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by tboyd47 9y ago
I agree, but the problem is that unions notoriously favor the older, entrenched generations of a profession over the newcomers. Talk to people from NYC (a place with still much union influence) and you see a stark difference between the old
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by tboyd47 9y ago
All my best jobs were found via recruiters. Different strokes, I guess.
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TL;DR for those of us on small viewports?
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650 LoC seems like a big chunk of code to copy and paste, but I don't know the project or the team. You can't expect to join a team and start turning everything upside-down. Even if you are honestly just trying to help, if that&#x
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Sorry man. Sometimes you just have to deal with shit code. We've all been there. Are the people at the job nice? Do you have freedom to work as you please? Do you have the time to take the code in a better direction? I'm just tryi
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Ask HN: Thoughts on scrum master positions?
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Find out your strengths and focus on developing those, and just be good enough on your weaknesses. When I first became a programmer I was obsessed with clean code and architecture principles but would lose every debate about it with my co-w
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Solving a problem within a fixed time period is the best real world scenario for programmers. No project has an unlimited budget, so no one gets unlimited time in the real world.
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Just anecdotally, reading is the most powerfully positive shared experience I have with my kids, and we do everything together. We paint pictures, play outside, eat dinner, watch movies, play video games together, etc. But reading is differ
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by tboyd47 9y ago
You can't really compare governments to companies. A state exists by its perceived right to rule over its citizens' lives, something that's generally only nullified by war or an armed rebellion of some kind, both things that
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Weird how you never see HN so pro- or anti- a company as when Oracle is mentioned.
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The states that permanently disenfranchise felons are mainly ex-Confederate. It is the legacy of the institutional race-based class system of the South. It was used with racial profiling and fraudulent eye-witness testimony against African-
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by tboyd47 9y ago
This is very important, but it's more of a protection than a cure. Once you have burnout, the only fix is to avoid whatever it is that's burning you out. Hopefully it won't require a total career change / hiatus, althoug
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Ask HN: Would a self-aware AI be able to spot a buffer overflow in itself?
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No standard library hurt for a long time.
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by tboyd47 9y ago
> What are your thoughts? What, if anything, should be done to make Ember relevant in the JavaScript horizon again? As a total outsider to Ember, but an insider in the JS community, having worked in various web-dev roles for 10 years and
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by tboyd47 9y ago
To IB's defense, he did make a point to seek after his lost progeny on the way home. One son of his in Damascus had died, and another in Maldives he decided was better off staying with his mother for reasons he doesn't mention. Mo
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by tboyd47 9y ago
They match, but only at a curvature slightly smaller than the Earth's curvature, spawning many theories about an expanding Earth in the early days of geology. Those theories have all now been debunked but they make for a fascinating re
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by tboyd47 9y ago
It's especially depressing because the U.N. was founded to prevent this very thing from occurring, and they have nothing to say about it but to blame an American company.
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That's exactly what Ruby on Rails seemed like it was about to do ten years ago. But it was followed up by a counter-revolution that took us even further into enterprise bloat. It's as if there are hidden psychosocial forces that d
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by tboyd47 9y ago
What about on the weekends?
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Think of human activity as lying on a spectrum of mental effort. You probably need activities that lie somewhere in the middle range of energy and complexity. Work is probably on the higher end: an continuously exhausting challenge. Vegging
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by tboyd47 9y ago
So employees are engaging in "rent-seeking behavior" against their companies, extracting value without contributing. The chickens have come home to roost. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2015/12/03&
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The Crash of 2018(farazianfocus.com)
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Well, it sounds like you're one of the few companies that's actually thought this problem through. Bravo!
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I want to add that the title "Tech Lead" doesn't always mean the person is a half-dev/half-manager, nor does the title "Manager" indicate the person has totally stopped coding. Often times, the "Manager&qu
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Things like transforming data from one format to another, algorithms to process large amounts of data, etc. I singled out this type of code because it tends to involve writing lots of code that uses the standard library of your language, bu
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by tboyd47 9y ago
Thank you, this is exactly what I'm getting at. I have been a non-coding tech lead before, and I do not understand how a person can both code and manage others without working overtime. Coding requires hours of uninterrupted focus time
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by tboyd47 9y ago
It sounds like you're aware of some of the problems I listed and have come up with novel solutions to them. Why not just employ true managers? What benefit do you get from having people who are half-in, half-out? How do you deal with t
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by tboyd47 9y ago
> The Tech Lead is a “hybrid” role with one foot in management and the other in engineering I may have a limited experience but I've never seen an effective Tech Lead who was a hybrid like this and I have serious doubts it's ev

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