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by herval 1y ago
It’s not a “narrative” - technical-minded people tend to be more realistic/pessimistic, which has severe implications on company growth. It matches my personal experience (the most technical CEOs I work with consistently underperform)
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by herval 1y ago
Big American corporations (and to lesser extent, other countries that try to mimic US corporate culture) operate in a particularly dysfunctional ways. There’s ample literature on it (moral mazes, bullshit jobs and five dysfunctions of a tea
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by herval 1y ago
It’s good advice for the average engineer who wants to chug along. Not exactly anything that would classify as “influence” though. Great staff engineers actually set direction (which includes convincing management), instead of trying to cod
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by herval 1y ago
Completely different skillsets. Lots of deeply technical startup CEOs kill their startups by not acknowledging that.
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by herval 1y ago
as it was repeatedly in the past (Reagan, Schwarzenegger and a bunch of others local officials). Circus sells.
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by herval 1y ago
You missed the point entirely. The point is forcing others to do something that has no inherent value to them or to your process, just because you like it, is junior behavior.
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by herval 1y ago
The squashed commit message remains, even in your extremely unlikely examples. Not sure what you’re protecting yourself against, in reality
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by herval 1y ago
> we don't squash merge PRs you need to be careful with every single commit message, every commit must compile, etc, in your case. My comments apply if you squash-merge, in which case all that commit-level care is not necessary sinc
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by herval 1y ago
> And after you're done it's pretty straightforward to massage it into a coherent series of commits Why waste time? Just squash and merge, you have a single commit and it WORKS. Intermediate messages disappear and you have a si
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by herval 1y ago
that's the whole point. A _branch_ is a unit of work that should be merged when done. As the owner of a branch, an engineer has the ability to move into intermediate states. The larger the codebase, the larger the possibility of someth
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by herval 1y ago
> sucks ass for anyone else trying to rebase your branch onto the update main why would anyone else rebase your branches? YOU should rebase your branches.
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by herval 1y ago
In most sane development cycles I've seen (from 2-people teams to 100k people teams), intermediate commits disappear as soon as you merge your branch (in other words, you do short lived branches + squash merge). If you decide to do mer
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by herval 1y ago
Sure.
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by herval 1y ago
I find the sort of opinions on this post quite common on a subset of engineers - namely mid levels with some time in the career, who start to consider themselves senior engineers and want everyone to follow the same set of strict rules they
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by herval 1y ago
I love/hate how many people in tech watched Black Mirror and went "that's a great idea! I'll build that"
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by herval 1y ago
> But for the other 99/100 years of the century when things are business as usual it's a distinction without a difference. "business as usual" under a totalitarian regime is slightly different from "business as u
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by herval 1y ago
Sidekiq is the dream of the Indie developer. Useful and simple product, highly automated, mints money
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by herval 1y ago
Indeed it is - and likely by design anyway (critical thinking is bad for political control, after all). You generally want the ones in power (preferably the ones aligned to you) to be better educated than the masses.
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by herval 1y ago
it's a distinction with A TON of difference. Well-functioning democracies have a push-and-pull that tends to slow things down BUT also prevents massive outreaches. Systems with tons of "sides" are stabler than dual systems be
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by herval 1y ago
This is true in a _well functioning democratic government_ - by design: as long as there are differences, a single actor cannot take over. Understanding that the media is owned by powerful people, and people have agendas, is a key point to
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by herval 1y ago
Concerning
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by herval 1y ago
So you think “both sides are the same” and that democrats “ramping up republicans” legitimizes what the government is currently doing, all based on a report by the judiciary that’s controlled by the current administration?
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by herval 1y ago
> Go read the emails the administration was sending to Twitter demanding people be taken down left and right. They used twitter’s appeal process at the time. Twitter was never forced to take anyone down. The emails prove that, in fact. T
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by herval 1y ago
Brazil is absorbing a large amount of Google HC, and it’ll keep growing. Their biggest bottleneck at the moment is not having enough people with fluent english to hire. If the dollar keeps losing value, this equation might start shifting (s
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by herval 1y ago
Great argument, congratulations
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by herval 1y ago
Some individuals from the previous administration asking a donor to do something is not exactly the same thing as the president FORCING someone to do it and demanding bribes or else they’ll impose fines on the business (which he then procee
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by herval 1y ago
The US has always been a very moralistic country. From banning alcohol and burning witches to its long struggle to accept differences (in skin color, gender or even the definition of freedom). “Cancel culture” is part of America since its f
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by herval 1y ago
Brazil and Canada will absorb a lot of big tech headcount. Google et al are already moving lots of headcount to both countries. This will accelerate it, even if it’s struck down
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by herval 1y ago
Visor is largely vaporware (to put it mildly). It’s the form factor Apple is aiming with version 2 or 3 of Vision Pro It’s a very different experience to passthrough, no matter how small you make the glasses, so I’m not sure there’s a clear
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by herval 1y ago
Typical Meta product. I used to believe and wasted money on multiple generations of Quest & Ray-bans. I expect this device to be unsupported at launch, just like Quest Pro was

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