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New comment by minor3rd in "Ask HN: What are the pros / cons of using monorepos?"

minor3rd — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:16:01 +0000

We just build and test everything every time. Maybe it costs us more $$$ on CI, but it costs far less in developer time. That being said, I mostly work at startups and larger companies will certainly cross a threshold where this isn't feasible.

New comment by minor3rd in "Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click"

minor3rd — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:34:54 +0000

People on the web take the risk of being misinformed, clicking or not.

New comment by minor3rd in "How did we discard the idea of college faculty?"

minor3rd — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 05:17:05 +0000

> The problem is that those people went through their schooling being told that they were awesome and should be a professor (by people who successfully became tenured professors, and who didn't experience failure).

IMO it's still on them if they didn't do the research on what their outcome might look like. I absolutely loved physics in high school and chose to study computer science because I knew it would pay my bills. 8 years later I am not regretting my decision at all.

New comment by minor3rd in "Interviews with developers who became managers"

minor3rd — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:35:52 +0000

I have a good manager right now. If that person hasn't had a good manager ever, then it might be one of those cases "if it smells like shit everywhere you go, check your own shoe".

New comment by minor3rd in "Interviews with developers who became managers"

minor3rd — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:04:38 +0000

I'm a senior dev who could cross over if I wanted to, but when I see what the managers are doing on a day-to-day basis I realize I'm perfectly happy doing what I'm doing and making pretty solid money while I'm at it.

New comment by minor3rd in "“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary lock-in” (2017)"

minor3rd — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 16:29:22 +0000

You are looking to save yourself a week of time a year and then 3 years later for some reason or another you will HAVE to upgrade and good luck making that change when the world has moved past you.

New comment by minor3rd in "The State of JavaScript 2018"

minor3rd — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:49:14 +0000

Same experience as you. Thought I would always use sublime but my coworkers were so adamant about VSCode that I finally gave it a try. I don't even know that I can point to any single reason for it being better than Sublime -- feels like everything just works a little more seamlessly.

New comment by minor3rd in "The State of JavaScript 2018"

minor3rd — Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:41:33 +0000

> to do some trivial UI work on the front-end

If that takes you forever, consider that it may also be your lack of familiarity as much as the lack of type system/compiler. Despite my preference for the back end, I have spent plenty of time on the front end and can pump out changes very quickly.

New comment by minor3rd in "What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?"

minor3rd — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:01:42 +0000

I love this. It's not even a joke really.

New comment by minor3rd in "What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?"

minor3rd — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 15:57:08 +0000

> suggesting a form of biochemical reaction to the salt water placebo.

I know this was a quote from the article, but... Does it really suggest that? Isn't it possible something else is going on?

New comment by minor3rd in "Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con"

minor3rd — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 18:23:35 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Someone in my social circle recently fell victim to a phishing attack. I had similar thoughts that you really need to prevent the email from getting through in the first place. Success for phishing is all about the weakest link in an organization and training only goes so far.

New comment by minor3rd in "Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook"

minor3rd — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 20:46:43 +0000

> The hundred billion dollar question is where will people alternately socialize online?

It's a good question. Personally, I got rid of Facebook and didn't feel like I needed a replacement. I do use Instagram and Snapchat, but mostly to communicate with family.

New comment by minor3rd in "Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture"

minor3rd — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 01:20:02 +0000

Sadly both conservatives and liberals are blind to their own hypocrisy. This kind of shit goes on at both ends of the spectrum unfortunately.

New comment by minor3rd in "Consider applying for grad school"

minor3rd — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 00:07:35 +0000

6 years ago I was wondering how anyone gets burnt out from getting to program for a living. How naive I was :)

New comment by minor3rd in "Be kind (2016)"

minor3rd — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 23:37:24 +0000

My team deploys probably 5 times in a given day, including Friday. They are all small deploys, and none can happen at the end of the day. If shit hits the fan, we rollback and maybe people figure out the root cause over the weekend but they aren't sweating bullets.

New comment by minor3rd in "Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders"

minor3rd — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 18:07:15 +0000

> I am kind of non stop moving. I think it’s a personality thing.

Yeah, I know people who are like that... I'm not one of them. I certainly can get obsessed with an idea or project and go nuts on occasion, but a lot of time I like to "just chill" on the weekend. Play some computer games and guitar, go on a bike ride or hike, etc.

New comment by minor3rd in "The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere"

minor3rd — Sun, 29 Jul 2018 01:31:51 +0000

I could advise someone not to jump off a bridge even if I didn't build it.

New comment by minor3rd in "Ask HN: Were you happy moving your API from REST to GraphQL?"

minor3rd — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:23:18 +0000

Sounds like you had a few problems.

New comment by minor3rd in "Why not program right?"

minor3rd — Mon, 16 Jul 2018 17:20:06 +0000

I feel like you're essentially saying the same thing I did, just worded differently?

New comment by minor3rd in "The Bulk of Software Engineering in 2018 Is Just Plumbing"

minor3rd — Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:48:03 +0000

I had a plumber over for some fixes about a month ago, and he saw me doing some coding on my laptop. He made a comment like "I have absolutely no clue how any of that works... it is wizardry to me". I said "I'm watching you fix plumbing issues around my house, and that is wizardry to me". I think we could probably learn each others' jobs if we really tried, but the point is that all things can seem like magic until you learn them.