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The UK Online Safety Bill has (likely) been shelved

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Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?

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trhoad
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
I can't take this article seriously when it refers to Next but then calls it Nest 15 times.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
The frontend tooling debacle has got to the point where I'm not only leaving frontend development, but tech entirely. To not have to think about this endless nonsense anymore is such a massive weight off my shoulders.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
If you open the image modals, and then click next, I see a blurred screen and cannot progress forward/back.

react-dom.production.min.js:209 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'indexOf') at _l.render (ModalImage.tsx:79:21)
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
There is no risk if you're genuinely running a small business.

If you're a permalancer, coining a freelance rate whilst paying very little tax (no PAYE), then you _should_ be caught out. You _should_ have the liability.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Probably. The people who use professional quality studio microphones to send heavily compressed audio over Microsoft Teams also confuse me greatly.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I think it can only help. Employability aside, you might even enjoy doing them! The AWS certs aren't to be sniffed at, even if your experience after completing it is only theoretical (better than nothing).
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I would say the skills are largely transferrable as the product offerings are analogous in many cases.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
The idea that Fortune 500 CEO's are cold-emailing companies to ask about assistance in re-platforming VM's is plainly ridiculous.

Leadership taking a strategic decision to shop around for options following the VMWare price increase isn't so crazy. In fact, I'd say it's expected.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I must be stupid because I understood very little of this. The cynic in me says it sounds a lot like pseudo-intellectual-babble, but maybe I'm wrong.

I can pick out so many parts that seem to be an extremely odd take on things, but this one stood out:

> the total time spent communicating will grow quadratically as the work capacity of the organization grows linearly.

The assumption being that everybody needs to speak to everybody else as the organisation grows, which is a spectacularly daft assumption.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
£500 per year, Bupa, "comprehensive" cover (basically everything paid for)
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Contracted for a few years. Almost zero expenses (a new laptop, an accountant, some PL insurance).
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Most (all) the contractors I know can bill £500 per day outside IR35 pretty much indefinitely.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's easy to say money isn't everything when you're already earning £120k/$140k pa.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
This isn't true. Many successful, profitable businesses were started by just surveying the landscape and being better/different to something pre-existing.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
At least I know within 3 seconds that I can't afford to apply, rather than investing hours to realise I've wasted my time.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Surprisingly low salaries for a major bank. £35k for a London-based SRE?
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
> So we share your jobs on our site. A candidate applies. You interview them and decide to hire them. You notify us you hired them. We send you an invoice. You pay us a fee.

I'm absolutely stunned that this works.

> For one thing, our contract imposes a late fee for failing to notify us of a successful hire. And the fee increases every month that they don't tell us. This is a pretty good deterrent.

Is it? It sounds like a pretty good deterrent to being honest...!

Anyway, I can't argue with the figures, if true.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Would be great to have a single table that shows supported services vs. tiers. At the moment I have to scroll through 8,000 services AND their features to try and decipher if I'll need a paid plan right from the start.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
> it means that everyone puts in ideas and the person or persons in charge only (gently) nix the ideas that don’t fit with their vision

This. Architects have to have a really quite rare blend of skills: superbly diplomatic yet inclusive, and ideally in it for the long-haul.
trhoad
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
> "To stay relevant in today’s fast-moving world, architects must focus less on making the most important architectural decisions, and instead focus on building an environment where everyone makes better decisions."

They should be doing both.