tibiahurried

I never, ever trusted any engineer manager and HR. In my looong experience, they rarely (read never) have at heart the interest of their reports.

They are there to progress their career, as well as every body else. So, if your promotion, or having you moving to a different team gets in the way, rest assure they will make everything in their power to fight it.

Simply put, I don't pay any attention to the things discussed with my manager around my career. I attend my 1-1 because I have to. I honestly don't get any value out of it.

I have enough experience to know how to progress my career.

There are only two things that keep me working for a given company:

- working on interesting projects, making an impact

- being payed well enough

There is also the fake "high growth". I worked at startup where the CEO was growing the organization like crazy, just for the sake of showing that the company was growing, even though it was not. We were on-boarding engineers almost every day and did not have any work for them to do.

I am talking like teams of more than 10 engineers that took months to deliver simple features. Most of the engineers were spending their time fighting their IDE, local setup and finding a purpose.

Best project I worked on, it was in a team of 3 people: manager + 2 engineers. I built the whole backend and the other guy the frontend stuff. Worked like a charm! We delivered on time and things just worked.

Sometime, less is better.

Exactly! It annoys me so much reading about big tech co, pledging on becoming carbon negative, produce zero waste, etc ... but still force thousands of people everyday to commute and pollute just for the sake of it.

They really don't care.

uhm I am not sure about Sweden being the 'Silicon Valley of Europe'

As european, if had to look for a tech job in Europe, I would consider:

- London

- Amsterdam

- Berlin

Still, it is so sad to see companies who could avoid their employees commuting and polluting, fighting to get their employees back to the office! This shows how overall businesses and people don’t really care for climate change.

It’s hard to find co-founder or even early employees because financially it is not convenient: at least for the 99% of the startup. There are the lucky ones who managed to be in the right place at the right time, but that’s definitely not the majority.

If I really wanted to go through the excruciating pain and insane work required in a startup I’d rather try to work on my own ideas and not for others.

But I prefer FAANG rest and vest!

I honestly don’t care much for the signup/login page, I only have one must to have requirement : keep it simple and make password managers work, please !!!!

Google 2020 :

- revenue 182B

- earnings 40B

The fine is 0.5% of their earnings or 0.12% of their revenue. Basically nothing.

They should start fining in the order of B not M

The Data Economy is what enables "free" product for the end-user. Think about email, drive, video. Users are now used to get most of this stuff for free. And that's possible thanks to the Data Economy.

End such economy basically means the users will start paying for the internet. Never gonna happen.

About time!

Well I guess by renting they can get the latest and greatest machine available instead of dealing with an old machine bought say 5 years prior. If the machine breaks, well you just get another one. No maintenance cost for the company. I mean it depends. Buy it is not always the best thing to do. Renting may be more convenient sometime.

Many underestimate the complexity and the headache that comes with managing its own data center. It is easy to get a couple of racks up and running. Then you have to deal:

- HW that fails, go get a new one, cost + time

- backup and geographical redundancy

- security

- certifications

- tooling to manage and forecast

- black friday! scale for few days ... more HW?

- etc ...

It is way more convenient for the average enterprise to pay premium and be done with it. So they can focus on the actual business and not building infrastructure and tooling to manage it.

The same reason big companies pay premium for external consultants instead of directly hiring. You don't want to deal with employees, as well as you don't want to deal with HW, data center, and all that comes with it. You know you are paying premium, but you are also delegating tons of headache and responsibilities.

The new guy that stores user information in the servlet. I have seen this before.

hehe I guarantee you I have worked indeed in many large FAANG and not, tech companies. And it is pretty much the same everywhere.

I think when you get at a certain level, people tend to rest and vest, thus producing little to no tangible value for the company. But, since their networking is strong, they keep sticking around.

Large corp => too many "architects" => meetings => ... and nothing gets done.

Ever asked yourself why big corp innovate through acquisition?

Job titles are overrated. Often they are not an indication of skills and/or achievements, but rather political ability to networking and managing up in the company.

