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by username90 5y ago
There is definitely a shortage of decent CEO's, which is why companies are forced to hire and try to work with the charlatans they have today. That is also why the salaries are increasing, they try to get one of the few good ones.
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by username90 5y ago
They don't even view making 200k per year as "making it". Joining a top tech company doesn't require luck or connections, anyone can do it if they got the talent and just practice programming enough. Of course when you c
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by username90 5y ago
I know for sure that Google doesn't do it and I think many of your other examples doesn't either. Some teams at Google might do it, but it isn't the norm and I didn't see any that did. Many teams do daily stand-ups, but
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Ask HN: Is there a dedicated programming language for business logic?
8 points by username90 5y ago|11 comments
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by username90 5y ago
> Well it depends, are you doing high school level mathematics, or are you trying to solve highly complex mathematical problems and/or devise new theorems? Most people actually considers high school mathematics hard. It is easy to f
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by username90 5y ago
> In a more practical sense, I'd say no, because there's not easy places to apply basic programming skills. I'd argue that the reason there aren't many places to apply programming skill is because most people don&#x27
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by username90 5y ago
We call STEM hard since most people fail to learn it to a passable level even when enticed with tons of money. You can try to explain away their failures to learn in many ways, but the fact is that most people fail to learn STEM well enough
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by username90 5y ago
STEM is hard since we can test for it. There are tons of bad teachers out there because they can be bad and we can't do much about it. But someone being bad at STEM is obvious and therefore all the bad people will get filtered out. Tha
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by username90 5y ago
You can pretty easily and effectively do parts of the work of a doctor by looking up symptoms online and buy off the shelf medicine, it doesn't solve all cases but it solves a lot of cases. Does that mean medicine is easy? No. And the
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by username90 5y ago
That isn't really true, software projects fails all the time even when everyone knows what to build. A recent well known example is Cyberpunk 2077, its engine couldn't handle anything less than the latest hardware causing tons of
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by username90 5y ago
You are arguing a different point, the post said that black men and black women are the most imprisoned groups. Black men are more imprisoned than white men, yes, but white men are more imprisoned than black women. Womens issues and black i
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by username90 5y ago
Try to write a commercial OS that can compete with IOS, Windows or Linux. I doubt it is much easier, there are so many features people expect from a modern OS. The point is that when you compete with the best in the world in any area then i
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by username90 5y ago
The healthcare industry used exactly that argument to bottleneck the economy and create a lot of inefficiencies so healthcare can't be provided to everyone. Lots of lives would be saved if it got a lot easier for immigrant doctors to p
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by username90 5y ago
It is almost as if writing the low level code required to make a browser run well is hard...
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by username90 5y ago
The accounting package is much easier to design if you have the same level of requirements for them. If the goal is to make a toy product then making an accounting package is trivial while a OS is not. If the goal is to make a product that
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by username90 5y ago
Every programming job is hard enough that the average programmer doing it will struggle, since it is those you will be compared against. So there is no hard or easy, you just struggle with different things. If you have a comparative advanta
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by username90 5y ago
I don't understand the downvotes, are managers really fine with ruining the productivity of their reports just because their own performance wouldn't be hurt in the same scenario? Or don't they recognize that switching to a t
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by username90 5y ago
I've found the reverse, it is easy to context switch between tasks you have practiced a lot with. But you still need to practice a lot at doing them, making someone now and then do a task they aren't good at and evaluating them at
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by username90 5y ago
So you spent years practicing being a manager and now you no longer think meetings are a big deal. But how does that help all the software engineers who didn't practice being a manager for many years and therefore still gets very distr
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by username90 5y ago
Nah, people falls somewhere on the adhd spectrum and people further in on that will have a harder time focusing when a big thing is coming up. That isn't a skill you train, but a thing you are born with. You can make it look like you a
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by username90 5y ago
Maybe the product you launched wouldn't have gained traction if you delivered a bit slower or lacked a few of the features? The strategy you used worked, why do people so often say "I got successful doing this, but don't do w
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by username90 5y ago
> Above stuff is from my experience at Google Google needs microservices, their codebase is many thousands times too big to deploy as a single unit. They also have the money to focus on reliability over velocity. The startup with 2 devel
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by username90 5y ago
With microservices the other team can easily accidentally ddos your server bringing down the system. Ensuring they don't do that require them to build their microservice properly. And if you can trust them to do that then you can trust
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by username90 5y ago
Many times they use new tech because they want to leave, and using new tech helps you find a new job. A good way to fix this problem is therefore to make your engineers not want to leave.
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by username90 5y ago
I can't imagine trying to code without being able to align characters on different rows...
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by username90 5y ago
Has anyone calculated how much money he saved on ads doing that? Seems like a huge efficiency advantage compared to competitors.
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by username90 5y ago
Then why did Activision Blizzards stock just drop 8%? Clearly the market believes they wont recover nicely after this.
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by username90 5y ago
Activision Blizzard stock dropped 8% today, this is much larger than what happened at Riot.
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by username90 5y ago
If 1% of a fanbase of 10 million gets mad then you have 100k angry people. And of those a percent or so will be insane people who likely will murder someone in real life at some point, its just statistics. And those one thousand insane peop
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by username90 5y ago
But that applies to anywhere though. As a man you can sit alone in a bar and nobody will bother you, as a woman lots of people will come up and start to speak with you and possibly get angry if you don't want to speak with them. The fa

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