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by dasil003 9mo ago
This seems like a purely cynical lacking any substantive analysis. Despite whatever nasty business practices and shitty UX Windows has foisted on the world, there is no denying the tremendous value that it has brought, including impressive
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Halfway to The Last of Us conversion for Fortnite
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Yeah or “the signs all say to walk down this long passage, and then back via a circuitous route for flow control, but my destination is actually 100 feet away through this unmarked passage so I’ll just go that way” situation at Bank
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by dasil003 9mo ago
London and Berlin felt pretty comparable to me, with the airport situation better in London but the biking situation better in Berlin (marginally). Tokyo is just on another level entirely.
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Middle management is a tremendous market for lemons. It's difficult to do well, and each layer requires a very different skillset. One of the side effects of the hypergrowth era of big tech between 2008-2023 is that a lot of managers
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by dasil003 9mo ago
The “How it works” section is an absolute mess. Each bullet uses a different pronoun, so it’s not clear who the actors actually are and how this all fits together. How are the “crypto bros” who approach the “tech person” related to the “f
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by dasil003 9mo ago
You’re taking it too literally, it’s not saying don’t be useful, it’s saying don’t make yourself a bottleneck. It’s a very common failure mode for new engineers turned manager, leading to a frustrated team that feels micro-managed and the
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by dasil003 9mo ago
How does a football coach do their job if they can’t run or throw or block as well as the players?
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by dasil003 9mo ago
This is a great insight and something every engineer should reflect on in the context of their own orgs: > estimates are not by or for engineering teams. It's surprising the nuance and variety of how management decisions are made
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Software itself is not inherently valuable, the value is in running and maintaining its data and any necessary integrations to other systems. The bar for me to pay for a $10/month software subscription is pretty high, but once I make t
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Agreed, optimism/pessimism is just about our disposition to the world as we perceive it (ie. glass half full or half empty). It is orthogonal to understanding and prediction. A perfect Buddhist is neither an optimist or pessimist but
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by dasil003 9mo ago
People are not inspired by institutions and committees, you need a personality that can articulate a vision.
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Oh man do I have opinions. First of all, I've seen all type of teams be successful, ranging from zero QA at all, to massive QA teams with incredible power (eg. Format QA at Sony in Europe). I have absolutely seen teams with no QA deli
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by dasil003 9mo ago
> …when you’re in a position to help This clause is doing a lot of heavy lifting. One needs to have good judgement about when and how to help. A lot of people can imagine how things could go better if a bunch of other people changed
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Yeah, ultimately you're paid to deliver results. Criticism is only of value to the degree that it leads to better results; there is zero value in predicting failure per se. Some people place so much value on being right that they los
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by dasil003 9mo ago
I'm sorry you have to use Teams, but at least they let you smoke
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by dasil003 9mo ago
SaaS is not just software though, it’s operationalized software and data management. The value has increasingly been in the latter well before AI. How many open source packages have killed their SaaS competitors (or wrappers)?
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by dasil003 9mo ago
No that’s not really how it works in tech at all. There’s a deep recognition that individual engineers (and other functional practitioners) have important knowledge and expertise that is essential. Of course you do need some overlap and r
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by dasil003 9mo ago
They also get crappier though. I am generally okay with a lot of the tradeoffs to reduce the cost of construction and mass production. We definitely have more crappy stuff than we need—I'd prefer if we had a little less, higher quali
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by dasil003 9mo ago
I've gotten way more out of open sourcing software than I ever could have by trying to sell the same software. Not all value is monetary, and participating in open source creates different types of technical capital (reputational, bar
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by dasil003 9mo ago
How big is your company?
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by dasil003 9mo ago
Yeah but what do you want to do about it? The engineers I see making these mistakes day-to-day are not going to connect the dots if I just point them to the seminal writings. Heck, half of their complaints are of the same form as yours: i
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by dasil003 10mo ago
This is not true. Most fast-growing private tech companies with valuations a fraction of OpenAIs switch from ISOs to RSUs because exercise costs start to become prohibitive. Of course they aren’t liquid yet, but they’re still RSUs, and it’s
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by dasil003 10mo ago
That's just it though, the "news" is not providing valuable information to the majority of people, it's mostly a series of takes designed to fit into easily digestible narratives so they can attract enough viewers to sur
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by dasil003 10mo ago
No we don’t need to open an entire website to learn x simple thing. However we DO need meaningful competition among information providers. I am not looking forward to the enshittification phase of AI.
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by dasil003 10mo ago
Who are the people in the room (including you) and what are they responsible and/or accountable for? There's a time and place to say "that's a bad idea", but typically it's 1:1 or very small groups not in a br
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by dasil003 10mo ago
What makes you think Visa is the only player in the payments chain between the merchant and your bank?
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by dasil003 10mo ago
Not sure if I understand your question but nothing "happens to the rest", overcommitting just means processes can allocate memory in excess of RAM + swap. The percentage is arbitrary, could be 50%, 100% or 1000%. Allocating addi
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by dasil003 10mo ago
Isn't there a Chris Pratt movie about this coming out in January?
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by dasil003 10mo ago
Really depends on the problem. Cancer, yes. Banking, no.

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