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waibelp··on Ask HN: What are signs of a startup failing?
In our company the management changed the score counter for goals on the foosball-table from 10 possible points to a maximum of three.
waibelp··on Ask HN: What are signs of a startup failing?
Not a joke: Kicker score gets changed from 10 to 3 points over night
waibelp··on Ask HN: What are signs of a startup failing?
I dont know who posted it originally (here on HN) but there are a lot of signs which may be true for startups as well as for non-startups:

http://wiki.c2.com/?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom

waibelp··on Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
Thanks for giving that hint!
waibelp··on Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
Same here. Time to check out firefox :)
waibelp··on CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer
Fully agree, VueJS is great! I always asked myself why someone would need different styles in just one component and not globally:

* Is there any special usecase for that kind of feature? I mean a button is a button and should always look the same (except maybe size and color)...

* Aren't components always looking the same way and a simple naming/clustering-strategy like BEM is enough to be flexible to change the style of some specific component?

[Edit] formatting

waibelp··on Ask HN: Who uses PHPStorm?
I'm using it at work and at home. I like it cause it works, has a lot of plugins and gives me the ability to develop extreme fast (symfony) projects.
waibelp··on Show HN: API Bootstrap – A better way to build your API
Thank you for fixing this. I would like to see whats possible with your product. Maybe some screenshots + some text or maybe a video?
waibelp··on Show HN: API Bootstrap – A better way to build your API
502 Bad Gateway

nginx/1.13.3

waibelp··on Ask HN: Investors have lost faith. Next steps?
Your project manager / business developer should ask itself that questions and find an answer - not your (dev)-job.

I'd been in the same situation but could change "projects" at an early stage. After 2 years of wasting 8 developers for a useless product (in my opinion) 9 devs out of 10 were laid off resulting in a freeze in the project and there's just one developer left... The reason was mismanagement and closed eyes/ears and finally the management asked developers to find a solution for missing USP ;-)

Like some other mentioned: Start looking for other job offers, keep calm at your current job & be prepared to switch to a new company or start negotiations for better conditions (depends on where you are and if there are other people willing to do your work).

waibelp··on Ask HN: What are the *dynamic* needs for a static site these days?
Good point! I'll have a look into this, thanks!

Edit: Great advice! Works like a charm! I've never really worked with dates in JS. Should have read the docs earlier ;-)

waibelp··on Ask HN: What are the *dynamic* needs for a static site these days?
Sure, but can we trust the date and time of the client?
waibelp··on Ask HN: What are the *dynamic* needs for a static site these days?
Depends on the usecase. Sites for local stores need opening hours. Having those information as plain html is enough but that can be extended via ajax to show if store is currently open... So no need for dynamically rendered pages serverside.
waibelp··on Better Software Design with Clean Architecture
This plus checking codebase in regular intervals for: * KISS? * Bundled components? * Dependency injection useful? * Duplicated components / functions? * Too much/less abstract classes? Interfaces useful?

In my case that looks like: Write code for 6h, review and refactor code 2h. Result is that less code is produced (due to refactoring/removing/etc.) and codebase keeps being simple. On the other hand it's easier to write tests.

No need to use complex enterprise patterns. Most of time simple facades and delegators are enough. Consider writing small simple components instead of using heavy patterns with a lot of boilerplate code.

waibelp··on Show HN: A platform for writing literature with friends
DNS record not found :(
waibelp··on German Unemployment Declines as Economy Poised for More Growth
Sure? Even retired people who worked their whole life don't have enough money to buy food: http://www.mdr.de/sachsen-anhalt/ansturm-tafel-sachsen-anhal...

Even in stronger regions like "Baden Württemberg" everybody can see a lot of people with the same problem but it's easier to look away and talk about propaganda.

waibelp··on German Unemployment Declines as Economy Poised for More Growth
Long Story short translated:

1) Some people work to get paid lese than others that dont work

2) Those people need to go get help in form of money: Aufstocker

3) A lot of them need to get their food from Caritas and other organizations like "die Tafel" because they dont have enough money to buy food

Yes, Germany is a wealthy country but most of its citizens are poor.

waibelp··on Show HN: A minimalist weight lifting log app
It's available, thank you! I'll give it a try this evening.
waibelp··on Show HN: A minimalist weight lifting log app
From the screenshots it really looks simple. Any chance to make this available in Germany?
waibelp··on Ask HN: What are some examples of successful single-person businesses?
Bam, that's it! We've got the same definition of success. Thank you for sharing your story!
waibelp··on Switching From React To Vue.js
Why?
waibelp··on A hole in Finland is being prepared to contain radioactive waste for 100k years
Lets hope they really build concrete walls and did not just dig a hole. That reminds me of "Atommülllager Gorleben" in Germany where they started to temporarely put some atomic waste until another/better place is found. That was 12 years ago and they are still looking for a better place...

In the meantime the involved people fight against water which flows into the tunnels reaching the containers with the nuclear waste and they try to get back the waste which is harder as supposed.

waibelp··on Ask HN: Do you ask to use cookies or check IP?
Are you sure? Seems like it's still Neuland.
waibelp··on Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
Haha, I don't know why you are writing about Trump but no: I don't trust him or anybody else but I think that's because I'm a very skeptical person.

I think the problem with long waiting queues at cash-registers isn't the amount of different coins but the people that 1) do not calculate what the need to pay 2) want to speak with the sellers because they have nobody else they can speak to

But that's all a thing of personal attitude: Do we always have to be fast at everything what we do? Do we always need to optimize everything and use every free minute? In my opinion the laxness comes with age and who knows if we will do the same things in some years that we are hating others for today?

waibelp··on Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
That's quite normal here in Germany. A lot of people I know still only pay with cash because most of the people are skeptical about data that may be used against them. Sure, there are a lot of young people (born >=2000) sharing everything and paying everything with card but the older ones still care about their privacy.

That means a safe way I and a lot of people prefer is to get a bunch of cash from a cashpoint and use that to buy stuff to not get profiled...

waibelp··on German Bundeswehr cooperates more closely with European Allies
What sides beside FAZ would you suggest for daily reading to get to know that topics?
waibelp··on German Bundeswehr cooperates more closely with European Allies
Because you dont get to know about that inside germany while reading or watching news...
waibelp··on German Bundeswehr cooperates more closely with European Allies
Interesting to read this on a non-german page as a german... o_0
waibelp··on Expanded state hacking powers make a stealthy return to German agenda
German politics & media at its best: Creating (again) new laws to monitor its own citizens without them even knowing about it. The "free journalism" simply does not report about that kind of actions plus the decisions made by the government mostly happens at night so most of the public does not recognize it... The interesting part is that the executives are able to monitor your devices if you ever had anything to do with law no matter what kind of.

Is it normal that "progressive countries" nowadays give a sh*t about their citizens and their rights? What about innocence presumption?

waibelp··on The tragedy of 100% code coverage (2016)
This remembers me of recent projects where developers started to mock every piece of code.. The result was that all tests passed while the codebase exploded in real environments.

In my opinion the best advice is to force developers to use their brains. I know, there are a lot of sh*tty CTO/CEO/HoIT/SomeOther"Important"Position people out there seeing them as code monkeys and saying that developers are not paid to think but in that case the best thing developers could do is learn to say "NO"... My experience with that kind of people is that they need to learn the meaning of "NO" instead of wasting time and money in the end of the day.

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