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by ebiester 1y ago
So, while I've written about it before (see https://www.ebiester.com/agile/2023/04/22/what-agile-alterna... ), all methodologies are based on the constraints of the time. Consider that The Pragmatic
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Thank you (Styled Components is going maintenance only.)(opencollective.com)
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by ebiester 1y ago
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/study-liberal-us-priests-fa... This is a Catholic media group. It uses the words as above. Think Karl Rahner or Yves Congar.
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by ebiester 2y ago
Or, alternatively, it was a bug written by a human. Humans do a good enough job making bugs, no?
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by ebiester 2y ago
I mean, "demos that shouldn't be shared" from the root comment implies that it isn't done, right?
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by ebiester 2y ago
I agree - and I don't think investors will sour. Considering that AI and accelerationism is becoming close to a religion, and that there are many wealthy people who are tied to it, I think that the money will go somewhere. Even if it
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by ebiester 2y ago
If I may refer to a Zen koan, "your teacup is full." I started programming professionally around java 1.3, and the greybeards around that time were talking about how they had moved to OOP. Most disliked it but the people who didn&
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by ebiester 2y ago
A junior engineer makes 70-100k in most places. The Bay Area distorts the actual market.
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by ebiester 2y ago
So, as someone who only knows the basics of the android ecosystem, are you able to compile down to lower target versions and still use the Java 17 niceties? As I understand it, most people were using Kotlin because the alternative was java
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by ebiester 2y ago
I would take that bet. First, government office workers have a higher bar to entry. While I've heard criticism of them being myopic, it was rarely that they were lacking intelligence. Deloitte consultants have a much wider variance. Th
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by ebiester 2y ago
So, I absolutely agree here that an engineering manager has to have the insight to tell truth from catastrophising on both sides. At the same time, I've seen sales orgs drive a department into the ground where everything comes to a scr
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by ebiester 2y ago
Let me take the opposite point - it isn't that management does or doesn't respect engineers, but that it does not respect them more or less than sales, or product, or marketing, or legal, or any other part of the system. If all of
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by ebiester 2y ago
It is, but at some point, so is management. So is any human capital past your key positions. I feel like managers - even good managers - understand that better than most. That isn't to say there isn't variation in humans - choosin
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by ebiester 2y ago
I'm a bit confused... Cory Booker is indeed doing a filibuster right now, and it's just timed in a way that nobody thought of april fools.
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by ebiester 2y ago
The alternative to a company that is hiding real coupon codes and stealing affiliate marketing dollars? Honestly, there's no good answer here because most of the work is manual, not automated, and there are a lot of opportunities for b
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by ebiester 2y ago
I have empathy for them. It's a complex product with many different use cases, so there is no one-best UI for anyone. Further, accommodating multiple skill levels is a genuinely hard problem. That said, there is a larger problem: every
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by ebiester 2y ago
So, in such an org, how do you prevent bus factor 1 problems?
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by ebiester 2y ago
Consider rules for projects. It's not always perfect, but it does adapt based on my instructions. For example, I have had good success in test first development as a rule. That means that I can make sure it has the specifications corre
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by ebiester 2y ago
Increasing density in suburbs is a giant win.
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by ebiester 2y ago
Will you grant that sometimes, they aren't? It depends. Let's take a SaaS engineering department, for example. If your customer base is tripling year over year based in the need of the market, you can end up with feature request
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by ebiester 2y ago
Note that I am usually on the other side of this argument, but mostly due to nuance. In my world, monoliths are usually interrelated services that are in the same codebase and have poor boundary protection because they were started with tea
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by ebiester 2y ago
We agree there. Many teams went way too far in the other direction. There is a happy medium of one service per 1-3 teams with a few dedicated outliers such as third party connectors, and using libraries judiciously within larger codebases.
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by ebiester 2y ago
Now, how do you explain to that executive that they will not get that feature in 3 months but rather in 5 years if the company survives that long with work screeching to a halt? You have turned 20 teams working on 20 different focuses into
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by ebiester 2y ago
The architecture is the function of number of people in the system. How do you manage 100 people in a monolith? 250? What if one group gets to a broken state but another group needs to release to escape a broken state? Architecture is often
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by ebiester 2y ago
Yes and no. The distributed nature of git is fine until you want to serve it to the world - then, you're back to bad actors. They're looking for commits because it's nicely chunked, I'm taking a guess.
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by ebiester 2y ago
My current firm is still on 16 and just trying to make it to 18 because of the deprecations. All of the WYSIWYG editors that work on 16 are no longer supported. it's a "cross your fingers" in case someone found a security iss
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by ebiester 2y ago
This is meant to be politically-neutral commentary: this deal doesn't happen without a Republican in office that will squash the antitrust bent that the Biden administration started. It's also possible the last Wiz deal happens wi
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by ebiester 2y ago
There are a fair number of us not worried about the drop in our portfolio as much as we are worried that the current decisions will decrease the world's willingness to invest in American companies and markets permanently. What if your
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by ebiester 2y ago
But how does it taste? Does it sacrifice taste? Did anyone look at that?
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by ebiester 2y ago
And F1 is a student visa.

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