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by Jach 5y ago
There's no predisposition for them to not succeed at it either on account of them being technical. That's my point, drawing a technical/non-technical dichotomy for who is best suited a priori for management (let alone organ
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by Jach 5y ago
Is your suggestion that they wouldn't do well in more constrained middle management roles? Perhaps (I don't really agree), but then does coming from the other side with the whole idea of "technical managers" and ICs &quo
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by Jach 5y ago
> frankly are not in technical people's forte Amusing to see this attitude on HN in the 21st century. Have not the last 20 years of startup successes having very technical founders successfully transition to more managerial roles mo
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by Jach 5y ago
I'm generally supportive of the idea that managers (and managers' managers' managers..) are in many places a value-add and it's hard to get to such roles by coasting, however I also am sympathetic with many of the cynica
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by Jach 5y ago
Thanks for the reply! It's nice to hear that a lot of devs are receptive to change and aren't treating the service hostilely. I like that there's categorization with expectations encoded in the category, I can see it helping
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by Jach 5y ago
Here's a question: do you get pushback about "best practices"? (Sometimes really just "standard practices".) If so, which ones in particular? And do you actually continue trying to explain why it's a good idea,
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by Jach 5y ago
The case for code review is fundamentally economical: it saves the organization money by finding costly issues earlier when they are cheaper to fix without imposing a costlier burden for the review process itself. As generic "knowledge
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by Jach 5y ago
I still think this is a great appeal of Clojure(Script), you often work with the "flat" "just data" representations directly. From https://youtu.be/VSdnJDO-xdg?t=3000 (transcript: https://gith
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by Jach 5y ago
A lot of people are quite happy working, quite happy with their local environment, and feel no need to take a vacation. For other uses of (paid or unpaid) days off (being sick, funerals, important kid events, 'just not feeling it today
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by Jach 5y ago
I'm a bit fond of the short 5-part series here https://malisper.me/debugging-lisp-part-1-recompilation/ that covers some of the debugging aspects, it's got some animated gifs. But there are several screencast
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by Jach 5y ago
I've been really happy with slimv. There are a few things missing that I'd like to have were I to find myself working on a really large program with a bunch of other programmers, though I suspect the commercial Lisps offer a good
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by Jach 5y ago
Season 2 should really be part of the title, I thought these might have just been the old season 1 notes which I liked when I stumbled on them years ago. But I'm glad I clicked through, the little details the author goes through are al
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by Jach 5y ago
Tell that to the idiotic surveys where you got your data from. Here's one: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/financial-security-... Scroll to the bar chart. To pay for an unexpected $1k expense, 41% wo
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by Jach 5y ago
These numbers are based on flawed methodology. BLS data has the median US household having $1000/mo in discretionary spending. Of those that save it rather than spend it, they're unlikely to do so in a classic savings account, but
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by Jach 5y ago
It definitely helps to not have a family, and not to get sick, but if the finances work out after considering everything a generic fear of medical expenses shouldn't necessarily keep someone from pursuing an early "retirement&quot
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by Jach 5y ago
It happens in programming jobs here but in different ways. The general style I think you're thinking of seems more likely to me for startups to try experimenting with (and more informally), but we also have a different style where you
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by Jach 5y ago
There's a tradeoff between the costs of trying to detect possible issues at various stages, and the costs of damage if those issues aren't caught until later. This makes the caught-earlier-is-cheaper analogy not always hold, becau
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by Jach 5y ago
Yeah, it's trickier when they're coming in with an existing job, and the current professional quitting culture dictates that you couldn't start any time sooner than in two weeks at least. Add that to the list of difficulties
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by Jach 5y ago
Right, I think we're probably in agreement on a lot too. I do think if you're looking for a specific thing (whether it's a code monkey, or a visionary, or someone that seems to have the potential to grow into someone amazing,
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by Jach 5y ago
It is a strange comparison, though I don't think the "stringent process" is the issue and it's more just that they are entirely different fields with different ways of working with different kinds of feedback in the broa
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by Jach 5y ago
I love this because I agree 100%. I accepted the idea that they were "out there" but only really internalized it after I interviewed someone with a Masters in physics who couldn't make any progress on my simple problem. (The
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by Jach 5y ago
I agree that an interviewee should be an active participant (though not being is fine too given the state of interviewing), however attempting to drive it themselves can really backfire if the interviewer isn't expecting it and/or
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by Jach 5y ago
It's hard to get meaningful answers to these really general properties you're after: > communicate well This has so many elements and is really only fully visible after you work with someone for a while. Sure you'll catch
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by Jach 5y ago
On Chrome/Chromium I can routinely expose myself to youtube ads if I have a video open, close the browser, and re-open with that tab loaded first. I figured it was some conflict in initialization of extensions and the page, but good to
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by Jach 5y ago
Masters of Doom mentions how some of the early design was based around a D&D campaign Carmack made and they all played. The modern game Amid Evil really struck me as what Quake could have been without its design compromises due to techn
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by Jach 5y ago
Why wasn't she about to send a fax? I don't think wear-and-tear is why people aren't adopting them. I have a yubikey from Mt Gox (yeah, the btc one) that I've just left on my keychain all this time. My keychain is not tr
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by Jach 5y ago
I find it easier to identify Unity games by their lighting, but for either engine the camera is another thing that tends to give it away to me. And even when it's a AAA game with access to legions of artists and programmers, if it&#x27
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by Jach 5y ago
I mostly wanted to repeat slimsag's reply, that these days a game's visuals are largely dominated by the talent and time of the art team, not so much the underlying engine. The recently released Sonic Colors remake should be menti
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by Jach 5y ago
Ah yes, the free market system known as copyright.
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by Jach 5y ago
Re 3, people have known how to build real-time GCs since like the 70s and 80s. Lots of Lisp systems were built to handle real-time embedded systems with a lot less memory that our equivalent-environment ones have today. Even Java was origin

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