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by jshen 4y ago
We don’t know yet what he was indicted for exactly.
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by jshen 4y ago
He committed crimes, drew a bunch of attention to himself, and here we are. I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.
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by jshen 4y ago
The democratic nominee for President has won the popular vote in something like 7 of the last 8 presidential elections. A majority of Americans do have progressive principles, but America is a minority rule country at the moment.
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by jshen 4y ago
Sure, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do decent estimation with predictable delivery in a relatively healthy environment.
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by jshen 4y ago
That’s fair, I may have picked a poor example, but I maintain a business needs to be able to have a reasonable estimate of the cost of doing something, and often needs the ability to hit a target date. This is very doable in software, and I
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by jshen 4y ago
I think we’re on the same page, you have to give yourself room to deal with the complexities. It’s not perfect, but it’s a far cry from those saying there shouldn’t be any estimates or date targets with predictable delivery.
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by jshen 4y ago
Yes, I think we are saying the same thing. You use buffers and other means of flexibility to hit a target launch, and it works most of the time but not all the time.
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by jshen 4y ago
I’ve built major resorts, and have seen this done successfully many times.
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by jshen 4y ago
I’ve built major resorts, they are far more similar than people realize.
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by jshen 4y ago
I’ve worked on the building of major resorts that many people in this thread have probably been to. I’ve seen this done well before, and I’m happy to compare credentials if that’s the route you want to go. Then we can see who LOLs.
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by jshen 4y ago
Those are bad managers. I always add a buffer on top of the buffer the engineers add themselves.
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by jshen 4y ago
Google and Facebook are companies. They aren’t features. I know a lot of people at both companies, and they absolutely gave dates and estimation for many things.
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by jshen 4y ago
1.25 cost is reasonable, and is solvable by adding a buffer. Taking 2x the time is ridiculous, and a professional should be able to do better.
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by jshen 4y ago
So you think it’s reasonable to have no idea what it will cost, or when it will be done, when building software? You think it’s possible to run a successful business that way?
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by jshen 4y ago
But they give you an estimate for cost and time, and are reasonably close to it. I.e. it doesn’t cost 3x the estimate! They could probably do it more accurately but it would lose them bids, so they knowingly low-ball it. You shouldn’t have
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by jshen 4y ago
> To reliably hit dates, scope of effort must be well understood and it cannot change once a commitment is given. this works, but it’s not the only. You can use a mix of buffers and scope flexibility to hit dates too.
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by jshen 4y ago
This is not true for most. Imagine going to a contractor to get a house built and they tell you that they can’t tell you what it will cost or when it will be done.
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by jshen 4y ago
This is completely wrong.
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by jshen 4y ago
I agree with this, but it misses the thing many teams need and that is a process to reliably hit dates they commit to.
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by jshen 4y ago
Won’t make it to the front page of HN either, like the Twitter files did.
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Trump asked Twitter to take down tweet(thehill.com)
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by jshen 4y ago
You completely missed the point.
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by jshen 4y ago
I don’t believe the usefulness increases linearly. I think many features have a negative or zero value which makes it even worse!
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by jshen 4y ago
For starters, a lot of features add negative value. For most things, people don’t want everything and the kitchen sync thrown it. It confuses them and makes the product hard to use. If your model were true, any dummy off the street could ac
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by jshen 4y ago
“Every new feature you build, on average, increases the value of your product linearly.” Why do you believe this? It doesn’t match my experience and I don’t think it’s a good way to think about it.
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by jshen 4y ago
Does anyone have a pointer to a tutorial or example of what a successful monorepo and process looks like?
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by jshen 4y ago
Federated systems are more resilient, which is the half of the trade-off you leave out. Also, “scale” is too vague a term in this context. It could mean efficiency or it could mean uptime. These are very different, and federated systems wil
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by jshen 4y ago
Twitter didn’t scale for many years. Remember the fail whale?
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by jshen 4y ago
Obviously there is hypocrisy everywhere, but this two things are not equivalent. Musk changed the policy the moment it affected him, and then banned people where it didn’t even apply because he didn’t like what they were saying about him.
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by jshen 4y ago
The hypocrisy knows no bounds.

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