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    nicholaides avatar nicholaides 12 days ago | link | on: Who's hiring?

    PromptWorks is hiring for development, design, and business development roles in Philadelphia and NYC. We’re a small software consultancy, mostly located in Philly.

    Most projects are in Python, Ruby, Elixir, React, and/or React Native.

    All relevant details on our jobs page.

    Top 5 perks our employees love:

    • R&D time to learn new technologies, develop FOSS, community investment, etc.
    • Partially-paid leave of absence, including parental leave
    • Paid travel for speaking at & attending conferences
    • Team-building lunches, happy hours, and outings
    • Bike friendly office (shower and in-office bike parking)
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      shanemhansen avatar shanemhansen 3 years ago | link | on: What's Your Most Controversial Technical Opinion?

      I’ve got a few, I’m sure I’m wrong but it’s cathartic say it out loud.

      1. Angular seems to be ColdFusion for web2.0.
      2. LibreSSL is going to break something horribly, not because the people writing the code aren’t capable, but because making that many changes to a ball of mud system is going to result in regressions. Realistically they will probably not be penalized too hard by the community when that actually happens, so it’s probably going to be successful.
      3. Startups aren’t a good idea financially unless you’re a cofounder.
      4. Most technical arguments really don’t matter, especially framework arguments.
      5. Web developers have made their lives harder than the problem domain requires.
      6. Technology (software specifically) isn’t fast paced. It’s center of gravity moves at a glacial pace while giving the appearance of movement due to rapidly oscillating fashions. (See hierarchical databases -> sql -> nosql)

      Basically all software sucks, now get off my lawn!

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        nicholaides avatar nicholaides 3 years ago | link

        Startups aren’t a good idea financially unless you’re a cofounder.

        I agree, but here’s a counterpoint. If you work at a startup you’ll get opportunities to work with all sorts of new technologies and solve all sorts of problems. Most other places won’t give you that much exposure and education in such a quick fashion. You can leverage those new skills towards higher pay in the future.

        Also, even if you’re a cofounder, the same tradeoffs are at play, but at a higher intensity. It’s still not worth it financially (i.e. expected value is less that what a normal wage would be), but the skills you learn will help you earn more in the future.