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bradgnar··on The Economics of Clean Code
This article sounds much more clever than it actually is. Admittedly it does take time to actually know how to write clean code, but if you can, I'd argue it takes less time to write clean code than anything else. Especially if you have a great senior engineer who can architect all of the inheritance and fan out the implementation of the adapters to more junior people.
bradgnar··on Ask HN: What Skills to Acquire in 2020?
TURKISH GETUPS!!
bradgnar··on Show HN: I built a website for sharing salary info
levels.fyi is still legit
bradgnar··on Start before you think you’re ready
same with code
bradgnar··on A CS degree is better than teaching yourself how to code?
i agree with the title, but not with the article. All the things listed in the article can be learned outside of a CS degree. What a CS degree does is force you to learn the academic which gives you the foundation to work at FAANG or some other company that has high [principal] engineering levels, or even just the awareness of knowing what you don't know to round out your skillset post school.

Having said that, a CS degree isn't necessary, just better under the premise that knowing more is better than not knowing more.

bradgnar··on Defense of Amazon's Face Recognition Tool Undermined by Only Known Police Client
This article is kind of buzzy, doesn't really make sense, and never actually states what amazon is defending their tool from.
bradgnar··on China's AI news anchors
time please, sounds lolworthy
bradgnar··on Tell HN: Amazon now owns 3.0.0.0/8
you could make 17 million networks with it, entry point into aws vpcs has to be somewhere
bradgnar··on Collective monero mining to buy land for parks
This is a coinhive [based] website that runs a monero miner. Proceeds go to the national parks.
bradgnar··on Facebook AI Research Expands with New Academic Collaborations
cool, even better ads.
bradgnar··on Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
precisely
bradgnar··on Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
this is a good response, if he were a brilliant engineer he probably wouldn't be on here with this post. Or he's a troll and then is possibly brilliant somehow??
bradgnar··on Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless engineer?
This story does not make sense
bradgnar··on How We Found Great Talents for Our Remote Company Without Spending a Fortune
artificially generate views for your blog to get more people aware of your company?
bradgnar··on Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April
thats legit max one person a month. bfd, nice clickbait.
bradgnar··on iPhones may shut down in cold weather
This is nothing new right? I learned the first day I went snowboarding with my iphone that it was useless to bring with me... at least without some thick rubber case.
bradgnar··on Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?
want to work there
bradgnar··on Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?
Everything I can't stand about management revolves around agile methodologies for profit. Agile itself is a good thing, but once you throw in companies trying to profit off of its processes you end up with this weird dogmatic dumpster fire that inhibits people from really doing anything besides keeping track of the current sprint or planning for the next sprint.
bradgnar··on Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?
Applications dont really need to be well architected until they are hitting scale. Then the parts of their system that need to relieve pressure will need to be re-architected. This is almost like a case study and there are a lot of good talks on youtube from places like dropbox and facebook that explain the problem and solution. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

If you dont want to do youtube case studies there are also books to read about distributed systems. Also reading about cloud architecture can help.

bradgnar··on Ask HN: Best-architected open-source business applications worth studying?
github?
bradgnar··on Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?
If you've got that range of skills you'd probably be a really good product owner/manager at a big company. There's always that avenue.
bradgnar··on Ask HN: How did you move from IT/software to something unrelated?
Just go do it. I've worked all of those "jobby jobs" on the way to becoming a software engineer. Maybe just get a less aggressive front end developer job? The difference between whats expected of you at different places or different roles is amazing.