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by hitekker 2y ago
Speaking as an engineering manager, this is wish-fulfillment. According to his own LinkedIn, the author has never been a first-level engineering manager. His blog is accordingly heavy on cliches and mostly free of actual work experience. Ta
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by hitekker 2y ago
I have a word in mind, but I'll save it for a blogpost one day. To be fair to the senior, it was a bad situation made worse by everyone's self-interest. Myself included.
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by hitekker 2y ago
Absolutely. Some people are born firefighters. Nothing wrong with that. I once worked with a senior engineer who loved running incidents. He felt it was real engineering. He loved debugging thorny problems on a strict timeline, getting ev
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by hitekker 2y ago
I was surprised by how dismissive these comments are. Former staff members, engineers included, are claiming that their former company's unsafe development culture contributed to a colossal world-wide outage & other previous outage
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by hitekker 2y ago
Actually, you're the one acting disturbed. The GP just gave a simple counterexample.
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by hitekker 2y ago
Yes, he was pushed over the edge. But what he said is not a lie.
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Winning Isn't for Everyone [Video](youtube.com)
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by hitekker 2y ago
A hilarious sentiment. If it's true, then these companies marketing their OSS creds are merely disguising their desire to be the next Oracle.
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by hitekker 2y ago
Nice link. One of the key quotes: > Perhaps if random engineers stopped calling legal opinion FUD and falsehoods and took a moment to listen to the feedback from lawyers who didn’t write the license, we’d get somewhere with finding a pal
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by hitekker 2y ago
Speak for yourself. I have not seen the accusations in this thread represented in the article. But I’m also not ideologically invested in either side. IMO, it’s silly to insinuate the OP is obtuse while looking quite obtuse yourself.
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by hitekker 2y ago
From my read, Dmitry didn't upset his audience, excluding the flagged TrueDuality commenter. Rather, after Dimitry's protest and physical removal, a bunch of the audience went outside to listen to his impromptu talk on the sidewal
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by hitekker 2y ago
This is quite an angry comment. Do you have evidence to support your allegations? So far, other accounts indicate Dimitry has not done what you've accused him of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Defcon/comments/
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by hitekker 2y ago
Care to you explain why? Otherwise, the evidence the GP presented undermines your belief.
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by hitekker 2y ago
Without knowing the specifics: I doubt a governance structure will produce good leadership. I've seen Rust people place their hopes in abstract, convoluted processes, and they've failed repeatedly. Rather, I see the problem as cha
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by hitekker 2y ago
Putting aside the accusations of activist ideology, this paragraph seems key: > At a properly run company, if you are caught eating someone else's sandwich from the fridge, your boss will confront you and say "hey, Bob, don&#x2
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by hitekker 2y ago
It's nice that you're replying to commenters, but I feel you're rather living up to your username.
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by hitekker 2y ago
For someone not in the loop, why not go back into it and take the lead? At least on a part time, volunteer basis.
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by hitekker 2y ago
This take sounds reasonable to me. But I'm not an expert, and I'd be curious to hear an opposing view if there's one.
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by hitekker 2y ago
This new homepage/logo lost the late 90s, early 00s charm that originally attracted me to Serenity. Instead, it looks looks not too different from hyped up, short-lived products that I've learned to avoid. On a side note, I wonder
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by hitekker 2y ago
Eh sounds like lying to me. Maybe it sounds like marketing to people who develop software “we can iterate no worries” but I think rocket science has a higher bar for safety. Reminds me of that failing nuclear startup that tried “fake it unt
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by hitekker 2y ago
Can you explain how? Genuinely curious. The author only refers to "security theater" which seems to be when a product or system around a product makes people feel like they're safer, when actually it's not making anythin
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by hitekker 2y ago
That's an alright takeaway: the team made a rookie mistake and then they made a PR mistake by oversharing. Otherwise, I think this comment thread is a classic example why company engineering blogs choose to be boring. Better ten articl
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by hitekker 2y ago
I never used ICQ but I have listened to this song on repeat since 2007 https://youtu.be/xVdMiHmnf_I?si=5rwC12kLsNZ0u7ON&t=74
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by hitekker 2y ago
Neither is false balance or enlightened centrism. The point of the GP is that we shouldn't worshipping these companies. They're not your Lord.
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by hitekker 2y ago
You're taking the right angle with greed (1 Timothy 6:9-11). But I think it goes beyond that: > Williams wasn’t a game designer, but a visionary who saw the company always moving forward, leading the market with other genres, other
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by hitekker 2y ago
It's the upvote where that opinion falls short. Sure, it may just be one hypocrite, but it sure is funny when a community raises scarcely concealed hypocrisy to the top comments or sub-comments. And then forgets about it 2 weeks later.
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by hitekker 3y ago
On the note of awareness of possibilities vs ignorance, I found this thread on HN to be gold: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592471 The creator of Vue pointed out a new feature for Svelte was a similar feature that
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by hitekker 3y ago
This sounds so true. Before you had 1 or 2 bosses to report to, now you have 10, rotating in and out, whenever they please. If you've experienced the joy of a semi-yearly peer review system in a MegaCorp (e.g., Meta), imagine this happ
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by hitekker 3y ago
That's a question for folks who don't value original copies. Meanwhile, mint-condition, shrink-wrapped Magic the Gathering cards sell for $$$. Same goes for other collectibles and real art.
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by hitekker 3y ago
@amichlin, do you have a rebuttal to these comments? My impression is that you hastily defended a former employer, and when questioned, you started making things up. I think you are actually formerly connected to VCF, since a twitter user

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