Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
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#2> You can make lots of money by making something appear novel and undiscovered, and consequently make yourself sound smart and cutting edge.
This is pretty much the crux of it. It's very similar to the strategy of undercutting a market with VC subsidies until it dies and can be replaced.
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#3Take my money. This is better than "The Pragmatic Engineer".
Re: Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
#4> You can make lots of money by making something appear novel and undiscovered, and consequently make yourself sound smart and cutting edge. This is pretty much the crux of it. It's very similar to the strategy of undercutting a market with VC subsidies until it dies and can be replaced.
VC subsidies are no longer enough, now we need IPOs to keep it going...
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#5He cites Brooks as proving that communication friction is quadratic in headcount. The exponent does not need to be exactly, or even nearly, 2; 1 + epsilon is already fatal. This is very closely related to Coase's ceiling.
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#6> You can make lots of money by making something appear novel and undiscovered, and consequently make yourself sound smart and cutting edge. This is pretty much the crux of it. It's very similar to the strategy of undercutting a market with VC subsidies until it dies and can be replaced.
VC subsidies are no longer enough, now we need IPOs to keep it going...
An IPO and subsequent offers is hardly a temporary subsidy. That can keep going until the economy dies.
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#7> You can make lots of money by making something appear novel and undiscovered, and consequently make yourself sound smart and cutting edge. This is pretty much the crux of it. It's very similar to the strategy of undercutting a market with VC subsidies until it dies and can be replaced.
As an MCP engineer, how dare you
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#9Seems like this could be categorized as yet another reason why software developers are not engineers.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
An IPO and subsequent offers is hardly a temporary subsidy. That can keep going until the economy dies.
Mate, its so fucked, people are going to cry way worse than 2008.
people in these fields we pre-crying, building the torment nexus, because if they dont, they'll be in the "permanent underclass".
FOMO is going to kill more americans than COVID.