aaaarc · HackerTrans

In case of smaller artists we'd be better off pirating music instead of helping cement Spotify's brand as a central platform. The only person losing money in this case is the platform holder so we could argue the decentralised aspect of piracy helps fighting monopolisation of the industry.

aaaarc

3년 전discuss

Mermaid is the fastest tool to write diagrams after pen and paper. I use it with Markdown Enhanced, it's a powerful tool that quickly ensures your entire team is on the same page and understand the ideas/concepts you're discussing. Started adding exported images in confluence with the source code attached to the same page, people always get amazed and started adopting it (slowly, I'd say). The speed is great but not being attached to a heavy tool such as Visio or Gliffy is the game changer.

aaaarc

4년 전discuss

Tests are an extension of documentation, in my opinion. I go on Github and I read the readme then I go to the test folder and try to see some valid usage examples.

This is what writing useful tests mean, from a client perspective I just want to understand what's valid and what's invalid.

Also useful to make sure we fixed specific scenario bugs.

I've seen a lot of people doing things wrong but we can summarise in two cases: - "We've got 100% coverage, it must mean we've got no bugs, right?" - We've got tests covering happy path, everything else is tested manually. It takes forever and it's not shared anywhere, but "trust me" I've tested this.

aaaarc

4년 전discuss

This is what burned me out on the best project I've ever worked, dev wise.

I still get triggered when I hear the Nokia ringtone.

First, we were all offered good rates for on-call support so we had plenty of people who wanted in so I wouldn't do any support and leave it to the guys who wanted the money.

Then some of the guys left the team and got replaced, they offered a different deal to the new guys, less lucrative, therefore, they didn't want to do it.

As a senior I had to start doing support, I thought the extra money would maybe make me feel ok, then we had less and less people on rota so I was doing support most weekends which started affecting my marriage.

I escalated the issue (again), nothing was done, one month later I gave my notice on the highest paying and best dev job I had.

I was on-call for full month straight during my notice, that's how bad it got. And I steer clear from dev with support roles now.

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