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by kevsim 6y ago
> And there is the on prem and cloud versions. And they are not feature matched. This is my daily nightmare. We’re building a competitor to Jira [0] so naturally we want to allow people to import their issues from Jira into our tool. In
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> Rearrangement of messages in channel based on threads Wait, what? Do threads move when they get replies or something?
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For me personally I find git to be relatively painless (after years of svn and P4). But working with people in less technical roles (PM/UX) who for whatever reason need to touch git occasion, I’m exposed to how inaccessible it is for t
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Fully agree on Jira. Disliked it enough to start a company to compete with it [0]. Also agree on AWS. Their UI is so terrible and confusing that it makes writing CloudFormation yaml files feel alright in comparison. Been using GCP lately an
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As an engineering manager, I love having a mix of people who just always need to go deep on whatever they’re working on and others who are just obsessed with shipping and getting stuff out. Particularly great when you pair them off and they
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To me what the author is describing as 'healthy self-doubt' doesn't sound like self-doubt to me at, but rather admitting one doesn't know everything, one needs to surround oneself with competent people, etc. If you feel
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Regarding pricing, we'll be rolling that out soon (I believe next week). Will be a free tier for up to 6 users or so and then after that something around $10/user/month.
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Thanks! We appreciate the kind words :-)
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At one point we did have syncing to GitHub issues (e.g. an issue created in Kitemaker was automatically created in GitHub and vice versa, labels and comments were kept in sync, etc.). However, we ended up dropping this feature because it wa
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Shipping is important. It's a nice feeling to get it out there. But to imagine that if you'd just shipped it then everyone would be using your app instead of someone else's is nonsense. You're in full control of shipping
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It’s years since I’ve read it to be honest. I remember finding the parts on how to conduct one-on-ones useful at the time. I don’t recall feeling the author was unsure of himself (and he’s a pretty successful tech leader btw, currently VP E
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Sounds like either you’ve had bad managers or you need to invest in a quality mirror
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I really liked “Managing Humans”. Super useful and told in a story format that makes it ultra accessible
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There’s no tracer. Just a counter of how many said yes vs how many said no. There’s no personally identifiable information there
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I've said this before on similar posts, but I think most clipboard "snooping" is not nefarious, it's boneheaded. Developers get a requirement like "if the user has a URL in their clip board, give them an option to s
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You need to get your team talking(medium.com)
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Amazing list! > 9) Judge people based on objective results not on "optics". Ass-in-seat time is a lazy and pointless measurement in most cases. I'd only point out that as a manager one also needs to be aware of the optics
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by kevsim 6y ago
I think the most reliable thing to see what quirks are load bearing is tests, particularly regression tests. You change something, you break expected behavior, you fix it and you write a test. Now the next person may wonder if some quirk is
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by kevsim 6y ago
Relevant post from earlier today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23735991
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CSS sticky would make the effect on that site much smoother IMO as it would just hit the top of the viewport and stick, which is what I tend to see sites like this doing.
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Could you explain the situations in which this is advantageous over CSS sticky? Saying it's "very good from UX point of view" is hard to accept at face value - people want to understand the problem it's solving.
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Oh yeah! Nothing like a bunch of old poorly thought out "render props" style high level components getting mushed together with a bunch of new poorly thought out custom React hooks :-)
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One of the nightmares I've experienced time and time again in large mature codebases is incomplete abstractions. Some developer gets a great idea of how to abstract something away, defines the plumbing needed for said abstraction, and
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On the bright side, there's a marked increased in remote jobs.
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Curious why you use Figma and Zeplin together. I guess I’d always thought of Figma as being Sketch+Zeplin
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I’ll be showing my age here - but is TikTok so important that it’s worth the risk? I know teenagers aren’t going to care but are people on HN still using this thing on their phones?
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Good points! I'm also a manager and recognize more than a bit of myself in your answers. I wasn't passing blame on my past employers. As a reasonably senior engineering leader I was part of the machine. In response to your points:
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People who work at these places - how rigidly are these things stuck to? Because I've worked in places with very detailed job ladders only to see them basically ignored and replaced with gut feelings and popularity contests. Job ladder
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My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn&#x2
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Was my first thought as well. Mongo stores things as BSON rather than JSON but that feels more or less like an implementation detail.

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