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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, I respect the scale and speed. My process was still working fine at ~5 per month. I have doubts it'd work with orders of magnitude more. There's a lot of intuition and finesse in there, that is probably difficult to blindly
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by fhd2 2y ago
I have a consultancy - we mostly do development, but I also do quite a bit of "consulting CTO" work. Quite often, that means helping with hiring. But hiring is nowhere near my full time job, thankfully :D
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by fhd2 2y ago
To add: I can very well imagine this process isn't suitable for FAANG, so I can understand their university exam style approach to a degree. It's easy to arm chair criticise, but I don't know if I could come up with something
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by fhd2 2y ago
The last time I've used a leet code style interview was in 2012, and it resulted in a bad hire (who just happened to have trained on the questions we used). I've hired something like 150 developers so far, and what I ended up with
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by fhd2 2y ago
TDD is being done in weird ways by lots of people from what I've seen. I always understood the book's advice to never write code without a test as both aspirational, and productivity advice, not a hard rule. My first job predated
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yeah, I personally gave up and embraced HTML email, so I can't really use some of the nerdier clients I like. Right now I'm pretty OK with Thunderbird - knowing that I _could_ switch any time I like is somehow good enough for me,
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by fhd2 2y ago
I love email. It's the exclusive way we communicate at our company, too. We almost use it like Slack, writing short messages, usually getting a response pretty immediately. For group discussions, we use plain old mailing lists (Topicbo
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by fhd2 2y ago
Probably a bit against the grain, but I don't think you need to try and act like you are an experienced PM. No amount of blog posts or books will quickly get you to that level, only experience will. They were well aware of your backgro
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by fhd2 2y ago
I've worked with paid take home tests for a while, but stopped again. Hiring managers started to make the assignments more convoluted, i.e. stopped respecting the candidate's time. Candidates, on the flip side, always said they do
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by fhd2 2y ago
Programmers don't work in isolation. So I don't know how necessary it would be to quickly adapt your workflows to compete. If there's something that's useful to adopt, there will be a stream of blog posts, coworkers, peo
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by fhd2 2y ago
It is tough. For my company, it's easy: I pay for the tooling my devs need. Overly simplified, I only pay 50-65 % of that, because expenses lower taxes. And compared to salaries, a few hundred $ is not a big deal. If I think about the
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by fhd2 2y ago
This is my take, as well. "Work with the smartest people" has been said a lot here. But from my experience, you can hardly go wrong if you follow what you are most passionate about. Build things you want to build, build things you
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by fhd2 2y ago
> Your side projects with agents have impressed people in your org. Do those people impress you? My gut reaction is that if they are impressed by the side projects of a recent college grad, they may not be at the top of that field. I gen
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by fhd2 2y ago
Ah I see, thought I missed some major story, but apparently not. The unemployment data is from 2018 BTW. But from what I perceive, developer unemployment in the US seems higher than usual right now.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Is that so? I'm not in the US, so I don't have a good idea of what's going on there. But wasn't there relatively high unemployment among developers after all these Big Tech layoffs post pandemic? Shouldn't companies
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by fhd2 2y ago
I'm with you there, with stuff like fly.io, there's really no reason to worry about infrastructure. AWS, on the other hand, seems about as time consuming and hard as using root servers. You're at a higher level of abstraction
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by fhd2 2y ago
As someone who's built a few engines and also worked with third party ones: It really isn't the hard part for a 2D game. High fidelity 3D, different story. But something like Stardew Valley, I'd dare to say custom engine and
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by fhd2 2y ago
One thing I use HTMX for is to quickly hack interactivity into a more traditional site. One example is incremental filtering: I added an input field, and made it (a few ms after the last value change) load the same page the user is already
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by fhd2 2y ago
More risk, more reward - it's usually that simple. That last example is closer to the security of a job than the lottery I'd say :) The likelihood of getting fired from a job is probably not that much lower than a plumbing busines
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by fhd2 2y ago
I'm terrified when I see people get a whiff of a problem, and immediately turn to ChatGPT. If you don't even think about the problem, you have a roundabout zero chance of understanding it - and a similar chance of solving it. I ru
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by fhd2 2y ago
I'd say so, and it's a bit misleading to leave that out. Code generation is almost as old as computing. So far, most of it happened to be deterministic.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yeah, people like to count their "downloads" and call that their "users", but it's at least an order of magnitude difference in my experience. Sometimes a 100x difference.
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by fhd2 2y ago
They didn't even develop Siri, they acquired it. Doesn't seem like they've done all that much with it beyond integrating and marketing it, but I could be wrong.
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by fhd2 2y ago
Yup, this. I've recently interacted with someone whose board pushed for a company-wide coding assistant rollout, with the explicit goal of reducing development staff, or rather costs. The developers weren't really asking for it, b
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by fhd2 2y ago
I say this to every non-technical founder looking for a work for equity (or effectively "for free") technical co founder: They'll meet two types of people; those that won't do it, and those that don't know yet that
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by fhd2 2y ago
Seems like a page from the Tesla playbook. Musk kept promising customers that if they buy a Tesla _now_, they will have full self driving and can make money having it go to work as a robotaxi Next Year (TM). Without these promises, a Tesla
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's the curse of our industry that we have such long feedback cycles. In the first year or so of a new system, bad code is similarly productive than good code, and often faster or at least cheaper to produce. Now a few more years down
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by fhd2 2y ago
I think the most interesting aspect about this is that improvements in robotics could help us eliminate some truly gruesome jobs we currently rely on something bordering on slave labour for. Pricking fruits and vegetables for example is AFA
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by fhd2 2y ago
I think one of the main improvements we've - interestingly - been unable to widely adopt is an actual live programming environment. Smalltalk was this. Nowadays I mainly use Common Lisp for something reasonably close. We're still
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by fhd2 2y ago
Exactly. And now, a possibly terrifying question: What if there just is not going to be a "next big thing"? Population size is about to peak. Up until now, for as long as we know, it has been growing. Starting at the latest with c

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