notmyfuture

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by notmyfuture 4mo ago
For everyone blaming the author for her attitude, imagine being the recipient of "advice" of this calibre for your entire life.
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
Good on you for considering other perspectives, and acting. Many people only come to reinforce their existing ideas. FWIW your product itself looks good, if I'm ever in the market for a Datagrid type component, I'll consider it.
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
I know this isn't your actual question, but I think you should consider if the tone of your article represents the company you're trying to build. To me it reads as informal (comparison table "yes but weird), jokey (meme at
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
With the increasing balkanization of streaming TV/film services, I wonder if piracy will start making a comeback. When everything (or most things) are under one roof, streaming makes sense - a single bill, one place to find content et
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
If you you call out any of the rampant self-aggrandizement, exaggeration, humble-brags, or in some case outright lies there's no real upside, and plenty of potential downside.
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
For a small team of capable engineers, working on something that has low consequence for any single change failing plus a strong business motivation to move fast: sure, do without code reviews if you want. There is no universal "best p
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
Yeah - in my experience 6-10 people per team is typical, often with one of them being dedicated QA. Having this, plus a separate central QA team is one way to address the pitfalls of embedded QA I was pointing out - they can cover for time
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
A person doing manual testing, which is a gate to deployment would certainly be hard to make work for deploys as fast as you're targeting. It may still be valuable to have someone separate to the devs testing your product (in producti
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
I agree, this all makes sense. Although I think the team-embedded QA is generally the right thing, I wouldn't use it blindly in all cases. Some teams I manage only produce HTTP API's, these are ideal candidates for automated tes
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by notmyfuture 5y ago
I've also arrived at this approach and don't think it's that uncommon - IMO the article is presenting a false dichotomy. There are still gotchas to look out for in the team-embedded QA approach. In typical team sizes, you of
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Ask HN: How hands-on should an Engineering Manager be?
2 points by notmyfuture 6y ago|2 comments
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by notmyfuture 6y ago
There is still competition to consider though. If a SaaS product has competitors that are more reliable, or more feature rich, they should win & retain more customers over time.
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
As a casual observer of self-driving, I feel like this is a really interesting part of the overall problem space. Until such time as a vehicle fleet is 100% autonomous, human piloted & autonomous vehicles need to co-exist. Humans bend
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
Do you think this claim is specific to TS/GraphQL? I've heard it from devs well before either existed.
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
I’m a manager of ~25 developers (who report through a few leads). I also come from a dev background. IMO metrics are dangerous, but can also be useful. Often I find basic code metrics useful as smell tests, but would never use them alone
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
Yes, also keep in mind that incentive won't last long (ref: https://www.transport.govt.nz/multi-modal/climatechange/elec... ). Once EV's make up > 2% of NZ's vehicle fleet they plan to start char
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
+1. It's hard to imagine any level of success without at least specifying milestones over those 31 years.
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
Several regional councils in New Zealand have also declared a "Climate Emergency" over the last year (e.g. https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/113747732/c... ). I appreciate the sentime
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
This is not specific to Mavericks amongst “big wave” surf spots. Waves break as a function of swell period vs. ocean depth. More powerful (longer period) swell will break in deeper water, so in many places known for big waves, shorter per
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
The first wave of tiny houses seemed to be mostly self-built and people had poured a lot of love & hours into construction. Then they were all over Instagram/Pinterest. This has paved the way for a second wave, where some occupie
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
For use cases where this level of rigour is desired, it would be nice to have real separate metadata vs. convention. Doing this by convention is unreliable.
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
I can't see anything about this particular vehicle that would make it any more suitable to sell via subscription than any other EV (or indeed ICE). Wouldn't there be a greater chance of success if they focussed on one or the othe
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
I really love the whole story, especially the idea of the domain name being like the "starter sentence" in a creative writing course. Much has been written about constraints enhancing creativity. In addition to the constraint of
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
I will admit to not actually looking at how third-party keyboards are implemented (specifically, how are security risks mitigated), but have always stayed away from them on instinct. For me, the potential value just doesn't outweigh r
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
If the effect of having plastic recycling collection is increased plastic consumption (less guilt “it gets recycled”), and our ability to recycle is as abysmal as is reported in many places... we may be better off stopping plastic recycling
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
For anyone looking to get involved but unsure how or where, try this too: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/ . It's been posted before, but is a great starting point.
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
I’m all for the idea of incremental positive change. Yes, no individual person, city or country can fix this, but if our response to that is to be pessimistic, defeated and do nothing, then we all fail. Advocacy for cycling is one positiv
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
In classic waterfall type process, big requirements/design docs were often not updated after initial creation, so were often wrong/misleading if you read them as a newcomer. Good doc seems to me more about values/competence
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by notmyfuture 7y ago
I worked at a (big) company where this happened: Very expensive HQ offices built with policy that >= Director get private offices. Due to miscount, restructuring or some combination thereof there ended up being ~3 offices less than nee