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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> You think Google has 5,000 people working on novel design spaces? Yes. Maintaining a bridge is in general not novel. There are clearly established best practices that have stood the test of time. Maintaining a ridiculous tangle of mill
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
If this were true then software engineering jobs would have all already been offshored. Software is much closer to a competitive race where small improvements in ability give completely outsized returns.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> I like this article particularly because I think the trope that there's something unique and different about software engineering is pretty toxic The ratio of software engineers working in novel design spaces compared to plumbing
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> would have both required Ukraine to almost entirely disarm and also allow Russia to veto any future military partnerships Ukraine might have including non-NATO ones. Ukraine now faces almost total destruction because they didn't t
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> I live a 5-minute bike ride away from the Delft Technopolis, and 20 minutes by train to Leiden's Bio Science Park. Where you live is comparable to somewhere like Raleigh and not comparable at all to NYC/SF. There is a saying
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Most people in mainland Europe are poor by American middle-class standards.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Maybe they think politicizing the whole executive branch is a little distasteful They believe it has already been politicized by people who hate them.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Is that just how CRM systems are? Is everybody just doing it wrong? What's the deal? These kinds of tools cover 80% of what you want to do out-of-the-box. For the remaining 20% to build it correctly you need to either hire expensi
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> in order to catch up in other parts of the business or figure out what markets to put your new productivity toward. Product can come up with and design features an order of magnitude faster than developers can implement them. In practi
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> I don't think anyone can get numbers, but partial ordering is much easier. Agreed. > If Steve and Susan are in different part of organization, the answer is "cannot compare". If they are doing different job, the answe
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> This is moving goalposts. Then I shall move the goalposts. Can you address my shifted goalpost? I personally did not interpret the author as literally meaning there is no such thing as software productivity but I agree the way he wrote
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> I just don't seem to struggle, as others claim to, in measuring productivity. Because you are measuring at a very broad and basic level. Steve is more productive than Susan. Great. How much more productive? Can you turn it into a
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Don't you think that giving up after n=1 attempts at measuring software productivity might be a tad too fast to draw a generalized claim of impossibility? Software developers should look at anyone claiming they can measure softwar
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
So how do you stop this from happening? The OP pointed out a highly informative and important point and the majority of the negative responses to it have been from people who want to bash the American education system. They are using cries
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
That is not true either. There is very little innovation happening in European countries where college is low/no-cost. They have less innovation than the US does despite our terrible college debt. It takes a certain kind of person to i
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Completely incorrect. We have made incredible improvements in alleviating poverty and suffering over the past 50 years and yet innovation across almost all fields has slowed to a crawl.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Can current techniques be scaled/improved/optimized to do this or do we need new techniques? It took 30 years in the generative art world to move from cave paintings to the level that we have today because we needed new techniqu
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Give it time. Progress is fast. Why pick 2020 as your starting point? That is simply around the time the current set of techniques came about. We had generative art back in the late 90's - my screensaver has been generative art fo
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Honestly, you're trying to claim that intuition is the foundation, when it's almost as bad as blind luck. Why do you think this?
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
You misunderstand. I'm saying intuition in a complex space we don't understand is less reliable than intuition in a simple well understood space. Recognising that someone is angry is simpler than discovering how gravity works. Sci
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
I suspect the scientists intuition is less reliable because the scientists are acting at the limits of our understanding. Even then it is still a critical component. For those of us writing glue code to connect services for the 100th time o
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Entire science is basically testimony of how our intuition lead us astray and why we need to be disciplined about looking at data, evidence and crafting experiments. This is not really the case. If you look into how a lot of great scie
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Your gut feelings want you to slam down McDonalds cheeseburgers one after another, day after day. Are we talking about the same thing here? When the article is talking about gut feelings it is referring to intuition. Your intuition is
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> My gut tells me to do stupid shit all the time Does it? Can you provide some examples? My intuition rarely lets me down. Perhaps you don't have enough experience in the areas where you are trying to listen to your gut? I'm su
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Otherwise, immigrants are generally taking jobs that Americans won't do. Because the pay is terrible. Start paying well and plenty of Americans will want the jobs. Working a low skilled job like fast food should be enough to pay f
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Yeah. You can fit a lot of business logic into a 100kloc monolith written by skilled developers. Once you start shifting it to micro services the business logic gets spread out and duplicated. At the same time each micro-service now has its
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
In general tech is extremely bad for mental health. The best advice I have for people is to minimize computer use and get a dumb phone.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
I suspect it will go a different direction. Codebases are exploding in size. Feature development has slowed down. What might have been a carefully designed 100kloc codebase in 2018 is now a 500kloc ball of mud in 2024. Companies need many m
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Yeah there is a big disconnect between the devs caught up in the hype and the devs who aren't. A lot of the devs in my office using Claude/gpt are convinced they are so much more productive but they aren't actually producing
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> In online communities, honest curiosity is often punished Because "honest curiosity" is so often used as a DDoS vector. This is not the case in real life when people know you and there is real investment in the relationship.

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