ultim8k

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Full stack software engineer, open standards and open source advocate, looking up to the stars and dreaming.

https://kostas.rocks

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Comment · 17 days ago
I wait for the morning that we’ll wake up to ssh keys being useless
Comment · 4 months ago
Nobody wants to listen. Nobody. In 90% of the companies there are some so called senior devs that get ecstatic when they create a new abstraction.

Overengineering, abstractions and premature optimisation are the 3 worst plagues of engineering.

At the same time I’m happy they exist because it means we’ll always have a job.

Comment · 6 months ago
I bought a Sage (Breville) Barista Pro a month before the first lockdown. It was pricey but was one of the best purchases I've ever done.

Still works exactly the same and it's what makes me want to get up from the bed even on Mondays.

Comment · 9 months ago
This is really great news!

We also need a paneuropean banking & tax system and ideally some paneuropean telephony (plus voip) and internet providers.

Comment · 10 months ago
Run
Comment · 10 months ago
EU is just headless chicken. They will just blindly agree to whatever Trump says
Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed
Comment · 1 year ago
Agreed. And I think European countries really need to start eating our own dog food and stop being 100% reliant on US software and hardware. It's not (only) about opposing certain political behaviours, but (also) about supporting our financial independence and wellbeing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are there still first world countries without public healthcare?
Comment · 1 year ago
Most of the time gov, orgs and companies don't listen to their in-house engineers but will pay $$$ to some consulting firm, only to confirm the same thing or just to show that "they are taking actions towards the solution".

In some cases there is distrust from management on in-house employees or in some other cases they want to show quick results without distracting their teams from their planned tasks.

Of course there are the cases that managers have personal motives, either to add an extra (useless) achievement on their list or even worse to get referral fee or presents from the external consultancy.

Comment · 1 year ago
They should effectively immediately freeze and potentially cancel any Korean investment in US and investigate all US companies based in their country. US behaving rogue should not go unpunished.
Comment · 1 year ago
Why? Can someone block the sky? (I have 0 satellite knowledge)
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm waiting to see the effects of the brain drain
Comment · 1 year ago
It’s been 84 years… Jokes aside, congrats to the team! This is huge news for JS.

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