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by bb88 3y ago
Sure, but I feel it's easier to teach management skills to technical person, than it is to teach tech to someone that's only been in management.
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by bb88 3y ago
Then what exactly is the non technical manager's added value? He has no experience to lead the team in high pressure situations. Like production being down. He can't truly have a first person understanding of the work of the peop
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by bb88 3y ago
Guido is still involved, but he's no longer the BDFL.
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by bb88 3y ago
The head of surgery should be a surgeon, not an accounting manager. The head of accounting should be an accountant, not a surgeon. And even at the executive level of a hospital, you would want people who have spent their careers in healthca
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by bb88 3y ago
That's where failed software devs / management go to.
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by bb88 3y ago
Exactly!
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by bb88 3y ago
Well... here's a thought experiment. Let's say you have a bunch of school children and architects create a skyscraper. I've given both groups the process to design a skyscraper. So in both cases, I should end up with a safe
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by bb88 3y ago
You might enjoy this. I have a pin that blinks "AOA Disagree". Back when I flew regularly before covid, I was tempted to create a bunch of these and hand them out to the flight crew for the flights I flew on.
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by bb88 3y ago
Who's gaslighting who? I recall a certain January 6 even to which the convicted criminals Elaine Stefanik refers to as "Hostages". Who are you talking about?
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by bb88 3y ago
> Totalling 6 deaths. In 10 years of US commercial carrier aviation. Okay, awesome. But how much of that was luck with the 737 Max that they didn't crash on US soil by US airlines?
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by bb88 3y ago
> Ideally we’d always have good software teams, but in the real world sometimes you have to build software with bad teams. Here's a real, perhaps unexpected counterpoint. Say you have a good software team. How do they build good s
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by bb88 3y ago
Here's a stupid question: How do you know your process is good unless you inspect it? "Hey Bob I know you're a competent engineer, but don't worry about specifying a certain type of bolt or loctite, the untrained asse
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by bb88 3y ago
It depends. 1% of 10000 is 100. .01% is 1. If someone came up to me and said, "Hey I can save you 99% of expected costs with 1% of your profit.", I might go for it.
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by bb88 3y ago
And the other believes in a violent overthrow of congress because they can't string words together in a coherent thought to convince the other side? I thought one of the benefits to the US was a "marketplace of ideas".
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by bb88 3y ago
I think you can be skeptical of Democrats as well as Republicans. Here's a for instance: In ruby red Idaho, where I live, Mike Lindell said that votes were switched from Trump to Biden. [1] Trump won with 64 % of the vote in Idaho. G
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by bb88 3y ago
> Good software teams build quality into projects by introducing continuous integration, unit testing, creating feedback, and tightening these feedback loops. No. Good software teams are led by competent, technical management. Managers
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by bb88 3y ago
The cynic in me suggests that one of the political parties in the US doesn't really want the population well educated. I also feel "fact check via google" is also the wrong way to go about it, because google just spits out wh
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by bb88 3y ago
Is this just using HN for marketing? Prove me wrong.
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by bb88 3y ago
I actually recommend working for a non-tech company (F500, financial or otherwise) and then start to evaluate what's broken. You'll find things like website development, a need for lightweight CRM, regulatory needs, accounting, et
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by bb88 3y ago
> Going after dealers just doesn't fucking work. I may get downvoted for this, but... I for one believe that drug dealers are still the scum of society using people's own biology for profit. This isn't any different than
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by bb88 3y ago
I actually kinda thought that Google should have made Go the default language for android. It could have been a compelling argument to the rest of the world as a reason to use it as a systems language. It's feels like they didn't
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by bb88 3y ago
Also to further your point: consider blood diamonds, mining of toxic substances, lead batteries, plastic in the oceans, etc.
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by bb88 3y ago
One just needs to look at the history of drugs in America to come to that conclusion. People often do crimes they wouldn't do if they weren't hyped up on drugs -- and that affects people who don't do drugs. Now the question
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by bb88 3y ago
I think you're missing the point here. Duck typing with python (e.g.) makes it easy to mock a class. One can subclass a Java class to make a mock, etc. One can't do that in golang unless it's through an interface which then
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by bb88 3y ago
I've always thought the best languages were just a step up from another language. C with garbage collection that compiled natively and had a sane FFI to C would be a good addition. Add a decent library to get work done quickly and you
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by bb88 3y ago
> But do the bugs get to production? That was my question. Yes, in my case anyway. That code didn't have any unit tests around it. Goland didn't flag it. It's a pattern that was "surprising" to me at least. P
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by bb88 3y ago
Golang "punishes" you for wanting to write a unit test around code. You need to refactor it to use an interface just to unit test it.
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by bb88 3y ago
If one chunk of code depends upon one and only one other chunk of code, then forcing the programmer to put an interface between them for unit testing does a disservice to the programmer. I really do prefer languages that make it easy to wri
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by bb88 3y ago
> but I've often heard Go described as taking the programming language advances over the last 50 years and throwing them away. That's by design, right? Go is very opinionated. They looked at other languages that they hated, e
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by bb88 3y ago
That was the Java solution as well circa late 1990's. But in many cases that's true of python, and other languages. It's just easier if you can install a native library rather than one with a cumbersome build process.

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