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by mobjack 4y ago
It is understanding that leadership doesn't care about the technical details. Devs are expected to figure out these details on their own. Instead try to understand what others really care about and frame the discussions around that.
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by mobjack 4y ago
I am a big fan of the Agile Manifesto, but Agile has evolved to be something completely different. It became a rigid process where people debate the definition of story points rather than getting shit done.
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by mobjack 4y ago
A production replica if you want to be safe
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by mobjack 4y ago
You ask someone in slack. If that isn't sufficient, set up a small 1 on 1 meeting to discuss. You can't avoid all meetings, but you can keep them few and small.
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by mobjack 4y ago
Because the senior dev always says no.
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by mobjack 4y ago
At my startup, every new management hire thinks they can improve our process by introducing scrum. Every year we make another attempt at it only to find out that it isn't agile enough to keep up with the pace of the business.
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by mobjack 4y ago
Computer science is one of the harder subjects to assess knowledge through tests. In other industries, passing an accreditation exam gives you value in the market. In software engineering, certificates are seen as useless. This can explain
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by mobjack 4y ago
There comes a point where impossible to leave code in a better state without a major refactor. The choice is between writing a few ugly if statements making the code a little worse or spending 10x the time refactoring hoping you don't
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by mobjack 4y ago
The argument is if you specialize in young women's clothing, instead of trying to micro target messaging to different personas, have a single message that can work with everyone you are trying to sell to.
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by mobjack 4y ago
I often use the 80/20 rule to push back against requirements from product managers. Identify the features that are hard to implement and provide little business value then cut them out. For the things that are important, I see if there
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by mobjack 4y ago
That is short term cynical thinking. Being able to give honest and constructive feedback is a skill that will grow your career more in the long run. An exit interview is one of the safest times to practice that I am not expecting anything t
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by mobjack 4y ago
How do they define fast fashion? What makes it different than a budget T-shirt that you wear multiple times? Fast fashion is more about how clothes are marketed than the inherent properties of the clothing itself.
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by mobjack 5y ago
They are the wrong layer of abstraction outside of simple CRUD apps. If you have to check the API docs anyways, I rather define custom domain specific verbs than debate whether something should be a PUT or a PATCH.
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by mobjack 5y ago
I find testing everything through public methods can lead to excessive mocking, which ties you even more to the implementation.
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by mobjack 5y ago
I recently bought a toaster for the first time as an adult and started eating a lot more bread as a result. Other toasting methods work, but they could take longer to set up and you have to monitor the progress along the way. With a toaster
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by mobjack 5y ago
A lot of my planning is making sure the most effective engineers are working on the most important things. It is about making sure resources are most efficiently allocated to meet the business objectives.
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by mobjack 5y ago
I know everyone learns differently, but I gained most of my programming skills just from programming. You will study other people's code on the job and code reviews provide coaching. Chess is much harder for me because I don't hav
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by mobjack 5y ago
I've A/B tested hiding functionality and reducing info density increased the number of people spending money on the site. I was completely shocked by seeing those results initially and dove deep to look for any other negative effe
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by mobjack 5y ago
What is the definition of done?
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by mobjack 5y ago
My issue is that much of Agile in practice ignores the first value and puts process over people. This is especially true with Scrum.
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by mobjack 5y ago
A lot of playing politics is just knowing the type of extra work that will get you promoted.
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by mobjack 5y ago
I read about spring's best practices and think some are unnecessary boilerplate code without any real benefits. I get the theory, but in practice, the benefits are just theoretical. You could reimplement interfaces for your tests, but
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by mobjack 5y ago
I prefer documentation with sparse text and lots of diagrams and images. It provides the high level context and I can fill in any gaps with a short follow up conversation. For most people, the high level information is all they really need.
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by mobjack 5y ago
I often see engineers having a cynical self defeating view of the business. They will blindly follow complex requirements while complaining that there is not much they can do about it. But if you demonstrate that you understand things from
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by mobjack 5y ago
It is a measurement problem. Android users are more likely to use Gmail which proxies the images so you can't tell what device it was opened on.
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by mobjack 5y ago
Customer complaints usually determine the spec. If enough people wrote in about not accepting one letter email addresses, then they would likely update the validation. But if customer service tells users to use another email address in that
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by mobjack 5y ago
There are some privacy reasons for it. A direct link from a search page will let websites see the search terms that users entered in to navigate there. Google still knows everything so it doesn't protect you from them, but websites are
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by mobjack 5y ago
Based on analytics of the website for my company, only 5% of users have a medium browser width. Instead of designing for three screen sizes, it is easier to design for two and give tablets the mobile experience. It is also the most challeng
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by mobjack 5y ago
Sounds like onboarding emails for new customers. Some product manager sees that new users aren't using all their "great" features so they schedule emails to educate them. They will stop after all the emails in the series have
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by mobjack 5y ago
That is the problem with the tech debt analogy. There are many times you can get away with dirty code with no costs. I wasted time before cleaning up code only for it to be dropped or for the code not needing any additional updates for over

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