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by dasil003 4y ago
> The problem with things like this is the typical engineering mindset, when shown a graphical or numerical analysis of their performance will zoom into analyse every detail and in the end it's just backed by the managers impressio
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by dasil003 4y ago
https://ozones.com/ is a good example that is still up!
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is the real truth. It’s definitely useful to get the feedback about how you are coming across, but you have to take it with a huge grain of salt because some other interviewer may see things completely opposite! At the end of the day
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by dasil003 4y ago
GP is talking monthly salary.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Be careful with this. Unit tests don't tell you much about the correctness of a system overall, and they rarely survive a substantial refactoring. Optimizing for unit testability can make individual classes/functions "simpl
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by dasil003 4y ago
Maybe it's because I've always straddled the line between IC, EM and leadership roles, but in my mind engineers are managers. They are managers of software systems. The software systems are producing some economic output just
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is not a good take. First, it's not true that the most popular club has a monopoly in any meaningful sense. But even granting you that farcical premise: any "monopoly" effect is on a city-wide basis and does not scale,
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by dasil003 4y ago
This completely fails to recognize the cost of change at different layers of abstraction. A service is an external facing entity that other teams need to interface with, it would cause an insane amount of churn to try to make changing serv
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by dasil003 4y ago
I feel like this framing conflates personal and societal responsibility in an unhealthy way. At the end of the day we all benefit from specialization, that's the entire basis for our modern standard of living. I don't think it&#
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by dasil003 4y ago
I understand your point, but I think you're fighting a semantic war that has already been lost. For a new generation of hackers, self-hosting just means they control the data and executables directly. Physical ownership of hardware i
911.
by dasil003 4y ago
This seems like an odd bit of pedantry. Digital Ocean is just providing generic VPS services, they aren't operating at the git layer at all. The author fully controls the URLs in question, and can move to any number of equivalent ser
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by dasil003 4y ago
Zappa released "We're Only in It for the Money" in 1968.
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by dasil003 4y ago
It only makes the options less valuable if they are actually offering a liquidity event, otherwise it is actually advantageous to employees as any new option grants (both new hire and refreshers) are delineated in dollars, so a lower valuat
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm really torn about this because I don't think dealing with domains and web publishing is a good litmus test for who has something worthwhile to say. That said, I can't ignore the signal when it comes to tech-focused writi
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is only strictly true if you're talking about television. The analog nature of film and its degradation along with the imperfection of human memory mean we can't really know for sure exactly how, for example, Lawrence of Ara
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by dasil003 4y ago
Wait, the human body makes a million red blood cells a second? That's kind of mind blowing.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Recognition is a terrible metric. It can signal greatness (Einstein, Shakespeare). It can also signal vapid, substanceless, attention-seeking abandon (reality TV stars, Donald Trump). Goodhart's Law in full effect here. Now, this isn
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by dasil003 4y ago
The analogies to civil engineering are strained. Sure there is some truth to what you are saying, but also requirements for civil engineering projects tend to be more easily stated at a high level and are depending on the unchanging and un
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by dasil003 4y ago
This take is surprising to me as I spent a decade using cvs/svn and at the end of that I didn’t really understand how it worked well enough to have any confidence branching and merging. Switching to git was a steep learning curve but
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by dasil003 4y ago
I agree with all of that. That said, I don't think competence is a binary proposition, and if you hire people who have only worked at scale they will be calibrated very differently to the question of what is table stakes. One of the
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Either you don't succeed, in which case it doesn't matter what your stack was, or you do, in which case you'll be glad that you can scale up easily This take brushes right past the causes of success and failure. Early
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by dasil003 4y ago
I'm guessing you are American and under 35 because there's a whole generation of you that considers an 13-year tech bull run with massive stock appreciation as normal, and the hardest problem is passing leetcode interviews. It&#x
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by dasil003 4y ago
They need more McNulty and Bunk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS6pE88Xg3s
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by dasil003 4y ago
The USP would be their integrity. The vast majority of cloned sites would be looking to make a quick buck and would sell out their creators in a second. If Substack can prove they understand which side their bread is buttered and show som
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by dasil003 4y ago
It really depends on how close you think we are to the bottom. Of course no one can say for sure, but as someone who came of age in the first dotcom bubble, and now finds himself surrounded by a generation of young engineers who has never
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by dasil003 4y ago
Why is getting yelled at the next day more of an incentive than actually getting paged at 2am?
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by dasil003 4y ago
The way you scale is not to disregard artisanship, it is to design the right interfaces and abstractions, and allow for ownership at the lowest possible level with a hierarchy of “artisan leadership” that has equal power to managers and oth
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by dasil003 4y ago
I’ve thought a lot about this as big tech has grown over the past twenty years. I don’t think it’s quite as bad as precious metals because tech does have utility. But the low marginal costs and rapid global distribution trend towards win
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by dasil003 4y ago
Probably because execs use it.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Isn't Bitcoin worse than cash for facilitating illegal transactions? Sure, it works over distances without physical contact, which is a huge logistical advantage. But on the other hand, the blockchain is literally a public ledger, so

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