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by omouse 11y ago
There's 8 of us in our programmer section; people take Google Hangouts and their phone calls within the section. It takes a few minutes to walk out to a private phone area and the other conference room's door doesn't close pr
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by omouse 11y ago
Define "working". Maintaining #1 in download ranks is a very rough measure and without correlation to something else I wouldn't place a huge value on it. A million people download and then remove it. What then? I'd be mo
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by omouse 11y ago
How much additional training and mentoring did your organization provide to these juniors? It seems a lot of companies are expecting that fresh grads will be able to be independent or get the job done from the get-go; that's not what u
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by omouse 11y ago
You're going to need a lot of booze or drugs or to cap the time you do that. It can get real frustrating real fast despite the gigantic checks.
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by omouse 11y ago
Millions more lines of instantly legacy code written by inexperienced programmers? Thank the gods we'll all be employed for decades! Decades I tell you! ;p
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by omouse 11y ago
it took nearly half a decade to get companies to use cloud services and that has a well defined API for orchestrating resources There's lots of stragglers; sometimes it's a struggle to get people to even consider AWS for develop
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by omouse 11y ago
I've actually gotten into trouble because I spent more than 5 minutes doing a code review of a pull request. I had to code review for 3 junior devs and one senior; the junior devs all knew little Python so only I could review their c
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by omouse 11y ago
This is the part that I don't understand, > Even if each round of review takes 2 days and there are 2-3 such iterations, it is easy for the author to stay blocked for good part of a week leading to wasted time. How can the author o
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by omouse 11y ago
The rating system is interesting; it looks like the ratings reflect which excuses are more believable regardless of if they're true or not. Friends visiting? Too bad, come to work. Family visiting? Stay home, work and take breaks whene
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Still loads faster than The Verge ;)
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Could you see something like this expanding into Canada?
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Indeed, he shouldn't be doing consulting, he should be learning everything he needs to be able to do the consulting after hours. If an employer doesn't train you, you should train yourself. I've been tempted more than a few t
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by omouse 11y ago
Army of lawyers and business people with zero technical knowledge?
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by omouse 11y ago
> tests that run for 40 minutes This is pretty good actually. It sucks if you're relying on Selenium testing for verifying your code as you're writing it, but before and after deploys to staging and production? This isn't
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by omouse 11y ago
I like the "after getting hired" quotes; they're all good advice that benefit you, the only caveat is to make sure you aren't getting taken advantage of. Don't overwork yourself to enrich someone else; enrich yourse
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by omouse 11y ago
Yeah I see what you're saying as well and I agree with that. It's hard not to break something when our release cycle depends on a QA person and on customers to break things that we can't always test for (and we're active
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by omouse 11y ago
To the nay-sayers on speed as priority: I'm currently on a two-week deployment cycle. It's not only annoying to wait but it's also dangerous . There have been several incidents where the code that broke something was committ
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by omouse 11y ago
I think the idea is that you can cycle through many ideas more quickly; you may be thinking of first-mover advantage which is different from speed. The other MP3 players couldn't copy Apple or market fast enough. Google has kept up the
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by omouse 11y ago
> These developers naturally want to use the great software at work they do or use as a hobby, so they are willing to compromise with the powers at be (business leadership) and release their software under a more permissive license (or p
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> she stayed a few months in SRE, underperformed If that's the case it looks like she wasn't aware of it; especially if you're suggesting a door was opened for her maybe there's some more transparency that's nee
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by omouse 11y ago
> then you have stepped into politics You can ignore politics but politics will not ignore you; politics is why tech worker salaries were kept artificially lowered and why Google and others had an anti-poaching arrangement. She should h
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by omouse 11y ago
We do know that the labour of a lot of people is undervalued and that we do know that salaries for tech workers have been artificially kept down; we know there's been collusion between Google and other companies in terms of salaries an
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by omouse 11y ago
Is there a bias against solo founders? I've yet to find any coworkers or friends that want to work on a project together (not enough technical skills or too busy working overtime at their jobs).
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by omouse 11y ago
Definitely will be applying to this; I was going to apply for the regular funding cycle as well (still will apply because I want a few more months of my own time to work on an idea). Glad to see YC experimenting with new ideas :D
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by omouse 11y ago
I like this, it's very very neat and what's cool is seeing how the electrical wires and poles are generated and how at some junctions you'll see them criss crossing in an unnatural way, like a city planner or construction cre
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When Uber purchases self-driving cars you'll see that side of things improve.
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Exploring alternative power structures isn't teenage angst, saying we don't like bosses is one particular view of the world and it isn't immature or mature. It recognizes the fact that work can get done without coercion. Bad
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> As you might expect, without written rules or hierarchy, the scene is dominated by social forces Isn't that how hierarchical corporations work anyway? If you aren't part of an in-group or friendly enough with a particular de
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Do we know that though? Many people who are users or are web devs or project managers or executives? I think that's why there's been a trendy towards minimalist design; it looks pretty good and it's typically fast.
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by omouse 11y ago
This is clever but it definitely needs to be backed by real data and adjusted in the future. This would be a great use case for all the data that's been collected for research into programmer productivity!

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