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by ebiester 2y ago
Okay, so I agree with many leftist critiques of capitalism, but we can also tell that communism also caused environmental destruction, particularly in the soviet block. Mixed economies are not doing that much better - see the Norwegian sove
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by ebiester 2y ago
We can't even stop slave labor, something the world universally has gone, "this is bad." Hard problems are hard.
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by ebiester 2y ago
Summary: if it doesn't hit the bottom line of the polluter, then there is no reason for them to change their behavior. That's pretty obvious, but the message needs to be hammered in over and over. The bigger issue is that game the
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by ebiester 2y ago
You may not know what the words mean within the cultural context, but that doesn't mean they don't have a precise meaning.
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by ebiester 2y ago
They're useful in a small set of behaviors. If you have a particular job that is run infrequently but is burstable, it doesn't make sense to have a server hanging around for just that purpose. My current employer standardized on s
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by ebiester 2y ago
I think that's true for smaller shops. Larger shops start building their developer experience over everything and you can make it work. But that means you're not starting with serverless, and it's your pivot from the original
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by ebiester 2y ago
And if that’s the case, you have to find another position. But I’ll tell you the lack of a framework does not change anything. Then all you get is “in my judgment, you haven’t proven yourself to be senior yet.” And the result is the same: t
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by ebiester 2y ago
So, yes and no. It takes effort to become better than you are at your current level. To get past junior, that should happen by osmosis. For some people, talent alone will take them to senior. For others, they will need to put in the time to
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by ebiester 2y ago
Because the alternative is based on your manager's impressions. You get fired because "your manager doesn't like you." You get a promotion because "your manager likes you." Your coworker sits around doing very
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by ebiester 2y ago
I think you're being underly charitable. The vast majority of congress critters are pretty smart people, and by Jeff Jackson's account, even the ones who yell the loudest are generally reasonable behind closed doors due to incenti
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by ebiester 2y ago
The 90% schedule is not a bad idea, but you need to look at it via metrics - what percentage are you actually meeting that schedule? If you are not doing so 9 out of 10 times, you are at a 20% schedule or a 10% schedule.
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by ebiester 2y ago
On the other hand, I've also seen companies that start saying that it's okay to cut corners and drive people into the ground because it's for the "greater good." I think SBF took advantage of this in many ways as we
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by ebiester 2y ago
I think they are talking about a battery phone case somewhat like the Alpatronix Battery Case (if you want to look around - I just found one at random.)
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by ebiester 2y ago
From the actual paper: "Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our s
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by ebiester 2y ago
Here's the paper on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362634845_Leader_In... I posted it below, but there's a fundamental misunderstanding in the comments here. The authors are not tying
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by ebiester 2y ago
This isn't MBTI. I got confused as well.. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/105960112211214... talks about an "intuitive cognitive style" which looks to tie to https://www
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by ebiester 2y ago
I don't think of diataxis as a dogmatic approach, but rather a pragmatic one. You can dive pretty deep into the weeds in how to structure your documentation, but this is a very good training wheels until you find places that leak.
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by ebiester 2y ago
Next is like rails 2. Eventually they will get to rails-like abilities. I'd say Clojure and java ecosystem is miles ahead of rails as well, but for this project I don't want to play in that garden.
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by ebiester 2y ago
But here's the thing. It doesn't matter! If I'm building a personal project, I don't have the same time to curate a full ecosystem stack and nobody in the react system is maintaining those for applications that are put t
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by ebiester 2y ago
Maximizing the long term value of the company can be at odds with extracting the most amount of money over the next quarter. For example, Meta could say "if you don't pay us 100 dollars per year, we will delete your entire account
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by ebiester 2y ago
Both of them are lawnmowers. They are looking to extract the maximum amount of money possible. I'd argue that Broadcom could extract more money with smaller uplifts but I think they are also looking to consolidate their customer base.
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by ebiester 2y ago
That wasn’t a prediction, just an observation.
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by ebiester 2y ago
Retool has JavaScript. This is common for low code to have full languages attached. The point is that you can do 80% of the presentation by wiring things together and only rely on coding for the most complex tasks.
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by ebiester 2y ago
I mean, that works if you give them ownership of the budget and revenue targets. That means if the product does not meet the revenue targets, the development team decreases and the development team has to decide which of their developers ar
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by ebiester 2y ago
I started this and the "comparable screen" is the sticking point. Nobody makes screens in this resolution, and most people have decided even 4k is overkill for this size for reason. You're best going for 4k at 27 inches, I th
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by ebiester 2y ago
The managers are often just as trained in this by the organization. If I'm in a "commitment" organization, I'm sure as hell telling them all to pad their estimates. The punishment for a commitment culture is inflated est
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by ebiester 2y ago
I think this is a change in business climate today - all senior+ engineers in many companies are now expected to have knowledge of business metrics, and that expectation goes up with staff engineers (the new architect name)
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by ebiester 2y ago
That's because they're an engineering manager in tech lead clothing. It's so the company can say they have more engineers and less management, but still fill all of the roles that they need managers to do. (I've written
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by ebiester 2y ago
There's a few intersecting problems: The difference between high performance in a trusted environment and high performance in an environment that lacks trust is significant. The problem isn't Jira - it's peer reviews and QA a
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by ebiester 2y ago
It turns out for large cross-team initiatives, organizing the work is as hard as doing it. I like the example of internationalization. You need involvement from all parts of the product to release it - you rarely can sell a half-internation

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