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by mruniverse 4y ago
It feels hopeless because I don't think their incentives align. The PMs want to get features out asap. Test out ideas asap. They want to get new work into production. The engineers want to build features that are well thought out, low
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by mruniverse 4y ago
How to decide is the question. If you're a CTO, do you trust your person A or B? If you're not technical what do you base it on? What are you judging? Are you judging based on their personality? The number of brownbag talks? The f
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by mruniverse 4y ago
If the CTO isn't technical, how do they know what to delegate? Who to delegate to? How do they determine who to listen to?
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by mruniverse 4y ago
You won't be able to fix it unless you get business to see it as a blocker. So that's the first task. Second task is to come up with a plan to your refactor. Break it down with time estimates, etc.
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by mruniverse 4y ago
It speaks to Parag's character that he's "trying to motivate his people" by doing it in such an unprofessional way. As far as the "great hacker but a mediocre manager" thing, same can be said of Parag... "
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think it'll only work if the people paying for the product want an agile project. And that they understand agile to mean the same thing as the engineers. That is to say to small deliverables within a short period. Review the small de
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think the issue is that managers want to "see" their employees "working". And by "working" I mean being seen at their desk, in meetings, or at the whiteboard. It's harder for them to judge by the quality
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by mruniverse 4y ago
I think people would be much happier if they find amusement and self-actualization in the work they do.
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by mruniverse 4y ago
> Software engineers have been tricked... I think of this when managers come up with different requirements during the project. If the requirements seem to make the product better, I'm all for it. I like to work this way and they pa
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by mruniverse 4y ago
Do you think giving RSUs is about the same?
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by mruniverse 4y ago
What's the best incentive system for both employee and company?
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by mruniverse 5y ago
I'm puzzled as to why Google search is getting worse. Doesn't the Adword feedback loop help?
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by mruniverse 5y ago
Giving me flashbacks of SyQuest disks and MacConnection catalogs.
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by mruniverse 5y ago
I don't think the nuance is lost. It's just that the audience has their own agenda. They might be fully aware of the "AND" and or "BUTS", but will focus on what they want that message to really be.
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by mruniverse 5y ago
Your manager's boss shouldn't have given you criticism without your manager being there. You and your manager are the most informed about your work and it should have been a discussion among the three of you. I think you're g
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by mruniverse 5y ago
I was under the impression that the small amount offered was the realization that it didn't take a lot of money to get a startup off the ground. So I thought Paul was one of the first to capitalize on it. This would seem to let him go
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by mruniverse 6y ago
It's draining working for PMs. There were a couple of times I got to work for a more senior dev and it's like you have another job (a good one).
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by mruniverse 6y ago
It seems that larger companies can afford the divide. But medium to smaller companies will want full stack. Good front-end devs are usually stronger with browser-side code. I usually see smaller html/css files, flex and grid being used
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by mruniverse 6y ago
Around the time that GWT came out, offshoring was a big thing. And most of the contractors only knew Java. Also Java was the trusted language and javascript was not.
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by mruniverse 6y ago
I don't know, seemed kind of unique. It could have taken off. I can see another startup picking up this format and doing it better. Or maybe Youtube could just do it and add it to their offerings.
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by mruniverse 6y ago
It was puzzling when she ran for governor. It didn't seem like she was interested in politics. It seemed like, "Well, what to do now..."
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by mruniverse 7y ago
Christopher Hitchen's reporting on Mother Teresa comes to mind.
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by mruniverse 7y ago
Is it possible to celebrate the good things someone has done without it being a full endorsement of everything they ever did and said? I guess that depends if you're the injured party. If not, that might make criticisms seem "ni
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by mruniverse 7y ago
We laude past figures with our current criteria for acceptable behavior. Why not criticize?
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by mruniverse 7y ago
I'm waiting for the "motivate executives" book. It'll probably be a paragraph which starts with "give them more money".
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by mruniverse 7y ago
I was just wondering the other day, how Frys can still have such large stores in the Bay Area.
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by mruniverse 7y ago
At least he borrowed some nice designs. For me, the iphone 4 was a great design. The hockey puck mouse was horrible though. Was that an Ive design?
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by mruniverse 7y ago
No money can buy anymore... unless of course they license or sell it outright.
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by mruniverse 7y ago
Yeah, you're right. But then you get others now trying to say "No no no, you have it all wrong. We didn't really say VDOM was faster. You misunderstood."
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by mruniverse 7y ago
> ...seem to be trying to present React's claim of the VDOM faster than the DOM as some kind of toddler mistake. It wasn't a toddler mistake, but it was repeated over and over to convince people to move to React.

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