I wonder if at a certain point, someone learns about compounding, and just sticks with it, building generational wealth. And poof, the wealth just keeps growing as long as the descendants don’t make errors. We seem to…
Yeah, I think there's a lot more "good, focused" companies out there than what are covered in this hidden champions book. The book is just interesting to me. It highlights a lot of the economic export strength of…
There are a lot of mid-sized companies identified in the book _Hidden Champions of the 21st Century_. I just started the book, but it's exactly the ethos you're talking about here: these companies just focus on a niche,…
Ultimately, the first line is really resonated with me: "When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is…
> At this precise moment in time, if anybody seriously thought the above was the way the process works or should work, they should be advocating for firing all the juniors and replacing them with LLMs. Sadly, I think…
Software problems almost never seem to actually impact brands, but this was so egregious it actually managed to. Even Crowdstrike increased revenue over the last year. So… I’m not shocked at the timing. Sales have…
Right now, I’d say the “AI IDEs” like Cursor or Zed are ready to replace less Java-centric environments. I’d put VSCode in this “not really Java centric” bucket. I see VSCode as a “fancy text editor” for Java, i.e.,…
I don’t use an LLM largely because my current codebase has a massive amount of bespoke internal APIs. So LLMs are just useless and wrong for almost any task I use. But this has led me to wonder if there will be gradual…
The cynical take is more that it's crappy blade guards that nobody uses that really should be improved, and it's not necessary to mandate SawStop-style blade breaking technology. I tend to agree with Jim Hamilton,…
The “great recession” didn’t seem to impact tech like the dotcom bust did. So millenials and younger really hadn’t lived through a lean era in tech like we’re living in now. This is easily the worst jobs market since…
I find that architecture should benefit the social structure of the engineering team, and there are limits. I work on one of these “simple architectures” at large scale… and it’s absolute hell. But then, the contributor…
Location: Spokane, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cloud and on prem distributed services, mostly AWS, some k8, largely Java services, some big data using Kinesis, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB,…
The challenge when I see posts like this is the people in charge of building this "check it all in" ecosystem usually forget about the developer experience and basically just implement a CI system. Cool, you can…
I’ve noticed that video chats are great when they complement detailed asynchronous communication, e.g., RFC-style doc or a produced video. The best video conference work meetings tend to be: read a doc for 10 mins and…
This seems like the fear/problems of dating apps are just another aspect of how modern communication systems are alienating us. Social circles are indeed shrinking:…
I see companies hiring lots of middle management during high-growth phases, as the "plan" is to have them grow their teams. And then the market changes, and headcount targets change, and all of a sudden there's a glut…
Because it really isn't a violation of antitrust as is currently defined. Linda Khan's article here is, IMO, one of the best overviews of why: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... What's…
I can’t speak for the OP, but this makes it much easier to write code that uses threads that wait on IO, and just let the underlying system (VM + JDBC connectors, for example) handle the dirty work. A few years ago, I…
I don’t suspect this is as nefarious as just stupid bureaucracy. My company has kept hiring interns immediately after laying off 10% of their staff, “to keep the funnel open”. H1Bs seem to be organized similarly; it’s a…
Well, as an employee of Salesforce, I witnessed operating margin goals of activist investors drive a layoff this year. (And Salesforce just met those goals last week.) Part of me wonders if that's just broad…
I'm in a similar boat, working remotely since 2017. I don't even have kids, and just enjoy my local parks with my dogs, my wife, etc. My social interaction tends to not involve work, which I actually think is healthy,…
In particular, third party apps like Apollo are popular for moderators because the default tools from Reddit are just hard to use, especially on mobile. Thus, I think the big impact to reddit's model is to actually…
What's funny to me, is that I focused on something completely different; how independent these teams at Amazon are. The move from pretty different infrastructure services, all at the same company. I can't think of a…
Given that this remote work boom happened in response to a *pandemic*, this seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room. In the US, you can add an extremely unhealthy political climate egged on by a major media…
The cloud era seems to exacerbate these kinds of issues. The only way to truly have "long term" service is to be a subscriber, not a "buy once" customer. If you're a part of their revenue next year, they're going to try…
