mr_tristan

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by mr_tristan 10mo ago
I wonder if at a certain point, someone learns about compounding, and just sticks with it, building generational wealth. And poof, the wealth just keeps growing as long as the descendants don’t make errors. We seem to love creating stories
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by mr_tristan 1y ago
Yeah, I think there's a lot more "good, focused" companies out there than what are covered in this hidden champions book. The book is just interesting to me. It highlights a lot of the economic export strength of Germany isn&
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by mr_tristan 1y ago
There are a lot of mid-sized companies identified in the book _Hidden Champions of the 21st Century_. I just started the book, but it's exactly the ethos you're talking about here: these companies just focus on a niche, tend to se
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
Ultimately, the first line is really resonated with me: "When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is what all computi
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
> At this precise moment in time, if anybody seriously thought the above was the way the process works or should work, they should be advocating for firing all the juniors and replacing them with LLMs. Sadly, I think this is happening at
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
Not that I know of. I do think you could do some analysis to associate code with implementers and create graphs, where you account for additional things like time. I could see LLMs being helpful in maybe doing part of that analysis. But I w
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
This list does resonate, but I’d make some tweaks to express things slightly better. For example: > Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written I would say “most engineering should be done before a single
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
Software problems almost never seem to actually impact brands, but this was so egregious it actually managed to. Even Crowdstrike increased revenue over the last year. So… I’m not shocked at the timing. Sales have tanked, and proved the CEO
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
Right now, I’d say the “AI IDEs” like Cursor or Zed are ready to replace less Java-centric environments. I’d put VSCode in this “not really Java centric” bucket. I see VSCode as a “fancy text editor” for Java, i.e., better than an editor li
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
I don’t use an LLM largely because my current codebase has a massive amount of bespoke internal APIs. So LLMs are just useless and wrong for almost any task I use. But this has led me to wonder if there will be gradual pressure to build o
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
You do realize you linked to a discontinued product that costs over $5k? This is what I actually expect to happen to the table saw market - they all become expensive, and the sub-$1k market (which is huge ) goes away. Yes, you can find an
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by mr_tristan 2y ago
The cynical take is more that it's crappy blade guards that nobody uses that really should be improved, and it's not necessary to mandate SawStop-style blade breaking technology. I tend to agree with Jim Hamilton, Stumpy Nubs on y
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
The “great recession” didn’t seem to impact tech like the dotcom bust did. So millenials and younger really hadn’t lived through a lean era in tech like we’re living in now. This is easily the worst jobs market since that dotcom bust. So it
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
I find that architecture should benefit the social structure of the engineering team, and there are limits. I work on one of these “simple architectures” at large scale… and it’s absolute hell. But then, the contributor count to this massiv
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
Location: Spokane, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cloud and on prem distributed services, mostly AWS, some k8, largely Java services, some big data using Kinesis, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch Résumé/
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
The challenge when I see posts like this is the people in charge of building this "check it all in" ecosystem usually forget about the developer experience and basically just implement a CI system. Cool, you can 're-run'
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
I’ve noticed that video chats are great when they complement detailed asynchronous communication, e.g., RFC-style doc or a produced video. The best video conference work meetings tend to be: read a doc for 10 mins and then everyone launches
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
This seems like the fear/problems of dating apps are just another aspect of how modern communication systems are alienating us. Social circles are indeed shrinking: https://www.americansurveycenter.org/why-mens-social-c
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
I see companies hiring lots of middle management during high-growth phases, as the "plan" is to have them grow their teams. And then the market changes, and headcount targets change, and all of a sudden there's a glut of mana
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
Because it really isn't a violation of antitrust as is currently defined. Linda Khan's article here is, IMO, one of the best overviews of why: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... W
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
Yep, laid off in the aftermath of the 2000 crash. Not immediately but the company didn’t get funding and cut almost everyone. It hit me hard at first, but I was very young, just out of college, and adjusted quickly. The market was dead for
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
I can’t speak for the OP, but this makes it much easier to write code that uses threads that wait on IO, and just let the underlying system (VM + JDBC connectors, for example) handle the dirty work. A few years ago, I wrote a load generatio
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
I don’t suspect this is as nefarious as just stupid bureaucracy. My company has kept hiring interns immediately after laying off 10% of their staff, “to keep the funnel open”. H1Bs seem to be organized similarly; it’s a different “system” t
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
Well, as an employee of Salesforce, I witnessed operating margin goals of activist investors drive a layoff this year. (And Salesforce just met those goals last week.) Part of me wonders if that's just broad inflationary concerns and u
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
That sounds about ideal to me. Any tricks or issues you've had to figure out while pairing? My thought was just "assign a couple of people to a non-trivial ticket and see what happens". But I'm curious if that's rea
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
I'm in a similar boat, working remotely since 2017. I don't even have kids, and just enjoy my local parks with my dogs, my wife, etc. My social interaction tends to not involve work, which I actually think is healthy, and gets me
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
While I do think AI could greatly help moderation, someone has to implement it, to be responsible for trust issues. And, right now, I'm not sure Reddit will be that someone. And it's even more unclear is who would do that more g
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
In particular, third party apps like Apollo are popular for moderators because the default tools from Reddit are just hard to use, especially on mobile. Thus, I think the big impact to reddit's model is to actually drive off a lot of m
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by mr_tristan 3y ago
What's funny to me, is that I focused on something completely different; how independent these teams at Amazon are. The move from pretty different infrastructure services, all at the same company. I can't think of a single place I
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by mr_tristan 4y ago
Given that this remote work boom happened in response to a *pandemic*, this seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room. In the US, you can add an extremely unhealthy political climate egged on by a major media network openly supporting l

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