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by Sevii 2y ago
SWE comp will remain elevated as long as there are marginal returns to software development. The capital structure of turing machine programming allows most of revenue to be spent on salaries. The pay is higher because the marginal cost of
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by Sevii 2y ago
My team didn't add new members to the oncall rotation for about 6 months to ameliorate this issue. But starting oncall at first is rough and even with months of context on our systems people usually take a few rotations before they rea
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by Sevii 2y ago
I appreciate that they have a programming philosophy that they want people at the company to adopt. A common problem I see at companies that don't have onboarding is that people join the team with assumptions from previous jobs but you
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by Sevii 2y ago
I like how he says he doesn't need FAANG level people. Then his next paragraph describes working at FAANG. "We’re an inverted organization. That means that tactical decisions are made by the people who are doing the work, not mana
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by Sevii 2y ago
You can measure productivity with correlated metrics. The issue has always been that the metrics which are easy to track don't line up incentives with the actual business goals. A group of 10 people who write 200k loc per year are prob
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by Sevii 2y ago
I held a number of online conferences a few years ago. The attendance sweet spot was 5-15~ just using zoom. Under 5 is just not enough people. Beyond 15 it's very difficult to talk naturally. Becomes more of a consumption only medium.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Do you have an OS written in a memory safe language with a good security track record we can switch to? If we start building now we might have a prototype by 2030.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Introducing kotlin during the Java 8 era was innovative. In 2024 with Java 23 out you aren't gaining anywhere near as much.
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by Sevii 2y ago
There was no 'boring tech revolution'. Instead we got 10 years of NodeJS and React monocultures. We got 'let's build everything with Javascript' as the replacement for polygot microservices. We got 'everything
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by Sevii 2y ago
Someone has to write down the information before it can get into an AI.
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by Sevii 2y ago
At this point we should think about whether becoming a product person should require 5 years of software engineer experience plus an MBA.
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by Sevii 2y ago
It's not unless you consider Ukraine part of the US. Russia and Ukraine are using 10k+ drones per month each.
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by Sevii 2y ago
I'm a fan of Spring Boot + Thymeleaf + Htmx. Django is a proven platform for the kind of app you want to build so you likely will be fine either way.
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by Sevii 2y ago
There is no technical solution. The problem in the US is that we are a combination of a free market and government controlled single payer system. To improve things the government would have to pick one which is impossible. a. Insurers don&
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by Sevii 2y ago
I have a lot of software projects I could finally get written.
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by Sevii 2y ago
I’ve never been laid off in my 10 year career. Suspect it’s just luck and which teams you join.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Not a surprise. I worked on a ‘AI’ health insurance product for several years and even getting access to data was a struggle.
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by Sevii 2y ago
'Lessons from the Titans' has a great chapter on Boeing.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Mainly because he has intuitions that are wrong. And as a result he is asking to do things like 'hire 10 offshore developers for less than an intern' or 'because the job market is so bad we should be able to hire google engin
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Ask HN: Good books for my non-technical cofounder on software development
2 points by Sevii 2y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: Analyze Tableau Workbooks(analyze.cloudbachelor.com)
2 points by Sevii 2y ago|0 comments
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by Sevii 2y ago
It's because people don't like the idea of matter that you can't interact with especially if it makes up a double digit percentage of all mass in the universe.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Seems like a stretch to argue a biological organism qualifies as a drug.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Most places I've worked we couldn't even consider using a product that wasn't supported by a major cloud provider like this. What problem does your product solve that customers absolutely 100% need it? Structurally, you are a
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by Sevii 2y ago
If you use linters without auto formatters you are choosing tedium.
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by Sevii 2y ago
Terraform and the CDK use different programming models to achieve similar goals. The CDK takes a more dynamic scripting approach much like Gradle, while Terraform is more descriptive and declarative. Functionally, I think they have similar
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by Sevii 3y ago
Worked on a video licensing project for a cable company for six months, canceled after a merger. Worked on a tool for consulting companies to track their engineers expertise, canceled after I left. Worked on a voice assistant, canceled afte
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by Sevii 3y ago
Not checking your phone for days likely makes you an extreme outlier. Most people are checking their smartphone every 10 minutes or so.
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by Sevii 3y ago
The way foster care works children will be placed with foster parents for a few years, then be returned to their parents, then be placed back in foster care with a different family, over and over again. The system is not setup to prioritize
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by Sevii 3y ago
Ad blocking is not theft. If it were, leaving the room with the television on while ads were playing would also be theft. Youtube is freely sending people content. No one is forcing Youtube to send them cat videos. No one is acquiring Youtu

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