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menor

25 karma · joined October 27, 2013

Software plumber by day, millionaire playboy by night.
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menor··on Berlin's techno scene added to Unesco intangible cultural heritage list
Agree, Mustafa's queue is not worth it
menor··on My streaming fatigue got so bad I started collecting DVDs
Same here, I'm buying my favorite albums in Bandcamp and uploading them to my jellyfin, from there I give access to my music interested friends, so we always know what bands to listen or talk about when we meet for lunch/beers
menor··on Staff Engineer Archetypes (2020)
I'm not sure if I'd name them "the politician", because I think they are not doing the harm consciously, but I've met several of them. Pair it with the "CV builder" ,that just throws new technologies at problems to add them to their CVs, and now your codebase is a minefield.
menor··on Ask HN: Moving from tiny websites to serious tech skills?
I was like you 7 years ago (graphic designer and did some small websites), and best thing I did was taking my savings and doing a coding bootcamp (Dev Bootcamp in SF).

It helped me understand what stuff I still needed to learn, and how to work in a team. Also helped my confidence, seeing that I was able to work with other people, some of them had already jobs as programmers, and solve problems with them.

After that I decided to work for others, but I could as well had continued doing frontend master courses and stuff like that, I think the Bootcamp taught me the "glue" between technologies, and how to think like a programmer.

There are a lot of online Bootcamps now, so no need to go to another country like I did, I'd look for some bootcamp where you work together with other students, and that has great mentors with industry experience.

menor··on Amazon acquires MGM for $8.5B
There are lots of awesome asian movies in that period.
menor··on Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M
Nice,I used to meet with former bandmates to listen to new music discoveries together, and since we moved away from our hometown, we were looking for something like this.

Hope to get an invite soon

menor··on What does a Director of Engineering do?
It looks like we have been working at the same company.
menor··on OK Soda
Yes, two of my favorite comic artists from the 90s. I was clearly in the target for this soda, although I have never been into soda. Maybe that was the error.
menor··on 67% of workers earning over $100k see themselves quitting in the next 6 months
Nailed it ;)
menor··on Evolving the Firefox Brand
This made my day, it looks like a proposal Gavin Benson would buy.
menor··on Things I Regret About Node.js [video]
I don't come from that era but couldn't agree more, every time one of my coworkers suggest using a library I tell them that is ok as long as they maintain it, I prefer to spend my time coding and like to understand as much of the codebase as I can, instead of having to learn and maintain tens of external libraries. Specially if we only need a couple of functions from that library.

I normally lose those debates though, and the thing reaches a point where the complexity of the code makes it impenetrable.

menor··on Ask HN: What, if anything, do you listen to while coding?
Brain.fm or my coding playlist (mostly synthwave) also instrumental surf

https://open.spotify.com/user/josemenor/playlist/2g37r5uAPEi...

menor··on Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
I miss gigposters.com a lot, the community there was awesome with all the big poster artists hanging around and giving beginners advice.
menor··on Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
Was going to say webmonkey too, internet connections at that time were dial up and pretty expensive at the time in Spain (you were charged by the minute)

So I downloaded the entire archive using a shareware scraper , and learned a lot from that offline copy.

menor··on Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?
I enjoy Meth Meth Method a lot, he has a series of videos on making Super Mario Bros with vanilla JS

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8A0M0eDttdB11MHxX58vXQ

menor··on How I review code
> I review mostly for architectural compliance and "bad idioms" or code smells. There is difference between not like I would write it and badly written mess and many programmers confuse them.

This ^ I just had this discussion last week in a PR, if the comment is a matter of opinion, the whole team should agree and put a rule in the linter or style guide. If not every one is free to have their own preferences.

menor··on Ask HN: What is your favorite place to find work?
They are also guilty of posting fake job offers to work at Honeypot, just to let you know later that "we already have candidates at an advanced stage of our hiring process." (one day after the offer being published)

"However, you know, Honeypot is a tech focused career platform and we currently have a number of positions that match your profile."

I'd avoid them

menor··on Say Goodbye to Spain's Three-Hour Lunch Break
Another spaniard here, reading the article you get the impression that Spain is some kind of dictatorial country, where the government dictates which times you are allowed to work. It is not, companies have freedom to choose, unless you work for the public administration (where I lived, they work 8 to 15).

BTW I live in Germany now and still do a daily 30 mins siesta after lunch.

menor··on Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene
From my point of view not bad, I'm over forty and took me 2 weeks to get a job here, also it's really hard to find good seniors I guess due to salaries being lower than other start ups hubs.
menor··on Berlin’s Startup Hub Wants to Prove It’s More Than Just a Scene
This ^ Now it's even less ghetto, I see hipsters moving here every week. Rent prices are also raising.
menor··on Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
> And that's the reason why the executives don't find workforce. Being less-skilled means they don't value the engineering profession up to the required level to compromise and give good salaries.

Came to post this

> (Spanish dev here --working abroad obviously--.)

Same here ;)

menor··on Show HN: Discover new music through an infinite suggestion graph (React/Redux)
Thanks for this, I enjoyed the Readme and I'm working in something similar for myself, so having your code available will probably help me a lot.
menor··on Cssnext: use tomorrow’s CSS syntax, today
Using a nice component based architecture and Sass you can also achieve the same, for me is more maintainable changing a key value in a map and having a new type of button generated than having to copy/paste the rules. And I think learning Sass is not that difficult if you already know css.

Not having lots of nested divs with lots of class names also helps to code readability and maintainability if you use something like React with JSX.

I see advantages in not needing to precompile in the future, but apart from that I see this as a step back, of course it's my opinion, I see how this can work for other people.

menor··on Cssnext: use tomorrow’s CSS syntax, today
Of course that this can appeal to people, I'm just curious about what I'm missing. That PostCSS looks more useful to me, you're right. What is the alternative to the standards-track CSS that could benefit from this?
menor··on Cssnext: use tomorrow’s CSS syntax, today
I looked into this for my current project, but in my opinion you have to leave behind too many things if you do this instead of Sass. Namely:

-No mixins

-No maps

-No loops and conditionals

Maybe a couple of years ago, but now that libsass runs so fast I still don't see the point of using this.