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by dasil003 3y ago
That's a flippant dismissal of my point. I'm not talking about chaos. I'm talking about truly difficult situations, like the team not having the skills to meet management expectations, or a dysfunctional dynamics where produc
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by dasil003 3y ago
The difficulty an EM job depends a lot on the situation. If you have a strong and healthy team with sufficient skill and technical chops then it's mostly about staying out the way. On the other hand, if you have a weak team surrounde
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by dasil003 3y ago
This article is extremely weak, pandering to engineers beset by clueless pointy-hair antics, without acknowledging that engineers can suffer from their own blind spots, regardless of whether stakeholders have the technical background to und
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by dasil003 3y ago
You can do it tiny horse! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEA2lEXou8A
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by dasil003 3y ago
Org charts tend to change faster than services can possibly be re-architected in a large scale system that is growing quickly. Honestly you need a critical mass of engineers who can think end-to-end with a product and business-first mental
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by dasil003 3y ago
You’re likely an exceptional saver by American standards.
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by dasil003 3y ago
The framing is guaranteed to draw downvotes because many here are doing all they can to resist enshitification, even within FAANG, but unfortunately large corporations will always bend towards profits and the average consumer will always be
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by dasil003 3y ago
> None in principle, at least if you take the common definition of bullshit as saying things for effect, without caring whether they're true or false. Maybe splitting hairs, but I’d argue that the bullshitter is reasoning about wh
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by dasil003 3y ago
On the other hand, I move a lot more doing the equivalent work in an office (kitchen and bathroom are farther, need to go to far flung conference rooms for meetings). Even more from the commute since I go by bicycle.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Definitely an interesting analogy, I find it uncharitable towards the state of software engineering though. Whereas alchemy/chemistry had to unlock a model of the microscopic world based on observation of the macro world we were born
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by dasil003 3y ago
I would strike the word "software" out of the title. To get anything done requires the people with right expertise, clear goals, and roles mapping between them. At some scale communication and coordination becomes a problem, at
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by dasil003 3y ago
On the other hand if you eat rancid coconut oil you’ll know
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by dasil003 3y ago
Whenever these discussions come up, a large contingent of commenters talks about how much headcount a company or product “needs”. But that’s not how growing tech companies are resourced. They hire based on what they can afford, in order t
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by dasil003 3y ago
What is “real”? Well, it’s just an idea… really
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think the reason feature flags are never removed is because the timeframe that a given feature-flag is top-of-mind is also when it's at its most useful. Later when it's calcified in place and the off-state may be broken/at
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by dasil003 3y ago
I would love to own a Stars, such a great game when well maintained. Very simple playfield but good progression and opportunity for bank shots and unconventional nudging once you get a read on the particular machines setup and angles.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure, but this is a degenerate case of bad management. Leaving aside bad management and rigid role definitions aside for the moment, I think it’s fair to say that getting the requirements and tradeoffs right is the hardest part of Product&
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure it’s shortsighted, but we’re all shortsighted, that’s the human condition. We can’t know all ends, which is why experience and judgement matter. The worst thing you could do is handwring over it though. Gather whatever data you can
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by dasil003 3y ago
This is an overly cynical take. It’s not either/or. Meeting more people just means being exposed to more first hand information in both directions. It gives more surface area for serendipity to strike. It’s nice to imagine that al
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by dasil003 3y ago
Depends on whether they truly take on the risk. Interestingly I can’t clearly tell from a quick google who exactly ended up holding the bag here, and what became of upper management.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Every language does, I think it comes with the territory of any domain where fine details matter. The trick is to cultivate your own opinions and approach to excellence, but recognize there are a lot of different things to optimize for, an
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by dasil003 3y ago
Your opening is mostly right, but your conclusion is wrong. Booking.com optimizes for availability for a variety of reasons. The most important is that they are fighting for market share in real time for every room night. Hotels tend to
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by dasil003 3y ago
Well stated. Cynicism can prevent you from being scammed, but it won’t help you succeed in any active endeavor. At its root, I think cynicism comes from being repeatedly disappointed by how things turn out and creating a defense mechanism
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by dasil003 3y ago
I find this kind of article pointlessly inflammatory. Oh, some aggregation of nameless finance chiefs want more workers in the office, what does the proletariat think of that!? This just breeds division and blanket accusations. Meanwhile,
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by dasil003 3y ago
Yeah this was my thought as well. If you’re paid to maintain software you have to actually do the work to keep up to date on its dependencies—that’s the job! We’ve seen the alternative play out countless times, GitHub forking Rails 2.3 an
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by dasil003 3y ago
Build things! This solidifies knowledge in a way exams never will.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Individual agency granted in proportion to expertise. If the ambitions exceed the teams expertise than no process will save you.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure, but where are you going to find the combination of trust as well as the momentum of powerful interests combined upside risk appetite? There will be some other winners out there for sure, but how do you pick 'em? And even if you
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by dasil003 3y ago
This is a keen observation and 100% true. A lot of people (both engineers and managers) willingly align behind this regime because the system gives them ostensible clarity on what they need to do, and a paper trail to show how hard they&#x
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by dasil003 3y ago
> I’d also note that not everyone wants to work in a startup environment or are able to. Many engineers got into it for a good paycheck and don’t have much interest in anything particularly dynamic or engaging. This is an excellent poi

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