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by arnvald 4y ago
I mostly agree with you and I think it highly depends on the organizational complexity. In a smaller company (100 people) I was able to manage 10 people and still had time to write some non-critical code. That's because there was littl
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by arnvald 4y ago
I think Google is in a tough position, because for them ads (both in search and other websites) are a huge portion of their business, and they need to find a way to monetize LLMs without killing its own cash cow. Microsoft has a lot of adva
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by arnvald 4y ago
Their competition still hasn't found a profitable business model, though. OpenAI started offering paid subscription, but it's unclear how well it's performing and how high their margins are. Google's dominance might have
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I blame the short-term thinking for this. Everyone wants to see constant progress, there has to be growth every quarter, otherwise the stock goes down, investors are unhappy, CEO has to explain himself and promise quick recovery. It happens
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by arnvald 4y ago
> Seeing twitter cut in half and continuing to function It continues to function as an app, but does it really continue to function as a company? It lost enormous amount of trust on all sides: advertisers, users, developers. My Twitter f
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by arnvald 4y ago
I explored this topic a while ago on my blog [0] In essence, I don't think it has anything to do with elegance, syntax, or "easiness". It's more about timing + origin + corporate adoption: * Python was created in Europe,
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Backstage is introducing premium (paid) plug-ins, they're entering beta stage[0] 0: https://backstage.spotify.com/plugins/
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by arnvald 4y ago
Possibly, but I don't think it's up to the post author to decide.
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I'd actually keep using social apps more if they stayed closer to their original versions. My Facebook feed turned from updates from my friends and family to garbage filled with politics, ads, suggested pages, and I stopped using it. M
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by arnvald 4y ago
Musk's actions since joining Twitter board have been so erratic it's hard to believe a single word in this announcement: * first joined the board then quit immediately * made a purchase offer then almost immediately tried to withd
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by arnvald 4y ago
You have such choice. Some 17 million Saudi women don't.
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by arnvald 4y ago
What's consumption in case of Slack? Number of messages? Storage+CPU usage+bandwidth? GitHub had tiers based on number of repos years ago, but people then put you their repos together to lower their bills. AWS has per-usage pricing and
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by arnvald 4y ago
Opening in private tab also works (at least in Firefox)
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Twitter employees learn about being laid off by losing access to Slack(twitter.com)
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by arnvald 4y ago
Been there with Braintree. One day they told us “your company profile is too risky, we won’t serve you unless you keep a deposit of $x million with us. We couldn’t afford that, so we migrated to another provider and then diversified - we in
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by arnvald 4y ago
You need visibility, because if something is done, but nobody knows about it, it's almost as if it wasn't done at all. You need predictability, so that people who depend on your work can make future plans (and I'm not talking
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by arnvald 4y ago
I agree with the title, but the article fails to deliver on the essence - saying "points are bureaucracy, backlog is bureaucracy" does not really say what is the problem, it does not explain what's an alternative to backlog t
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When Should You Over-Engineer a Project?(buildthestage.com)
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How to Run an Effective Retrospective(notonlycode.org)
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They didn’t spend time on making their GitHub awesome because the companies they apply to don’t care. GitHub can get you an interview at a big tech company, but you have to go through some Leetcode-type questions to get an offer. It started
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by arnvald 4y ago
> So let me put it plainly: the CTO/VPE/Engineering Director candidate should pass your coding interview. In fact, they should excel. People who work full-time as developers spend hundreds of hours practicing leetcode and hacke
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by arnvald 4y ago
One big reason I see why managers are failing is because nobody really helps them to become good managers. When you move from a developer to EM position, very often all the support you get is "good luck!" and a pat on the back. I&
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by arnvald 4y ago
Yeah, this is a 2022 article that relies on sources from 2020. Prime is now larger than Netflix, and other competitors are not 4x smaller anymore. YouTube is on a completely different level
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by arnvald 4y ago
OP mentioned remote work, I said it's easier to work remotely from Europe for UK/DE companies than US companies, I didn't say anything about relocation. Also not sure when you've heard that stories about Google, but righ
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To get 60k/y you don't even need to work for a US company - it'll be much easier to find something in Germany or UK because of the time zone. Heck, even Polish companies offer this kind of salaries these days (they also post
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by arnvald 4y ago
They're right, recently I've installed some Windows update for my parents and I had to reject like 5 suggested changes - installing Office trial, switching default browser to Edge yet again, and more. But this goes way beyond the
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Haha, for me moving the other direction was shocking. What do you mean the desert is red bean paste? Beans are not sweet! Where's chocolate?! Over time though I got used to it and started enjoying it, now that I live again in Europe I
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Most deadlines in my career so far were arbitrary. Sure, some deadlines were driven by fixed events, for example Christmas promotion has to be launched before Christmas. But in most cases when I asked managers about the reason behind the de
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I've been using Ergodox EZ for 2 years now and I love it. It has a certain learning curve due to columnar layout, but I used this opportunity to change my keyboard layout to Colemak. It took a while to get used to it, but not only I fi
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by arnvald 4y ago
When I work with a framework, let's say Ruby on Rails, and I don't use the build-in ORM, I still use Ruby on Rails. Agile is an idea, a concept. Scrum is a tool (or even a framework, according to its website), and for a tool that&

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