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by erlich 3y ago
In my experience, the experts love to get their hands dirty and make things. Devs are gatekeeping way too much. More no-code/low-code is the way forward. It's always just a balance of how much abstraction to add.
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Ask HN: Anyone as a technical startup founder wish they had a manager?
2 points by erlich 3y ago|1 comments
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by erlich 3y ago
Is there some kind of app/website that lays out all these kind of risks you face in life?
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by erlich 3y ago
> they feel zero pressure But then it's a question of whether they have the motivation to complete the projects they want to. It's really easy not to ship things, and never know where they might have led.
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by erlich 3y ago
> Most of the time it's anxiety. My first thought was: you're crazy. But then I thought deeper and as an adult I realized that there is a cost/benefit to everything that somewhat didn't exist as a child. Most of us ca
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by erlich 3y ago
> It also helped us avoid rabbit-holes. I think this is a big 1. There are so many in modern coding.
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Completing tasks by time-boxing at several fixed intervals
3 points by erlich 3y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Anyone else feel like their whole career will just be tech debt?
71 points by erlich 3y ago|63 comments
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by erlich 4y ago
Everyone in charge are already extremely wealthy. They have zero skin in the game. J. Powell, 50MM. Yellen, 20MM. There is no ability for them to empathize with a regular taxpayer. Whatever happens their lifestyle will not be impacted one b
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by erlich 4y ago
So much of coding is a simple SQL -> HTML string but its mind-blowing how far abstracted we are from this today. Give some credit to PHP for simplicity here. Something I noticed too that when there is simplicity, there is so many abstr
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Ask HN: Best computer vision library for TypeScript?
1 points by erlich 4y ago|0 comments
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by erlich 4y ago
I agree with this. There is always such a blame game between devs and management/the-rest-of-the-company. We've kind of conditioned every product manager that software is really hard and you can't just ask to change things wi
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Ask HN: Why is your company slow to ship features?
4 points by erlich 4y ago|12 comments
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Ask HN: Overwhelmed by CSS Frameworks, Help
4 points by erlich 4y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: Where to have good discussions online?
43 points by erlich 4y ago|64 comments
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by erlich 4y ago
Morale decline from oscillating priorities. You are bug-free, start working on new feature, new bug reports come in, and you have to pause and work on them. Fixing bugs is not fun work because there is usually a quick fix in an ugly way, an
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by erlich 4y ago
Everyone is so addicted to their phones. It’s just like a poker machine now.
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by erlich 4y ago
Tech systems manage people all the time. How many chat conversations between managers and employees do you think are actually unique.
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by erlich 4y ago
An AI can probably herd cats.
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by erlich 4y ago
> aren't always doing good strategical thinking So it's not about being good at strategic thinking. It's about motivation, boredom and self-discipline. Here is what you are not seeing: Dev sits down to work on an assigned
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by erlich 4y ago
Very interesting, hadn't thought about this. It's funny how humans try to simplify things to black and white all too often. Why do we do this? I'm sitting here trying to think why I do it, and I can't figure it out. Some
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by erlich 4y ago
> hidden motivations I guess you just have to ask why people have these motivations and why they hide them. It feels like people would act dishonestly first to seek survival (job security), but then also to seek power (promotion/inf
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by erlich 4y ago
How is it that no one has solved "management" yet with a technological solution? Where are the project/org management AI solutions?
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by erlich 4y ago
Considering how many hoarders are out here, I would think it wouldn't be too hard to manually tag and summarize every single article that is posted on HN.
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Ask HN: How much of the stack will be rewritten from scratch this century?
5 points by erlich 4y ago|1 comments
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by erlich 4y ago
I half-expected it to be written in Rust.
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by erlich 4y ago
Ironically, I think more dependencies are actually better, because it means they are smaller. "Do one thing well". The problem is large dependencies depending on other large dependencies. Dependencies should advertise their transi
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by erlich 4y ago
> I recently adopted a codebase (and a team) Are you in charge? How big is the team? Is it a startup? Is the software making money? How important are new features to make money / gain clients? Usually with a rewrite, you will end up
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by erlich 4y ago
How about tracking car license plate numbers? These are public too.
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by erlich 4y ago
I am questioning the premise of the hypothetical as unrealistic. Now if you want to solely debate your hypothetical, then how about you simply don't reply to my branch of inquiry? No one is forcing you to. You choose the debates you wa

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