How to be a -10x Engineer • Hacker News Board

Re: How to be a -10x Engineer

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Post by myko » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 11:38 PM UTC

whstl wrote: post #436

eecc wrote: post #262

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Heh, I was once walked through a live “code review” where all my code that used Java steam maps were replaced by this one dude with for loops in private methods. What a dress-down… pff, the project was canned a few months after I left. But I’m a consultant, no long term investments

Man, I got a story not with Streams but with its C# cousin, LINQ. A long time ago I've seen a senior engineer totally lambasting a junior because the junior used a LINQ ORM. He saw DB.Users.Where(a => a.Id == 1) on the screen and launched a tirade of "Are you retarded? You're downloading the whole Users table when you do that!" It was fun watching our boss explain how LINQ worked and seeing the shame in the engineer'…

I've never really worked with C# before but I assume that query is about as efficient as a similar SQL statement?

Re: How to be a -10x Engineer

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Post by whstl » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 1:35 AM UTC

myko wrote: post #511

whstl wrote: post #436

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Man, I got a story not with Streams but with its C# cousin, LINQ. A long time ago I've seen a senior engineer totally lambasting a junior because the junior used a LINQ ORM. He saw DB.Users.Where(a => a.Id == 1) on the screen and launched a tirade of "Are you retarded? You're downloading the whole Users table when you do that!" It was fun watching our boss explain how LINQ worked and seeing the shame in the engineer'…

I've never really worked with C# before but I assume that query is about as efficient as a similar SQL statement?

Exactly.

LINQ allows you to use the same syntax for both local arrays and in an ORM, or any data source really, if you implement its IQueryable interface. You implementation can "parse" the AST and generate an SQL query, like a regular ORM.

Re: How to be a -10x Engineer

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Post by 40yearoldman » Sun, Apr 09, 2023, 3:38 AM UTC

flumpcakes wrote: post #428

40yearoldman wrote: post #411

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But at what point does that communication cost more than just hiring somebody else who needs less hand holding and less "communication" to understand what is going on and figure out what to next. I say this because there always seems to be those who don't need this. And it's the ones who need this who never seem to produce as much or are able to solve the problems on their own. So I ask. If you could hire people who…

I think you are confusing communication and competence. How do you even know what to work on without communication? Most real systems are used by real people who aren't the developers themselves. Product owners, business development, customer support, and a myriad of other people all usually sit outwith the developer teams. Are you talking directly to customers for feedback on feature development?

I think I am saying those with out competence need the extra communication.

Re: How to be a -10x Engineer

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Post by CRConrad » Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 8:09 AM UTC

Herval_freire wrote: post #506

The_Colonel wrote: post #505

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> Not only is it arbitrary it's completely unrealistic. Pick one. Can't be both. > 1x is default -1x would be the default but backwards Not backwards. In terms of value, 1x is a value produced by 1 typical developer. -1x is a decrease of value. > Also, Losing knowledge and intelligence is the equivalent of brain damage so are people banging their heads against walls and shooting up on brain damaging drugs? Organizati…

>Pick one. Can't be both. Pick what? I didn't pick anything. I'm just laying out examples. >Not backwards. In terms of value, 1x is a value produced by 1 typical developer. -1x is a decrease of value. Yeah so my point is -1x is Not arbitrary. You said it is. I simply said it isn't. >Organizations lose knowledge all the time because people quit because of e.g. toxicity in the workplace (brought by -10x employees). Tha…

> >Pick one. Can't be both.

> Pick what?

Arbitrary or unrealistic. Utterly obvious from context; you said "arbitrary and unrealistic", they replied "pick one or the other".

Somewhere else you write about "if you only understood what I wrote". Honestly... This shows that the problem there wasn't with someone else's understanding of English, but yours.