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  1. Ask HN: Do companies use SAFe to prepare for offshoring?

    My employer implemented SAFe several months ago. It was wildly unpopular. Now they have just announced that all developers (a few hundred people) will be laid off. All development work will be outsourced to a company in…

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  2. Ask HN: I used to be an engineer, but business analysts turned me into IFTTT?

    In the early years of my career, we didn't have business analysts. We talked to people who wanted software that would improve their work process and we brainstormed with them how we could build software to address their…

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  3. Ask HN: Should I quit .NET programming to get away from enterprise-y work?

    In the first years of my career, I would talk to users, get to know their business domain and model it with them. I would find their problems, and then open up Balsamiq Mockups and put together something that would make…

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  4. Ask HN: How can you convince companies to open up to you about pain points?

    As a junior, I had one job years ago where I had an opportunity to see a small business's work process. I immediately saw things that could be automated and so-called "pain points" that could be improved with software.…

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  5. Ask HN: Is there a site popular with Gen Z where users can write HTML and CSS?

    In the 90's, a number of teenagers made Geocities sites, which awakened their interest in web development and taught them some basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Many of these teens went on to become web developers.…

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  6. A word for “the number of things you need to know to understand the code”?

    For example, to understand if (obj.index == 0 && (f_mode > 3 || state[1] != null)) you need to know * What does obj represent * Under what circumstance does obj have an index of 0 * Why we are interested in that…

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