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For everyone blaming the author for her attitude, imagine being the recipient of "advice" of this calibre for your entire life.

Good on you for considering other perspectives, and acting. Many people only come to reinforce their existing ideas. FWIW your product itself looks good, if I'm ever in the market …

I know this isn't your actual question, but I think you should consider if the tone of your article represents the company you're trying to build. To me it reads as informal (compa…

With the increasing balkanization of streaming TV/film services, I wonder if piracy will start making a comeback. When everything (or most things) are under one roof, streaming mak…

If you you call out any of the rampant self-aggrandizement, exaggeration, humble-brags, or in some case outright lies there's no real upside, and plenty of potential downside.

For a small team of capable engineers, working on something that has low consequence for any single change failing plus a strong business motivation to move fast: sure, do without …

Yeah - in my experience 6-10 people per team is typical, often with one of them being dedicated QA. Having this, plus a separate central QA team is one way to address the pitfalls …

A person doing manual testing, which is a gate to deployment would certainly be hard to make work for deploys as fast as you're targeting. It may still be valuable to have someone …

I agree, this all makes sense. Although I think the team-embedded QA is generally the right thing, I wouldn't use it blindly in all cases. Some teams I manage only produce HTTP API…

I've also arrived at this approach and don't think it's that uncommon - IMO the article is presenting a false dichotomy. There are still gotchas to look out for in the team-embedde…

I've been in various engineering management roles over the last ~10 years of my career, and the amount of hands-on coding has varied a lot. What works for you?

There is still competition to consider though. If a SaaS product has competitors that are more reliable, or more feature rich, they should win & retain more customers over time.

As a casual observer of self-driving, I feel like this is a really interesting part of the overall problem space. Until such time as a vehicle fleet is 100% autonomous, human pilot…

Do you think this claim is specific to TS/GraphQL? I've heard it from devs well before either existed.

I’m a manager of ~25 developers (who report through a few leads). I also come from a dev background. IMO metrics are dangerous, but can also be useful. Often I find basic code metr…

Yes, also keep in mind that incentive won't last long (ref: https://www.transport.govt.nz/multi-modal/climatechange/elec... ). Once EV's make up > 2% of NZ's vehicle fleet they pla…

+1. It's hard to imagine any level of success without at least specifying milestones over those 31 years.

Several regional councils in New Zealand have also declared a "Climate Emergency" over the last year (e.g. https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/113747732/c... ). I appr…

This is not specific to Mavericks amongst “big wave” surf spots. Waves break as a function of swell period vs. ocean depth. More powerful (longer period) swell will break in deeper…

The first wave of tiny houses seemed to be mostly self-built and people had poured a lot of love & hours into construction. Then they were all over Instagram/Pinterest. This has pa…

For use cases where this level of rigour is desired, it would be nice to have real separate metadata vs. convention. Doing this by convention is unreliable.

I can't see anything about this particular vehicle that would make it any more suitable to sell via subscription than any other EV (or indeed ICE). Wouldn't there be a greater chan…

I really love the whole story, especially the idea of the domain name being like the "starter sentence" in a creative writing course. Much has been written about constraints enhanc…

I will admit to not actually looking at how third-party keyboards are implemented (specifically, how are security risks mitigated), but have always stayed away from them on instinc…

If the effect of having plastic recycling collection is increased plastic consumption (less guilt “it gets recycled”), and our ability to recycle is as abysmal as is reported in ma…