I wonder if at a certain point, someone learns about compounding, and just sticks with it, building generational wealth. And poof, the wealth just keeps growing as long as the descendants don’t make errors. We seem to…
Yeah, I think there's a lot more "good, focused" companies out there than what are covered in this hidden champions book. The book is just interesting to me. It highlights a lot of the economic export strength of…
There are a lot of mid-sized companies identified in the book _Hidden Champions of the 21st Century_. I just started the book, but it's exactly the ethos you're talking about here: these companies just focus on a niche,…
Ultimately, the first line is really resonated with me: "When I get to write or read on a screen that’s reflecting the sun back at me instead of needing to be shielded from it, I get a dose of this feeling that this is…
> At this precise moment in time, if anybody seriously thought the above was the way the process works or should work, they should be advocating for firing all the juniors and replacing them with LLMs. Sadly, I think…
Software problems almost never seem to actually impact brands, but this was so egregious it actually managed to. Even Crowdstrike increased revenue over the last year. So… I’m not shocked at the timing. Sales have…
Right now, I’d say the “AI IDEs” like Cursor or Zed are ready to replace less Java-centric environments. I’d put VSCode in this “not really Java centric” bucket. I see VSCode as a “fancy text editor” for Java, i.e.,…
I don’t use an LLM largely because my current codebase has a massive amount of bespoke internal APIs. So LLMs are just useless and wrong for almost any task I use. But this has led me to wonder if there will be gradual…
The cynical take is more that it's crappy blade guards that nobody uses that really should be improved, and it's not necessary to mandate SawStop-style blade breaking technology. I tend to agree with Jim Hamilton,…
The “great recession” didn’t seem to impact tech like the dotcom bust did. So millenials and younger really hadn’t lived through a lean era in tech like we’re living in now. This is easily the worst jobs market since…
I find that architecture should benefit the social structure of the engineering team, and there are limits. I work on one of these “simple architectures” at large scale… and it’s absolute hell. But then, the contributor…
Location: Spokane, WA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Cloud and on prem distributed services, mostly AWS, some k8, largely Java services, some big data using Kinesis, PostgreSQL, Redis, DynamoDB,…
The challenge when I see posts like this is the people in charge of building this "check it all in" ecosystem usually forget about the developer experience and basically just implement a CI system. Cool, you can…
I’ve noticed that video chats are great when they complement detailed asynchronous communication, e.g., RFC-style doc or a produced video. The best video conference work meetings tend to be: read a doc for 10 mins and…
This seems like the fear/problems of dating apps are just another aspect of how modern communication systems are alienating us. Social circles are indeed shrinking:…
I see companies hiring lots of middle management during high-growth phases, as the "plan" is to have them grow their teams. And then the market changes, and headcount targets change, and all of a sudden there's a glut…
Because it really isn't a violation of antitrust as is currently defined. Linda Khan's article here is, IMO, one of the best overviews of why: https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado... What's…
I can’t speak for the OP, but this makes it much easier to write code that uses threads that wait on IO, and just let the underlying system (VM + JDBC connectors, for example) handle the dirty work. A few years ago, I…
I don’t suspect this is as nefarious as just stupid bureaucracy. My company has kept hiring interns immediately after laying off 10% of their staff, “to keep the funnel open”. H1Bs seem to be organized similarly; it’s a…
Well, as an employee of Salesforce, I witnessed operating margin goals of activist investors drive a layoff this year. (And Salesforce just met those goals last week.) Part of me wonders if that's just broad…
I'm in a similar boat, working remotely since 2017. I don't even have kids, and just enjoy my local parks with my dogs, my wife, etc. My social interaction tends to not involve work, which I actually think is healthy,…
In particular, third party apps like Apollo are popular for moderators because the default tools from Reddit are just hard to use, especially on mobile. Thus, I think the big impact to reddit's model is to actually…
What's funny to me, is that I focused on something completely different; how independent these teams at Amazon are. The move from pretty different infrastructure services, all at the same company. I can't think of a…
Given that this remote work boom happened in response to a *pandemic*, this seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room. In the US, you can add an extremely unhealthy political climate egged on by a major media…
The cloud era seems to exacerbate these kinds of issues. The only way to truly have "long term" service is to be a subscriber, not a "buy once" customer. If you're a part of their revenue next year, they're going to try…