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by ebiester 3y ago
All that is also true. In both cases, it's not about the quality of the engineer or the work. Also, sociopaths exist and they are often in management. But in both cases, the key insight is that layoffs are often past the control of the
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by ebiester 3y ago
Unlikely. Some people really just are better at low level than high level (and vice versa.) Further, I would say anyone who started after say... '97 never needed to have that layer, and '87 may be true too. The true pressure hasn&
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by ebiester 3y ago
Or, quite simply, the performance of an employee or division is not the only determination in layoffs. You could lay off half of teams and fill them in with ostensibly high performers in other teams, and then be worse off than before becaus
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by ebiester 3y ago
We rolled our own. I think a lot of it can be helped with Debezium (and we leaned on it, if I remember correctly.)
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by ebiester 3y ago
This was a very similar conversation that the team at my last job had. Our data were customer-facing so it was a slightly different problem, but the question of "our application cares about what the present state is, but our analytics
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by ebiester 3y ago
I am assuming that the comment I was responding to was making that assumption and was dismissing the thought - I may have misread it and he instead was questioning what percentage of the layoffs were programmers instead.
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by ebiester 3y ago
If more than 25% of their employees were that bad, then they had bigger problems before they got to that point.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Think of it more like this. On page A, you have a button. It looks like a button. When you click it, a dialog opens that confirms you want to perform an action. On page B, you click on the button, and it's a dropdown. You now have lost
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by ebiester 3y ago
This is for a different audience. A gap in food, sleep, or exercise in someone who has no pre-existing mental health problems will reduce productivity and can induce or exacerbate a mental health decline. Founders tend to start skipping the
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by ebiester 3y ago
My favorite niche tournaments are randomizers of clasic games. I enjoy The Legend of Zelda and Dragon Warrior randomizers the best, but A Link To The Past is probably the most popular I know of. The Classic Tetris World Championship is also
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by ebiester 3y ago
Leftists and black activists were also against the Vietnam War. The arguments were far less about the monetary value in that case, though.
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by ebiester 3y ago
My understanding is that the real problem is twofold: First, some proprietary software only supports a subset of distributions. Debian is rarely on that list. RHEL, for some time, has been a safe default. Second, IT organizations only want
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by ebiester 3y ago
Twitter's algorithm optimizes for advertising. I want my algorithm to optimize for my value. Use case: I want to log into Mastodon once or twice a week. I want to follow lots of interesting people and topics, but I don't have time
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by ebiester 3y ago
Now, consider a world where you are making $42,000 a year. That's 20 dollars an hour and a very common wage. How do they handle the same when there are so many competing Franklins for them?
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Range by David Epstein makes this argument well, and even argues that you don't have to give up being great, but rather the breadth of experience can make you great once you find the right opportunity.
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by ebiester 3y ago
I'd also add Elixir/Liveview to that as well.
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by ebiester 3y ago
Did you see "Then there's another group" there? The difference in the groups are a function of what they think they can get away with. Do you dispute that Prop 8 was an effort to tear gay families apart?
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by ebiester 3y ago
In team topologies, you'd consider them "complicated subsystems" teams. (See https://teamtopologies.com/key-concepts ) They may even be consider stream-aligned teams but they a feature crosses multiple stream
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by ebiester 3y ago
You're trying to treat a game theory problem as a philosophical consistency problem. We have a group of Christian Dominionists that would kill us if they could, and only those consequences stop them. (And sometimes, such as the Pulse s
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by ebiester 3y ago
He actively gave to organizations that were formed to restrict freedom. And the LBGTQ community, we're not going to sit and be quiet about those sorts of things.
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by ebiester 3y ago
It turns out that at a certain point, features start requiring integration in the system. Let's take a hypothetical SaaS that provides workflow management for a domain. Let's say there are about 125 engineers. Workflow can't
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by ebiester 3y ago
Law is a fundamentally hard problem at scale, especially with a federated system that has bug fixed 725 years (post-Magna Carta) of edge cases. If you think the second system effect is bad on a 20 year old system, try doing it for centuries
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by ebiester 3y ago
I don't know that it is really that much of a stretch. People move from Obsidian to LogSeq and vice versa. While some people use both, they are certainly both Personal Knowledge Management solutions. Now, they approach the problem diff
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Alternatively, the kind of real estate that these "forever renters" would like to buy are either not built or not available at the prices that they can afford. I wasn't able to buy in San Francisco or Boston without a two hou
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by ebiester 3y ago
Last time I saw, that 10k/month was actually less expensive than leaving them on the street. https://endhomelessness.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Cost-...
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by ebiester 3y ago
Ironically, getting the addicts off the street also helps, and the "housing" is more important than "sober." If you can get them stable, they may have a chance. The drug addiction happens because of the trauma in a vast
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by ebiester 3y ago
The land that is next to the jobs is expensive. The construction costs of single homes are going to make it out of reach for those who are in housing precarity, even if you make them "tiny houses."
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There are a few things. The longer you are unhoused, the more that you are in a chronic state of danger. Opioids turn that stress response off for a moment and simultaneously make it harder to get out of the situation that caused the proble
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by ebiester 3y ago
There are many ways to use the word conservative. In this case, I think he is talking about conservative in the technologies you choose to use in the critical path. You absolutely should learn languages (as but one example) outside the TIOB
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by ebiester 3y ago
The "impurity" isn't the problem. The problem is that such integration tests take a longer time to run and in aggregate, it takes minutes to run your test suite. This changes how often you run your tests and slows down your f

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