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by ebiester 8mo ago
Not true at all, having seen the other side. In a large enough organization, entire divisions will be cut if a product is missing. Sometimes productive people are on the wrong product that gets slashed to maintenance mode, or they have the
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by ebiester 8mo ago
It's trained on YouTube data. It's going to get roffle and drspectred at the very least.
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by ebiester 8mo ago
I'd like you to go look at PRINCE2 and SSADM. Or read the original Royce paper - https://www.praxisframework.org/files/royce1970.pdf was written explicitly to term this Antipattern "Waterfall." (Note tha
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by ebiester 8mo ago
Do you not see the difference between a toy language and a clean room implementation that can compile Linux, QEMU, Postgres, and sqlite? (No, it doesn't have the assembler and linker.) That's for $20,000.
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by ebiester 8mo ago
Or... the places they have deep expertise they have NDA/non-competes to worry about. (At least, outside of California.) Sure, I could go and create an accounting app - or a clinical trial recruitment app - as a basic clone of what I&#x
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by ebiester 8mo ago
So, that sounds fine in theory. What's happening in practice, though, is a group of people (like Campus Watch) are looking specifically for anyone teaching gender, trans issues, race, and religion, and analyzing the coursework through
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by ebiester 9mo ago
As a tangent, I'm seeing Lisbon trying to make a lot of buzz, but it seemingly can't crack into the larger ecosystem. What's missing, considering that it should be able to benefit from its EU integration?
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by ebiester 9mo ago
“Don’t be needed” isn’t “don’t be valuable.” The EM should not be a bottleneck. The EM should be able to take a vacation without being paged. (So should anybody on the team!) My teams would slow down without me because I can due process tas
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by ebiester 9mo ago
Oh, you bet they would. Nothing causes old white people to riot like mild inconvenience. That's only mildly sarcastic. For many people, it's become a part of being American, especially on the conservative side of the isle. Now, I
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by ebiester 9mo ago
It's not bad. It's the social media that least leans into driving addictive behaviors. But you have to think about investing into it like a tool - not like a pastime.
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by ebiester 9mo ago
It's interesting that the first thing you see in the comments is "don't contact anyone." Right now we're in a weird place - if you have a network, you're pretty well off. If your network isn't hiring, or y
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by ebiester 9mo ago
Oh, I get them all the time. Usually from junior engineers. I don't hold it against them - it's good advice. So, what's your trick to avoid getting skipped because a contract recruiter or internal recruiter is going through r
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by ebiester 9mo ago
I did a similar thing with productivity books early last year, but never released it because it wasn't high enough quality. I keep meaning to get back to that project but it had a much more rigid hypothesis in mind - trying to get the
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by ebiester 9mo ago
Having worked with both good and bad QA... The biggest determinant is company culture and treating QA as an integral part of the team, and hiring QA that understands the expectation thereof. In addition, having regular 1:1s both with the TL
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by ebiester 9mo ago
That's a problem with constrained supply. But nobody is willing to build up south of San Francisco as far as I still understand.
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by ebiester 9mo ago
This post is talking about very small companies. At that 20+ person department, it's true. Once you have a team where the founder doesn't know everyone, the average matters a lot more. If you have 15 people, you can hire 15 people
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by ebiester 9mo ago
There is no world where a 4 hour commute to work is reasonable. That said, Stockton and Tracy seem like they happen more often at an hour and a half (to San Mateo or San Jose) But why are we building a world where that is necessary? That&#x
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by ebiester 9mo ago
Coke from Mexico also has a slightly different flavor profile that has nothing to do with the source of sugar.
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by ebiester 9mo ago
I think the major problem we have is we are lumping depression and anxiety into the same category. Some people probably do have issues quickly resolved by SSRIs. Others are magically fixed by bupropion while it spikes anxiety in others. Oth
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by ebiester 9mo ago
Yep, their QCs are good enough and the rest of the package makes up for it. It's their speakers of which I am still not impressed.
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by ebiester 9mo ago
If only their sound signature was a bit better... they went all in on engineering tricks to make things small and cheap to produce, but it shows in their sound quality. Their QC headphones are the best in noise cancellation, and the sound q
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by ebiester 9mo ago
The bigger the product, the harder this is. However, I think the biggest thing is the replacement of products. We are in a place where he talked about replacing two products his wife was using with custom software. I personally have used
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by ebiester 9mo ago
Generics can only be made after the patent expires. And due to pressure from western countries, these are enforced worldwide.
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by ebiester 9mo ago
When did you last program Java? It’s changed a lot from the Java 8 days. I am not in the ecosystem anymore but it did a lot of things right.
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by ebiester 10mo ago
Mockito, in every case I had to use it, was a last resort because a third party library didnt lend itself to mocking, or you were bringing legacy code under test and using it long enough to refactor it out. It should never be the first tool
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by ebiester 10mo ago
For a UX pattern, I will often need to move multiple items at the same time. I'd like an exploration that allows the equivalent of shift-click and command-click for multi-select. And if they're not consecutive, they should be grou
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by ebiester 10mo ago
Some of us intentionally avoid FAANG for that reason.
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by ebiester 10mo ago
So, I think there are two models. One is a "one junior per team" model. I endorse this for exactly the reasons you speak. Another, as I recently saw, was a 70/30 model of juniors to seniors. You make your seniors as task dele
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by ebiester 10mo ago
This was at the beginning of game design. Everyone was still learning what good game design was and it kept changing as the technical constraints changed.
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by ebiester 10mo ago
Just remember that the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Consider diversification in your portfolio. Maybe you divert a little more away from the US market, for example, which is heavily dependent on 7 stocks larg

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