johnnyAghands

I love cheap labour. Seriously you get what you pay for and no one wants to fucking pay what good software is worth.

The perspective and excitement this write up adds is super infectious. Kinda really shows the organic change MS has had in the last 5 years -- at least to me

Yeah sadly this just looks like typical work not uncommon in huge tech corporations with pretty broken development and management pipelines.

That would be great, email me if you can at johnnyaghands@protonmail.com. Thank you!

Can you expand a bit more on this, how can they let go without severance? How big was the loss? Was it contractors?

I'm in the final stages interviews and up until now have generally been looking forward to the prospect of working there. This is troubling. Thanks in advance.

That spacebar.

I hope data like this can help society in ridding this disease -- poverty is a disease. Looking at the results and anecdotal evidence it feels like this is obvious.. but the fact of the matter is unless you've been through it, it's very unlikely you can truly appreciate the magnitude of the results.

I hope studies like these and the changing demographics of power (with respect to age and race) will start focusing on this complicated problem.

What still seems unknown to me is what specific environmental traits of "poverty" have the strongest negative impact? I mean, we've all heard of "rags to riches" stories --- how do they differ?

Using Bluetooth to detect potential contact + plus GPS seem like a good way to cover a lot of ground. Anyways I feel like the bigger issue is the huge honeypot problem. I think it's easier to assume data like this is bound to leak -- so what can we do to make it useless besides for its intended purpose? I mean it doesn't have to protect against like a state backed program to track an individual -- but it should protect against the usual bullshit companies like insurance or scammers.... hmmm

A lot of enterprises hiring juniors on the cheap actually thought of it in the opposite way. They saw Angular's rigidity as some sort of safety rails to help guide developers in the rightish direction. They thought React was the Wild Wild West of JS land ;D No manager got fired for choosing Angular. If only

What a world of difference good tests and coverage can make. Great write up.

Hi@vprasanth.com, thank you!

Interesting; it almost seems obvious now. Sidebar: This BBC mobile site experience is freaking refreshing!

This looks great! Can anyone sponsor an invite for me?

Wow. So just added that book to my cart. Any other good reads like this you recommend?

No one chooses loneliness.

"the ambitious side that’s never satisfied with the way that things are and the human side that wants to be content and happy" I found this line very relatable -- as with almost everything in life, balance is key. You would think we would know this by now, but it's usually the first thing to suffer. Anyways, I think it's great these topics are brought to the forefront -- instead of being siloed and almost taboo to talk about openly. We're surprisingly closed minded when it comes to mental health issues...

I’m a “huge Github fanboy” and think GH Actions is poised to do to current CI/CD tooling what Docker did to VMs.. which actually scares me a little. GH is aiming to be the centre of the development world as Google is with the web... which I guess is good — rising tide lifts all boats and such — but personally I’m worried it might actually stifle innovation and create some sorta bullshit tech bubble because of how much emphasis recruiters and developers put on having a GitHub presence. If you use Bitbucket or GitLab you’re some second class scum! Fanboyism is bad folks. Anyways yea, Drone is sick :)

Drone, Circle CI, GitLab CI, Concourse CI, Semaphore, Travis CI

You are not alone wondering this. I find there are less brittle more modern task runners available today, however Jenkins still has a strong hold on traditional enterprise IT systems that struggle with change. My theory is it has to do with the whole traditional break up of responsibilities between dev and operations. As more developers are taking over ops (cough devops cough) they’re quickly replacing Jenkins with systems that align well to what they’re used to (rich CLI support, rich programming support, Unix like) vs. zero programming required plugin based. So it’s not that Jenkins is necessarily bad — it just doesn’t fit in with the new crowd — although I personally think it just sucks in general and can single-handedly destroy modern CI/CD dev culture, but that’s JOPO...

Getting a 404

If you like writing some code, want full control (i.e. payload size, extensibility, theming, etc) with some OOTB features (i.e. zero setup, server rendering, static exporting, etc), and don't mind react or markdown, I'd recommend nextjs + netlify.

I find Gatsby and Hugo very powerful; but miss the simplicity of Jykell. Even if you don't think nextjs is great for blogging, it's still worth checking out! Their docs + getting started guide are some of the best.

For example; writing up a small MVP site to test out a business idea (https://www.hiredsomehelp.com/), it's in progress, but even still, only took about 15 minutes to push up via netlify.

That being said, I feel like all these new static site generators are terrific; a real sweet spot in web development in my opinion :)

Stay the hell away from Wordpress. It. Will. Get. You. When you least expect it ️

Sad to see this go; any recommendations for a good alternative available in Canada?

Honestly, it scares me that this was even filed. Even though we know how ridiculous it is to include Github in this suit, I'm afraid we're going to be left with some weird middle ground that shouldn't even exist to begin with made by people who have no idea how things work trying to fix something that isn't broken.

Links: - - - https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls https://thenewstack.io/node-js-foundation-adopts-express-fra... https://foundation.nodejs.org/ https://openjsf.org/projects/

“the COO was a woman who changed her mind often enough that the various groups that worked on the project were never able to accomplish anything truly useful.” What was the purpose of pointing out her sex?

Very interesting read, aside from the issue at hand, I was really drawn to how they pulled off this kind of change in a giant org with many heads. Routinely, the root issue is easily addressable, however, it's a different story when it's something that's cross org. Usually you hit a wall and can't move forward without a consensus and some kind of org wide champion.

At the end of the day the process this team followed has all the hallmarks of a great culture (-- perhaps another article?). I'm curious what kind of management by-in was required, or if this was strictly driven by engineering and design.

God -- It really shows I've been in an enterprise for far too long. :,)