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by solatic 3y ago
> I want those ideas to come from folks who have the skillset When the industry/society comes around and finally can get behind the idea of requiring licensing for software engineers to practice, get back to me :) . Until such a lev
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> The movie product includes the experience of going out, having a communal experience, etc. It is not just a solitary experience of seeing people act stuff on a screen. I actually agree with you, but as the price of movie tickets keeps
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> I honestly can't fathom the reasons why we've encouraged JavaScript to eat the world Who is "we"? The scenario isn't some God-like figure who made the decisions and handed them down to mortals to live with. The
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> best business decision The best business decision is the only relevant decision in the real-world, unless you're building the software as a hobby and you're willing to essentially self-fund the development without regard to a
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What is this magical world you live in where a company can put up job listings for "Polyglot Software Engineers" and consistently, successfully get them through the hiring pipeline and staff up teams? Where I live, (a) there'
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> the quality difference is real The production difference is not large enough to justify the difference in cost. Ultimately, the streaming platforms control distribution. If you're Netflix, and the cost to acquire a foreign product
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> the average US audience hates both sub and dub content. The Anglosphere is larger than the US. Britain, Canada, South Africa, Australia each have domestic production companies that pump out English-language content that would not requi
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The strike will break Hollywood. There are simply too many other options available. Streaming distributors (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV) will simply go abroad and market foreign productions to American audiences, which is little dif
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> an enormous... subject I think you're getting to the crux of the point. A few years in university (for undergrad) is not nearly enough time to cover the entirety of mathematics. The sheer fact of time constraints requires a survey
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Yep, I consider Collision Course to be the definitive history: https://a.co/d/18t0JmK which traces air traffic controllers in the US from long before PATCO, up to the fateful Reagan termination, and the fallout afterwa
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by solatic 3y ago
The supply of passionate, engaged, "craftsman" developers is not zero-sum. People can be inspired to take their relationship with their work to a higher level of emotional engagement. No, this does not require people to develop
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by solatic 3y ago
> why didn't the Reagan administration just avoid the strike by giving them what they wanted, like he was able to get personally in 1960? His administration actually made some pretty generous offers in the negotiations. Part of the
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> large classes Irrelevant to the question at hand. There are small schools with small classes, small schools with large classes, large schools with small classes, large schools with large classes. > "consumer" sounds like a
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> once an organization surpasses a certain size This is precisely why the solution is to keep size small and allow consumers (in the education market, these are parents) to have a choice between many small providers who are forced to com
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> I can’t do any deep transformative work when the fire is raging. We need preventative care. If people come in when something is starting to be an issue between them instead of when they’re at a breaking point, I’d love that. Because th
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by solatic 3y ago
At their current cost? No. But if you could come up with a dependable and repeatable solution that reduced the labor cost of human construction down to about a week of robot construction, then yeah, I think the cost of manufacturing the rob
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If you built the houses the same way as with human labor, sure. But perhaps they would be built differently with robots, in a way which didn't require that level of dexterity. After all, most industrial robots don't have opposable
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You'd think there'd be a novel application along the lines of programming Boston Dynamics robots to construct cookie-cutter template houses, no? Have humans in the loop to clear the land and drive construction materials to the sit
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by solatic 3y ago
> release notes 4doc's contribution here is to ask you who the audience is for your release notes. Is it task-oriented, e.g. release notes for a database to help DBAs upgrade to that new version? Then write your release notes in a h
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by solatic 3y ago
Only because the stock market doesn't include private businesses, sole proprietorships, etc. If, hypothetically, all economic activity was securitized, and the price of those securities collectively went to zero, then yeah, that's
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by solatic 3y ago
Acceptance into anything, beyond a table-stakes requirement of merit, is essentially a lottery. You work your ass off, you get an interview, your luck of the draw is someone having a bad day, is otherwise biased against you, or any number o
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by solatic 3y ago
If you're not excluding debugging and info logs at the SaaS level, you're doing logging with a SaaS provider wrong. Log everything including debug, exclude debug and info, set up alerts for error logs, wait until an error comes in
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by solatic 3y ago
> Watching everyone delegate all access control to Google and Microsoft is… I don’t even know what to say. Well really, the proper body to issue (digital) identity is the government, which already issues driver's licenses, passports
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> I think it works quite well when they focus on architechture, mentoring, product planning, estimation, cross team communication, code review, devops and small feature/config requests. On slow days they can fix those nasty bugs th
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This is the problem with "Tech Lead" positions in many startups, i.e. ones where the team leader (managerial role) is expected to also shoulder many IC responsibilities (maker role). You end up either being a good team leader and
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The tools aren't the problem, leadership and culture is. Tools can't fix problems with leadership and culture. "Executive buy-in" is conspicuously missing from the post. When companies are "doing DevOps" by wir
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I challenge the author to showcase a developer platform that handles secrets management and access management correctly and transparently . Sorry, can't be done. I've seen various attempts that certainly tried , and they've
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Mostly covered elsewhere in this page, but in my opinion, gold PMs understand, on a deep level, the intersection between user needs, the marketplace, company strategy, and the engineering resources available; don't take shit from any o
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In my book, humility is a core cultural value. You should always be willing to learn from others, and not lose your shit when someone gives you constructive criticism. I'm not saying "armies" should never fire anyone - bad cu

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