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Basically this joke: 1 million people walk into a bar in Silicon Valley. No one buys anything. The bar is declared a huge success.
February 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Basically this joke: 1 million people walk into a bar in Silicon Valley. No one buys anything. The bar is declared a huge success.
Something I can’t get over is how every AI company talks about revenue, and never profit. Understandably many companies aren’t profitable because they keep investing in themselves (Amazon for many years), but something always feels off here in terms of whether they can be profitable.
February 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Something I can’t get over is how every AI company talks about revenue, and never profit. Understandably many companies aren’t profitable because they keep investing in themselves (Amazon for many years), but something always feels off here in terms of whether they can be profitable.
I feel like hiring a nanny to go to therapy with my wife would only further exacerbate issues. I think my wife would want me to go to couples therapy with her.
February 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I feel like hiring a nanny to go to therapy with my wife would only further exacerbate issues. I think my wife would want me to go to couples therapy with her.
I think it is really helpful to admit when we are wrong about a belief and what changed our minds. It not only shows that it is ok to be wrong and grow, but also provides the reasoning that changed your mind and can help change other people’s minds too.
January 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I think it is really helpful to admit when we are wrong about a belief and what changed our minds. It not only shows that it is ok to be wrong and grow, but also provides the reasoning that changed your mind and can help change other people’s minds too.
Out of interest what was the flawed belief you had? Was it that homeless people didn’t actually want housing, or that they would just trash it?
I think a lot about how SF residents fought housing regularly, and we just cruelly let people sleep in tents (which everyone also complained about)
I think a lot about how SF residents fought housing regularly, and we just cruelly let people sleep in tents (which everyone also complained about)
January 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Out of interest what was the flawed belief you had? Was it that homeless people didn’t actually want housing, or that they would just trash it?
I think a lot about how SF residents fought housing regularly, and we just cruelly let people sleep in tents (which everyone also complained about)
I think a lot about how SF residents fought housing regularly, and we just cruelly let people sleep in tents (which everyone also complained about)
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Grimes is like a woman you compliment the outfit of while you're both in line for a bar bathroom and she says its inspired by her guardian angel and angels are real but they're really cyber augmented runners of The Simulation and she keeps touching your arm and the line won't move and you're trapped
December 28, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Grimes is like a woman you compliment the outfit of while you're both in line for a bar bathroom and she says its inspired by her guardian angel and angels are real but they're really cyber augmented runners of The Simulation and she keeps touching your arm and the line won't move and you're trapped
Beyond all of the ridiculousness of the argument, this just opens the Democrats up to running Obama as VP. There is no world where Republicans want to run against Obama who left office with a final approval rating of 59.
December 28, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Beyond all of the ridiculousness of the argument, this just opens the Democrats up to running Obama as VP. There is no world where Republicans want to run against Obama who left office with a final approval rating of 59.
Understandably you were specifically talking about delegation, but overall I think events are a black box for many engineers.
December 18, 2024 at 1:54 AM
Understandably you were specifically talking about delegation, but overall I think events are a black box for many engineers.
I think eventing can be surprising for many, especially if they come from other languages. Things like listeners being executed synchronously or that events by default are not cancellable is not always intuitive.
These are great features, but people won’t always guess them.
These are great features, but people won’t always guess them.
December 18, 2024 at 1:50 AM
I think eventing can be surprising for many, especially if they come from other languages. Things like listeners being executed synchronously or that events by default are not cancellable is not always intuitive.
These are great features, but people won’t always guess them.
These are great features, but people won’t always guess them.
For them it wasn’t a pay cut, we don’t pay engineers and managers differently. With that said, if you become an L7 manager, you probably want to stay on that career path and therefore don’t see the benefit of staying in a job where you do something different.
December 16, 2024 at 1:13 AM
For them it wasn’t a pay cut, we don’t pay engineers and managers differently. With that said, if you become an L7 manager, you probably want to stay on that career path and therefore don’t see the benefit of staying in a job where you do something different.
