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>I don’t know if this makes sense for fashion or what have you, but I really think there is something to this.
Johny Bravo was conserving his brainpower all along !
I kind of like this idea, will probably try this, jeans + long and short sleeved versions.
> My friend Andrew wears the same brand of black shirt every day. He thinks that if he conserves the brainpower it would take to pick something to wear, he’ll bank it and be able to use it later for something else. >I don’t know if this makes sense for fashion or what have you, but I really think there is something to this. Johny Bravo was conserving his brainpower all along ! I kind of like this idea, will probably…
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> The last line of defense against a rogue engineering team is managers who have studied this stuff. If your engineering team is the one pushing in that direction I'd reckon the company was in a bad spot to begin with to have hired that team because it strongly indicates that the management layer (head of tech/CTO) has no technical clue. Hire strong Lead Developers with a proven track record of delivering value to co…
and Java?
Java and .Net are more common in longer-lived, larger projects, or when performance matters.
I can understand this from the perspective of a manager or company owner. "Happiness comes from shipping products" or "Choose boring technology" make a lot of sense if you are maximizing profit and don't need to work with the tech yourself. If you are an engineer and you want to try a new technology, go for it. Even if it doesn't make sense. Learn new things, don't stick with the boring tech. Maximize your own happin…
If you're a responsible adult you'll probably be the one who has to ship the stuff you started with the "flashy framework X" - boring technology is about maximising happiness - it just takes a while for this to sink in.
I always found it funny that companies will go to extreme Herculean lengths to hire the best programmers, and are incredibly fearful and paranoid that they could be making a "bad hire", and yet once hired they don't spend a second making sure engineers aren't completely running the software product off the rails and killing the company internally. The author mentions trying to rewrite Etsy's backend in Scala and Mong…
> The industry constantly mints senior engineers who have been bitten by complexity, but doesn't want to hire them, or listen to them.
Again, in JavaScript land that is not what it sounds like. The industry has minted a bazillion expert beginners who have never moved out of their parent’s basement and had to live on their own (in a technology sense). They are fanatically invented here fearing original code more than job termination and now they have somehow risen to make architectural decisions about the future health of your software and business.
I guess they failed to understand that choosing boring software is different than depending on a package manager to write all your software.
> I learned a lot. It kept me motivated through hard times with no customers, as I kept saying to myself if this won’t work, at least I’d learn something.
This is where I am at right now. I am trying to moonlight my own learning platform with two kids and a full time job, using a new-to-me technology is what keeps me going. It removes the stress of success because, no matter what, I succeed in some corny kind of way. Both myself and my existing employer get a better version of myself I’m the end.
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> The last line of defense against a rogue engineering team is managers who have studied this stuff. If your engineering team is the one pushing in that direction I'd reckon the company was in a bad spot to begin with to have hired that team because it strongly indicates that the management layer (head of tech/CTO) has no technical clue. Hire strong Lead Developers with a proven track record of delivering value to co…
What's wrong with Node.js? It's super mainstream now. We have it in production since years, I see a LOT of companies migrating from everything else to node since years and it's a growing trend from what I see at my level with startups and even enterprises
You can make it work with more maintenance, but you did ask the question what's wrong with it!
I can understand this from the perspective of a manager or company owner. "Happiness comes from shipping products" or "Choose boring technology" make a lot of sense if you are maximizing profit and don't need to work with the tech yourself. If you are an engineer and you want to try a new technology, go for it. Even if it doesn't make sense. Learn new things, don't stick with the boring tech. Maximize your own happin…
Don't put them on the critical path of your company without an exit plan.