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by replyifuagree 6mo ago
>If instead you wait when there is a real fire, you can get the 15 teams actually fixing that one. In this case, with Microsoft's really amazing revenue stream, a charismatic management team can distort reality for quite some time a
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by replyifuagree 8mo ago
> logging into MS Teams I mean, this is one application nobody should ever log into!
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by replyifuagree 8mo ago
>I personally can't accept shipping unreviewed code. It feels wrong. The product has to work, but the code must also be high-quality. Sadly review isn't enough. I just today I found some code that I reviewed 2 months where the
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by replyifuagree 9mo ago
Those people on the boeing flights would have appreciated a little more of the correct motivations. Instead they got McDonnell Douglas'd As it turns out the motivations matter way more than you might think.
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by replyifuagree 9mo ago
Another key difference is that wood itself has built in visual transparency as to the goodness of the solution - as it is pretty easy to figure out that a cabinet is horrible (I do get that there are defects in wood joining techniques that
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by replyifuagree 11mo ago
You want to pay me bank to rubber stamp bad code? Weird flex but alright!
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
3. ... 4. ... 5. Profit!
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
If your competition figures out a way to cut overhead by 10% and you don't, they win. This is the normal outcome between similar businesses The only thing that will save RTO companies now is graft and corruption.
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
I'd love to. First you need to get Tim Cook to stop sabotaging mobile web.
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
I wonder how better DOM support would help a rust web application frontend framework like Leptos ( https://leptos.dev )? Maybe a smaller WASM payload?
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
>(Shown above: my earnings from this bug.) I lol'd!
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
As in all things, it depends. For example if you have an iron clad exit plan after you land that promotion for "delivering" a steaming pile for someone else to debug, and you have no sense of shame, then by all means!
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by replyifuagree 1y ago
>swap every postgres insert query, with the corresponding mysql insert query. If the data and relationships in those insert queries matter, at some unknown future date you may find yourself cursing your choice to use an LLM for this task
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
yeah, adding "AI" to something like that really means add in random nonsensical failures
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Yep, Tim Cook = Steve Ballmer
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
It is almost like Apple has an operations guy at the helm who doesn't understand software at all!
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
This is why I still haven't pulled the trigger on home automation stuff. Bad enough keeping my laptop functioning, don't want that experience extending to the rest of my life!
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
+1 OMG I was going die using that Gemini garbage! Was so glad they had a way to switch back!
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
One feature I love on my android phone is how reliably it sets timers based on a voice command: "Ok google, set a timer for 8 minutes" has kept me from burning my food on the stove for at least a year now!
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
>“Value to the company” means furthering the explicit plans of your company’s executives If you are a software leader, work on discovering and filling customer needs. Filling those will boost both your success and the company's suc
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
I mean how many hours does one need to work to make the search results even worse by adding more adverts?
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
>What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file? I work on a massive monorepo that the LSP chokes on regularly. In the end, global search is my sweetest friend
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Yep once we kick the PMP out, then we can work on safety so people will openly share where they are in the battle with the real enemy - the software. As it turns out 10x isn't enough. Once the complexity of the solution hits a certai
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Almost all problems with daily scrum/kanban/whatever can be traced back to inappropriate management. Most of the time the issue is the daily whatever has been turned into a demotivating status meeting where a PMO trained project m
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Yep and here we are in 2024 and just this last week I got into a heated discussion with an 'Technical' Program Manager raging about how the deliverables are slipping by three days mostly because he and his up chain are heavily inv
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
>One of the challenges working as a software developer is that friends and family tend to view 'tech' as an amorphous blob. Forget friends and family, most Project/Product Managers think the same way, and they are often wa
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Oh gawd yes they do!
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
There really is a market niche for "just make some stuff" that LLMs are great for. If the client wants "something" and an LLM provides a significant percentage of "something" that looks good enough for the deve
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
Oh there will be political theatre on par with the WWF, no doubt. For those people it falls under the heading "Nice work if you can get it."
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by replyifuagree 2y ago
In my almost 30 years in the industry I've run into plenty of people who claimed they knew what code did by reading it, but in practice every single one of them turned out to be only another human flummoxed by unexpected runtime behavi

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