wanone

28 karma · joined March 5, 2019

wanone··on The Myth of the Myth of the 10x Programmer

10x programmer @ 1x pay

wanone··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

That's just being pedantic. I installed Spotify only for podcasts. It's also the only app that seems to work with weak networks. Rest are terrible.

wanone··on When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop

The sheer amount of salt in the medium comments because of Electron is astounding. Never had any memory hog issues with Slack. Have been using it extensively for over 2 years now. Works fine on my 2010 laptop as well!

wanone··on Building the New Twitter.com

Never used twitter. Just made an account using work email to test twitter login. Didn't do a single thing yet. And my account gets blocked for 'suspicious activity' and they want my phone as well. What a shady company.

wanone··on “10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research

Why doesn't anyone talk about compensation? Does 10x engineer gets paid 10x as well? Or taking 1x compensation is another feature of the 10x engineer?

wanone··on 1x.engineer

Why doesn't anyone talk about compensation? Does 10x engineer gets paid 10x as well? Or taking 1x compensation is another feature of the 10x engineer?

wanone··on A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

reCaptcha on any other browser than Chrome is nightmare. Hate what Google is doing to web.

wanone··on Udacity restructures operations, lays off 20 percent of its workforce

That course, practically, got me my first job!

wanone··on Something on Mars Is Producing Gas Usually Made by Living Things on Earth

Worked for me in Firefox private browsing

wanone··on As Uber Prepares to Go Public, Its Lead Lawyer Races to Clean It Up

I had the opposite experience. Uber has customer support built into the App. I was also billed twice and just followed the instructions in App that created a ticket. Got my money back in 2 days.