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by alecbz 5y ago
You can just directly observe how productive your teammates are, why bother using IQ as a proxy. And it's not like OP gave his co-workers IQ tests.
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by alecbz 5y ago
Are you saying unit tests are not meant (in part) to detect bugs?
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by alecbz 5y ago
True "unit" tests are: * faster to run * give you less confidence in the correctness of the system (per time spent writing them) * when they fail, give you more information about where the failure is The more integration-y/e2
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by alecbz 5y ago
I've certainly seen people who mock almost everything to test units at the smallest scale possible because they think that's what they're supposed to. E.g., I once saw someone test a factory method like: def make_thing(a,
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by alecbz 5y ago
I can't stand when I ask someone "why?" and they answer "it's a best practice". Yeah, I'm asking _why_ you think this is a best practice.
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by alecbz 5y ago
> Do people actually do code reviews per commit? This is sort of a meaningless question without an understanding of how often people commit. Some people keep a single commit for a single PR (and just constantly update that one commit), o
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by alecbz 5y ago
You should only ever do things when they're worth it. Which sounds obvious, but a lot of people argue for "correctness" of things in the abstract without tying back to why that correctness matters, how much its worth, and wha
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by alecbz 5y ago
That's true but I'm very skeptical that a notable portion of the worth of a currency rests on that. Like I said in another comment, I think there have been plenty of "commodity currencies" (salt, shells, gold) that have
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by alecbz 5y ago
> The implicit value of a currency is backed by being able to tax the citizens. Elaborate? Not sure why this would be true. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of "commodity currencies" (shells, salt, even gold) that achieved
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by alecbz 5y ago
Ah, I might be out of the loop. tl;dr?
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by alecbz 5y ago
Isn't all currency more or less a "pyramid scheme" in the sense that Bitcoin is? I wish we had more subtlety in our discourse. It feels like it's all either blind admiration or blind condemnation. Bitcoin is trying to be
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by alecbz 5y ago
Because we're social for a lot of this kind of stuff it does sort of matter that other people are going in the same direction. Angry or condescending judgement is bad, but I don't think advocating for doing things one way over ano
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think freedom to choose per se is generally good, but no guidance about how to choose isn't necessarily: nudges[0] can be very important. Freedom to eat whatever you want is fine, maybe good, but not having guidance on what kinds of
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by alecbz 5y ago
Chesterton's fence[0] could sort of be phrased as "there's information about what makes a system successful just in the state of the system itself". [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterto
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by alecbz 5y ago
That explanation seems off? (Anyone who has enough to live off of can just do that, witholding both their capital and their labor.) But anyway I meant supply of labor for startups specifically. Like, people are too willing to forgo FAANG co
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by alecbz 5y ago
? My point is that $100B is very high and Stripe's unlikely to see insane future growth. For the people who joined at $10B, yes, 10x their equity could be millions for them. But I think it's a lot less likely that Stripe will make
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by alecbz 5y ago
You can look at attrition though, and I thought that was still pretty bad for amazon?
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by alecbz 5y ago
Stripe's last round was at like $100B. There's some growth being missed out on, sure, but I'm not sure for how many people that's gonna net out to be millions.
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by alecbz 5y ago
I think the idea is that the size of the grants remains roughly the same (or, you know, it's 1/4 of the size but lasts only 1 year). You're right that if they increased it, you could see that as just doing a bit of a risk tra
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by alecbz 5y ago
I'd be fine with it not matching exactly. I'm willing to pay some amount of opportunity cost in lost comp elsewhere as an investment in the company. I'd just like the ROI on that investment to not be like 5-10x worse than a V
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by alecbz 5y ago
On the one hand I want to agree, having to trust that a company will Definitely For Sure pay you more once you've earned it is a really hard pill to swallow. But on the other hand, it does seem off for so much of your compensation to b
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by alecbz 5y ago
Well, sort of. There's an argument to be made that people should realize how much better a deal VCs are getting and stop settling for worse ROI. Part of the problem is exactly that supply is high, possibly because of a lack of knowledg
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by alecbz 5y ago
I feel like you only need to read into this a _tiny_ bit to see how weird it sounds: > It sucks that people might want to leave a company but won't because of how well they pay, so we decided to stop paying so well! Problem solved!
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by alecbz 5y ago
Preferred shares were explained to me once this way: Imagine I give you $1M for 10% of your business. You now own 90% of a business that has $1M in assets. You easily sell the whole business for $900k (giving away $100k to the buyer, basica
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by alecbz 5y ago
The more relevant factor IMO is not time vs. money but the proportional risk. A year of my time is a much larger fraction of my net worth than the typical VC's investment is a fraction of their net worth.
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by alecbz 6y ago
You don't care if your blog's content gets MITM'd?
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by alecbz 6y ago
> without recourse Doesn't the post say they'll fall back to http if the https attempt fails? > For sites that don’t yet support HTTPS, Chrome will fall back to HTTP when the HTTPS attempt fails. The only change here seems l
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by alecbz 6y ago
I'm often confused at how poor so many engineers' product-sense is. Especially infra engineers (speaking as one). It's one thing to not have good product-sense when you're not the user, but for products like Heroku you l
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by alecbz 6y ago
It's a blog post on the company's official blog, no? I doubt it's like a free-for-all where any employee can post whatever they want without any review. Judging GitLab based on the content posted on their blog seems like fair
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by alecbz 6y ago
If it's literally this or the company folds, that seems realistic.

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