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by nthj 5y ago
> * Redundancy (if you are on holiday or sick somebody else still knows the code deeply) This is the part I’m always puzzled by. I read and understand every line of code my team merges in. If I don’t feel like I fully understand it, I as
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by nthj 5y ago
It's fascinating: because Factorio is deterministic, I always build out one massive, consolidated chip factory and distribute chips to other factories from there. But as we see here, in the real world, with droughts and pandemics, this
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by nthj 5y ago
Adobe could spend a billion dollars on R&D to optimize their web apps and still not get it. It's not an engineering problem, it's a corporate structure problem. The only way to solve web app performance is to put 5-7 engineers
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by nthj 5y ago
If this were true, humanity would have stopped inventing new games to play the day that dice were discovered.
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by nthj 5y ago
My team could professionally and empathetically discuss each of the issues you outlined, but that doesn't mean I raise discussions about whether voting for certain candidates is a case for the-end-justifies-the-means. I don't unde
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by nthj 5y ago
Oh please. Intel may not be the legend it once was but that hardly invalidates a value first forged some 40 years ago.
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by nthj 5y ago
Then you shouldn’t have an Android device. This isn’t complicated.
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by nthj 5y ago
I don’t mean to stick my nose in, but seeing as we are on HN: I keep hearing the market is pretty good for capital lately, have you explored raising a round to accelerate dropping the 9-5?
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by nthj 6y ago
Yes, put it in terms of churn mitigation, compliance, security, and data integrity and you can absolutely sell maintenance at your performance review
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by nthj 6y ago
I like factorio because I don't have to have 17 meetings to get alignment on changing 3 lines of code. "I objectively need more electricity, so I will refactor the nuclear reactor" is the only agreement needed
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by nthj 6y ago
A code comment saying “Here’s a potential pitfall we could discuss addressing” is often more valuable than a solution. Every software project has more problems than it has people-hours available. Every team has the engineer who spends a wee
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by nthj 6y ago
B2B customers generally have it spelled into the contracts that engineers outside of the US may not access customer data. The value of an engineer who can remediate a customer problem end-to-end for a thousand $500K ARR contracts is far gre
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by nthj 6y ago
More complicated functionality has moved to integrations/APIs in the past 8 years. When you’re trying to ship an extensive application and building out features that few customers may ever use, types absolutely slow you down. When you’
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by nthj 6y ago
We’re asking people to stay home to help mitigate the collapse of health care systems, at which point the young will find that car crashes, heart attacks and strokes that they may have otherwise survive now become far more deadly.
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by nthj 6y ago
To try to clarify: none of my 3 points above are fixed by rust, golang, or any other language, because they are not caused by Rails. Uncharitably, in my experience, these 3 bottlenecks are usually accidental consequences of decisions made b
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by nthj 6y ago
Web apps are usually slow because of (1) poor data modeling/unoptimized SQL/unindexed tables, (2) ad tracker bloat, and (3) single page applications that reinvent the DOM for $reasons. Swapping out ruby for golang won’t fix any of
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by nthj 6y ago
> a single service having multiple data layers for different things isn't really a big operational or organizational problem. Your statement is true, and I’d like to consider the product/feature side as well. Enterprise SAAS cu
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by nthj 6y ago
I see this idea often, and it feels somewhat shortsighted for me. Company outcomes are primarily determined by product-market fit, yes, and: the tighter your feature release feedback loop, the more product-market-fit experiments you can run
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by nthj 6y ago
I don’t object or argue against your point, but I find it interesting to note that as far as I understand, it’s near impossible to buy a PS5 right now, whereas Sony can sell tens of millions of copies of a software on the PS4-copying softwa
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by nthj 6y ago
This argument seems to make sense on the surface, but California already has some of the highest income taxes in the country. To make an appeal to extremes, if California had a 40% income tax they wanted to raise to 45% asking, “show me how
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by nthj 6y ago
edit: as tsimionescu kindly pointed out below, I misunderstood the 30M threshold. My reasoning seems correct to me but a key premise was wrong, and I agree the proposal is much less onerous than I have painted below: I personally know multi
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by nthj 6y ago
This is absolutely technically correct. Practically speaking, maybe not so much. http://stockoptioncounsel.com/blog/standards-ownership-canth...
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by nthj 6y ago
I didn’t miss any facts. I was deliberately cagey because this line of debate your comment enters is irrelevant to my larger point: the arguments may be wrong, or right, or any number of other conclusions, but they aren’t incongruent with e
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by nthj 6y ago
Whoever is able to demonstrate the value of a sequence of work to the business will get their work prioritized. Product’s job is to shape and predict the value of adding new features. Customer complaints about slow reports help Customer Sup
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by nthj 6y ago
This vaccine is like providing a machine learning model another website to read, after reading millions of websites. It is absolutely not anything like merging a patch into the master branch.
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by nthj 6y ago
It seems to me the subtle miscommunication between billionaires and the rest of us is the rest of us are asking “what ever will you do with a dynasty” and many billionaires, I think, have a mental model of “I have proven I can employ this w
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by nthj 6y ago
Lodging must meet specific rules, or the fair market value of the lodging must be declared as W2 income. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/taxability-employerprovided-...
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by nthj 6y ago
As another option, HAML lets you extract the attributes into a ruby helper method: https://haml.info/docs/yardoc/file.REFERENCE.html#attribute-...
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by nthj 6y ago
You offered up 3 examples of billionaires. Other examples might be: * Tesla * Twilio * Stripe Would you help me see how those 3 leveraged unjust laws? As a software developer, I feel Stripe and Twilio have added a lot of value to me, to sma
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by nthj 6y ago
Enterprise SaaS is “just an app” + a ton of integrations + SSO authentication with a bunch of systems + SOC2 level compliance (or better.) Combining all of these things into one offering is very difficult, and highly valued by both customer

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