Tarucho

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by Tarucho 5y ago
The article uses the same "smart riot girrl" marketing that has been used here in Argentina to bring young woman that embraced feminism into programming. It´s most probably a paid ad in disguise (and I can point this out because I
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by Tarucho 5y ago
This article assumes the overengineered abstractions make sense, as if they were all part of the same puzzle. Sometimes the code is just an abstract mess. In my experience is not so much about under or over engineering but about how the dep
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Yes, time to invest on Viagra-making companies.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
But this happens in tech management too. Last 20 years: CMMI? RUP? PMI? XP? Scrum? Design Thinking? Project to product management?
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by Tarucho 5y ago
This is not exclusive to dev work. Same can be said of managers.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Problem is management is a pyramid (there is no place for everyone, even the best of them) and in some cultures (I´m in South America) a wealthy and contacted people club. Even if you are really good, you will not get promoted if you came f
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by Tarucho 5y ago
>One problem in these discussions is the curve of value delivered by an individual developer in a particular situation is short-and-wide and while I agree the senior developers are on a curve shifted to the right, there’s a massive amoun
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Technology startups have a mandatory narrative of "someone young, cool, smart and with a great idea...". Anyone past 38 (if I remember correctly PG wrote 38 is the cut off date for founders) is too old for said narrative. (BTW: I´
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by Tarucho 5y ago
It´s not bitterness. It´s a reality. In fact I worked as a manager for quite a time. Most managers are status seekers, and the freedom remote personnel has devalues their status, and they don´t like that at all.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Managers are status seeking people. Part of the status is signaled by showing how many <<subordinates>> they have and giving orders to them. Part of the status is signaled by beign able to be out of office whenever they want vs
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Companies tend to work (as we humans do) under the principle of least effort. More employees means more HR work, more administrative work, more legal work, more work in general, and unless the benefits of hiring more people are great, they
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by Tarucho 5y ago
But are the regulations enforced?
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by Tarucho 5y ago
What is fueling estrangement is not a shift in values but a shift in expectations. Failure is not an option these days.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
At first I thought the same as you, but for some chronic illnesses as rheumatoid arthritis where there is a lot of pain but no cure, the ability to turn pain on/off as needed (and under proper guidance) is probably something good.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Is Copilot aimed at programmers or at non-technical hiring managers? I mean, it goes right away with the devaluing narrative of programming that is going around from the last couple of years. To the "anyone can code" narrative we
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by Tarucho 5y ago
So, after 14 months of isolation and being in front of screens this person feels unhappy? And the cure is to be grateful and find awe in the small things because some study said such and such? When did we forget we are still social animals?
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by Tarucho 5y ago
And what about asking devs to do QA while evaluating their performance on dev story points per sprint... The broken practice in our industry is management...
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by Tarucho 5y ago
It´s been a while since I coded some front-end. What about issues with different browser implementations? jQuery used to handle those discrepancies.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Unless you have no options (but you should check them thoroughly first), burnout is a road paved with self denial and failure to assess one own life priorities.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
> I have been anxious/depressed for around a decade I guess your first step is to get this sorted with specialists. There is no point in asking what to do with your job when you don´t feel like working at all.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
COM was pretty neat indeed
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by Tarucho 5y ago
The problem is you don´t get to choose the content of your ruminations. When you are experiencing severe depression judgment is misguided and you don´t get to choose the contents of your mind the same way you don´t get to choose the content
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Maintenance is hard and once you are past the 20% that handles 80% of the cases work feels like maintenance.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Hard work + opportunities leads to a better life. Hard work alone? nope. Go to a construction site and do the work the low graded workers do for a day. Tell me if this is not hard work. Tell me where are they going to be in 10 years? At the
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by Tarucho 5y ago
Problem is computing is overstaffed with non-technical managers that believe programming is a thing for little employees. Enterprise Agile has made this situation worse.
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by Tarucho 5y ago
The article looks like a paid ad in disguise.
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by Tarucho 6y ago
What kind of improvement will this bring to the seasoned nodejs dev, that it will leverage the learning effort?