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I'm super happy with it. The perf are great.

2 big drawbacks: the plastic is super fragile and you will need an external microphone (or your coworkers will complain about fan noises)

Link to the slides: https://third-bit.com/talks/greatest-hits/

and still a very successful game [1].

  > 1.9 million people played LoL in April 2021.
  > LoL is the third most watched game on Twitch. 
  > In March 2021, 117 million hours of LoL gameplay were watched on Twitch. 
  > LoL is the second most popular eSports in the world.

[1] https://techacake.com/league-of-legends-player-count/

Each year there is a HN thread, here is the one for 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25537230

If you prefer sidenotes: https://www.gwern.net/Sidenotes

The lockdown looks quite effective in France [1]. I believe they have started at the beginning of November.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/

> Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence

Can we claim that we have some evidence based on a sample of 6 people?

I agree that integrating a 3rd party solution has multiple hidden cost.

> This is one of the most common and damaging mistakes I see

Interestingly, the most common mistake I see is people neglecting the cost of developing a solution themselves:

1. opportunity cost

2.long term maintenance

3. documentation & training new people

...

It seems that you have to balance it with Vitamin K2

https://info.dralexrinehart.com/articles/vitamin-d-and-vitam...

maybe this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10513015

Do you run in the morning or in the evening?

> There's a specific reason why they do this and ask you to make a decision in an instant. It's called accommodation. Your eyes will quickly try and accommodate and find focus if they're allowed to stare too long. This could explain the reason he got such different results from the exams. He was trying too hard. Just follow directions.

I don't have a long experience with glasses but I have never received these instructions and my experience is similar to the author.

IMO you are mixing 2 different things.

1. The business and product

2. The engineering quality

You can have a tech company (business level as described in the article) and produce ugly code (ex: facebook?).

You can sell groceries on the internet and have great code.

Yes, the lack of knowledge is definitively one of the issue.

But starting a "gather requirements - write software - deliver it" lifecycle because you are confident that you have all the knowledge is one as well.

Some additional great resources related to hiring:

How to hire your first engineer - https://blog.ycombinator.com/how-to-hire-your-first-engineer...

Convincing Engineer to join your team and a basic structure for the process - https://blog.ycombinator.com/convincing-engineers-to-join-yo...

General thoughts about hiring - http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire

The book "Who" gives a good idea about a good process. Hard to apply when you are not looking for a "generalist" - https://www.amazon.com/Who-Geoff-Smart/dp/0345504194/

Some of the manager tools podcasts episodes - https://www.manager-tools.com/map-universe/hiring-0

Edit: formatting

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Have you changed your diet?

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As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with the other members to create and run our multiple services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, scraping …) based on a modern architecture (Microservices, AWS, NodeJS, Docker, AWS Lambda…).

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As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with the other members to create and run our multiple services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, scraping …) based on a modern architecture (Microservices, AWS, NodeJS, Docker, AWS Lambda…).

Requirements:

  * Love for continuous improvement and learning
  * Good team player and agile enthusiast
  * Good coding practices: software design, unit testing, source control…
  * A desire to learn more than only backend development (either by developing some DevOps or Frontend skills).
  * 2+ years professional experience with NodeJS (TypeScript is a plus)
  * 2+ years professional developing web application, rest API or data pipeline
  * 2+ years of experience with databases (relational or NoSQL)
 

More infos on our website: http://trademachines.com/info/junior-nodejs-developer/

TradeMachines | Junior NodeJS | Full-Time On-Site | Berlin, Germany

As part of our small engineering team, you will work closely with the other members to create and run our multiple services in production. We are working on a big variety of technical challenges (marketplace, data pipeline, scraping …) based on a modern architecture (Microservices, AWS, NodeJS, Docker, AWS Lambda…).

Requirements:

  * Love for continuous improvement and learning
  * Good team player and agile enthusiast
  * Good coding practices: software design, unit testing, source control…
  * A desire to learn more than only backend development (either by developing some DevOps or Frontend skills).
  * 2+ years professional experience with NodeJS (TypeScript is a plus)
  * 2+ years professional developing web application, rest API or data pipeline
  * 2+ years of experience with databases (relational or NoSQL)
 

More infos on our website:

http://trademachines.com/info/junior-nodejs-developer/

I agree with the main idea: working with hyped technologies is not a solution and you can build most of the things out there with boring technology.

But then ... you have to find, attract and hire good developers. That's already difficult, adding an extra layer of 'boring technology' will make this task even more challenging.

Just try. For me that was way easier than expected.

You may enjoy Dr Rhonda Patrick's podcast as well.

https://www.youtube.com/user/FoundMyFitness/

You may simply build a product that nobody wants.

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I like this policy, but it doesn't directly help to reduce the technical debt.

Sounds cool, how much time do you spend every week?

I've recently started this method:

- create a list of all the tools/products/whatever you use at work

- rate them from 1 to 5 (5 you are an expert on this topic)

- then pick the most important one for your job and try to increase your grade

The grade is totally subjective, but still it helps.

For the "next big thing" I take a look regularly to the thoughtworks radar [1]. That's a nice overview.

[1] https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

More generally "-" is an alias for the previous branch, so it can be used in other commands as well (ex: git merge -)

I would definitively recommend this one as well, the quality is very good.

Some downside with the Ubuntu version:

* the trackpad not deactivated when typing, that's a real pain, have you found a solution?

* the wake up after a suspension will sometimes generate some problems (no wifi etc..)