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Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by hyperthesis »

giantg2 wrote: post #92
jimbokun wrote: post #35

> The biggest effect was that it gave our tiny engineering team the productivity of a team 50x its size. I feel like the idea of the legendary "10x" developer has been bastardized to just mean workers who work 15 hours a day 6.5 days a week to get something out the door until they burn out. But here's your real 10x (or 50x) productivity. People who implement something very few people even considered or understood to…

I'm tired of hearing about 10x engineers. I just want to be a good 1x engineer. Or good at anything in life realy.

I think getting something worthwhile done is a better focus (actually quite hard!), and naturally increases your productivity as a side-effect.

Productivity has no inherent value - like efficiency and perfection, it is necessarily of something else. Its value is entirely derived.

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by Aachen »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #255
Aachen wrote: post #111

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What do you call it when the spec is wrong? Like clearly actually wrong, such as when someone copied a paragraph from one CRUD-describing page to the next and forgot to change the word "thing1" to "thing2" in the delete description. Because I'd call that a bug. A spec bug, but a bug. It's no feature request to make the code based on the newer page delete thing2 rather than thing1, it's fixing a defect

Ya, I would like a word for this as well. I naturally refer to this category of error as bug, but this occasionally leads to significant conflict with others at work. I now default to calling _almost everything_ a feature request, which is obviously dumb but less likely to get me into trouble. If there is a better word for "it does exactly what we planned, but what we planned was wrong" I would love to adopt it.

I reported such a bug to some software my company uses (Tempo). Vendor proceeds to call it a feature request because the software successfully fails to show public information (visible in the UI, but HTTP 403 in the API unless you're an admin).

Instead of changing one word in the code that defines the access level required for this GET call, it gets triaged as not being a bug, put on a backlog, and we never heard from it again obviously

We pay for this shit

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by eszed »

adra wrote: post #195
throwitaway222 wrote: post #114

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No one reading this during the hours of 9-5 is a 10x.

I know it's meant to be funny, but the number of tech people who spend zero time learning about "what's out there", are usually not the most effective developers. You won't find better solutions to existing or even new problems without an interest in industry. Maybe this particular article isn't "industry valuable fair enough", but having zero interest in refining and enhancing your craft beyond the work in front of…

Hard agree.

Another flaw in his thinking: brain cycles and sub-conscious processing.

I'm in the middle of a hard problem right now. I ran out of ideas, and opened HN about half an hour ago. In that time, without "trying", I've had two new ideas - one sent me back to my notes, which revealed that my original thinking was flawed; the second sent me to documentation, which suggested a new route to pursue. I'm digesting the implications of that while I write this.

Beating my head against the problem directly for thirty minutes would have been less productive. (Though if I wasn't WFH I would have, and also been miserable, and learned less about the industry than I have from this thread. So there's that.)

I'm far from a 10x anything, but I don't have the only brain which works this way.

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by chinchilla2020 »

tantaman wrote: post #254
AlienRobot wrote: post #210

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Do 10x engineers get 10x the wages? Somehow I feel being exceptionally better than other engineers is just unfair to both of you and the ones worse than you. I wouldn't want to be a 10x either, I'd rather just be normal engineer.

Meta compensates 10x types very well. 3x bonus multipliers, additional equity that can range from 100k-1m+, and level increases are a huge bump to comp ( https://www.levels.fyi/ )

I have many meta colleagues I've worked with in the past. All of them are well compensated but none of them were outstanding, or 10x.

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by mlhpdx »

wwilson wrote: post #164
randomdata wrote: post #154

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Aren't you just 'forcing' determinism in the inputs, relying on the software to be always deterministic for the same inputs?

Nope. We’re emulating a deterministic computer, so your software can’t act nondeterministically if it tries.

Oh, that sounds like a challenge…

Is the challenge here the same as with digital simulations of electronic circuits? That is, at the end of the day analog physics becomes confounding? Or are you doing deterministic simulation of random RF noise as well?

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by lifeinthevoid »

I don’t want to sound silly, but there are 24 open and 37 closed bugs on the FoundationDB Github page. Could it perhaps be that bug-free is somewhat exaggerated?

Antithesis looks very promising by the way :-)

Edit: perhaps Apple didn’t continue the rigorous testing while evolving the FoundationDB codebase.

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by intuitionist »

bell-cot wrote: post #262

First reaction: "Yes, your site's weird font is bugging me!"

(Antithesis employee here.)

We’re using Inter, which our designer assures me is pretty popular. But this isn’t the first time we’ve heard this complaint. Also, we had an issue in testing on a different part of our site where the font was getting computed as something weird and ugly on our development NixOS machines. Would you mind replying with what the browser console says your font is getting computed as? Thanks!

Edit: The other person who mentioned this seems to think that it’s caused by their JavaScript blocker—we’re trying to figure out why, but in the meantime, enabling JS might help if you haven’t.

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by mewpmewp2 »

sebastianz wrote: post #200
randomdata wrote: post #120

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Or is. If a 1x puts in an 8 hour day, a 10x only has to put in a 48 minute day. That leaves plenty of time to read this.

His point is that smart and productive people are generally hard working, focused and diligent, which is how they get to be so experienced and productive. Hence not wasting time on social networks. > a 10x only has to put in a 48 minute day Nobody would call this person "10x".

Hackernews is hardly a waste of time though. 10x is probably curious of topics mentioned on Hackernews.

Re: Is something bugging you?

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Post by ramses0 »

mjevans wrote: post #259
SomeCallMeTim wrote: post #239

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This reminds me of the "Parable of the Two Programmers." [1] A story about what happens to a brilliant developer given an identical task to a mediocre developer. [1] I preserved a copy of it on my (no-advertising or monetization) blog here: https://realmensch.org/2017/08/25/the-parable-of-the-two-pro...

I can't seem to find it in a google search, maybe I'm just recalling entirely the wrong terms. In the early computing era there was a competition. Something like take some input and produce an output. One programmer made a large program in (IIRC) Fortran with complex specifications documentation etc. The other used shell pipes, sort, and a small handful or two of other programs in a pipeline to accomplish the same ta…

The Knuth link in the sibling comment is an original, but you're probably thinking of "The Tao of Programming"

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html

"""“And who better understands the Unix-nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of the task, gains merit by not coding?”"""

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