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by khazhoux 3y ago
This is your misperception. In the instances where a person says "English" in this kind of context, it catches your attention and you infer that the person is an English-speaker, and possibly American. But when a person uses the g
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by khazhoux 3y ago
A manager has a duty to "catch" (as you put it) underperformers, to help them improve. If you ever move to management, you'll see that as lovely as it would be if every hands-on developer was an amazing and super-productive e
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Funny, I didn't think they were stereotypically Jewish. Arbib, in particular, rings of Arabic or Persian (Abdil, Arbab, etc, ...) At any rate, this venture is odd enough that it seemed a valid question to ask how the investors are con
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Why would it be anti-Semitic?
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Yes and no. Certainly I know lots of great developers who prefer to commit work frequently and incrementally, others who do slower bigger changes. But I don't think I know any engineers who can create a substantial amount of software
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Reading commit messages is a poor substitute for reading code.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
> a bugfix which takes ages to find and ends up being one or two lines of locally trivial code I once had a junior engineer who took maybe 4-6 weeks to fix an intermittent bug in dynamic lib loading. When he finally fixed it, the fix wa
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by khazhoux 3y ago
My entire premise is: 1) A good manager needs to look at code to see what employees are actually doing. They can't just rely on the employees' verbal description. 2) One (correlated though not guaranteed) indicator that an engine
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by khazhoux 3y ago
> What specific needs are met by daily status updates? You are assuming (1) that standups are status updates, and (2) that they are scheduled by manager, and (3) for benefit of the manager. In the last several teams I’ve managed, it’s th
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Many teams have short daily gatherings — especially now that so many teams are fully distributed, it’s good for everyone to come together like that. But while every team member talks about the difficult bugs they’re facing, sometimes the ac
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by khazhoux 3y ago
With the exception of engineers whose role is strictly advisory, architectural, etc, for most engineers the direct literal expression of their work is the code that they commit. Not the design document, not the ideas in their head, but the
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Yes, but I'm guessing your commit history over the last year is not just 1/2-liners once a month, right?
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Sure. My point was that most employees think that VCs take 80+%, and especially the first few employees usually have no idea just how little equity they have compared to the founders.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
I'm confused which part of this is so off-putting. Joe is always the one in every standup saying the thing he's working isn't done yet because he's wrestling "one last tough bug." As a manager, you wonder if t
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by khazhoux 3y ago
So if you managed a team, and when you look at commit histories you notice that one person has <1 commit a month and you look at the commits and they're trivial... you would disregard any concerns?
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by khazhoux 3y ago
A good manager should look at everyone's code. A good manager should recognize that if a developer does nothing but annotate code with comments, and that's not what they're expected to be doing, there's a problem.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Standup. Daily meetings where teams talk about their blockers and so forth.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
No, probably not. And most don't try. My point is that --with proper context and thoughtful analysis-- it is data that can be useful.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Agree fully. Yours isn't the case I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people that aren't hunting big bugs, aren't serving as advisors or architects, aren't deleting unused code, and aren't implement
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by khazhoux 3y ago
> Should I have received a talk because of that? Of course not. But, if your commit history for last 6 months is just one or two of those one-line changes a month, that might hint that there’s a problem.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Right. One data point among many. And managers should be looking at everyone’s code, not just the low LOC ones. But there are people (I’ve seen this frequently) who constantly represent their work as having been “much more difficult than ex
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by khazhoux 3y ago
Cartoonish anecdotes like this take away from that actual value that LOC can provide to management, when employed judiciously as one data point among many. It is very informative for managers to take a periodic look at the number/frequ
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by khazhoux 3y ago
As a counter-counter-point that gets rarely discussed on HN, VCs aren't taking as much of the pie as people think. In a 2-founder, 4-engineer company, it wouldn't be unusual to have equity be roughly: 20% investors 70% founders 2
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by khazhoux 3y ago
I don’t think those emails are so damning. A company should not be required to write software for its main competitor platform, just to make it easier for people to adopt its main competitor platform.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
There’s nothing wrong with having “words not to use.” Companies have to think ahead to some possible lawsuit in ten years where a jury might have a damning interpretation of some minor word choice.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
No that’s not it at all. Perhaps you don’t understand how Apple builds its software. It is essentially one giant software product that undergoes CI every day until launch, when all the new apps and features are released together. This un
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by khazhoux 3y ago
> Stuff like Apple Vision Pro where you need an iPhone to scan your face is annoying. If you want a Apple Watch but have Android phone it's pretty much pointless. How does Apple get away with that? You think of the Apple Watch or AV
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by khazhoux 3y ago
> It's wild to me to see people defending Apple in the comments here. > 60% of Americans own a phone they're not allowed to install third party apps on One could reasonably conclude that 60% of users have little or no intere
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by khazhoux 3y ago
I would imagine that this would upset Apple users.
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by khazhoux 3y ago
> what already works great Apple's original sin: making great software that works. It's no surprise this makes other HW and SW companies envious, and everyone wants (and asks the DOJ to secure for them) a piece of the pie.

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