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by dasil003 3y ago
Let me separate your two sentences, because the latter is an immature viewpoint that I wholeheartedly disagree with. WRT what makes software unique is that it’s a rare combination of opaque, hard to evaluate, long-lived, mechanically unforg
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by dasil003 3y ago
I largely agree, but one nitpick is that “let’s not ship the org” is really just a polite way of saying someone is missing the forest for the trees and not making the right overall choice for the system/product.
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by dasil003 3y ago
I dislike the word “passionate” in this context too. You don’t have to be in love with programming, but there definitely are qualities of curiosity, tenacity and pride of workmanship that are very important to high performing software team
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by dasil003 3y ago
I don't understand what you have against robots.txt. It's just a way to signal what you want crawlers to do on your site. It's not complicated or mandatory, but it gives you a way to influence how your site is accessed. I&
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by dasil003 3y ago
Looking both ways is high ROI with very clear outcomes. Solo founding has a much broader set of outcomes. Even just within hireability this can cut both ways.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Totally agree with that, but I don't think regret is warranted. The power of "technical debt" is that it was actually catchy enough to get a foothold with the MBAs and pointy hairs. That alone is a victory. Any sufficiently
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by dasil003 3y ago
The author's insight is fair on a personal level, but the thesis is not very useful as a generalization. The reality is that bugginess and velocity are all relative, and every situation is different. It's good to understand the
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by dasil003 3y ago
Companies don't conduct interviews, people do. You need to be able to ask questions in an inoffensive way, and you might get some meaningful signal back. If you conclude you can't ask hard questions and instead go to Glassdoor t
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by dasil003 3y ago
And people whose goals are to become rich rarely have the intrinsic motivation to ever create anything worthy of market success. Money isn't everything; it's a pretty weak motivator in the grand scheme of things. Yes, the uber-w
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by dasil003 3y ago
I give the author full points for thinking through the problems and trying to mitigate the flaws, clearly he has significant experience and good intent. At the end of the day though, his obsession with quantifying dev performance is doomed
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by dasil003 3y ago
It’s working for me in US central (southern MN)
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by dasil003 3y ago
Why should they? Why does there need to be a dichotomy between doing something good and living in poverty, or else do everything possible to squeeze out the next short-term dollar. It strikes me as a profound failure of imagination to thi
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by dasil003 3y ago
I've been here a while and I think the truth is somewhere in between. HN has grown and shifted somewhat in the process, but ultimately dodged the bullet of cancerous growth. My take is that because HN started as a side-project of a s
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by dasil003 3y ago
The articles content is good, but the framing feels antagonistic. This is reflected in the defensive posture of many comments here, and I believe it comes from a significant percentage of developers never having even seen what a healthy cro
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by dasil003 3y ago
Way to move the goal posts and waltz right past my point without meaningfully engaging. I thought we were talking about engineers making $250k-$400k at big tech companies and what makes people productive. Now you're talking about the
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by dasil003 3y ago
You are correct in terms of raw talent. And I agree, there are a significant number of NNPPs in many teams who could be culled for a net increase in productivity. However what this viewpoint doesn't account for are team dynamics. A s
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by dasil003 3y ago
It's both things. Offering more money increases the inbound applicants dramatically. You want this because top talent is disproportionately likely to have better options and may have a high floor. This does, however, create a non-tr
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by dasil003 3y ago
It's not thankless if you have solid engineers and engineering managers. And if you don't have those things (at least somewhat), they're liable to make a complete mess of things regardless of how good your high-level design
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by dasil003 3y ago
I don't doubt that you've experienced this, but frankly it sounds like amateur hour. At any significant scale, with competent leadership, executives will not have bandwidth to review sprint boards, and are actually looking for th
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by dasil003 3y ago
The reason this happens is because most people just want to know what to do next, and not have to fret over higher order problems which A) require deeper expertise and reflection to analyze and B) they may not have the agency and influence
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by dasil003 3y ago
I feel this comment might go over people's heads if they take the connotation of a "though leader" as someone who makes a mess of things with overcomplicated solutions and then leverages it to greater roles before the consequ
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by dasil003 3y ago
> So you're solving an organizational problem by using gql? Yes, of course! All problems are organizational problems at scale. I have no great love for gql, but painting it as a black and white decision pitting FE velocity again
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by dasil003 3y ago
> We can't simultaneously claim those in the position know best (Cohen's take) and then dismiss their self-perception because it doesn't align with our perception of their role. I submit that not only can we, but we must
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by dasil003 3y ago
The substance is the base, the presentation and storytelling is the multiplier (and yes the latter can be < 1)
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by dasil003 3y ago
This is a solid take, the only thing I'll quibble with is the idea that VC funding is going to dry up. Sure, it will be less for a while, and diligence will be much higher, but there's too much capital sloshing around that will c
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by dasil003 3y ago
Good structure overall and appreciate the summary at the top. For the inline comments more "why" and less "what" would give higher signal-to-noise as a large percentage of that content is adding nothing that basic Java s
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by dasil003 3y ago
By this logic any time you take a job at a business you're being exploited. This seems like a horrible psychological prison to put yourself in.
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by dasil003 3y ago
There is truth in the sense that it is pointless to overwork and ground yourself down, especially in a large corporate environment where recognition is very fickle. It's also totally fair and healthy to value work-life balance and dra
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by dasil003 3y ago
Meh. FE, BE, system, embedded; they all go deep. A good engineer can learn one or more in any order, but only fools look down on a discipline they don't understand.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Bad PMs and biz stakeholders are often the straw men for why deadlines are unreasonable or don't work. But if you take a high performing team with good cross-functional trust, deadlines serve a very valid function as a forcing functio

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