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by habinero 7mo ago
> And it's certainly not one I agree with Well, it's a good thing you're not on the hook for defending against it, then. Like I said in another comment, you don't have a license just because they're cool and loo
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by habinero 7mo ago
No, they're absolutely correct, and they're not saying either of those things. They're pointing out an enormous hidden risk. Yanno, like an engineer is supposed to do. You don't have a license because it's what all
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by habinero 7mo ago
Not in the US. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. Source: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html
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by habinero 7mo ago
My dude, you're making the classic problem of assuming because you don't have any first-hand knowledge of problems, other people are equally ignorant. Don't slap someone else down because you don't know something
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by habinero 7mo ago
People are busy, and small bugfixes are usually not that critical. If you make everyone drop everything to review everything, that is much more dysfunctional.
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by habinero 7mo ago
No, it's broadly true. Also, that's why we have code review and tests, so that it has to pass a couple of filters. LLMs don't make mistakes like humans make mistakes. If you're a SWE at my company, I can assume you have
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by habinero 7mo ago
Markdown engineers try to rebrand yet again.
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by habinero 7mo ago
Tell me you're not a SWE without telling me. Engineers hire engineers at tech companies. Managers do the hiring paperwork.
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by habinero 7mo ago
Yeah, actually writing code is a surprisingly small part of the job.
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by habinero 7mo ago
None of them understand the first thing about what the job actually is, or they wouldn't try to brag about the 200K LoC they generated lol
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by habinero 7mo ago
> I've generated 250KLoC this week It's horrifying, all right, but not in the way you think lol. If you don't understand why this isn't a brag, then my job is very safe.
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by habinero 7mo ago
And you're not likely to see any either, frankly, because you buy SaaS when you don't want to DIY. It's easy to think of DIY software as "free" because you don't pay seat licenses, but DIY is expensive like a
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by habinero 7mo ago
I hate Jira just as much the next engineer, but this is not at all accurate lol. The reason all ticketing systems are kind of terrible is they have to deal with a lot of complexity. Jira has waaayyyyy more features than you think it does.
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by habinero 7mo ago
It's assigning yourself the literal worst parts of the job - writing specs, docs, tests and reading someone else's code.
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by habinero 8mo ago
No, they're 100% correct. This has been my experience at every place I've worked at in SV, from startup to FAANG. You write the code so you can scan it easily, and you build tools to help, and you ask for help when you need it, bu
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by habinero 8mo ago
There's no way around just learning the codebase. I have never seen code documentation that was complete or correct, let alone both.
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by habinero 8mo ago
> If good code was enough on its own we would read the source instead of documentation. Uh. We do. We, in fact, do this very thing. Lots of comments in code is a code smell. Yes, really. If I see lots of comments in code, I'm gonna
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by habinero 8mo ago
> But if the knowledge is in a book or comes from another other man-made source, it's some how infallible Nobody who's ever done research believes that. Everything gets put along a spectrum of trust/accuracy. You should
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by habinero 8mo ago
And the Concorde did not replace normal jet travel.
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by habinero 8mo ago
The city might call you in a month when it gets towed wherever it was abandoned. The cops aren't going to look for it. That happened to me once.
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by habinero 8mo ago
> At the same time, the public demands more oversight and constraints on police , which reduces their ability to enforce the law Don't make excuses for them. If you're legally allowed to kill people on purpose, you (should) get
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by habinero 8mo ago
Yeah, it's basically just formalized rules for communication, and I've been on teams where it worked great I think it's awful when people follow it slavishly -- you chuck out anything that doesn't fit your team. And yeah
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by habinero 8mo ago
Oh god, please don't make me look for another data warehouse.
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by habinero 8mo ago
The monkey's paw curls, and you are born as any of the many many many people who did not have access to any of those things lol.
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by habinero 8mo ago
That's more general, not more accurate. Civil tort law is a broad class of things. It's like saying "to be more accurate, a supermarket is a type of store". Well, yes.
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by habinero 8mo ago
Nope, those people are not competition lol. I get that you want that to be true for some reason, but it's not. I do not get paid to write code . No software engineer does. The more senior the engineer, the less code they write. I do
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by habinero 8mo ago
Nope. News companies don't do it because of different reasons. For one, it's an opinion, and traditional journalism likes to pretend it doesn't have those. The bigger reason is anyone can sue for anything in the US. Litigatio
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by habinero 8mo ago
Yeah, nah, that's just a complete misunderstanding of what SWEs actually do lol I'm not a code factory who occasionally talks to the suits. That isn't the job lol
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by habinero 8mo ago
Sure it is, that's how the 1A works. Saying he was convicted of murder is not true, but calling him a murderer is an opinion. Your opinion doesn't even have to be reasonable. It just has to be based on facts that both you and I ha
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by habinero 8mo ago
We are absolutely talking about the 1A lol. Defamation is 1A law. It is one of the few recognized exceptions to the 1A. And we are also 100% talking about public figures. "Public figures" include companies and it's a critic

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