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by dasil003 4y ago
A good PM is worth their weight in gold, but the problem is that the qualifications for a good PM are very hard to make objective. This leads to the role becoming magnet for power-hungry MBAs with a bean counter mentality who will tend to o
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is a lot of words to double-down on a false dichotomy: that you either copy paste code from the internet or you write it painstakingly from scratch. IMHO you don't pass junior level without the ability to efficiently google for so
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by dasil003 4y ago
I get the frustration, but I think this is just the cost of the incredible volume of software that we have. As software engineers we pride ourselves on our systemic thinking, so it's tempting to look at the situation and say "
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by dasil003 4y ago
salary not total comp
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by dasil003 4y ago
Every time someone starts talking in grand terms about how the entire status quo of some major facet of civilization "should be" a certain way with zero reflection on the systemic incentives that have led it to be the way it is I
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by dasil003 4y ago
I first read the Silmarillion 20 years ago and then re-read it last year. What struck me is how short it actually is, compared to the sense of scale that I remembered. Of course the Silmarillion is cherrypicked from decades of manuscripts
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by dasil003 4y ago
Not sure about this, it's very contingent on the specifics of X and Y as well as how specialized the hires were. Obviously it depends on the domain, but I definitely bias towards generalists of the Joel Spolsky variety (ie. "smar
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by dasil003 4y ago
You’re best off making peace with it as that genie is not going back in the bottle.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I tend to agree, although I think the crux is in the definition of consciousness. Where neuroscience and computer science are aligned is that they are both (like all science) concerned with observable and falsifiable truth. But consciousn
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by dasil003 4y ago
Wow, that escalated fast. I agree with a lot of the broader problems, but I don't see how "budget culture" is at the root. Yes, if you you're telling someone making $30k a year that they're going to get rich throu
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by dasil003 4y ago
The concept of the "10x engineer" has vastly outlived its usefulness. Remember, it originally was a response to clueless non-technical management who thought that programmers were completely fungible—the type of thinking that led
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by dasil003 4y ago
Spend 80% of your time building / practicing, and 20% reading / researching. This doesn't apply to everyone—if your goal is just the pursuit of knowledge then you can disregard this advice. For me though, the satisfaction an
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by dasil003 4y ago
I like the aesthetic though I'm not sure how sustainable it is beyond basic content documents. On a side note though, I clicked around and big props to Aaron on the lofi.limo project, this is very cool.
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by dasil003 4y ago
"Microservices" (ie. SOA) absolutely adds complexity, the question is whether the benefits are worth the overhead. The answer varies according to domain, but is largely a function of team size.
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by dasil003 4y ago
I think all the hand-wringing over fragmentation is misguided. Diversity is good. We have plenty of polished UX provided by big tech, but it comes with intractable downsides related to centralized control. Free and open source software p
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by dasil003 4y ago
The "works everywhere" part is the original reason (developer mindshare grew from that). It's hard to fathom how big a chasm it was to cross for a truly cross-platform open-standard GUI environment to reach critical mass suc
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by dasil003 4y ago
The wording is unfortunate, but the ask is not free money for past work, it's to support upcoming work which she does wants to release for free and not be dependent on ad-driven monetization schemes. Frankly, I think this is something
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by dasil003 4y ago
You can't put the genie back in the bottle. The reason AIM felt better was because way fewer people were online and it tended towards smaller groups of more recent friends. In that environment synchronous chat was fun and novel. Sinc
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by dasil003 4y ago
> Only because of the subsidies. It's hardly "natural" for all humans to reproduce. This is an incredibly bold statement. Most people like having sex, and in a natural state (sans birth control, online dating, internet
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yes I'm aware of that. Do you believe the GDR could have established meaningful trust with the populace independent of Soviet policy?
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by dasil003 4y ago
Sure, they would have loved to have Norwegian levels of government trust, but that's antithetical to the way the Soviet Union was set up.
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by dasil003 4y ago
> But engineer compensation has been larger pushed up by the FAANG companies which are highly profitable. If you go back and re-read this is exactly my point. Google, Facebook, Amazon have structural advantages that make them more pro
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by dasil003 4y ago
Yeah, honestly I think the bigger negative impact on startups is the incredible profitability of these targeted advertising monopolies that has pushed market salaries so high that upper quartile programmers with 3-10 years experience inhere
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by dasil003 4y ago
Wait hold on, why are you jumping straight to "what the compiler can infer"? Compilers (and type systems) are written by and for humans, so first tell me the use case for multiplying a float by an int that does not lead to a floa
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by dasil003 4y ago
> The more money the government prints the more the stock market goes up. So the market doesn't actually represent value in a company but instead debt owed to somebody else. The second sentence doesn't follow from the first.
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by dasil003 4y ago
Not sure whether this is meant as a deliberate troll, but just reading the comments here you can see that as soon as something is framed within the "10x engineer" meme, all rational discourse goes out the window and it becomes imp
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by dasil003 4y ago
DoorDash IPO'ed 18 months ago.
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by dasil003 4y ago
You're right that I'm projecting. This is based on personal experience many individuals I've known who have made this complaint while lacking self-awareness of how their own attitudes and victim mentality have caused them to
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by dasil003 4y ago
This is such an impotent and sour-grapes refrain that someone always has to blurt out in any thread about “success”. Of course luck plays a huge role in success just as it does for all asymmetric outcomes in a chaotic environment. Just as
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by dasil003 4y ago
These are good points, but trust is not a prerequisite only for Agile. IMHO all large-scale software projects require trust to create space for the team to figure out the right path. If trust is lacking, it needs to be established, but th

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