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by dasil003 4y ago
thank god this one was never forced to exist: https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/06/cat2785.jpg
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by dasil003 4y ago
Seriously? Is this the nit you're going to pick on to argue my thesis? Yes, I have been privy to the pain of custom home builds and remodels. The difference is, when someone says "oh damn the plumbing isn't working as well
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by dasil003 4y ago
Exactly this. That is why the Agile Manifesto said to favor "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". The problem is that approach only works when you have a team of experts with clear goals and enough space to ad
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yes all large projects have risks, however it's ridiculous to say there's nothing unique about software. How often does a nail in one corner of a building become a dependency for a bunch of elements clear on the other side? How
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by dasil003 4y ago
Why would you expect there to be some unifying theory of inflation? It's an emergent phenomenon resulting from the actions of many individual actors. I'm quite sure the people raising the prices every week had no idea how much c
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by dasil003 4y ago
There’s also a tipping point where inflation is self propelled because everyone is used to it so they just proactively raise prices on a regular basis. I experienced this growing up in Brazil in the 80s and 90s. It’s hard for Americans to
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by dasil003 4y ago
I think the question is whether building all these cool things actually makes life better or if the larger effect ends up being net negative a la Facebook.
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by dasil003 4y ago
> For engineering orgs the size of Snap’s things take longer and having more people very often does solve the velocity problem Your comment is totally fair. I will say though, that the impact of having more people is a function of how
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by dasil003 4y ago
“Should” doesn’t really enter into it though. And in any case it’s impossible to attribute impact in that way since the money tends to come from a few huge engines that are not sensitive to individual hires. At the end of the day, tech sa
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by dasil003 4y ago
> from a Snap survivor: ”So it’s frustrating; they expect us to still go out and win with these products, yet we have fewer resources.” I don’t know what function this is it their manager is telling them, but this quote really reflects
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by dasil003 4y ago
All outsized successes look like low-hanging fruit with the benefit of hindsight. If you cherry-pick the biggest business success in any 20 year span throughout the industrial/information ages, I’m sure you will find the initial path
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by dasil003 4y ago
I agree with you, and also with the GP. Given this is HN, I read that comment as assuming an entrepreneurial disposition, one wants to "change the world". It's easy to imagine how one might want things to be, imagine steps t
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by dasil003 4y ago
Agree with you 100%. But note that my comment was not about industry or domain data, it was specifically about the data this article used to suggest solo founding is better than cofounding.
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by dasil003 4y ago
A lot of talk here about the flaws in the study. I gotta say, founding a startup is not a numbers game, if you see it that way you've already lost. It's about the founder(s): their vision, their judgement, their force-of-will, a
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by dasil003 4y ago
The point is home equity is value you own. You can get money out a lot of ways: relocating, downsizing, reverse mortgage. With rent you are out on your ass with nothing the moment you stop paying.
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by dasil003 4y ago
The difference is with waiting tables you are living hand to mouth. When you’re making $450k, it just takes a little bit of discipline to build up a huge nest egg and then move somewhere way cheaper to up your standard of living.
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by dasil003 4y ago
The title is clickbait that does the article a disservice. Bitcoin is a sideshow. Twitters biggest problem historically has been Jack's absentee style. His behavior has been the epitome of trust but don't verify, which really i
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by dasil003 4y ago
It's true that some people want to dominate others regardless what course of action would give the best outcome. I don't think the modern knowledge economy—especially Tech—is particularly rewarding for these folks though. Modern
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by dasil003 4y ago
Not sure, but a car with good physical controls might jump to the top of the list.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I acknowledge the reductiveness of what I'm saying, but it's absolutely not transactional. To the contrary, understanding and distilling broad contexts from which you have only partial visibility is incredibly difficult work and
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is so generic as to be useless. A great manager can read this and nod along to most of the ideas. A terrible manager can cargo cult everything here and claim to be doing a great job. Broadly speaking, there are two reasons managers f
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by dasil003 4y ago
I like the way you stated this. Just as the right technical solution is contextual, so are the leadership requirements. I will say that a CTO of a large company has to have a really good read on the technical constraints. Whether this is
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by dasil003 4y ago
It's crazy what a 14-year bull market capped off with a WFH tech-boosting pandemic will do to SWE salary expectations. In these conditions, market rate outpaced wage increases at most companies, so you would need to hop to keep up. Ho
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by dasil003 4y ago
Here's the rub: the "bad situation" you are in is not independent of you as an individual. When you're young and early career you simply don't have the experience to judge what is good or bad (this is one of the re
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by dasil003 4y ago
Employers want you to care about those things though, especially as you become more senior. That doesn't mean you have dedicate your life to work, but someone with 10-15 years experience who doesn't understand the big picture of
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Want to be a better writer? Find out what your passion is and write about that. No book and no order of semicolons is going to make you "better" unless what you write about is what lights the fire underneath your feet. That
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by dasil003 4y ago
Although I agree the original line is a bit long, and the first refactoring is a clearly more readable, but after that it starts to feel like bike-shedding. FWIW I don't believe in refactoring things into tiny methods that are just us
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by dasil003 4y ago
Sure software is not generally essential. But on the other hand, do we really need more stuff?
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm dual citizen Brazilian / American, so I understand what you mean about endemic corruption. That said, I think the GP has a point that there is a more subtle higher-level corruption of leadership that is potentially even more
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by dasil003 4y ago
Off the top of my head: Workspace, GCP, Android Maybe they are not strictly black in the P&L sense, but they are strategic revenue-generating business priorities.

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