erkanerol

ohh interesting. can wars be a topic on HN? wow. didn’t know.

Why is all green in the status page? Really really annoying.

My favorite is the first one, "The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems." and what I hate about it is that it is super hard to judge someone's skills about it without really working with him/her for a very long time. It is super easier said than done. And it is super hard to prove and sell when everybody is looking for easily assessable skills.

100 hours in 6 weeks

I mean the latter.

The camera will be in the bedroom so I don't want to watched by an hacker who has an access to the servers of the service provider or the communication channel between the camera and the servers.

I recommend to read Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate. You will find the answers in the book.

We and our neighbour Syria woke up a massive quake yesterday. In 10 cities of Türkiye a lot of buildings collapsed. In the middle of the day another massive quake happened in the same area.

Türkiye has declared a fourth level alert state. The "level 4" alarm condition includes an international call for help.

Here is how you can help support those affected.

Most trusted NGOs of Turkey - https://www.akut.org.tr/en/donation - https://bagis.ahbap.org/bagis?currency=USD

And another NGO in USA - https://donate.tpfund.org/campaign/tpf-turkiye-earthquake/c4...

I am suffering from the same problem. I thought that may be an area in which I can create some contents and make money. Then I started yet another but simpler newsletter. Here is the launch letter.

https://cloudnativesimplified.substack.com/p/why-am-i-introd...

It seems "cities of the most famous people" instead of "most famous people from every city" to me.

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As far as I see, some people are questioning why EU didn't prefer Chinese or Russian vaccines. I know only one of the Chinese vaccines: CoronaVac (developed by Sinovac)

We still don't have clear phase 3 results. The announced results (by Turkey, Brazil, Indonesia) are so different. It is not easy to trust it at the moment.

BUT WE ALREADY VACCINATED ALMOST TWO MILLIONS IN TURKEY :D

So the real results are coming... Just wait a couple of weeks more.

Refika's Kitchen

[EN] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONn3cHs5mqgCMqf_a4fcSg [TR] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3MaQR-Vh6cgBZRlD44jWg

There are hundreds of websites, thousands of positions but it is really hard to apply a specific filter. Systems are ridiculously inadequate. I really cannot understand how a website for remote jobs doesn't have a "globally remote" filter. Also, filters are very generic while companies are looking for very specific experiences like domain, framework etc.

Unicorn!

I am single. I have no kids. I am not allowed to go outside because of the lockdown. I have 32 hours in a weekend. I can spend 8 hours for reading and I think it is enough to finish a 150-pages book. I am reading books with my kindle, underlining important parts, and putting them into Goodreads at the end.

Here is my recommendation: Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman

https://www.amazon.com/Apprenticeship-Patterns-Guidance-Aspi...

Note-taking is very similar to blogging. Many people lose so much time while searching for the best app instead of taking notes. If you want to develop a proper note-taking habit, just start writing into somewhere. md files, evernote, notion, etc. after a while, you will know your needs and you will be able to pick one of them easily. I have been using https://www.zoho.com/notebook/ for a while and I am happy with it. Since my needs are extremely simple: bullets, tags, groups, mobile app, macOS apps.

That is why I said "At least for a while" at the end. You can take initiative and feel responsible in that 2-5 years.

Here are my tips: https://erkanerol.github.io/post/adapting-a-project/

Quote from the blog post: "Last but not least. Feel responsible from day one. You are a part of the team and you are responsible for every failure and every success. More or less. If there is a pain in somewhere in your team, feel it in your heart. In companies, there are always some “local people” and “tourists”. Tourists are only interested in “fancy” things. They follow their interests. They hate problematic situations. They don’t take some much responsibility in case of failure. They always blame decision makers since they never try to be one of them. When they get bored, they just fly to yet another city. In reality, there are lots of limitations and we are not living in a perfect world. Unfortunately they are not aware of this fact. Maybe they are just prefering ignoring it. I don’t know. What I want to say be one of the “local people”. Local people know not only good places of the city but also the suburb. Local people think about how to manage the city, how to “survive” in the city, how to make the city more beautiful. They can live with the bad sides of the city. At least for a while :)"

>whats your objective in learning all those things?

being a world-class software engineer

>Do you mean you are worried about not being able to pick up another job if you lose your current one?

no for the short term but yes for the long term. also, for me, having "a" job is not enough. I want to have a job that satisfies my intellectual curiosity and career goals.

> The feeling of heavy work and little work can burn you out. This is a marathon, not a race. Get your form right, take each step easy, and keep your eyes forward

Inspiring words! Thanks...

> Why do you think of that? were you hired as the person that knows all of them?

> Remember that as software engineers, our job is to solve problems. It doesn't matter what technology, language, or framework as long as you bring value on the table.

What I observe in the industry is different. The market is so fierce and competitive and many companies (especially non-enterprise, medium-sized startups) are looking for people who perfectly fit their positions. Tools, domain, methodologies, etc.

Fixing a lot of small issues to make the codebase ready for production without getting bored. Unfortunately, only small portion of software engineering is sexy and cool.

competitive salary, good tech stack and especially the people in my office. I have some friends with whom I can talk about whatever I am interested in such as arthouse movies, books, coffee, etc.

I am using wikiwand: https://www.wikiwand.com/

I would say PHP. When everyboby is learning Go or React or k8s and when millions of websites are still running with PHP, it may be a very rare skill in the future :)

It touched my heart :( I worked more than one year on a service virtualization project in my previous job with 6-7 people and it has never been used by a real customer because of really bad management. I am still so angry. Our product was able to scale thanks to nomad+docker and had a cool ui to configure services such as rest, swagger, plain http etc.

Alternative - https://hoverfly.io/

Enterprise Solutions - https://www.ca.com/us/products/ca-service-virtualization.htm... - https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/service-virtualiza...

I am glad to hear I am not alone.