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by dasil003 1y ago
I think you misunderstand how two-side consumer marketplaces are bootstrapped from a startup perspective. It's not really about cost of development or legal compliance. Initially it's just about getting users on both sides of th
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by dasil003 1y ago
> I get this, but the moment this "feeling" comes up during my 9-5 I nip it in the bud I hear this sentiment a lot, and after 25 years in the software industry I have a visceral understanding of why it is the appropriate respon
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by dasil003 1y ago
What does loyalty have to do with the quality of your work? I’m all for boundaries by the way, not overworking etc, but my “best” work tends to come out unpredictably when the conditions are right. The people and project matter, but the fa
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by dasil003 1y ago
I agree with your first paragraph, but I don’t really like the exploitation framing for tech jobs. Sure there is exploitation but there is also a lot of rest and vest going on. When you look at who’s delivering value in software it’s very
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by dasil003 1y ago
Loyalty to a corporation is misplaced because it can only be as loyal as its agents are, and those are numerous and constantly shifting. I think its fine to be loyal to individuals that have earned it, but don’t make the mistake of thinking
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by dasil003 1y ago
It's true that employees will always be a line item (in the eyes of the board/shareholders anyway), but I don't think this story really demonstrates that. Mostly it demonstrates a breakdown of trust between the author and hi
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by dasil003 2y ago
This whole post-developer idea is a red herring fueled by investor optics. The reality is AI will change how software is built, but it's still just a tool that requires the same type of precise thinking that software developers do. Yo
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah if you’re installing an uneven pane where would you orient the thick side?
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by dasil003 2y ago
Thinking is moot though. What’s going on at the moment is about Trumps raw power. As much as the markets prefer stability, everything is relative, so he still has the power to move the markets just by signaling different things moment to
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by dasil003 2y ago
As a hiring manager with over two decades experience I tend not to think this way unless I know who the other hiring manager is, have reason to believe that they are strong at hiring, and that the role they are hiring for is similar enoug
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by dasil003 2y ago
How old was this guy in 2016, because it kinda reads like advice from a 25 year old. Not terrible advice by any means but definitely reflective of a specific influencer type of mindset that may or may not apply to other young people. Not
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by dasil003 2y ago
I agree strongly with your second two paragraphs, but I'm going to push back on the oft-repeated meme that software engineering is not real engineering because it doesn't have the same disciplined approach as physical engineering
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by dasil003 2y ago
Kids are spectacularly good at recognizing what’s unfair to them , just not so much at recognizing what’s unfair to others
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by dasil003 2y ago
With 25 years experience, the other thing is environments vary a lot, even within a single company. Things can be dysfunctional for lots of reasons, sometimes due to individual incompetence at various points in the hierarchy, or just syste
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by dasil003 2y ago
fuck those apps though, seriously
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by dasil003 2y ago
The only problem is that telecommuting is not a new buzzword, it was all the hype in 90s/00s, which is probably reason enough to pick a new word.
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by dasil003 2y ago
So you don't think people should have kids, that's a fair viewpoint, I don't begrudge you that. But you responded to a thread where someone was expressing the considerations they have about why being laid off is personally sc
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by dasil003 2y ago
That's a pretty weird and heartless thing to say. Having children is not a vice that deserves to be judged anymore than not having kids is. I could enumerate why fewer kids is bad for our collective future as a whole, but I won&#x2
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by dasil003 2y ago
Maybe Socrates was correct? I certainly think Google has damaged my memory, or maybe just age, hard to say.
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by dasil003 2y ago
I tend to agree with your assessment of this post, however as you rise up as a manager and possibly executive, one of the most highly valued behaviors is responsiveness. Knowing things and responding quickly, even after hours, can grease a
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by dasil003 2y ago
I’m not sure in what world domains aren’t a meaningful security boundary, but cross-origin prevention is absolutely necessary in a world with private web apps and scriptable browsers. Maybe you are of the opinion that the web should have st
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by dasil003 2y ago
Two decades in I still love ruby and rails, but I’m a bit surprised that the subculture promoting aesthetic perfection of code via over-wrought DSLs is still this strong. Haven’t we learned anything about pragmatism since 2009?
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by dasil003 2y ago
It's related because you said "you can't rule out luck" which is basically casting doubt on the whole idea of hard work having an impact on success. Well, no reasonable person would say hard work guarantees success, or
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by dasil003 2y ago
if you put a link in your profile here you might get 11
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by dasil003 2y ago
There can’t and shouldn’t be a clean separation between deciders and doers. The whole point of incident response is you don’t know exactly what needs to be done, so you do need a mix of people to help figure it out. And the people proposi
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah but he shined it up pretty nice, that’s a real talent. I guess Facebook was shinier than MySpace in a corporate kind of way, but it was a pretty low bar
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by dasil003 2y ago
So confident and so wrong. The microphysics of pinball are critical to the game, consider the live catch ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjALq96jpJQ ). It's impossible to see with the naked eye, but the reason it wor
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by dasil003 2y ago
Yeah I used it at my first job in 2000 which was essentially a webmaster job my local college. But 2001 we were already moving away from it as we started to embed PHP here and there, and eventually start building full-blown apps inline int
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by dasil003 2y ago
I don't think hacker culture is going away, I think it's just drowned out by software eating the world in a capitalist economy. It used to be that software and computers in general didn't pay any better than any other white
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by dasil003 2y ago
This is a ridiculously shallow article all based on arguing against a strawman that teaching financial literacy will, on its own, lead students to make wise money decisions. Yeah, no shit. It's well understood that classroom education

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