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by mhss 3mo ago
From all possible concerns, "giving access to anthropic/openai" to your "secret sauce" is the least important one for 99% of the companies out there. No, is not way better to simply write the code yourself. Most of
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by mhss 4mo ago
I ... literally did both of these things last week ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by mhss 9mo ago
Not at all. Most people can be super happy with less than the average tech salary (at a point where they don't feel they need more if it comes at the expense of work life balance, time with family, job satisfaction, etc).
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by mhss 9mo ago
A junior or "mid" who doesn't take guidance repeatedly should likely be managed out. It's perfectly fine remain "mid" (not junior IMHO) but is not ok to ignore guidance and advice from more experienced team mem
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by mhss 1y ago
It's funny cuz is true. Except it'd probably be one long design doc with 10 rounds of review, 15 CLs (PRs) and months of rollouts later ... fails A/B due to declining user engagement.
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by mhss 1y ago
Yes. Once is available more widely to common car owners (either from Waymo or others) that would interest me. Current Tesla supervised style semi autonomous driving I would find either boring or stressful (depending on the scenario). I woul
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by mhss 1y ago
Quite frankly sounds super boring. I prefer driving than supervising. Only true unsupervised autonomous driving would be interesting for me (e.g Waymo).
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by mhss 1y ago
> What if your means are not sufficient to avoid hunger? Not all advice is applicable to everyone. It's up to you to decide if you can and want to follow it. The advice was for young programmers and it is solid advice, but again, no
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by mhss 1y ago
Do you mind sharing what big tech company? I've worked at both small companies and big tech. Managers do not have full control, but they can influence very significantly comp and evaluations. If your manager isn't doing it then it
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by mhss 2y ago
My understanding is that the definition of cult requires a common object of devotion. What's that object of devotion for "society"? it's too large and diverse of a group to categorize it as such IMHO. I agree however tha
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by mhss 2y ago
Engineering managers should not exist? I agree in an ideal world they shouldn’t. Ideally all teams should self-organize in harmony and dance barefoot singing kumbaya forming a perfect holacracy. Alas, we don’t live in an ideal world, and so
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by mhss 3y ago
It's the lack of content availability that pushed them over the edge. Sports are a special case, notoriously hard that is super stupid and pushing people to piracy. I tried paying many times to watch a game my kid wanted and either the
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by mhss 3y ago
People that cannot afford Netflix will go to great lengths to get the content they want. They're also not mutually exclusive. Piracy growing doesn't mean Netflix isn't. People pay for Netflix AND download pirated movies all
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by mhss 3y ago
My comment was explicitly replying to an argument about how streaming services would "suffer" because of how piracy is much easier today. There's no signs of that. Just because Netflix mentions that risk in their SEC filings.
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by mhss 3y ago
Yeah, still, it's easier, but not as easy nor convenient or widely available (e.g there's no Popcorn app in that TV you just bought. Defaults matter a lot.
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by mhss 3y ago
> Streaming became popular because it was easier than piracy and better than TV (watch anywhere, on demand, pickup where you left off etc). I think you overestimate how "easy" piracy is for the average user. Netflix revenue kee
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by mhss 3y ago
Reminded me of tables. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4CuJm_lws
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by mhss 3y ago
Debating is another form of waiting. You're not waiting to be told, but you're waiting to reach consensus. As long as the decision makers have bias for action you won't get caught up in either debating endlessly or waiting to
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by mhss 3y ago
Yes. I think is key to re-assess assumptions about what a job or role profile "should be" and make the requirements and expectations flexible to make room for those differences.
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by mhss 3y ago
Thank you for writing this. I have young family members with ADHD and I really hope they can find the help they need as you did.
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by mhss 3y ago
> He loved research and got a PhD, but couldn't do the tasks that were expected of a professor and ended up not getting tenure. After that he struggled to hold a job for most of my childhood. This sounds horrific for both the indivi
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by mhss 3y ago
As someone with family members with ADHD and as a manager who has had employees with ADHD, the challenge is differentiate and find those cases where it can be "advantageous". Is not easy at all. Also, there are different types and
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by mhss 3y ago
The tool might be good but there’s also strong selection bias due to its price.
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by mhss 3y ago
The news is Google layoffs and is interesting to many how the culture of such a large and influential tech company has changed. The person laid off is also a known OSS author (Subversion). If you don’t find it interesting you can just move
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by mhss 3y ago
We don't have any context to assess that. Depending on the complexity of the product and target customer sales cycle it can be perfectly normal to not close a deal in your first 4 months (one of which is December).
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by mhss 3y ago
As a manager, I've been told at some companies they don't need me there after providing all documentation (emails, 1:1 notes, missed expectations, etc). I think is an attempt to avoid getting into live arguments between the employ
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by mhss 3y ago
It’s not true you can always choose who to work for. Is not a perfect job market. Some people often take whatever they can get to not starve.
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by mhss 3y ago
> What’s preventing the manager from asking? More generally I think this is handled by standups (really any daily report of “here’s what I’m doing”) or some type of ticketing system. Nothing, however the level of detail is different. Dai
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by mhss 3y ago
You can have deep knowledge of a given technology, but still not have an understanding of the details of what your reports are doing at some point in time in a given project. The brag document should include enough detail for the manager to

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