rqmedes

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by rqmedes 4mo ago
For the overall series, the central influences are the economic calculation debate associated with Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek; Fred Brooks’ distinction between essential and accidental complexity in software engineering; Amartya S
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by rqmedes 1y ago
100%
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by rqmedes 1y ago
Agreed $&@!& him, and any company hires him
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by rqmedes 1y ago
You sound burnt out. If possible move back in with parents and family, take some time to rest and recoup. Things will seem a lot clearer once you take some time to reset
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Ask HN: Cloud Costs What am I missing?
6 points by rqmedes 1y ago|3 comments
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Best take so far
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by rqmedes 2y ago
And who leads and sets the vision. A committee of “average” engineers?
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by rqmedes 2y ago
I regularly do large changes on many millions of lines legacy code bases with no unit tests. It can be done it just requires a lot of work. The only factor that matters is do we need to do this, the rest not so much
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Seen this dance many times
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Being in the top 0.001% of developers won’t help if you don’t have a large network or good brand
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by rqmedes 2y ago
What a fantastic reply
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by rqmedes 2y ago
100%. Also The really difficult work is usually a lot more than 40-50 hours a week
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by rqmedes 2y ago
This just tells me you have never worked on anything difficult or something you are passionate in your job
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by rqmedes 2y ago
In the same boat, the problem is you get stuck in a few companies due to the small circles of people who know what you can really do. It really limits your career options. Doesn’t matter if you regularly do in a week what a few hundred eng
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How to build senior professional network in the US?
2 points by rqmedes 2y ago|0 comments
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by rqmedes 2y ago
I agree. I am in a very senior role and find that working with AI the same way you do I am many times more productive. Months of work becomes days or even hours of work
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by rqmedes 2y ago
I find the opposite, the more senior the more value they offer as you know how to ask the right questions, how to vary the questions and try different tact’s and also observe errors or mistakes
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Agile is perfectly optimised for creating tech debt. Corporate software is almost always impossible to change once released so it’s obvious that frequent iterative deliverables that you can only code around or on top of propagate technical
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by rqmedes 2y ago
To be people who also understand it
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by rqmedes 2y ago
I believe it is Christianity, even though I am not religious, my parents were not either, but my grand parents and their parents and so on where. And even though my parents stopped they took their guide from their family and society steeped
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Image delivering a race car to a customer via Agile, starting with first delivering a bicycle
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Disappointed, I was hoping they came out with Agile is BS. Which it mostly is.
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Marketing people write a lot more
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by rqmedes 2y ago
I agree, just look at the reams of rubbish on LinkedIn , people trying to get attention as an example
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Wonderful insight!
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by rqmedes 2y ago
Persistence vs obstinate are just perceptions of the observer and are based on their soft skills more than them being right or wrong.
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by rqmedes 3y ago
SQL syntax seems how humans communicate to me. Can you pass me that cup from the cupboard
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by rqmedes 3y ago
Rewrites like all things really on the competence and experience of the people doing the rewrite. C# . Net rewrite worked out pretty damn good
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by rqmedes 4y ago
If you are looking at performance I found pulling this code apart a great learning experience. https://github.com/fredrikwidlund/libreactor
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by rqmedes 4y ago
Its frustrating that groups can appropriate words, slogans or sayings and then they can never be used again as they are attached to that context forever :( . Just having to keep up with it all is very tiring.

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