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by dasil003 3y ago
Got news for you. Being a good leader or manager doesn’t come natural to anyone out of the gate. Sure some people have certain advantageous traits, but they probably aren’t what you think they are. For instance, you might assume charisma
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by dasil003 3y ago
The energy is palpable, and I wouldn’t bet against someone that works this hard. That said, the mindset seems to fundamentally be about recognition and pleasing others versus being obsessed with solving a particular problem. I think it’s
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by dasil003 3y ago
Wow, even though I already had over a decade experience under my belt at the time this was written, it still feels hopelessly archaic. Granted, the problems outlined were (and probably still are) real at certain types of companies, but the
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by dasil003 3y ago
I've played pinball for most of my life, and definitely agree with this. At a certain point the physicality is not reproducible—there are too many layers to it. No two machines are identical, and they change over time. The state of
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by dasil003 3y ago
I was thinking of common server-based applications serving millions of clients. Obviously lower-level applications that must run on a single box need different techniques to encapsulate logic and enable scaling of their teams.
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by dasil003 3y ago
You're right that factoring into services should be based on natural domain boundaries. That said, it feels like a bit of a strawman to suggest that people are driving their architecture with naive math like this. I've definitely
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by dasil003 3y ago
“Telling the truth” implies two things: that the actual effort needed is fixed, and that you know it. In practice I’ve found neither of those things to be anywhere close to true for large projects. Furthermore the pursuit of accuracy by do
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by dasil003 3y ago
Investors did lose their money. Depositors did not.
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by dasil003 3y ago
Definitely agree that this kind of media narrative is ChatGPT-level of arbitrary free association that leads to completely nonsensical conclusions. You're also right that FB is still a strong resume signal. That said, I think FAANG r
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by dasil003 3y ago
What's an example of a framework that meets this bar? In my experience, the messiness is generally a function of scope, team size and technical ability. Some languages / frameworks give you better or worse tools for managing that
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by dasil003 4y ago
Word-for-word? Really? Sorry, I just don't understand your point. Are you saying merchants in the 1700s didn't believe insurance outcomes were quantifiable? Or are you saying that software engineering output is quantifiable?
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Assume for a second that a study of deep relevance to practitioners is replicated, and its conclusions accepted by the research community. It has large sample sizes, a beautiful research plan, a statistically sound system for controll
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by dasil003 4y ago
Okay, that's fair
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by dasil003 4y ago
IMHO you should engage directly with the reason people are opposed rather than just seeking to label them hypocritical based on implicit reasons. In this case you believe high density housing is more important than their property value; eit
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by dasil003 4y ago
Feels like a rhetorical trap. It's easy to brand someone "a nimby" because by nature people will care more about the building of things the closer they are to them. However it's just pointless dunking that doesn't
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by dasil003 4y ago
As the cofounder of a streaming service with a 4-letter all-caps name that was misspelled 80% of the time in media coverage, I feel their pain. But also, they can pry my legos from my cold dead hands.
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by dasil003 4y ago
The key is to look at the ripples around the birds leg
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is utopian thinking that disregards how software ecosystems actually work in practice. Take the opening sentence: > In the world of mobile development (though likely also elsewhere), we sink so much engineering talent into making
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by dasil003 4y ago
Everyone sharp was not on Twitter, there was always a majority that were not. Like I said, in terms of a single platform it was a high water mark, but it is incredible confirmation bias to claim that everyone sharp went to Twitter.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I disagree that "the right people" are on Twitter. I will grant that Twitter has historically been the high water mark for having the largest number of those people in one place, and also that a disproportionate number of people
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by dasil003 4y ago
Very true. The thing that really helped me as I got into the third decade of my career was the realization that things can always be improved, but only if agency and accountability go hand-in-hand, and are widely distributed so that everyo
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by dasil003 4y ago
I think this comment is spot on. Another thing I’ll add: building something successful enough to be sustainable is incredibly difficult, especially when market value for SWEs is established by a few winner-take-all disruptions that panned
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by dasil003 4y ago
In many cases I believe this is caused by cargo culting big company practices and not realizing how fast you can move at smaller scale by cutting out unnecessary ceremony and empowering those who prioritize building and learning over talkin
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by dasil003 4y ago
I do suspect it's true that there are more web developers (frontend or fullstack) laid off than any other category, but that is likely a result of much higher demand, given that A) web had a decade+ head start on mobile and B) the app
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is not a religious issue for me, as I stated I don't have the information to judge the situation, my goal was just to reflect how your initial message struck me as someone who has been in software engineering for 25 year and seen
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by dasil003 4y ago
> I am saying having to deal with things like your manager asking you to force your team to come to work becase he wants to see the office alive, but not bothering to take the responsibility on the decision. Moving up the ladder means
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by dasil003 4y ago
> the higher you get in the ladder, the more people are obsessed by "just following the process" This is definitely not universally true, and it's a red flag if you're hearing it a lot. The tricky part is understan
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by dasil003 4y ago
I disagree. Humans are still human, full of problems of our own making. While the singularity promises to make more and more labor irrelevant (especially most forms of knowledge work), we are still responsible for our own future. Those w
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by dasil003 4y ago
On a personal level I agree, but the manager responsible for dealing with changing requirements will not get very far by telling people to manage their emotions better. It will come off as condescending and likely make morale even worse.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I don't disagree, but micromanagement is a loaded term with a negative connotation to begin with. The fact is, whether a certain manager or tech lead behavior is considered micromanagement is highly dependent on the IC's experien

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