in early for lunch. Considering that its naturally that they expect your social circle to be mostly other google employees.

New comment by cabraca in "Is anyone doing Continuous Deployment?"

cabraca — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 08:14:08 +0000

Not backwater IT market, more like the average.

Agile is cool if you have no dependencies. If you have to tie into some 15yo legacy system with a static release cycle its not so agile anymore.

Same with CD and microservices. I cant count how many times i had a requirement "dont deploy to prod before x.y.z" because thats when the required changes on some old system would go live. And even then you need approval of like three different departments...

New comment by cabraca in "Ask HN: Doubious Remote Work Policy?"

cabraca — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:52:25 +0000

Simply make them pay for it. Tell them you come in if they pay for travel expenses, at least two nights in a hotel and your travel time counts as overtime or something like that. Push the boundary a little and see how they react. This way both parties have to invest and they will make sure to not call you into the office if it is avoidable.

New comment by cabraca in "What are you doing, WordPress.com?"

cabraca — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 08:05:42 +0000

for static sites to take off, they need a comparable usability to wordpress. currently there is to much technical friction for the common user. no wysiwyg editors for posts/pages, no point and click customization for layouts, no easy asset management, the requirement for git and a build environment.

New comment by cabraca in "Things that used to be hard and are now easy"

cabraca — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:51:01 +0000

Yeah, Cloudflare Pages is out, same as Github/Gitlab Pages, Netlify and all the other free offerings Hosted by a US Company.

Social Login Buttons are probably a problem too, if they automatically redirect. Could be considered a transmission of IP.

Game Servers that connect to Steam on client connect are probably a problem too.

I like the idea behind GDPR but the implementation is a fucking shitshow.

New comment by cabraca in "Things that used to be hard and are now easy"

cabraca — Sun, 20 Feb 2022 17:45:17 +0000

Oh boy you have no idea how horrible it is. Check out the latest rulings in that regard. Google Fonts is a big no now. Everything that "transmits PII (including your IP address)" is problematic. Its just a matter of time until all those free static site hosters (github/gitlab pages, netlify, etc) are targeted, cloudflare probably too. Our legal council already told us to "at least add some notification that people are leaving the site" if they click on the social login buttons ... because it could be considered transmission of the IP because of the redirect.

New comment by cabraca in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

cabraca — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:56:13 +0000

If you call "80h weeks at Kellogs" not slaving away i dont know what is...

If you call "Amazon workers not being allowed to leave or shelter when there is a tornado warning" not slaving away i dont know what is...

What about all those "Gig Economy" Workers that get paid the bare minimum without benefits?

You might not see it from your cozy office because this development hasn't impacted you yet ... but it will sooner or later.

New comment by cabraca in "Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation"

cabraca — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 09:00:31 +0000

its not only about food, shelter and entertainment, its about perspective. if you have to slave away for another 40 years, living paycheck to paycheck, can barely afford a family, a revolution in whatever form it comes might sound good. Check out the Strike at Kellogs, 80h/week, 16h Shifts for barely any money and the Company just wants to fire the striking employees. You can only press so much productivity out of people until they push back and i think we can see that this pushback is starting...