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by papito 4y ago
But really, people should not put you in this situation and discuss the work they are about to do. After all, we don't do major "surprise" work in the workplace (usually).
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by papito 4y ago
In his, uh, defense - years of serving nonsense to gullible chumps who eat up every word of your insane drivel who then send you piles of money, makes one lose their edge in the real world.
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by papito 4y ago
I don't see the connection. We have just gone through the longest bull market in history. Large tech companies were absolutely rolling in cash, hiring tens of thousands of expensive software engineers, whose purpose was unclear. What
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by papito 4y ago
Yes. Try to be a cold-blooded professional. Do your job without attachment. Your company is not your family . It will end one day, but you will still be going. What you take away is experience, learning from success and mistakes, connectio
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by papito 4y ago
Growing your office plankton messages to investors that "we are growing, give us more money".
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by papito 4y ago
Seems like a culture problem and not a talent problem. Us developing world folks do not easily say "no" because we grew up in a top-down, authority-driven place. Americans are pretty uppity when it comes to taking orders if you co
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by papito 4y ago
".. ambitious staffing trajectory". Read: We were spending money on new hires like a drunken socialist sailor to show "growth" to keep the bubble going and sucking in even more VC money. My bad. Tired - burn rate, wired
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by papito 4y ago
Remember how Google was asking completely useless brain teasers and everyone just blindly started copycatting it? The "we want to be like Google" syndrome in tech is just devastating.
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by papito 4y ago
Sure, it's not perfect. The author's flaunting of his privileged lifestyle - taking months off a year to just chill - really ground my gears, but he seemed genuine in his quest to find the reason why he could no longer think clear
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by papito 4y ago
Maybe give everyone leetcode problems - that's what they trained for.
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by papito 4y ago
Fighting complacency is not easy.
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by papito 4y ago
If you want to get your life back, read Stolen Focus. It has all these tips and tricks but it does a lot more - it explains why our focus is shot, and dissects the forces behind it. It's much more sinister than most people suspect.
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by papito 4y ago
"Blockchain" is more of a punchline now than an actual serious word used in technology.
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by papito 4y ago
Of all the stuff that is happening with technology today, especially with social media, this is what triggers you?
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by papito 4y ago
The job of a good engineer is to know which type of debt is good under the circumstances, and which debt is "toxic".
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by papito 4y ago
Please don't move to us-west. We are probably going to have an 11-point earthquake the next day. Thanks!
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by papito 4y ago
Not to mention those software engineers picked up the worst habits. They would be a total drag on a small company, creating overcomplicated, unmaintainable systems, instead of solving the problem at hand. "What do you mean you don&#x27
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by papito 4y ago
By the way, not a reflection on the man as a coder at all. A lot of software is written - to this day - via bad management and compensated by developer heroics. It usually works. He was given an impossible task, where no heroics would hav
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by papito 4y ago
Alyx "smooth motion" is in settings - game settings, not Oculus or anything, and yes, you have to be careful. Sometimes I can barely maintain my footing if something happens too fast.
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by papito 4y ago
The safest companies are the ones that understand the basics of burn rate and do not hoover up VC money to show fake growth, by growing its headcount to insane levels (and employ an army of engineers who design and maintain ridiculously com
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by papito 4y ago
Let's not confuse shamelessness with confidence . Modesty and humility is the glue of civilization. We are already seeing how things fall apart once people collectively decide that "nothing matters", the rules are not for th
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Faraday Future delays the launch of its first electric vehicle yet again(engadget.com)
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by papito 4y ago
Amazon has been testing the waters and doing internal betas of something healthcare related for well over a year now. Scott Galloway called this a long time ago. Not really a shocker for Amazon watchers.
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by papito 4y ago
Well, software is knowledge work and it's in big part creative. I am not sure that construction - where people are trained to do one thing in only a few certain ways - is that similar. I mean, surely there are "oh crap" momen
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by papito 4y ago
This is a good example of why some people have zero business being anywhere near management. They win the birth lottery and have it easy all their lives by sheer luck, but when a decision has real consequences - this happens. Anyone in th
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by papito 4y ago
Always disable force pushes to trunk (if that feature is available, as it is on Github).
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by papito 4y ago
I can't tell you how many times IDEA's "local history" saved my ass. I use it extensively. Instead of stashing local changes and going around messing with my working tree, what I did 30 minutes ago is just a right-click
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by papito 4y ago
I have to say, one thing about the U.S. is that there is AC everywhere - even up north. We have AC in elevators, on the busses - everywhere. Europe needs to start adjusting to the new normal of hot, hot summers.
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by papito 4y ago
Yuuup. Us fossils had a saying - "complexity kills". We learned it the HARD way. Now the new generation of devs is re-learning the same lesson, all over again. It's all fun when you are in your 20s and the time and energy see
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by papito 4y ago
Yeah. One thing. I found that if I spend even an hour in the morning on a passion project, before going to work, it really helps me focus on the soul-sucking office task. I don't know why, but that's the case for me.

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