It's because you are not an Average Human and so averaging everyone's humor doesn't really work for you. I think this is precisely why Instagram and tiktok are actually more addictive, they give you these personalized algos that are powered by your personal engagement stats, vs Reddit which just sort of sorts by other people's opinions
I mean they're basically a college student given the YOE and where this was published, sounds like the kid got mugged by reality. But yea, definitely jaw-droppingly naive.
I see a lot of these retrospectives from companies that (to a certain degree) failed to live up to their hype. I don’t want to invalidate the sort of lessons you can only learn by living through these hyper scaling phases, but I sometimes wonder if some of the lessons folks learned are potentially why things went wrong?
"Almost immediately after installation, Akita provided all the endpoints’ requirements, as well as some examples of expected values, which allowed us to better understand the service that the contractors had built. Once we could understand the data flow (including not only the request body, but also headers and authorization), improving the system became a lot easier. After we had the mapping,"
Interesting... could be cool to see a value-add service on top of Akita or another Obs vendor that just inspects req/res payloads and generates OpenAPI specs based off what was observed. I can't count how many times I've dropped into teams and tried to piece together their API contracts just to realize... they don't have specs! Having to then turn around and reconstruct them backwards based off code spelunking and maybe some design docs is... frustrating.
I really really love how this post touches on the bullshit that is the carbon credit market. Question: what incentive do BigCos have to buy your "high quality" carbon offsets vs the inferior ones you mentioned? Do you price cheaper per ton of CO2 credited? At the end of the day they're just trying to comply at the cheapest price possible, right?
was discussing this the other day with colleagues. you google CockroachDB and are immediately served Yugabyte and PlanetScale, which are imo much "hotter" right now
This seems like a smart cross-section of the existing ECE major and IE majors offered at Purdue, and would likely be a good way to lighten up the major (IE was considered easier than the other programs when I was in undergrad).
Tech companies are like lewdness, we know them when we see them. I’m sure Maersk and Walmart rely a lot on tech and engineers, but no one is calling them tech companies.
The MX Master 2 or whatever has been absolute trash for me on my work mac. There's the standard issue with macs and third party mice where the "inertia" or whatever of the mouse feels off, but more than that there has to be some sort of interference because the thing just floats and jitters constantly. Completely unusable, I gave it away to one of our finance guys.
I've been hoping to see them take this direction for a while. They've fostered a great environment and built out a robust platform for "drop-in" communities. I also like that it seems like they're trying to scale out and ratchet up the amount of advanced content.
Does the new logo (wordmark?) remind anyone else of the old Uber logo (maybe the current one? I can't keep up anymore and don't really care). This branding feels somehow more evil.
My key point every time my team discusses hiring: If you think your take-home project takes N hours, add 1-1.5. You already know the context, and are underestimating the difficulty even if you've run through it before.
I think the other commenter is probably closer to accuracy. Here in NYC, offshoring to Chile/DR and other countries in the same timezone is surprisingly popular, even for early stage startups. The idea that people will just immigrate is a bit of a stretch. Coming from an immigrant family I will tell you that some of the most talented people stayed behind while others got lucky. My $0.02, just like anyone else's, and I know people currently in India launching really great code schools, but the talent argument never held in my mind.
It was a fine book, but this summary serves the point perfectly while also being way shorter. My working assumption with all these popular books is they could be half (or less) as long and retain effectiveness.
I didn’t mean it as a slur! When I wrote .NET, the applications I was working in were massively large and complex, and so mostly what I was working on was optimizing small bits and pieces, and they allowed me to focus ON optimizing those small bits and pieces, because they were what mattered in that context. Rails let’s me focus on the big picture, because that’s what matters in my current context. Express had me working on stuff that I didn’t REALLY care about/want to know about in the context I was in.
I’ll say this: I came to Rails from Node (and before that .NET but with a way smaller scope of responsibility), and I am thoroughly convinced the author is correct. I couldn’t estimate for shit in my first few months at this job (once I had ramped) because Rails makes things that would’ve taken at least twice as long easy to do, even without gems. Plus, I have seen not even a third of the compatibility issues between our version of the framework (bit old) and up-to-date games as I saw when I was writing Node full time. Rails is the first non-“enterprise” framework I’ve felt let’s me focus on the correct level of concern for my current needs.