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- 3 years
Ooh, I hadn’t heard of Quarto before, but it looks really good! Thanks for mentioning it!
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•Bringing the Unix Philosophy to the 21st Century3 years
While jc is a great tool, and I’m definitely a fan, I believe the real solution to the overarching problem lies in a paradigm shift: see nushell
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•What are your opinions on in-person conferences?3 years
I wanna go to one so bad! But they never happen in my city…
I agree that from a completeness point of view, the official manual is better (I’ve linked it at the bottom of my post as well), however I’d love to hear your specific thoughts about why you feel this particular article is not good- I’ve tried to include fully interactive examples for the most common tasks I find myself doing with
jqeveryday. This feedback will help me improve my own skills as well, so I would appreciate it very much.
I wrote a guide about jq which has interactive examples
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen?3 years
It is possible to live on that, there are people who live on less than it. Personally all of it went to supplementing my Mom’s income so we could survive.
There are plenty of entry level jobs in India that offer those kinds of wages. There are more that offer less.
Yes, it’s exploitative.
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen?3 years
I’m from India so these numbers might be a bit weird. My yearly comp has basically gone like this from 2017 to 2023
$0.7k -> $3.6k -> $4.8k -> $20k
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•What would it take for you to move away from Github?English3 years
Have you seen all the people just stuffing their profile README full of random graphics and stats and badges
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•What programming languages aren't too criticized here?3 years
Ohhhh, this site is a great find. Exploring all the articles right now. Thanks!
- ishanpage@programming.devtoProgramming@programming.dev•What programming languages aren't too criticized here?English3 years
Unfortunately, no one can be told what a monad is. You have to see it for yourself (then you won’t be able to explain it to anyone)
eBPF is something that I’ve been exploring recently for work. I was quite blown away when I realized the true potential. I did find it difficult to get started, and while this article is a good introduction, some example code or hands on would be nice to have
The scenario is not ficticious. It’s taken straight from my first job, but I had to leave out specific details. The application being developed had something to do with DRM, so that might explain the weird requirements.
The lesson is that sometimes business will require you to force users to update their version, and/or enable specific features for specific subsets of users. So you should have such a mechanism in place before it is required, otherwise you will end up doing hacky things like breaking the server to do what needs to be done.
Systems such as these are actually fairly common in enterprise, but since it was my first job, I had not planned ahead for this because I had no idea.

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