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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> This stuff may happen, I can't say it is untrue, but I've never seen a manager terminate a decent to good programmer because they didn't understand their workload. This happens all the time. It just doesn't look so
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> people who are a few years ahead of curriculum are a dime a dozen and will not stand out. I'm not sure what you mean. High school has a much lower, but broader, bar. The number who can handle second year college math are a small f
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Second year college/CS is pretty good but I went to a great high school where there were 50+ kids at that level. That's not enough to stand out in a meaningful way. It is not enough to stand out in the current system . The p
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
High school has been dumbed down and is mostly a waste of time.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> but I think your "_really_" is actually just "_pretty_" and you're trying to include more than the 1 in 100 million. I don't quite understand your point. Pretty good still puts you far ahead of the average
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> I wouldn't call it entirely trivial. It just doesn't represent a realistic codebase. It is significantly smaller than a lot of college projects. The current software system I'm working on now is ~2 million lines of code
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> However it takes some careful consideration and knowing your audience to make sure that they understand what to do. I fail reCAPTCHA at least 50% of the time so it would be hard to be worse.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Yes, and in the case of older games it is incredibly difficult for a company to prove any kind of damages against an individual since they no longer make the games available for sale.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> EMULATORS ARE PRIMARILY USED FOR PIRACY. This is not a piracy issue. Please stop framing it as such. The primary use case is to run all your games on a single device. Nintendo want to lock customers into their ecosystem rather than com
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> Your job is to do what the company pays you for. The problem with this mindset is the most companies are short-sighted and when the problems inevitably start coming in it is the developers who are placed under pressure. It is the devel
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> look at more granular metrics to do with just coding. The average time from the moment a developer picks up a work item to the time it gets merged (assuming code reviews happen in a timely fashion) We do collect this data. I personally
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
The first adopters seem to be the same group / personality type that is always first to adopt new technologies. Very few of these are the superstars. But plenty are good solid senior developers.
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
Yes, other bottlenecks might be preventing us from seeing overall productivity improvements. We might require large organisational changes across the industry in order to take advantage of the improvements. I guess we will see if smaller st
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
There are other potential explanations. Perhaps developers are now slacking off. Perhaps we have added more meetings because developers have more free time. Or perhaps developers were never the bottleneck. We can see large productivity impr
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> You can't measure productivity for shit We can't measure small changes and we aren't great at comparing across orgs. However, at the director level we can certainly see a 50% or 100% productivity improvement in our teams
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> I know the answer to the first three. Yes, yes, and yes. You say this but from a management perspective at a large enterprise software company I have not seen it. Some of our developers use copilot and gpt and some don't and it is
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by WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW 2y ago
> GPT-4 is able to do Leetcode with well over 90% accuracy, and all you have to do is give it a screenshot of the question. This is true in the way that Google Search is able to solve Leetcode problems. GPT-4 struggles with even simple r