dasil003

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by dasil003 3y ago
Adding a bunch of unnecessary people to a meeting is worse.
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by dasil003 3y ago
yeah I've spent 13+ years in companies of 1-50 engineers, and another 10+ years in larger orgs with thousands of technical staff. Even as a CTO in a small company I still found ways to protect focus time (including telling the CEO to
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by dasil003 3y ago
Telling people off is no good because it reifies your frustration, leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the counter-party and ultimately fails to achieve your goal since it's just one person out of (presumably) many who are pinging you.
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by dasil003 3y ago
This is far from universally true. If it's junior dev to PM then it makes sense you are defining the work of large swathes of people. That said, one of my pet peeves is junior PMs because the role requires significant skill, expertis
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by dasil003 3y ago
You're calling out one specific failure mode: engineering speaking for product (and possibly design, research, data science, etc). But that's just one of many, and in my experience product speaking for engineering is more common
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by dasil003 3y ago
Most likely it's about control, not financials.
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by dasil003 3y ago
> I also think it comes down to the values of the creators of any platform. At what point are they going to sell out and why. That really irks me now. Like everything is in the service of wealth creation as opposed to real value. I thin
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Killing Community(marginalia.nu)
558 points by dasil003 3y ago|442 comments
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sorry, but this mentality is counter-productive and plays right into the hands of oligarchs. Instead of recognizing that wealth and power is increasingly accruing to a smaller and smaller set of uber-wealthy (who pass that wealth on and ot
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by dasil003 3y ago
I’ve also had a handful of good non-technical managers over the decades, and they succeeded by having trust in the right technical people (for whatever reason, sometimes it may have been luck). What I’ve seen more often is non-technical ma
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by dasil003 3y ago
Twitter's problems started with VC investment where they were always compared against Facebook. I don't think Wall Street is much better, but by the time they went public, valuation and growth trajectories were already establishe
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by dasil003 3y ago
I agree it's not self-explanatory. All such pithy statements are only insightful based on hard-won experience behind them—the map is not the territory, after all ;) As far as "strong opinions, weakly held", this is one of my
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by dasil003 3y ago
Meh, Twitter and Reddit monetize just fine with ads. The problem comes in with VC expectations where everything must 1000x or die. These are not bad businesses, they're just small compared to Facebook or Google. What's needed is m
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by dasil003 3y ago
It's not a good point though, because one of the important traits of a good engineering manager is that they understand the work of the ICs they are managing (at least to a reasonable depth).
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by dasil003 3y ago
Your point is that managers are more upwardly mobile, which is fair, but that doesn't mean when you make the switch it is a promotion. G9 IC -> M0 will not increase your salary. It does grant you more power, but that is not a prom
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by dasil003 3y ago
Sure, but big tech pay is comprised substantially of RSUs (like 20-80% of total comp in most cases), which are liquid, and those prices do swing quite a bit which dramatically impacts your take-home. There are tons of people who joined M
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think you’re confusing RSUs with ISOs
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by dasil003 3y ago
> That said, isn’t the point of war also that it’s horrible and barbaric? If war isn’t that anymore, won’t it be much more frequent and casually started as a result? Yes (usually), to the first question. The second begs the question t
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by dasil003 3y ago
Do you usually come for major conventions like Dreamforce or WWDC? Rates and occupancy in SF swing pretty wildly.
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by dasil003 3y ago
That’s the beauty of git though. You can do any workflow you want locally (including with no internet) and slice and dice however you need to push your work back to the team.
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by dasil003 3y ago
You’re not wrong, but I think it’s mostly a result of bad porcelain. I did 8 years of CVS and SVN at the beginning of my career, and I remember viscerally how within 6 months I understood the internal behavior of git better than I ever did
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by dasil003 3y ago
Once when I was young I mentioned something about being smart. My dad asked, "what makes you think you are smart?" In my youthful arrogance I didn't have an answer, but the question stuck with me, especially in light of all
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by dasil003 3y ago
It took me 8 years to get my BS degree. I would say that when I started I just didn't have the discipline to buckle down and do the work. My personality tends contrarian, so there is something about our Victorian education system tha
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by dasil003 3y ago
> Welcome to the software development world" only to find out they've been working as a software developer for over a year and a half already. Ugh, you think 18 months is a long time? Programming is hard, just the technical
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by dasil003 3y ago
Who has the necessary resources to run, let alone train the model?
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by dasil003 3y ago
In order to be successful, ambitious people need to differentiate their actual abilities from external perceptions of those abilities. The hard work you put in maximizes your individual potential, but it doesn't guarantee that you
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by dasil003 3y ago
Yes, and interviewing in general. You think that’s a lot of work to get your foot in the door and $500k+ in a relatively cushy salaried position and top tech brand name on your resume?
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by dasil003 3y ago
I think these platitudes are just mental hacks people use to manage their emotions. Emotional responses are valuable information, but only up to a point. If you dwell on emotions and allow them to become the basis of narratives about your
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by dasil003 3y ago
Let's be honest here: remote and in-person is a major tradeoff with significant pros and cons on both sides. Remote work increases your talent pool by 5 orders of magnitude and removes commute overhead, but in-person work increases yo
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by dasil003 3y ago
In the US I was recommended this: https://refluxgourmet.com/ and have to say it worked reasonably well for me.

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