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1% of individuals hold 90% of the worlds wealth
1% of actors get lead roles in 90% of holywood movies
10% of sales people earn 90% of company's profits
0.1% of product designers influenced how 90% of todays products look
And so on...
For years we've accessed the web through our Desktop/Laptop computers. You have a big 'ol screen, nice ergonomic keyboard — life is good.
Do you think this type of web usage is going away? Why?
Mobile has skyrocketed in the past couple of years, but will it continue to take over? Will the new generation ever again stare at the big screen?
Can desktops/laptops really be replaced by mobile? I guess they certainly could be replaced by AR/VR.
I wouldn't recommend starting a business before you have any marketable skills.
It's never too late to switch fields. I know people who've done it in their 50's.
What would you like to do anyway?
A bit like "Cowspiracy".
There's a problem when people invest in things they know absolutely nothing about.
That's why all the "bitcoin enthusiasts" keep hyping it up. They know that once the mania stops, people who didn't cash out will be left holding the bag.
Currently, it's nothing more than a speculative asset. You might as well invest in high-yield risky stocks.
The blockchain itself is pretty great though.
Let me fix the title for you:
"Netflix renders their landing page on the server. Preloads other code while you're signing in."
Revolutionary.
> A few days ago Netflix tweeted that they'd removed client-side React.js from their landing page and they saw a 50% performance improvement.
Are you telling me that serving a small, cached HTML page takes less time than downloading and running a full-fledged SPA? Gee whiz mister!
> It caused a bit of a stir.
Nope, but it gave people a good laugh.
> the headline boils down to: less code was executed and stuff got faster.
You bet.
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Tech: Javascript (ES6+), React, Redux, d3, Webpack, npm
https://www.linkedin.com/in/reicivor/
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A sample project we built together — https://movieo.me/movies
You can't because design isn't about style, it's not art. It's about solving problems and increasing your employers profit.
A couple of my colleagues worked with Ukrainian dev shops and interestingly enough, the stereotype was reinforced — the shops produced mediocre results. They got the job done (eventually), but it was nothing to write home about.
How are you positioning yourself?
It's just a normal company trying to offer a better service at higher prices — which is okay — you don't need to slap a startup label on everything.
The medium piece was a great read. Kudos to everyone involved!
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I might be totally wrong about this though. Anyone?
Now this is 100% anecdotal, but I know a few 45+ year old developers and most of them are long-time corporate employees and are not really interested in the whole startup / bloggosphere / tech hype world. They have good stable jobs (think Perl, .NET, Java), and are mainly focused on their families and other hobbies. It’s well know that people tend to become more conservative with age, so this doesn’t really suprise me. None of them thought they were being discriminated against at all.
Moreover, my colleague worked with a 58 year old guy who started programming when he was 50+. He currently works for a super hot "big data" startup as a lead Ruby on Rails engineer, and from what I've heard, he's really, really good at his job (and very well paid).
Older developers of HN, what are your experiences?
Everyone else, did you ever witness a case where someone was discriminated based on their age?
I totally agree with you. I was talking about the developers perspective.
When it comes to companies, not only is it difficult to transition from an unpopular tech stack, but it's also difficult to hire great developers because none of them want to work on such stack.
I don't understand why so many people sweat over libraries, frameworks, and which one is going to "win". Once you learn to program properly, choosing a framework becomes a non-issue.
The bigger problem right now is the tooling ecosystem (webpack, babel etc). It's too difficult to set up and customize, especially for beginners. The packages change too often and you run into bugs all the time. Sometimes I wish we had a dumb-ass GUI to set up all this stuff. Customizability comes with complexity I guess.
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Email: ivor[@t]codetree[.]co
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Technologies: Sketch, Git, HTML, JSX, Slim, CSS, SASS, PostCSS, Javascript (ES6+), React, Vue, d3, Webpack, Yarn, npm, node, light back-end work
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I doubt it. Their prices are probably similar to TopTals.
Why would you keep your local $30k/y job when you can work full-time on Toptal for $80k/y?
Toptal covers hourly (min 10h/week), part-time (20h/week), and full-time (40h/week) engagements. Some months I've worked 60h/week (on my own accord).