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by onion2k 2y ago
Sure, you need to consider the V in MVP. You also need the M though.
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by onion2k 2y ago
Dev jobs where you do no frontend at all are pretty unusual, especially in startups where everyone does a bit of everything. You're often given some 'easy' fixes that are inevitably frontend before you're let loose on
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by onion2k 2y ago
This is why releasing as early as possible to get customer feedback is key. The app clearly gives enough value to pay, but there's a problem in the payment flow that's a showstopper. That's the sort of thing you need to under
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by onion2k 2y ago
80% was needed to grow the business. If Twitter chooses not to grow them it doesn't need those people. It only needs enough to keep the lights on. If Twitter ever gets a competitor with some traction it'll be dead in months becaus
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by onion2k 2y ago
I don't know how they convinced the users to do this and how they managed with the license but it was done Enterprise and business users will wade through endless swamps of crap if the software provides enough value. This is a lesson
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by onion2k 2y ago
My two cats don't appear to care what flavor food I give them so long as there's a lot of variety. Giving them the same flavor for a few days results in untouched food. I have to cycle a few different brands and types to keep them
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by onion2k 2y ago
I genuinely believe that more people would be put off buying a Tesla if the headlines were "Teslas randomly slow down" compared to "Teslas randomly kill people". People wouldn't buy a car that slows down occasionall
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by onion2k 2y ago
while the outage did economic damages north of $5 billion If you're going to measure the dollar value cost of their errors as a cost of CrowdStrike being in business, shouldn't you balance that against the dollar value of saving
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by onion2k 2y ago
Perfectionism is the practice of seeking perfection, not achieving it. Lots of devs spend time not shipping because they feel their code isn't good enough. Meanwhile Crowdstrike built a $62bn company shipping things. Poor quality thi
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by onion2k 2y ago
Prime is Amazon's moat though. More than 100 million people subscribe to a service that locks them into choosing Amazon first. People with Prime choose Amazon over going to a physical store. It's what took Amazon out of being an
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by onion2k 2y ago
Amazon is the same as Google, Meta, Twitter, etc in the sense that they have a couple of wildly profitable products that enables the company to 'play' at running some other businesses that might turn a profit eventually after
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by onion2k 2y ago
Turns out I only needed one out five 'whys' to find the root cause: The majority of global C-suite leaders (81%) acknowledge they have increased demands on their workers in the past year. If your C-suite have bought into the dre
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by onion2k 2y ago
As with most things in tech, time served is pretty much irrelevant. If you do something valuable fast you can build a lot of value quickly.
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's hard to justify why Google should support Play store apps that appeal to less than 20 people. That sounds like something where side-loading is a very useful alternative to an app store.
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by onion2k 2y ago
I've seen it a lot. Mostly things like moving from PHP 3 to PHP 5, or Python 2 to Python 3, or React 12 to React 17. A language change doesn't have to be between completely different languages to be a pain.
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by onion2k 2y ago
If you can't find 20 people who want to use your app for free in exchange for some testing you haven't got much hope of selling enough copies of it to make it worthwhile building in the first place.
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by onion2k 2y ago
CrowdStrike Falcon has a Linux product line for 'cloud security'.
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by onion2k 2y ago
The UX is fine for people who are used to a culture where they see massively information-dense, brightly colored, and spacially organized things all the time. There's a strong cultural correlation in UX design, and what works in one co
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by onion2k 2y ago
"Why go to Mars? Because it's possible," I understand this sentiment applies to running marathon or climbing a mountain because you don't really have to sacrifice anything besides time and money, but saying you'd
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by onion2k 2y ago
Their entire job function could've probably been replaced by a wiki or Google Doc. I'm an Engineering Manager these days and I suspect this is true to an extent for my role. All I seem to do is relay information from one group t
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by onion2k 2y ago
In the UK you can't drive anywhere anonymously. The network of ANPR cameras is incredibly extensive.
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by onion2k 2y ago
we had to think days ahead to any big trip Were you taking a lot of big trips without thinking about them before the Polestar?
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by onion2k 2y ago
In TDD, at least as I learned it, you're supposed to write a test, write enough code to get it to pass, then write the next test, and so on. That doesn't require stashes between steps. The only reason the stashes are 'necessa
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by onion2k 2y ago
It's a 4.
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by onion2k 2y ago
You can not encode data in a random number That's why I put random in quotes. Pi is not a random number. You can encode data in it eg find a place that matches your data and give people the offset. That's not very helpful for
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by onion2k 2y ago
The fact you can't encode arbitrary data in a structured-but-irrational number doesn't mean you can't encode data in a 'random' irrational number. The question is really 'Does every series of numbers of arbitra
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by onion2k 2y ago
If there was a single case of bird-to-human transmission, and that person went to the canteen when they were at the peak of their contagiousness and passed it to 54 others, you'd see the same impact. You can't guess this stuff.
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by onion2k 2y ago
There are rules for stylelint that will reorder and dedupe Tailwind classes.
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by onion2k 2y ago
A few points on that. First, in 25 years of front end dev at scale I can't think of a time when a site I've worked on has ever actually made a site wide change to the styling without it being a big deal. It's always a lot mor
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by onion2k 2y ago
I find that writing which speaks of Google as a single "it" misses the mark. I say this because the Googlers who write here show many disparate views and pressures to deliverable. That doesn't matter if you're talking

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