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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
Non-developers might have to learn something about development so they can push back on inflated estimates, which honestly would be helpful to everyone. If I quoted you $1,000 to unclog your kitchen sink trap, you'd call bullshit becau
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
The points are needed because it's convenient to do reports based off of it. If we used estimation language such as "easy, medium, hard, dummy-thicc" they'd still need to assign points to those labels so they can do math
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
We should certainly do something about CEOs being in charge of large multi-billion dollar companies, rarely having direct consequences, and still being rich. It is currently reasonable that a CEO might not know everything when something hap
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
I think this might be premature if you're trying to apply this to how the world makes money with software. There's too much of the economy that depends on adding another abstraction layer to make money, so you'd need to rewir
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
Yeah up until Mt. Gox exploded and maybe a bit afterwards After that it started really getting its scammy, investor-only reputation
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
The only upside is state-level minimum wage increases. The federal minimum wage is still a complete joke at $7.25 an hour. But there's bigger fish to fry for American politics and worker obsolescence is not really top of mind for anyon
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
Coasting is fine in a sane company. Coasting is a sign of competence IMO as long as your work is also getting done and things are fairly estimated. We should get to coast because we practiced enough to be good at our job. There's way t
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
People are spread too thin with their skills already, so it's no wonder they don't want to learn yet another thing (especially if you aren't the one signing their checks). The databases can be forgiving and EXPLAINs are not e
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
I love how we beat down tech workers' self-confidence and called them weird, and now we're charging out the ass for a button-up, jeans, and sneakers to take advantage of that of that vulnerability. It would be different if the ent
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
>I love this about farmers. They are the polymaths of our age and folks dont get it. Letting it get too complicated risks losing all of the small-scale farms because then only large companies will have the scale and aggregate skill and m
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
>The requirements are unclear, or a client changes what they want during development. A client changes what they want after development. Agile supports some uncertainty, but often a mile is taken when an inch is given. You have to take i
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
I usually see both happening at the same time, but the real money still goes to the politicians. Brilliant nerds that solve problems for the organization on their own usually don't get rewarded as much as politicians despite the skills
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
I would love a view of the code and architecture and backlog I'd actually be working on to see if it's a huge ball of mud. I have been fooled by companies selling other perks of the company, but the actual day-to-day was terrible
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
I'm numb to it. It's just a fact of life because tenures are so short, quality is often very opinionated, and jobs are readily available, and you usually get a raise from the next job too. You do what you can to stay employed unti
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
We're probably at the point where it's cost effective to pay for traveling-to-interview again, especially for the later-round interviews. That is, unless companies are lying about how much damage bad hiring does. I don't susp
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
We should definitely stop using metaphors involving things we don't understand (rocket design) to explain things we might already understand (software development).
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
It's pretty neat. I'd want to try a version with a linear motion that drives the propeller for the counterbalance reasons. I could see this as an alternative to fins offered at snorkeling places. That would make a great test envir
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
>The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. That's a crock of shit, l
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
>You are clearly thinking about smaller projects. Yes, because that's the majority. You will probably not see another major upgrade from .NET to new-shiny-thing in a decade or more, so you may as well take the extra time to do thing
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
>MS libraries are great but all the rest seem to be enterprise-milking, poor wrappers or sdk for some cloud service. The biggest example are PDF producing/converting libraries, which I have no doubt make millions in licensing.
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
This feels frustrating, but it is a good forcing function for the quality of C# projects. IMO it is a great alternative to simply deprecating/breaking older things and will slowly push the ecosystem towards .NET's recent language
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
>If you're not careful, and your centralized system injects dozens of minutes of delay due to the additional complexity of performing the global optimization, you end up with the globally optimal decision from 20 minutes ago, which
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
That's alright. HashiCorp stuff was 2nd tier compared to any offerings from the cloud providers themselves just because those providers' own solutions would get preference (obviously!). And cloud is the environment for 95% of app
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by hnthrow289570 2y ago
Sadly like half of that wisdom has to do with avoiding personal stress caused by business processes.
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by hnthrow289570 3y ago
>Redditors are frequently sophisticated with their spreadsheets; many of them could clearly earn three orders of magnitude more from the financial industry if they stopped thinking that the right way to monetize spreadsheet skill was in
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by hnthrow289570 3y ago
Well, you need to be in proximity to wealthy people to get that information, and that's why it's under served. There's not really a public clearinghouse of unaddressed wealthy-people-problems to inform this market that I know