gfs78

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by gfs78 7y ago
Why are we so bad at software engineering? Because most software comes without any liability.
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by gfs78 7y ago
Professional services companies business is about selling/billing hours. Those involved in the sales are seen as an asset, those involved in providing the service are seen as a cost. They don´t care about the latter. DXC, Accenture, Ca
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by gfs78 7y ago
I feel your pain, but beware, university degrees are not the solution to life problems. I´ve got one, supposedly a hot one, in C.S. and my life has been stuck in absurdity forever and I´ve been stuck in insanely shitty jobs (programming-rel
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by gfs78 7y ago
Agree. It´s buying what doesn´t add much value/differentiation to focus on the things that are important to the company.
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by gfs78 7y ago
but they still need to get his job done
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by gfs78 7y ago
Enterprise web development (or any enterprise development) has always been dehumanizing. It´s the vertical organizational model applied to software development. The enterprise implementation of Agile is just the vertical model in new clothe
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by gfs78 7y ago
On continuous delivery: "Given that all of the changes deployed are individual commits, the deployments are low risk and cause less bugs". I would like to know the source of this claim. I guess someone did an study on this...
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by gfs78 7y ago
KISS + YAGNI + constant refactor. Code is a means to an end and I suck at futurology.
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by gfs78 7y ago
Procrastination is more about dreams, opportunities and possible outcomes than time management and emotions. If you have the chance to win it big doing something you love you will find the time. If you have less of a chance or you don´t lik
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by gfs78 7y ago
Agree. But in the past it was also taught in no so serious places. Today it does not.
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by gfs78 7y ago
The move from Pascal to Java made a transition from learning how to program a computer to learning how to build apps using java-like OOP and libraries. Most places where Java is taught don´t teach about computer registers, stack frames, poi
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by gfs78 7y ago
I find the wording of your last paragraph a little insulting. Please answer: do you think aerospace, embedded and relational DB engines is dated work that has not evolved?
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by gfs78 7y ago
Not an easy problem to solve. And this is why, given the odds, a career in tech is probably a bad decision. To avoid ageism while being an IC you need to find a job in a niche where the domain is CS and/or ENG based (as in embedded, ae
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by gfs78 7y ago
Where do they go? A-Management. B-Consulting. C-Stagnation. D-Endure a string of jobs where they are mobbed because they are seen as a threat until they retire from the industry.
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by gfs78 7y ago
But in most cases they don´t care, hide, or are in a position to understand.
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by gfs78 7y ago
So, living conditions in your typical high polluted city have nothing to do with being depressed or suicidal?
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by gfs78 7y ago
If you plan to go global don´t repeat glassdoor mistake (or is it on purpose?). In countries where inflation rate is big (like 30-50% a year) salary info that is not tied to the date the worker was perceiving it, its mostly useless. Same ha
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by gfs78 7y ago
Lots of freeloaders and incompetent power trippers in the middle layers and above. Small orgs. and startups cannot afford this kind of workers. In my current project (big co.) we have a technical PM, a non-technical PM, a non programmer dev
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by gfs78 7y ago
If they want to rock the boat who I am to tell them no to. In these Google cases the problem seems to came from the position they are trying to rock the boat. More as a child rebelling against a parent than as a worker against corporate pol
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by gfs78 7y ago
Probably the result of years of social engineering played upon the protesters. They fail to see Google is not their friend. But also fail to see that the part they play as Google employees is not that important either.
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by gfs78 7y ago
Airplane safety is/must be regulated by laws, not by companies cultures and values. In the case of boeing/uber the problem is the regulators are getting more and more relaxed and/or corrupt.
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by gfs78 7y ago
In service companies (consulting firms, software factories) the path is from business related positions (BA, sales, etc.) to management. Here devs as seen as cogs. In tech companies the path is from dev to management. Here the BAs and the
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by gfs78 7y ago
Try to get better at writing code that is easy to refactor. Good code is rarely written in one pass, but in iterative refinements. So, instead of trying to get the definite code from the get go, start with a simple design (yagni and kiss) a
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by gfs78 7y ago
It never ceases to amaze me the solid social engineering that has been played upon a big part of the middle and upper middle class millennial group. The belief in social-justice oriented companies, inclusion oriented-companies, etc while th
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by gfs78 7y ago
From your text I can not determine if your team lead is just incompetent or it´s trying to undermine you to take credit for your work. In any case, if you quit, he will cash on it. In my opinion you should cool down as much as you can and t
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by gfs78 7y ago
Happiness is not about achieving your goals or having a stress free life or anything related to wealth. Happiness is about being able to live in the present moment and share your life with the people that you love. Of course a minimum of we
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by gfs78 7y ago
Fluffy words. The developer version of the agilistas discourse.
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by gfs78 7y ago
Most are too sick/debilitated to move around searching for better places to live. And in the move they risk losing all (including their lives), because living on the streets is a real risky bet.
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by gfs78 7y ago
For most programming jobs experience in the the tech stack is the defining factor, as most programming jobs do not require deep domain expertise (whatever the domain is: computing, business, etc). Of course general problem solving ability i
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by gfs78 7y ago
It´s basically because of marketing, fads, hype but we also have to take into account that FP is probably ok for the Hacker News audience but way too complex for the average developer. Most code is LOB apps and social media apps churned by

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