whstl

31 ms·

571.
by whstl 1y ago
Working in a team means you are kind of forced to use what the team wants. Of course you can try to convince them otherwise, or just be an asshole and mass-refactor to remove the DSLs. But this kind of code is part of Ruby’s culture now. Th
572.
by whstl 1y ago
This attitude towards wastefulness is how you have web apps that could run in a single machine but struggle to run in a server cluster. And after a couple years even Postgres is struggling because the amount of queries is too massive becaus
573.
by whstl 1y ago
I had the same situation happening with Cloud Native. EC2 was forbidden, it had to be ECS or EKS if Lambda was not possible. We did the math and the AWS bill had the cost of about 15 developers.
574.
by whstl 1y ago
It's so funny how much that reminds me of working in a university acquired by a large for-profit corporation. After the MBAs arrived, the whole thing was about selling shitty packages for students. - The college was somehow legally all
575.
by whstl 1y ago
Exactly. Netflix is even starting to have problems with Apple's iCloud Private Relay with me, I already had to get in touch with their support. We live in a world where paid services require us to deactivate security/privacy featu
576.
by whstl 1y ago
I don't have cable or IPTV, but I do pirate other stuff that I paid for: Anything that has intrusive DRM has no place in my computer. If it's for work, I will still pirate while holding the license, just for the stability alone. F
577.
by whstl 1y ago
Yep. That actually makes more sense in modern micromanagey companies, especially tech companies.
578.
by whstl 1y ago
That makes sense. Funny enough, the person who told me that was a C-Level who was blocking salary increases that were long overdue. I ended up leaving, ha.
579.
by whstl 1y ago
If there's a big enough bias, the questions become entirely about finding that bias. And on 90% of cases the systems design questions are about something they designed in-house, and they often don't have a lot of experience as wel
580.
by whstl 1y ago
To me the reason it feels like a non-apology is purely contextual: for some time, it was very fashionable as a public non-apology by celebrities and companies doing PR damage-management. Until people started calling it out.
581.
by whstl 1y ago
Not saying you "have" to know or that the interpretation is even correct for this case, but, just to explain: The "I'm sorry you feel this way" is quite a recent phenomenon. It started showing up in public apologies
582.
by whstl 1y ago
The point is that it doesn't matter which is better or worse for the case, or if you know the pros/cons of each: In those interviews (and in real work too) people still want you skewing towards certain answers. They wanna see you
583.
by whstl 1y ago
> Honestly, even 15 microservices and 8 databases (assuming that it's really 2 databases across multiple envs) aren't that bad Sure, they aren't bad. They're horrible.
584.
by whstl 1y ago
I 100% agree. Normally the impetus to overcomplicate ends before devs become experienced enough to be able to even do such complex infra by themselves. It often manifests as complex code only. Overengineered infra doesn't happen in a v
585.
by whstl 1y ago
Is it really for "fun"? Or is it to satisfy the ideals of some CTO/VPE disconnected from the real world that wants architecture to be done a certain way? I still remember doing systems design interviews a few years ago when m
586.
by whstl 1y ago
It depends on who's talking. Product Managers? I've seen them brushing off concerns so that it doesn't even reach to senior leadership. I've once had an entire team coming to a CTO for a very serious meeting (TM), and th
587.
by whstl 1y ago
Well, it was just a simple NPS, people were giving zeroes, so they decided to ask why. People didn't answer so they made it anonymous. In the end they just expected amazing results without putting up the work. That was another YC hellh
588.
by whstl 1y ago
I guess the point is that a lot of those other reasons are caused by managers. Gotta put up fights with other teams to do your job? Manager should be unblocking you. Got no tools, bad computer? Manager should be putting up a fight. Low sala
589.
by whstl 1y ago
No, because the VPE was doing it out of ego and because he thought the problem was easy, not out of any practicality. No amount of argument was enough. This was his only job, he was at the company for 10 years, was a schoolfriend of the CTO
590.
by whstl 1y ago
This is the second best advice I ever got in my career. The best one was still "Listen to reports when they come to you, even if you're focused on your own task." I wish there was this kind of advice for dealing with unreason
591.
by whstl 1y ago
I don't know. I have seen CEOs and CTOs tearing apart feedback from surveys at all-hands meetings. To the point of mocking answers and saying people are "tripping", or that "in other YC companies people work 80 hours&quo
592.
by whstl 1y ago
Yeah, IMDB losing its discussion board was definitely a loss for the planet.
593.
by whstl 1y ago
It's crazy how much vitriol there is in local newspaper websites, and this is something that's been going on since the 2000s indeed. It wasn't just flamewars, it was law breaking stuff. A bunch of the local ones that were sup
594.
by whstl 1y ago
I wonder if we can even call what happens here with politics "censorship". Apart from things that get flagged, political articles, or anything that causes flamewars, are still there if people want to keep posting/replying...
595.
by whstl 1y ago
To me there were two ways of using social media: #1 interacting with people I know about things in my life and #2 interacting with third-party content and then people I don't really know. To me Facebook, Instagram and Twitter went comp
596.
by whstl 1y ago
My cat caught one a few weeks ago when it flew into our winter garden. Luckily I was fast enough to not let him bit the bat. After seeing a street cat kill a scorpion I don't really think they're afraid of much.
597.
by whstl 1y ago
That's a super interesting discussion On most modern engines there is already a fixed-step that runs at a fixed speed to make physics calculation deterministic, so this independence is possible. However, while it is technically possibl
598.
by whstl 1y ago
Bingo. I witnessed this on the past two YC startups I worked at, on adjacent teams. There was a very clear strategy laid out by the founders, but engineers were unable to follow it due to a filter added by a "layer" of management.
599.
by whstl 1y ago
Well, they already have subscriptions for the agent usage, so the hope is that the editor will keep being free.
600.
by whstl 1y ago
The CTO was the one holding the bonus and promotions for tech, so he just shifted the blame down when it was "investigated". On the other hand it's not hard to believe that the CEO and the board are as sleepy as the CTO here.

More ›