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by jdlshore 3y ago
My experience with EEs is that they understand programming languages, but typically don’t understand software engineering (creating and maintaining complex systems involving dozens or hundreds of developers). This leads to them to underesti
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One very real benefit to the org is that it’s much easier to recruit people with specialized skills. I recently posted a job opening for a Staff Eng position with very specific requirements and got a dozen very highly-qualified applicants,
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That wasn’t my experience in Europe, where pay toilets are common. First, they’re not all attended. Second, the nastiest toilet I’ve ever seen was a pay toilet at a train station in Norway. Although I prefer the floor-to-ceiling stalls of E
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No, I have just as much control either way… but good management isn’t about control. It’s about understanding the work system and manipulating it so people will succeed. (This means things like improving processes, mediating disagreements,
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> the arguments brought by their counterparts are in most cases either very dishonest, or very dismissive and confrontational. Can’t say I’ve seen that on HN. Typically, the arguments I see are along the lines of “I prefer working with p
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I think that makes a lot of sense, and explains the behavior I see. It doesn’t excuse it, though. It’s still shitty behavior, and the opposite of the kind of reasoned discourse I’d like to see on HN. I think there’s an interesting debate to
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I’m in favor of remote work. The question was why discussion of remote work on HN is one sided. My argument was that it’s one sided because proponents of remote work are loud and borderline toxic, so people don’t bother posting in favor of
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Huh. You’re really not reading what I wrote, are you? (Take a second look and find the part where I said I like offices. Look real close. There’s a sentence that talks about my preferences. You’ll find it. Now quote it back to me and explai
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Thank you for making my point. There’s nothing in my post about forcing you to do anything. In fact, in my role as VP Eng., I’m one of the strong proponents for continuing fully remote work at my company.
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If you have enough karma, you can “vouch” a dead comment back to life by clicking the timestamp. At the time of these writing, only one comment was dead, and it was rude and content-free. The rest of its tree was arguing about Beck in gener
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You’re comparing a passenger rail system to a freight rail system. Totally different beasts.
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Or that making money and increasing market share while building an open-source browser for people who don’t like ads, don’t spend money on software, and think they always know better than you… is damn near impossible.
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The difference in emissions isn’t negligible: a new EV is a net positive to carbon emissions over an existing ICE in only 2 years, even assuming a dirty electric source.
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Minivans are much more practical: generally more cargo space, lower bed, higher mileage, less roll-over risk, better front visibility (so less chance of running over your kids in the driveway), good amenities. The Toyota Sienna comes in a 4
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OpenSesame | Staff Engineer (XP Coach) | REMOTE (US or Latam) | FULL-TIME | https://www.opensesame.com We're an eLearning marketplace and late-stage startup. We have about 65 engineers that are going all in on Extreme Progr
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A resistive electric heater converts 100% of its energy to heat, by essentially wasting it. A natural gas heater converts about 95% of its energy to heat, by burning it. A heat pump converts about 3x its energy to heat, by acting as a sort
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Elisabeth is the author of the article they may have been unknowingly quoting: “Better Testing, Worse Quality.”
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Already done it. I’m speaking from experience, not fear.
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Water cooler chat doesn’t need to involve a literal water cooler. It’s an expression for the casual chit-chat that occurs when you encounter someone in the hallway.
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Building a startup is full of uninteresting work. Same for games and any other field. Everything has its boring parts. (Especially building startups. What a slog that is. The fun part is building the product, and that’s a fraction of what
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It’s very common for portrait photographers to retain the copyright for photos they take, or at least it used to be.
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Yes, for photos stored in the cloud, the company that implemented a privacy-preserving CSAM detection algorithm on-device rather than just running it on unencrypted photos in the cloud like everyone else.
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This phenomenon is very well described by Elisabeth Hendrickson’s “Better Testing, Worse Quality” article.
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It depends on the org. In my company, which is a SaaS-like company, all of product and engineering is a cost center, despite creating the product the company sells. It’s just the way they do their accounting.
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I would guess Discord is more popular, based on my teens’ usage.
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Christenson is the one who coined the term “disruptive innovation,” and he gave it a precise definition. That definition includes taking on low-value markets and gradually expanding into more lucrative, higher-value markets. The established
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Only if they took advantage of non-public info. Cashing out after a price jump due to a public announcement is fine.
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My understanding, as someone who bought health insurance on the healthcare.gov marketplace, is that the ACA did in fact standardize health insurance into “bronze,” “silver,” and “gold” tiers. The tiers are defined by actuarial math that I
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Better battery management, more careful charging patterns and leveling, better temperature management. You can do a lot more with a big pack of batteries in a car than the few cells in your phone or laptop.
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Two things that make this a potential culture issue, as I see it: 1. Software that operates heavy machinery is life-critical. There’s no such thing as “just a bug” in that environment. It requires a different level of care. 2. As I understa

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