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I wonder if at a certain point, someone learns about compounding, and just sticks with it, building generational wealth. And poof, the wealth just keeps growing as long as the desc…

Yeah, I think there's a lot more "good, focused" companies out there than what are covered in this hidden champions book. The book is just interesting to me. It highlights a lot of…

There are a lot of mid-sized companies identified in the book _Hidden Champions of the 21st Century_. I just started the book, but it's exactly the ethos you're talking about here:…

Ultimately, the first line is really resonated with me: "When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I g…

> At this precise moment in time, if anybody seriously thought the above was the way the process works or should work, they should be advocating for firing all the juniors and repl…

Not that I know of. I do think you could do some analysis to associate code with implementers and create graphs, where you account for additional things like time. I could see LLMs…

This list does resonate, but I’d make some tweaks to express things slightly better. For example: > Most programming should be done long before a single line of code is written I w…

Software problems almost never seem to actually impact brands, but this was so egregious it actually managed to. Even Crowdstrike increased revenue over the last year. So… I’m not …

Right now, I’d say the “AI IDEs” like Cursor or Zed are ready to replace less Java-centric environments. I’d put VSCode in this “not really Java centric” bucket. I see VSCode as a …

I don’t use an LLM largely because my current codebase has a massive amount of bespoke internal APIs. So LLMs are just useless and wrong for almost any task I use. But this has led…

You do realize you linked to a discontinued product that costs over $5k? This is what I actually expect to happen to the table saw market - they all become expensive, and the sub-$…

The cynical take is more that it's crappy blade guards that nobody uses that really should be improved, and it's not necessary to mandate SawStop-style blade breaking technology. I…

The “great recession” didn’t seem to impact tech like the dotcom bust did. So millenials and younger really hadn’t lived through a lean era in tech like we’re living in now. This i…

I find that architecture should benefit the social structure of the engineering team, and there are limits. I work on one of these “simple architectures” at large scale… and it’s a…

Location: Spokane, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cloud and on prem distributed services, mostly AWS, some k8, largely Java services, some big data using Kine…

The challenge when I see posts like this is the people in charge of building this "check it all in" ecosystem usually forget about the developer experience and basically just imple…

I’ve noticed that video chats are great when they complement detailed asynchronous communication, e.g., RFC-style doc or a produced video. The best video conference work meetings t…

This seems like the fear/problems of dating apps are just another aspect of how modern communication systems are alienating us. Social circles are indeed shrinking: https://www.ame…

I see companies hiring lots of middle management during high-growth phases, as the "plan" is to have them grow their teams. And then the market changes, and headcount targets chang…

Because it really isn't a violation of antitrust as is currently defined. Linda Khan's article here is, IMO, one of the best overviews of why: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/a…

Yep, laid off in the aftermath of the 2000 crash. Not immediately but the company didn’t get funding and cut almost everyone. It hit me hard at first, but I was very young, just ou…

I can’t speak for the OP, but this makes it much easier to write code that uses threads that wait on IO, and just let the underlying system (VM + JDBC connectors, for example) hand…

I don’t suspect this is as nefarious as just stupid bureaucracy. My company has kept hiring interns immediately after laying off 10% of their staff, “to keep the funnel open”. H1Bs…

Well, as an employee of Salesforce, I witnessed operating margin goals of activist investors drive a layoff this year. (And Salesforce just met those goals last week.) Part of me w…

That sounds about ideal to me. Any tricks or issues you've had to figure out while pairing? My thought was just "assign a couple of people to a non-trivial ticket and see what happ…