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>Being a senior engineer at Facebook where your responsible for making sure Cat memes load more quickly, this strikes me as an unnecessarily rude dismissal of
by whymauri 6y ago
>Being a senior engineer at Facebook where your responsible for making sure Cat memes load more quickly,
this strikes me as an unnecessarily rude dismissal of the difficulty of engineering at scale
this might sound crazy, but some people are actually just good at their jobs and will, naturally, progress quicker than others.
- riffraff 6y agoI interpreted that more as a difference in the potential problems you may cause rather than the skills required, as GP referred to "responsibility". If FB goes down, people waste less time online[0], if a guidance system fails people may die. [0] yes, of course there are people whose livelihood depends on cat memes, but I'm making a generic example.
- willcipriano 6y ago> If FB goes down, people waste less time online, if a guidance system fails people may die. Goes down yes, but what about a data breach? What if, for example, the location of a woman is mistakenly exposed to a abusive partner? In my view the distinction between a senior software engineer and not is the ability to see how both human and software systems interact and find failure modes that others may miss.
- RandoHolmes 6y agoYou know you're in a bad spot when you start arguing that a website has as much potential for bad results as a weapons system. by definition it's not true, and any sequence of thoughts that lead you to that conclusion are wrong, period.