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I did the above and truly recommend it. Great mix of theory and practice.

Out of curiosity, with COVID I imagine people are WFH more and there's a tendency for that to continue. Did you think about buying a desktop instead? Usually is much better value for the money and Linux is likely to run without issues too.

Flask with jwt Stripe for bills

Ansible, there's plenty of material around it!

It really depends on what you’re optimizing for. If it’s money and FIRE, sure I guess.

That has also been my experience. Truth is, there are many good developers out there. Maybe they can't be bothered to practice for leetcode (and why should you do it if you do not have 100k applicants per open role?).

In ~4h total time interview you can have a very strong feeling if someone will be a fit culturally and if they aren't incompetent. Give them a chance.

Or you can spend months and many more hours to roll a dice with a bit higher chance of making a better hire...

I'm excited about the things I can build with software, not so much about software itself. All the problems we can solve with OSS tools.. is truly amazing!

If a new database comes and is better than postgres, I might switch to it in a couple of years, but, I wouldn't want to be working in a new database. Software for software sakes doesn't motivate me too much.

Solving problems for the film industry with visual effects does motivate me a lot. I love seeing the end product and being part of it by making the studio and artists more efficient! That I can do it by using my tech skills is awesome.

What sorts of features from 3.8 and 3.8 have you been seeing regularly used?

Hell yes.

We do adhoc pair programming when mentoring a junior or going through a tough problem together.

It probably sums up to 2-4h per month. I wouldn't want to have it be obligatory or mandated. We use it as a tool when we feel it's useful.

What kind of UI are you building? What platform are you targeting?

Because it wasn't mentioned yet, Dropbox was quite magical as an end user tool. You use your computer normally with folders and everything is sync'd to other computers.

Unfortunately dropbox the company chose to grow into everything except their core product.

Ansible licensing? I must be missing something! Do you mean Ansible Tower? Ansible is free and OSS. It has AWX which is the Tower equivalent but free.

Yes. Ansible is a framework with plugins. Just like Django or Ruby on Rails.