This can dangerous in that I feel a large number of line manager are already unaware of what their employees are doing. Adding more employees to a manager just furthers that risk. I know about 30% of engineers at my company barely code at all, I worry this would exacerbate that issue.
December 16, 2024 at 12:33 AM
This can dangerous in that I feel a large number of line manager are already unaware of what their employees are doing. Adding more employees to a manager just furthers that risk. I know about 30% of engineers at my company barely code at all, I worry this would exacerbate that issue.
This happened at my company and a lot of those L6 and L7 ICs didn’t stick around too long. For the most part managers forced to be ICs aren’t particularly interested in being an IC and will find new opportunities.
December 16, 2024 at 12:24 AM
This happened at my company and a lot of those L6 and L7 ICs didn’t stick around too long. For the most part managers forced to be ICs aren’t particularly interested in being an IC and will find new opportunities.
but I always wondered about the long term repercussions for this. The probability you are replacing better engineers than with what you have, especially if the best are leaving, is questionable.
December 1, 2024 at 6:45 PM
but I always wondered about the long term repercussions for this. The probability you are replacing better engineers than with what you have, especially if the best are leaving, is questionable.
Since there is no benefit to staying if you are best in class, we lost a lot of phenomenal senior and staff engineers, and the replacements were not at the same level, but cost us more. In the end the company calculated that it was cheaper to replace engineers at a higher price….
December 1, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Since there is no benefit to staying if you are best in class, we lost a lot of phenomenal senior and staff engineers, and the replacements were not at the same level, but cost us more. In the end the company calculated that it was cheaper to replace engineers at a higher price….
This happened with my company a few years ago. We had this massive budget for bringing in new engineers but had a small budget for existing engineers, including the top 20%. Basically we were paying more for a new engineer than someone who was rated in the top 20% multiple years in a row.
December 1, 2024 at 6:41 PM
This happened with my company a few years ago. We had this massive budget for bringing in new engineers but had a small budget for existing engineers, including the top 20%. Basically we were paying more for a new engineer than someone who was rated in the top 20% multiple years in a row.
The reason this happens is corporate sets different budgets for acquiring new customers vs retaining existing customers. This just leads to people jumping plans, and companies not actually benefiting from the acquisition. I will probably do this all again in 3 years.
December 1, 2024 at 6:19 PM
The reason this happens is corporate sets different budgets for acquiring new customers vs retaining existing customers. This just leads to people jumping plans, and companies not actually benefiting from the acquisition. I will probably do this all again in 3 years.
So in the end you need someone with some expertise to review the code and get it to correct the mistakes. Can you reduce the number of engineers? Possibly, but I can’t say to what level.
November 24, 2024 at 8:35 PM
So in the end you need someone with some expertise to review the code and get it to correct the mistakes. Can you reduce the number of engineers? Possibly, but I can’t say to what level.
As a software engineer I obviously have a bias here, but I don’t see AI replacing software engineers. What I do see it being used for is mockups and quick apps for founders to help get VC funding. My experience is that AI never gets things 100% correct, and rarely gets things 70% correct.
November 24, 2024 at 8:31 PM
As a software engineer I obviously have a bias here, but I don’t see AI replacing software engineers. What I do see it being used for is mockups and quick apps for founders to help get VC funding. My experience is that AI never gets things 100% correct, and rarely gets things 70% correct.
Don’t worry, it will improve and be replacing all of us in 1̸ 2̸ 5̸ 10 years, just you wait. Why would these VCs hype it up if it wasn’t the next big thing?
November 24, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Don’t worry, it will improve and be replacing all of us in 1̸ 2̸ 5̸ 10 years, just you wait. Why would these VCs hype it up if it wasn’t the next big thing?
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November 23, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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This is definitely spoken as a father of girls. My son headbutts me so often in the crotch, pretty sure I don’t need to pay for some fancy vasectomy.
November 19, 2024 at 7:02 PM
This is definitely spoken as a father of girls. My son headbutts me so often in the crotch, pretty sure I don’t need to pay for some fancy vasectomy.