Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

@jeffrey_way I've just installed tryvoiceink.com and it seems to work very well. There is a very reasonable one-off lifetime cost. To me, this is much more preferable over pppm pricing!

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

5 months ago

Listening to @TheRestHistory podcast on Iran. Wondering why the Americans pronounce Iran, EYE-Ran, and Ibiza as Ee-biza. It's like they did it on purpose.

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

5 months ago

@brankopetric00 ECS?

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

5 months ago

@aarondfrancis This is the same for the UK, too; we don't have/need the infrastructure to deal with it. When it comes around, we're like flailing children to the rest of the world! 🤣

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

5 months ago

@ThePrimeagen But man, what a slog to complete the rest of them!

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

5 months ago

Glad that when the singularity happens. I'll have this to fallback on.

Kent C. Dodds 🏹 @kentcdodds

5 months ago

Oh no

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

5 months ago

@aarondfrancis @danielkelly_io @vuejs @nuxt_js Amen, brother.

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

6 months ago

@mattsimmonds So sorry to hear this, Matt. We will be praying.

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

6 months ago

@johnehosier Wonderful news! Congratulations to the whole family! X

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

7 months ago

@iamdevloper Commitment issues are easily fixed by using Git.

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I’ve done consulting work for 20 years including building custom manufacturing software. I’ll be honest, $100-150k for a custom MRP system is pretty low these days. Even when I was only charging like $75/hour many many years ago, they’re so complex that I ended up billing about $100-150k back then. If someone were to ask me what to budget for one today I’d tell them at least $300k. Considering average US devs are $100k-200k/year, that’s just two devs for a year at most. Not really that far out of line. What they did poorly was communicate what they were doing. It should never be a surprise when you get the bill. You should always know what the risks are in terms of going over estimate. And you should always have an escape hatch with a valuable deliverable, even if it isn’t fully finished. The only real way to do fixed bid software is if: 1. They are using an extremely battle tested and known framework (Rails, Django, etc) that they know very well 2. The software is of a type that they’ve done routinely for many years, with very few divergences, so they have comps 3. They pad it 50% anyway In manufacturing this would be considered insane but the reality is that most software development is more like R&D than it is like “build this part”.

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

7 months ago

@ThePrimeagen @peach2k2

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Andy Hails 👨‍💻 @AndyHails

7 months ago

@mattvanswol Be kind.

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Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

7 months ago

Repeat after me: The best software engineers pick up a new language in a few weeks. They can become pretty good in a month or two. The best devs also don’t get bogged down with one language. ESPECIALLY not today when AI makes onboarding to new languages so much easier