I have worked with Principals, Architects etc ... they were more an obstacle than facilitators. Most of them, if they were to interview, they wouldn't even be able to get a job as a senior engineer.

Who wants a Cybertruck anyway :) I am all for F-150

Last time I checked USDC, USDT etc...are very much stable and you transact them on the Eth network, no exchange required.

Many keep saying that BTC is like gold, an edge against inflation. I disagree. I think that one of fundamental problem with inflation is that banks pay almost zero interest rates, thus USD sitting in your bank account lose value overtime.

Now, what if banks were to offer decent interests rates? To at least compensate the inflation rate? Wouldn't that solve the "inflation" problem?

This is possible today with DeFi and stable crypto like USDT, platform like Celsius; where they pay you up to 10% interest rates on your $$$ sitting ducks. Think about that for a second 10% !

If banks were not as greedy as they are and share more profits with their customers, inflation wouldn't be that big of a deal.

I agree. The worse part is that at Federal level all tech bro are considered rich end up paying ton of taxes along with CA taxes, without any possibility to deduct anything because, you know, as long as you work in tech, you are rich by definition. I work in tech, I earn very good money, but can't afford to buy a home. I am planning to leave anyway, so at this point I don't really care much. But CA, along with its taxes, crazy regulations and nimby have made CA impossible to live for normal people. CA is for rich, period.

I would never spend more than $25k for a car. Period.

Something is fundamentally wrong if a driver license number can pose an identity security threat.

They say .. don't be evil ... yeah sure!

As many other recent IPO, this valuation is just out of this world. Also, Coinbase is not the only player in the space. Many also use Binance.us; it offers stacking, cheaper fees and usually lists more alt coins.

I must admin that I bought my first cryptos on Coinbase but soon realized how expensive it was and looked for alternatives.

I don't understand what is so unique about Coinbase and why this insane valuation. I am skeptical and not going to buy, at least not at this price.

Long term I expect exchanges to having to drop fees like stock exchanges. At that point, unless they can offer juicy interests rates like Celsius, how would they make money ?

> The project owner writes specs and gathers feedback until we feel like we have the right approach. Only then do we start writing code.

Uhm, it is hard to say what is the "right approach". I personally prefer a more iterative approach. You draft an architecture to solve the issue at hand and you iterate based on new requirements.

I generally don't like when a group of "owners/architects" close themselves in the basement to come up with a bunch of specs and documents describing : THE SOLUTION

I wonder why when s*it hits the fan, the most senior and experienced are always on the line fixing stuff. I am in my 40 and the only thing I have noticed is steady increase of my paycheck and responsibilities. I can't really complain.

Very true. What makes an individual rise to the top is networking and politics. Skills don't really matter.

This is exactly what makes the difference between a seasoned and experienced engineer vs "follow the latest nodejs lib kind of guy" ...

I learned a lot exactly when doing non sexy stuff that nobody else wanted to do.

For instance, when it comes to optimizing an obscure query and make the whole system run twice as fast ... you will learn DB internals, and how the DB engine heuristic works when determining whether to use or not and index etc .. All things that are now part of my senior experience and knowledge and for which I am paid much more than a junior :)

My best advice would be : do the hard stuff, the stuff that people don't want to do. Make yourself valuable to the company. People will come and ask for you. That's the best way to learn and also have more leverage to ask for increase+stocks. Knowledge is power.

Everyone can pickup any new shiny framework in just a couple of days. That's not hard.

I was a strong Eclipse supporter, I'd always advocate Eclipse at work (vs IntelliJ) ... but eventually I had to give up. The maven integration was breaking with each release. Not to mention the often half broken, incompatible plugins that would make the IDE unstable.

Switched to IntelliJ and never went back.

Also: IntelliJ's superior scala support also played a huge role in the decision.

yes yes, but at the end of the day, which countries are getting most of the vaccines ? Suffice to say EU falls behind Chile. All due respect to Chile.

Israel UAE UK (lucky them, they BREXIT just in time) USA

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations