aristofun

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by aristofun 9mo ago
What are the implications for an average Joe ruby/js developer if this matures to production grade? Could you explain like Im 5?
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by aristofun 9mo ago
There is no the right way to building a software. Anything more complex than a hello world. And if project is large enough (google scale) - no single person really groks it fully and arrogant enough to claim knowing how it should be done. A
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by aristofun 9mo ago
people are the weak link, not computers
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Natural languages are barely man-made creations. Because they _naturally_ evolved, was not deliberately made.
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by aristofun 9mo ago
1. Typescript, Ruby 2. Elegant typings, native to language syntax. Syntax flexibility. 3. Usually this choice is made for me or before me. And unfortunately it is often neither.
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by aristofun 9mo ago
What are you talking about? Up to 80% of a typical dev time these days (depending on the company and the project) is idle waiting for a build to fail again, deployment to finish, all teammates showing up to another useless meeting, writing
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Until recently it was not worth the effort to even bother identifying problems like this. For many markets and fields it is still not worth the effort because most profit on those areas come from LTR based nations
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Can you explain me like im 5 - how does that even work? If you cut network and files for Claude, for example, how is it even going to do the useful work?
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Hi level answer is always - to satisfy the product/customer requirements. If the requirement was never documented or lost, then you can only deduce it like Sherlock Holmes. Low level answer is always- because this is the best way curre
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Build a career or build a business. Nothing new under the moon in the last few centuries. There is no magic pill or secret ingredient. Each path has its trade offs. I’ve tried both. Reaching 10k in software engineering salary took longer bu
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by aristofun 9mo ago
If you consider sms better than whatsapp you obviously don’t know any better which supports my point :)
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by aristofun 9mo ago
They hate but still use it. Is a more accurate statement. Often because of lack of better alternatives or out of inertia. Majority of UX of software products we use every day range from awful (ad platforms for example) to mediocre (WhatsApp
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by aristofun 9mo ago
This is why my remarks about "where you live" and "ambition"
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by aristofun 9mo ago
I sometimes find myself in a very similar state but attribute that to poor management (lack of vision, badly set goals, messed up team structure, unclear priorities and responsibilities). > I do fine when incentives, authorship, and res
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Those numbers and all the features are easy-peasy for a single not very big flink cluster
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by aristofun 9mo ago
> There are holdouts in the world, where execution is king Could you name a few with salaries at least somewhat near FAANG’s?
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by aristofun 9mo ago
One of many examples of how you can take anything too far and make it worse
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by aristofun 9mo ago
I have a good news for you: the code is already unmaintanable.
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by aristofun 9mo ago
They have pr had that as one of their initial features. Recently thy pivoted away from that to more ai and corporate use cases
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by aristofun 9mo ago
These guys solve same problem https://www.getmagical.com/ worth researching their experience
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Read my whole message carefully. 1 bay area salary is nothing special if you live in bay area and support _family_
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by aristofun 9mo ago
If you carefully read my message and all the conditions you’ll see that 400 will melt faster than you think. Also it will be closer to 200-300 because you spent part of the sum to buy a house.
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Do you have a family? How many?
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Do you have a family? How many people do you support?
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by aristofun 9mo ago
If you live in a modern 1st world country and have a family, at least 1 child or some old relatives and at least minimal ambition to eat good food and have okay level of life - 10M is not much at all. It’ll get you okayish to allright prope
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Controversial opinion - old pre-internet protests were mostly authentic and pursuing something good (whatever that meant in every case). Today - they are mostly designed, sponsored and organized and about hating/suppressing the enemy s
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by aristofun 9mo ago
They still use XCode to write software in 21st century. What do you expect? Be happy they managed to ship at least some features working.
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by aristofun 9mo ago
It all started with a dumb move to replace input language icon flags with text. Apple keeps being a hardware company unfortunately. Their software is not nearly as good as it could and should be if they had real competition. Windows/li
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by aristofun 9mo ago
Newrelic has pretty generous free tier
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by aristofun 9mo ago
The real answer that everybody can see that didn’t happen and can’t happen with current llms

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