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by dasil003 4y ago
Not many at Google receive that much in their offer letter, but with the stock appreciation over the last decade and stacked refresher grants, I'd be willing to wager there were thousands making >$1M as of Nov 2021 (many fewer since
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by dasil003 4y ago
Totally agree with your last point. There's just not enough information in the post to really assess what's happening with any accuracy. It's open to wild speculation. On one extreme the manager could be putting a toxic le
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by dasil003 4y ago
I would be very curious to hear from a Fastmail rep on this as my demo account never did anything like this to my recollection, though that was a long time ago at this point and I’ve been a happy subscriber for 5+ years.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Please take this the right way because I see many aspects of my personality in your post and I’m coming from a place of love: the way you phrased this is full of self-loathing. People being arrogant or submissive is not necessarily a “compl
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by dasil003 4y ago
I hate to break this to you, but the decline of company-employee loyalty started 40 years ago, and even before that it only existed as a result of unprecedented post-war prosperity and lack of global competition. This doesn't mean that
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by dasil003 4y ago
Hm, I think the author has got the causality wrong here. The direction of the tech industry is not a result of learning style. Rather, the tech industry goes in the direction of the incentives presented to it, which are largely capitalist
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by dasil003 4y ago
Reasonable people can disagree about what is the right response to a pandemic with potentially deadly and long-term health implications. This is categorically not the same as a wealth and power disparity so large that it reduces "99.9
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by dasil003 4y ago
Who's building these robo armies and maintaining the supply chain? All automated you say? Sorry, I think that's the pipe dream of privilege software engineers and armchair dystopians. In practice, there are too many opportuniti
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by dasil003 4y ago
Why will this not lead to revolution?
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by dasil003 4y ago
My gut instinct is that it will not be an advantage in any kind of knowledge work, because you need ICs to do deep work with enough agency to make the right local decisions. Even if you are very smart, dictating based on an abstract high-le
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by dasil003 4y ago
How do you organize teams if not around services? As the GP points out, the whole point of SOA is to scale people. Yes, this makes rearchitecture hard, but that is always the case at scale. The problem of territoriality and resistance
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by dasil003 4y ago
I would say a lot of this is just the nature of online discourse that allows the loudmouths, blowhards and nitpickers to have their way while more balanced people disengage because it just isn’t worth it for them. This dynamic can be seen
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by dasil003 4y ago
In any large company there is the official HR hierarchy and then the informal collaboration graph of how work actually gets done. The former is necessary to coordinate coarse-grained decision making, policy and vision that needs to be unifi
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yes, the pursuit of scale at all costs is what has led traditional social media to become such a dumpster fire. Is Mastodon the answer? I’m not sure, but it’s a legitimately interesting experiment at the very least.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Engineering managers exist to ensure the company is getting sufficient value out of the hundreds of thousands they’re paying for each software engineer. If goals were always crystal clear and every SWE always had a good sense of how their
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by dasil003 4y ago
I disagree pretty strongly that tact is a form of dishonesty. Being tactful does not mean dancing around the issue or feeding someone a line of bullshit. It simply means communicating in a way that's less likely to make someone defen
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by dasil003 4y ago
Great post overall, and great advice on picking your game. What I would add is: sometimes the thing which you want to do can't be done without some engagement in a game you don't like. It doesn't mean you have to give in and
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by dasil003 4y ago
This makes sense in terms of VC (not to mention broader crypto investors who got hung out to dry by SBF's ponzi scheme), but as far as employment is concerned I am not convinced that crypto represents anything like the marketshare of w
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by dasil003 4y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that in the Dotcom bubble, the web was brand new. On the talent side, we were still figuring everything out. Most software engineers were used to either desktop app development, or expensive enterprise server d
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by dasil003 4y ago
LOL at the idea of JS frameworks having staying power. Is this GPT?
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by dasil003 4y ago
You're right Terraform is not cloud-agnostic in terms of resources, but I'd argue you wouldn't really want a truly cloud-agnostic configurator at the resource level as it would be far too leaky an abstraction to have any reli
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by dasil003 4y ago
Merging. Sure you can “branch” on svn but you merge at your own risk.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. The first rule of social network is that it's useless without many people on it, and there has to be some hook to get them in. But you won't figure that out just by thinking about it and
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by dasil003 4y ago
Meh. This is a lot of words to express a mentality that may be more pithily summed up by the idiom "it's a poor craftsman that blames his tools". I happen to agree, but I don't see any value in convincing the world it&
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by dasil003 4y ago
Another Hacker News thing is the middle-brow dismissal. It's not really a fair comparison between a centralized product optimized for engagement and a distributed protocol that can be used in lots of different ways. Sure, the world do
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by dasil003 4y ago
It really doesn't work that way, for several reasons. First, you can't predict what will happen with the economy vis-a-vis your investments and cost-of-living. Sure there are rules of thumb, but depending your age and the current
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by dasil003 4y ago
I also had this problem—with the same stack—but the issue was quite subtle. It was due to an upgrade of the Money gem that changed the way "cents" were handled. In our case we had test coverage, including integration tests with V
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by dasil003 4y ago
> The problem here is that it's missing the "glue" to more real world applications. This is where more humdrum software engineering comes in. This is a bold statement. The world does not function based on "well-def
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by dasil003 4y ago
Or just rent for a couple years and save up enough to buy a house elsewhere in cash.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm a bit older and I would never describe myself as a lifer. Capitalism is brutal and corporations are not capable of loyalty, so it's not a psychological position I want to be in. That said, I also don't put a time limit o

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