gene_takavic

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by gene_takavic 4y ago
True, of course, but in those projects (a) you have the power and authority to address that tech debt whenever and however you want, and (b) you’re at no risk of catastrophic income loss due to tech-debt political issues outside of your con
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
You’re not wrong that human psychology is the ultimate source of the problem, but inventive structures and cultural circumstances decide how the good and the bad in our psychological makeup get expressed. Eradicating corporate capitalism wo
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
#1 is not assumed. Clueless like their jobs because they believe their roles (usually in middle management) are more important and respected than they actually are. And, sure, SWE is full of Clueless (you don’t have to be a manager to be cl
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
I disagree. Our technical woes are not caused by the teeming masses of 1x developers, locally solving small problems but creating bigger ones. Nearly all the rot and poison comes from one source: the fact that we answer to capitalists, peop
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
“10x” is also terrible because it shows complete social incompetence. What developers think they are saying is that they deserve a 10x salary (and that their bosses, out of the goodness of their hearts, will just give it to them). What they
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
There’s also the language of Michael O. Church, our fallen hero: Losers: subordinate and strategic, not dedicated. Clueless: subordinate and dedicated, not strategic. Sociopaths: dedicated and strategic, not subordinate. The unicorn of all
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
1. Learn computer science to at least a graduate level. It’s ok if your college major is something else. 2. Program and learn more about programming constantly. 3. Working for and with idiots is not a useless experience, but it’s commonplac
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
Maybe by something worse. Currently SWE interviews are 25% IQ test, 25% a handling-of-short-term-pressure test, 25% a “shit test” (or, more neutrally, “behavioural screen”) to see if you’ll handle gracefully the indignities of being a subor
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by gene_takavic 4y ago
One of the really awful things that happens if you end up in the private sector is that the stupid speed limits come back—and this time they’re malevolent and political, so the smarter you are, the more eyes are on you watching for “bad att