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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I clicked through to the linked McKinsey article [1] to see what all the hubbub was about, and I found this gem: > For example, one company found that its most talented developers were spending excessive time on noncoding activities such
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> if the year of the Linux desktop has finally come No, I think that's next year. ;)
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Most of the Internet spent the last 10-20 years moving away from this because business metrics generally benefit from realtime updates and background autosaves. By and large, users expect systems to autosave their work-in-progress nowadays.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
That sounds rather grim; I'm sorry you had to go through that. It sounds like it just underscores the reality that, no matter what process a team uses, there's no substitute for psychological safety.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
How long ago was that? It's very different right now. Every team is starved for headcount. Job openings don't grow on trees these days — not even in FAANG-land.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
OKRs are a good thing. They just get poorly implemented and turned into a political stew. I know that sounds like the No True OKR paradox [1], but the truth is that it's not even that complicated. [2] Write down the outcome you want,
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Do you mind saying more about "the choking out of candidness"? I know they've got their "leadership principles" kool-aid [1] at the interview stage, but I always assumed that a seriously profitable and hard-working
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Three months ? Can you share any data or case studies around such a number? Part of me finds it unbelievable (and part of me really wants to believe). From a look at the two books mentioned here, though, neither seem to clear that bar. Ze
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I don't know if this is the ideal takeaway. Otherwise, we should all prioritize making our products flimsier and more expensive. I think it's just a straightforward failure of creativity — or, even more plainly, a failure to under
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Naive question: Are there any such cities in the US that have all that and all the other perks you'd want from a city (active dating scene; diversity of food, people, culture, museums, restaurants; good public transit; good schools;
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
After much experimentation and many years of failure, I've surfaced two rules of thumb for myself that seem to be working lately: (1) Write a monthly plan that's broken down by weeks, and then review/iterate on it weekly. The
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
At least three obvious reasons might be: (1) Raw scale might mean you just plain can't fit everything on a single t2.2xlarge. (2) Different services (containers) might have different performance profiles, so you may want a few differen
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I start by opening a few tabs with various search queries, some of which are usually scoped to Reddit or HN. That usually kicks open a few more tabs, and maybe some dedicated forums or Shopify stores. Then the hyperfocus takes me, and I str
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
This is a lovely overview. Hash is a great example of how delightful it can be to program in Ruby. One more technique worth noting is the chained functional style of using Hash, which you can do in Ruby because Hash inherits from Enumerable
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Plenty of people manage to make it to much later in life without connecting those dots for themselves. About the most one could say about 25 is that it's when people's paths start to radically diverge, even amongst the group of
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> the handwringing you see on programming forums about the 'leetcode grind' In fairness and compassion to that crowd, a lot of it comes from the fact that a modern interview for a coveted FAANG job often requires 1-2 LC Medium
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
And punctuation, too.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> was there any point besides you feeling superior to other If you don't like that as a motivation, I have some bad news for you about 99% of the entire edifice of human history...
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> They were all separate, and that seems crazy and inefficient. From an organizational-design perspective: That's the whole point. Decentralization means they can all move more quickly — each team can cater to the needs of its loc
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
It's all regurgitated and repackaged into tweet-size aphorisms, too. It's a sort of junk-food version of philosophy. I feel like "Sapiens" and Eckhart Tolle cover a large percentage of what he's saying (though admit
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
The entire "Agile Manifesto" is less than 10 lines, and it's right here for free: https://agilemanifesto.org/ If you want the longer and more detailed treatment, that's right here too, and it fits in 1 s
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
I admit I didn't run the numbers before posting that. But you got me curious, so I went ahead and did it now... Render.com looks like [1] their "$0 + compute costs" plan would work out to: ∙ $25/mo for a single &quot
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Maybe just pick up 3 chonky EC2 boxes, set up iptables on each of them, have each one run a containerized version of your code that gets built and deployed from CI every time you push to Github, slap an ALB in front of it all, and call it a
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Abstractly, it seems quite reasonable — whatever gets measured gets optimized, and for years Big Tech has measured headcount as a metric of manager skill. Eliminating that metric directly tackles the problem of empire-building. On the other
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Respectfully disagree. It's important to explain why , and he does that in a standard 3-point structure without getting too carried away on the hype train. It could be worse. Also, this part is worth emphasizing: > For those amaz
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
My memory is hazy of those years, but I do think it was a bit different. IIRC, G+ was a defensive maneuver. G was terrified of FB, who was executing successfully on many fronts and putting pressure on advertising revenues. And so G tried
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
Could you share some new ways you've found? I'm in the cohort of users whose usage flatlined. I had a lot of fun asking it all kinds of stuff for a while, but — sometime around all the hubbub of whether or not OpenAI uses your int
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> it went on an unprompted rant about how I should speak to it "politely". Can you share the prompt that led to this? I agree this sounds pretty disconcerting.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> they didn't cost too much to make A quick search suggests each had a $100M budget, so it's worth noting they're not exactly cheap. They'll still need pretty big opening weekends to turn a healthy profit.
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by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> I've at times been told that tech debt is fine because products only last 3-4 years before a replacement gets made. Translating from corp-speak, whoever said that probably meant: "I plan to get promoted before we need to pay

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