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601.
by yibg 4y ago
The first test is never the problem. The problem as OP pointed out is after iterating a few times you realize you went down the wrong track or the requirements have changed / been clarified. Now a lot of the tests you iterated through
602.
by yibg 4y ago
Backing out of a drive way with parked cars blocking my view down the street. The camera being in the back can see incoming cars that I can't.
603.
by yibg 4y ago
Yea but try doing that with 700 people.
604.
by yibg 4y ago
It’s the blanket “just walk it off” advise that’s dangerous. No amount of mind over matter will let you walk off a broken leg.
605.
by yibg 4y ago
I can actually read the code when someone shares screen and scrolls. With google meet (whichever version), when sharing small dense font, things get mighty blurry when scrolling is happening. At least for me.
606.
by yibg 4y ago
The overall point is there isn't a single "yes". The equivalent of "yes" takes various forms depending on the context. "是的", "对" etc can all work depending on the question.
607.
by yibg 4y ago
Yea exactly. In that phrasing you're putting an affirmation to the original question. Just "對" doesn't work.
608.
by yibg 4y ago
The full answer is ok, but just 是的 sounds weird even though people would understand your intent.
609.
by yibg 4y ago
That’s still not complete. You wouldn’t answer 對 to the question “do you like hiking?”. The standard answer would be “like”. Or the versatile 嗯
610.
by yibg 4y ago
That’s not the topic of discussion though. They currently manage it fine because it’s done at point of sale. How would that work if you have to advertise the price including the sales tax?
611.
by yibg 4y ago
The answer to both is a lot. It’s not just state level but also county, municipal etc levels. Every month there are dozens and dozens of tax rate changes.
612.
by yibg 4y ago
We used to call one of our friends a beer nazi. As in he would try to force you to drink beer.
613.
by yibg 4y ago
What is the non spun version and what details were cut out?
614.
by yibg 4y ago
And then what? Are they supposed to design a better development process and build tools to improve efficiency? Again seems like both a supreme waste of time and also as an engineer something I really would not want. Or are they supposed to
615.
by yibg 4y ago
Yea, as an engineer I would not be happy with my CEO swooping in to commit some code then bugger off.
616.
by yibg 4y ago
Not to defend either of them as CEOs but isn't that what they're doing? Part of addressing a problem is surfacing it in the first place.
617.
by yibg 4y ago
Then the best we can claim is we don't know why smart people aren't as happy.
618.
by yibg 4y ago
Intuitively sure, but would be nice to have some data to back it up; my intuition could say otherwise. Also, even if they're different how do we know how the correlation works? The article claims there is either no correlation or negat
619.
by yibg 4y ago
Well at least I didn't see any evidence that says a good accountant would make a worse physicist than a bad accountant. So the assertion that people that are good at solving well-defined problems are not as good at (or at least has no
620.
by yibg 4y ago
Problem is there is no real evidence provide to back the assertion. Is the ability to solve well-defined problems really different from the ability to solve poorly-defined problems? "One way to spot people who are good at solving poorl
621.
by yibg 4y ago
Depends on the type of organization, and especially for titles like enterprise architect. Most people I know with enterprise architect titles don't code. They're mostly at non tech companies like banks, telcos etc. Even the standa
622.
by yibg 4y ago
Anecdotally it also looks like productivity / output depends not just on the person but also the organization / team. Probably not feasible to say as a blanket statement either way if WFH is more or less productive.
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by yibg 4y ago
Can you link to some of these studies? I feel like a lot of articles / comments are pointing to said studies, but rarely link to them. Looking at the people and companies around me I would personally take such a broad conclusion with a
624.
by yibg 4y ago
That's not what I mean. There is no point in a company paying someone 1x for 8 hours of work and another 3x for 16 hours of oncall when they can just hire 3 engineers and work 8 hour shifts. That way they only pay 3x (instead of 4x) AN
625.
by yibg 4y ago
Seems kinda incomplete without considering total compensation. You get 100k a year but some additional payment for being oncall. I don’t get anything extra but make 300k a year. Who really has the better deal?
626.
by yibg 4y ago
That makes no sense. What sane company would pay you 1.5x to be oncall instead of just paying someone 1x to do actual work as well as respond to pages when they happen?
627.
by yibg 4y ago
Having a useful error message in all cases requires understanding all possible error conditions in sufficient detail (vs a catch all). Most system don’t have a clear enough grasp of all possible error conditions.
628.
by yibg 4y ago
I don't think "china does it" is a good reason for the US to do it. There are lots of things China does that we don't want to.
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by yibg 4y ago
How many "normies" know what a cold wallet is?
630.
by yibg 4y ago
Right, because magically serverless is the right answer for every application.

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