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artiscodeon The 40M dollar job

> Most jobs are bullshit jobs. Employment today is increasingly a heavily biased and ethically corrupt way of implementing UBI.

Based on my experience - the cheaper the labor, the more bullshit jobs. If human resources are expensive, companies are very keen on adapting automation and getting rid of humans. But if a human being for 8 hours a day costs you 500 dollars per month, why bother?

artiscodeon How to Choose a Startup to Work for by Thinking Like an Investor

I accepted early on that working for a startup will probably not make me rich. Quite the opposite, I may wake up one day and find out that I no longer have a job or my next salary isn't coming. I'm not the kind of person who believes in gambling. Working and living in Europe doesn't really help with the vision that I might join a European unicorn startup, whose stocks might not be worthless one day.

However I do see a lot of benefits that come with working for a startup. You can voice your opinion and be heard. Pushing code to production on your first day. Owning what you do and being able to make decisions. Creating your own environment in which you can learn and become a better developer.

And, most importantly, startups are more open to remote than BigCo Inc.

Monetary compensation might be less, but freedom has a price. If I'm able to work remotely, I can move to a place that is cheaper to live.

artiscodeon Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

Software engineers are an interesting bunch... Reading all the bashing comments about Paw not being free, I can't help but feel a vibe, that some people expect to be paid thousands of dollars and not pay a single cent themselves. Where does this entitlement come from?

Good job guys! You made a fantastic product. I will always favor native apps over Electron hacks. I can't count how many times I've CMD+Tabbed to Chrome and hit CMD+W to close a tab, only to see Postman disappear. It disrupts my flow.

One thing though. I'm a developer, I know what I'm doing. Please make JSON Text the default option. Formatted JSON doesn't hurt or threaten me :) I expect to see my responses exactly as they are.

Edit: Unfortunately I have to edit this comment to give additional feedback about Paw. I'm using the 30 day trial, i.e. I am evaluating the product. Paw is running in the background, I'm not interacting with it in any way, but it jumps to foreground, just to show me a pop-up window informing me, that I have 29 days left of trial and should upgrade. No, thank you, I installed the app just an hour ago. I'm aware of the 30 day trial. No need to nag about it every 20 minutes, that will not prompt me to upgrade any sooner. If anything, it does quite the opposite.

artiscodeon Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?

Oldest surviving code dates back to 2006. It's a simple PHP script, that generates an Excel file(without the help of any libraries. I was really into not-invented-here then) containing information about banners shown for a week. If it works, don't touch it, right?

Second one dates back to 2008. It's a webapp written in Django for real estate agents. Full of bugs, requiring careful input of data in order not to mess up the listing. I went on a 3 day hackaton somewhere back in 2011 to fix all the bugs for free and got some very angry calls, because things weren't working like they used to before. Turns out people were aware of these bugs and made their own workarounds. I was forced to roll back all my changes and backport just a single change - the ability to reorder images by using drag and drop.