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by vp8989 6y ago
I don't think these problems are exclusive to Google or Google-sized companies. Once devs have worked on a particular system for long enough, they become a nuisance because they know all the (good) reasons not to do something. Not nece
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by vp8989 6y ago
"A good number of these teams also consist of engineers who have hit a certain level of growth equilibrium which prevents other junior and newer engineers from growing beyond a certain level." Unsure what you mean here. Do you mea
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by vp8989 6y ago
For #2, how would you deal with the user moving to a different region?
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by vp8989 6y ago
This is how I do it. You can cross join the derived table to itself if you need more rows. Much more performant and naturally relational way of generating data than looping recursively.
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by vp8989 6y ago
How is it done then?
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by vp8989 6y ago
Hah, that is definitely a category. The person who always creates a "follow up ticket" but never, ever does any of them.
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by vp8989 6y ago
This sounds interesting. It feels like you would have to have a super smooth on ramp to productivity, otherwise you are getting terrible signal from the try outs. Ie. you don't want to hire dev A because it took them just 2 weeks to fi
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by vp8989 6y ago
"That problem is better solved by eliminating the silos and aligning incentives rather than gaining technical knowledge, in my opinion." How do you actually do that though? Employees typically have incentive to perform their own f
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by vp8989 6y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the correction. I guess the tone of the post doesn't convey that they know what they are doing to some people, although it should be obvious that they didn't just sleepwalk into having one of the highest &q
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by vp8989 6y ago
I think the industry should re-evaluate whether unit testing ought to still be the dominant testing paradigm. With Docker and things like WireMock I can fake/mock anything downstream of me in a fast, isolated and deterministic way. Bot
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by vp8989 6y ago
It's candy for beginner/intermediates who want to sound like they know what they are talking about.
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by vp8989 6y ago
It's hilarious that you are skeptical of the competence of the SO core devs. You should do a little further reading, there is lots of content available online from the core devs who actually "do the work" there (ie, not the p
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by vp8989 6y ago
Systems Software vs. Application Development is a more appropriate categorization. There's a tier that sits in the middle who write "platform" software on top of "systems" but for "applications", but you c
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by vp8989 6y ago
"where it just sat there doing a whole bunch of nothing to consumer prices and wages." Your primary residence should be thought of as a consumption item, whether you rent or own. If homes cost more to buy or rent since the QE (and
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by vp8989 6y ago
Maybe it's because I am not in "the Valley", but this line of thinking makes absolutely no sense to me. You are speaking in generalities, so you are essentially implying that most people are working on software that has not a
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by vp8989 6y ago
Yeh this list is not surprising and none of these things you mentioned exclusively require Kubernetes or running containers in Prod. Like I mentioned in another comment, it feels like the purpose of Kubernetes is that it's "brand&
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by vp8989 6y ago
Maybe. I don't buy that just because people are on Kubernetes they won't still kludge it up with custom in-house scripts or "extensions". Give it time.
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by vp8989 6y ago
"I have some colleagues that are delaying our rollout unintentionally so they can play around with developing more tooling for deployments which is really frustrating." My impression is that the primary purpose of Kubernetes is to
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by vp8989 6y ago
"Kubernetes is the biggest quality-of-life improvement I've experienced in my career." Can you elaborate? What exactly about Kubernetes improved the developers life?
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by vp8989 6y ago
"but he could easily put together a plan for selling his share over the next few years, especially now he is no longer CEO" That doesn't sound very liquid to me.
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by vp8989 6y ago
"The very best developers are capable, and avoid complexity. The next best developers are capable, and love complexity. The worst developers are not capable." It's not always in one's control to avoid complexity. The sim
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by vp8989 6y ago
"Focus on making a product people wanna actually use first. If you're lucky enough to get to scale you can work about optimizing it then." This seems like a false dichotomy. Avoiding obvious performance mistakes such as the o
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by vp8989 6y ago
I said US tech workers are overpaid, not US workers in general. UK tech salaries are a lot closer to other types of office work.
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by vp8989 6y ago
The article we are commenting on is written from the context of a high COL based tech worker.
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by vp8989 6y ago
"someone went around applying every micro-optimisation in the book regardless of how nessasary or appropriate it might be" This feels like a strawman. I have yet to see an instance of this in my 10 years. The much, much, much more
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by vp8989 6y ago
"The amount of "bad" is very low to barely measurable in most real-life scenarios (#2)." When you constantly apply this "only things bigger than X matter" reasoning you still end up with slow, shitty software b
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by vp8989 6y ago
US tech workers are massively over-payed so it's tough to feel sorry for ourselves. I moved here from Europe and the salaries are completely absurd, especially at the junior level. People are being brought in from college, they can bar
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by vp8989 6y ago
"Yet, historically, when forced to make the choice, governments have almost always chosen continuation of fiscal policy over the gold standard. Many times (e.g., the early 1930s), governments chose the gold standard only for things to
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by vp8989 6y ago
It tells you what is happening that is easy enough to track and measure. Most empiricism in the business world is poser empiricism, people want to say they are "data-driven" because that is virtuous in our current culture but when
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by vp8989 6y ago
Ye I totally get what you mean and I have observed this a lot too. I think for some people though, this might be an acceptable trade off (even temporarily) where they favor being able to WFH and not need to be tethered to train lines /

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