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by jseban 4y ago
> Give me work to do and leave me alone to do it. That'll solve a lot of the burn-out. Yeah but this really translates to asking management to actually do their job, and letting you do yours. Any hint at this attitude will get you i
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> So stop putting them under a lot of pressure. The second tip hints at this, but it only seems to be a reactionary measure. Maybe all this goalsetting, OKRs and such is exactly the problem with the industry, always having to feel pressu
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by jseban 4y ago
> The disadvantage is low morale over time and lower quality products under the hood. Rotating workers who come in fresh can mitigate this outcome but at a cost. Hehe the modern Agile software sweatshop.
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by jseban 4y ago
I agree, deadlines and estimates are used to cover up for product actually not having a solid use case and design in the first place. Which is also not just blame the people that work as product managers, but also a critique of Agile swervi
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> I get pulled into 8 hour meetings every other week where 30+ people try to "plan" our way into building faster. The beatings will continue until morale improves.
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by jseban 4y ago
Great way to deliver cake! I wonder if you can slice software in the same way though..
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by jseban 4y ago
But solar has the benefit that it doesn't need to be centralised, people can cover their own roofs and have a battery to be self sufficient and now you don't even need a grid.
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by jseban 4y ago
I've only been introduced to it, but I did get the impression that LINQ is probably the best SQL abstraction, and that it's much better than Hibernate, which is what I have the most experience with. I think the whole framework sit
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by jseban 4y ago
This is the worst type of working environment, when everyone on the team is trying to "educate" and evangelise and "build culture" which is nothing but sucking up to the manager, instead of trying to be realistic about s
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by jseban 4y ago
> Composing queries programmatically is much easier and less error prone than raw sql when using an ORM. This is only true for the most trivial of use cases that will not really bring any value to your users. As soon as you get more adva
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by jseban 4y ago
> If you're using a standard, just about anybody can sit down and pick up where you left off within an hour or two Yeah it just doesn't work that way, you need to understand the domain and understand the system, and it takes a
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by jseban 4y ago
> I have no doubts most of my peers could write a fine custom framework, but it's going to take a whole team of them at least a year to come up with something decently ergonomic, tested and documented. No, because they would not ma
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by jseban 4y ago
> On the other hand, frameworks are like using common tools, foundations, scaffolding, and (literally) frameworks to build a custom architectured house. This is exactly the problem, you are trying to use a standardised blurprint, to buil
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by jseban 4y ago
> Because your framework eventually becomes a badly written, not as widely tested version of a known framework. When you leave, it will be a lot easier to hire someone who knows React than someone who knows jseban.js. Why are you assumin
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In other words: they make sense for making prototypes.
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Except it's not like that, software is not standardised, it's custom made. And software engineers already have their toolset. The real analogy would be telling all the builders that they now have to use those shitty multi tools th
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by jseban 4y ago
> then you will have, by necessity, built something which could be called a framework. What they call "building your own framework" is simply what I think of as programming. You design a program, it will have a structure. Why i
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> Even the biggest hater of SQL database abstractions will admit there are reasons why someone would want them. There is only one reason, and it's that people don't understand how to use SQL, and that's because it's n
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by jseban 4y ago
That's some seriously self deprecating attitude, that can never be a healthy working environment.
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90% of my software engineering is fighting with incomprehensible framework magic to automates simple tasks that don't need to be automated, to "save me" from just writing some simple code. It's literally rube goldberg al
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by jseban 4y ago
Maybe because it's a male dominated field, you'd probably find the same bias against men in the field of child care for example.
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by jseban 4y ago
You can also take pictures that make you look taller, with certain angles, poses etc (hint, women know and use all of these tricks).
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Strut? Who are you, Mick Jagger?
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by jseban 4y ago
It really makes a lot of sense, especially for tech cities where there's literally too few women, and the men have good jobs and incomes, why not match them with some of all the women around the world who would love to have the opportu
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by jseban 4y ago
It feels this way for everyone, some people just pretend to be geniuses and cover up their mistakes. Just use a normal structured note-taking process in a text file, and review it periodically (start of day, end of day), and you will have a
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by jseban 4y ago
> When I was 25, I had a small number of heuristics and gotchas to look for, now I have thousands, it takes longer to consider them. Exactly! You have a much more advanced thinking process, that will let you avoid a lot of mistakes, and
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Your thought process also becomes more advanced and include more parameters, as you become more experienced, so it can be slower also because of that.
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> "It takes you a while to read code & understand what it's doing". She was right. Yeah but the young inexperienced people are also overconfident and assume they understand things, when they actually don't, jump t
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Yeah it helps to get hired, HR likes it, but the team hates you because they think you are a goody two-shoes who is ruining the party by turning down donuts and beer, and making people feel bad about being unfit. The average IT office is re
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Yeah it's a temporary effect and once the walls have heated up, it actually makes it worse since it retains the heat at nighttime as well. You need to drill down to access the constant temperature in the ground, to be able to really co

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