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by dasil003 4y ago
If you just stumble upon something like this you're right to be skeptical. Definitely the tech boom has lead to peak "hustler culture" as you put it, and you can't really take anything you read on the internet at face v
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by dasil003 4y ago
Qualifications are not the same as roles. A manager may or may not be qualified to provide IC mentorship. A more senior IC should be, but good mentorship does not automatically flow from being a good engineer, and there can be a fine line
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by dasil003 4y ago
I agree that software engineers need to understand the product and take more responsibility in its definition. I believe this has regressed compared to early professional programming norms as computers and especially smart phones have beco
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by dasil003 4y ago
This assumes you know where you are going. All code is a liability and all architecture decisions are tradeoffs.
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by dasil003 4y ago
The GP is undermining their own point by even mentioning “5x, opening the door to think about this in linear terms. But the concept of a “10x engineer” was never about how fast they produce code, and the multiplier was never a fixed number
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Unfortunately, this is a losing strategy in corporate environments and you will be outcompeted and replaced by relatively average and territorial status seekers. This is not universally true. I would agree that overall things trend
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm sure they also have an airtight statistical regression to determine how annoyed people will be when it's happening 30 times a day!
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by dasil003 4y ago
> my wife cooked the family dog for dinner Well, have you considered that maybe the dog wanted to be cooked? Perhaps he was tired of living in the backyard and aspired to be a delicious meal. Plus, your wife is just trying to be resour
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by dasil003 4y ago
Agree there are a lot of bad managers out there, a decade of tech bull market and hyper growth didn’t help. Not sure why you think expectations and interview standards are lower for managers in general though. For me, managers have a much
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by dasil003 4y ago
As a teenager at the time, there was a palpable feeling of being part of a counter-culture that was on the bleeding edge of an inevitable future which adults simply could not grok. That world definitely ain't coming back, in large par
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by dasil003 4y ago
All software is subject to shifting environments over time that will eventually render it obsolete. How fast this happens really depends on the ecosystem—it's a function of the abstraction level and context in which it runs. C or Go
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by dasil003 4y ago
Right. "Time only moves in one direction" is not saying much more than "our consciousness experience time moving in one direction". The very idea that time "moves" is entirely related to our vantage point. I
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by dasil003 4y ago
What happened to the executives, board, and shareholders? I honestly don't know as I haven't followed that closely, but to me those are the most important three questions, and in that order, because that determines the level of m
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by dasil003 4y ago
> I don't think you can separate the principle from its misapplication. In practice you are right, but this is just part of the human condition. There is no substitute for experience. Wisdom can’t be taught. The map is not the
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by dasil003 4y ago
I think you're misinterpreting what the GP is saying. It's an organization, and those at the top bear responsibility regardless of how decisions are made internally (and there's no way those executives are making decisions w
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by dasil003 4y ago
I was with you until the last sentence. Why the vitriol? This is fundamentally a hard problem and I have a hard time defining an attitude towards climate change that I feel 100% good about.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Joining Stripe at 600 was not that kind of bet. It was significantly derisked by that point was really a question of how far that early momentum could carry them.
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by dasil003 4y ago
What do you mean? It's a market. Knowing the money is there does not magically make it get paid out to employees.
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by dasil003 4y ago
> everyone is aware of what went wrong This is never true past a certain company size threshold, and even for smaller companies once you start asking the "five whys" you see there is never just one root cause. Even for strai
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by dasil003 4y ago
That's certainly your prerogative, and we all have to draw the line somewhere in terms of interviewer demands. Personally a reasonable homework assignment (like 2-3 hours tops) is less annoying than multiple 6+ hour interview panels s
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by dasil003 4y ago
People are so obsessed with being right that they’re unwilling to be wrong. It undercuts your whole vision.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yes, but that read is a bit cynical. I think it's totally reasonable to create some tool that any college student or tinkerer can use to get a cool idea off the ground, but also want to get paid when it's leveraged to significant
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by dasil003 4y ago
1000 times this. Any management system is only as good as its practitioners. The most talented managers and leaders tend to be good communicators, and so there are hundreds and thousands of great books on management philosophy, systems, t
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by dasil003 4y ago
Even as someone who is in charge, it can be incredibly difficult to effect change once this type of culture is established. The only way it can happen is if enough people know it's wrong up and down the chain and are able to conscious
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by dasil003 4y ago
While it's true that in practice most programmers are bricklayers (especially given the growth of the industry leading to a young-skewing population), that doesn't invalidate the GP's thesis that domain expertise is a good le
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by dasil003 4y ago
If your argument is that a configurable framework is easier than code gen for beginners, I agree. But that said, you don’t seem to be acknowledging the fundamental tradeoff which cuts both ways. Ultimately it depends on how close you want
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by dasil003 4y ago
It’s wishful thinking that humans could somehow shift their essential being to some digital frontier independent of crufty “old world” governments. That’s not how power works. We are still earthly beings bound to place, and thus subject t
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by dasil003 4y ago
Great point, and well stated. In many ways the web is the last great open-protocol success, and the only one I can think of push its way all the way up the presentation layer. Kind of miraculous when you think about it.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Not sure where I implied that web magically solves all cross-platform problems. In fact I went out of my way to underline the gaps using phrases like "worse is better" and "accepting that reality". So while I was never
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by dasil003 4y ago
One of the things that's exciting to me about local-first web development is how it bridges the gap between a full-blown native app and full-blown web service. Native apps have high install friction and a lot of nasty cross-platform tr

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