momokoko

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by momokoko 6y ago
Ah the answer of all idealistic people. Double down. Always double down.
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by momokoko 6y ago
Software engineering has almost zero transferable skills and as developers in high wage countries are about to find out, very easy to move to cheaper markets. I wouldn’t be worried if I was in Poland as a web software engineer. I would be v
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by momokoko 6y ago
Let’s be honest. This was out of desperation. Without this pivot Triplebyte was dead. And now it probably is anyway. Ammon, the big money is going to be chasing cost savings as more remote workforces can now take advantage of overseas labor
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by momokoko 6y ago
I’d be very curious how many account deletion requests happened. This is interesting in that it’s the new GDPR / CPPA era where users were legally protected to request the complete deletion of their data. Something that Triplebyte woul
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by momokoko 6y ago
1. When a team cares deeply about the product as opposed to just the tech, everyone’s goals tend to be more aligned and people tease things less personally because they realize the other person is saying or doing something to make the produ
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by momokoko 6y ago
Yes. Most people are fine with jerks. I’ve worked with plenty of jerks and it doesn’t really bother me. I, like most well adjusted people, say “that person is just a jerk, whatever” and move on with my day. Wimps grind the entire company to
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by momokoko 6y ago
You could also flip this around and say “No weak willed overly sensitive people” Most people are fine with jerks. Just like most people aren’t jerks. It’s when the minority group “jerks” intersects with minority group “wimps” that problems
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by momokoko 6y ago
I’ve found a pretty simple formula. 1. Team deeply cares about the product. Not just the tech. 2. Team deeply cares about each other and has things they deeply care about outside of work. 3. Team has a high level of skill and talent and tea
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by momokoko 6y ago
> Do you know how much infrastructure you can buy for the fully allocated code of one employee? $10k does not get you very far with AWS.
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by momokoko 6y ago
I think you might be thinking it is a binary choice. Educated decisions can be made to decide if a particular item is worth the lock in or not. For example auto scaling groups in AWS are much faster to set up and maintain than vendor neutra
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by momokoko 6y ago
This is what vendor lock-in looks like.
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by momokoko 6y ago
Maybe I’m older and from a different time, but conventional advertising was simply based on the topics at hand. Selling camping gear? Advertise in a camping magazine or the travel outdoors section of the newspaper. These are all completely
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by momokoko 6y ago
I think that’s kind of the rub with microservices, it is actually a successful architecture when the vast majority of teams are unable to do it correctly?
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by momokoko 6y ago
Google has an unusual situation where search now only needs to be good enough. They are much more focused on the knowledge engine of providing direct answers and the advertising business. With such a dominant market share, search has certai
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by momokoko 6y ago
After ten years of JavaScript and after working on TypeScript apps that have now been around for 5+ years, I can assure you TypeScript is less maintainable long term than most languages. Did you know that TypeScript’s type system is turing
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by momokoko 6y ago
This is 100% true and this actually does affect residential as well. Many real estate investors make more money from the appreciation of the asset as opposed to current rents. Reducing rent reduces the value of the property on paper because
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by momokoko 6y ago
Most of the people writing software for the companies listed in this article are freelance workers in lower wage companies. They make close to, and sometimes less than minimum wage for high wage nations. Startups pay well because speed is s
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by momokoko 6y ago
Tesla is not going to have to permanently close that plant due to a few months of shutdown. That is like saying if the Bay Area had another 1989 magnitude earthquake, Tesla would go out of business. Tesla is not even reasonably similar to m
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by momokoko 6y ago
That role does exist. In lower-wage countries with outsourcing. In the US and other high wage countries, most developers are hired because of the need for maximum velocity at all costs or having them available to discuss things directly wit
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by momokoko 6y ago
This makes some, definitely not all, developers happier. Organization for happiness is based on the individual developers personality and means you are putting some engineer’s happiness as a priority over spending that money providing other
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by momokoko 6y ago
Needing organized codebases is a personality type as there is zero academic research I’m aware of that has ever shown strict organization has resulted in less bugs or faster development. These are all done by people that need to feel in con
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by momokoko 6y ago
This is not true based on the amount of money originating lenders get when the sell off bad debt. Generally they receive less than 5%(sometimes less than 1%). To the original lender, 5% of the defaulted debt generally just covers the cost o
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by momokoko 6y ago
The point is to shift conversations from opinion to insight. Instead of getting someone’s opinion about something, which is ultimately subjective and of little benefit, you are trying to get unique insights into the subject that you may hav
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by momokoko 6y ago
They aren’t. They are making a lot of money which is what the business was made for. The post is actually refreshingly honest that keybase is now abandoned and will probably die at some point. The idea that companies were stupid enough to p
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by momokoko 6y ago
Those jobs aren’t going to other cities. They are going to other countries. The most affordable city is the US can’t even come close to the salary savings from moving to many of the well established outsourcing markets. Remote work is incre
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by momokoko 6y ago
> Parker did some work around town, scrounged together $3k, and began taking a state-subsidized ferry to Juneau, where he bought Costco inventory to resell in Gustavus at a small markup. > As the store grew, Parker and his father l
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by momokoko 6y ago
These models are a great example of why it's important to have these retractions to cull out people who are just riding the wave and happen to be in the right place at the right time. These models all look like toys. Things to play wit
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by momokoko 6y ago
> They don't necessarily force you to implement the single responsibility principle, but they do a good job of pushing you. In my experience, if your services are developed by the same people, and not separated by teams, engineers
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by momokoko 7y ago
Paying bribes to government officials. Large transactions for illegal goods such as drugs. Transferring money out of controlled currencies. This isn’t meant to be a joke. I’m illustrating that the price of cryptocurrency is indeed backed by
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by momokoko 7y ago
I think there might be a mixup about how it might appear that I'm talking about astroturfing. I'm referencing a situation where one or more marketing teams have leveraged their large employee and contractor network to engage posit

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