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by downriver 4y ago
Engineers often overestimate how bad the “greenfielder” is for the business. In most cases you aren’t selling an elegant technical solution, you’re just selling a solution . And if you don’t ship it ASAP you won’t have time to worry abo
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by downriver 4y ago
And it’s (often comically, always depressingly) necessary for this exact reason. In a recent interview my company conducted, the candidate clearly submitted code they had not written as if it were their own. One might be surprised at how we
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by downriver 4y ago
> They’ve focused a lot on IQ and personality — both constructs which were designed to be robust, i.e. hard to change, over time. I thought this was an interesting observation that suggests that a lot of “conclusions” in this space are
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by downriver 4y ago
Do you disagree with Coca Cola calling coke “the real thing”, too? It’s marketing. Read the qualification as “good”, and trust it as much as any marketing.
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by downriver 4y ago
There’s not one “tech industry”, there’s just a bunch of companies and people, all unique, all flawed in their own ways. So join a company, and if you don’t like it, quit and try a different one.
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by downriver 4y ago
It’s the “everyone doing awesome stuff is privileged” trope. Ignore it. Agreed re: Zig!
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by downriver 4y ago
Managing navigation state via the familiar URL-based approach. You have to manage “where am I in the app?” somehow.
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by downriver 4y ago
I think it’s reasonable to distinguish reading a book and listening to a book. I don’t particularly think one is better or worse, but certainly they are objectively different. My sense is that when people talk about gate keeping there’s nec