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Established companies with opinionated infrastructure can help with this.

I sure wouldn’t want to write the backend of a crud app in Fortran, nor the front end. Or do anything with Fortran besides scientific computing (Fortran = Formula Translator…it was built with a limited use case in mind!)

Companies that adapt to newer frameworks and not write everything in C++ are more efficient, but only if they control how much variation of tooling there is within a discipline.

So today, you do have to specialize in a discipline a bit more (front end, backend, data) but each discipline has a sensible set of tools IMO. A developer can and should get some exposure to a secondary discipline to be well rounded and “T-shaped”, but should also appreciate the value of specialization.

So, AWS but worse?

AWS has many products, and Stripe cannot avoid have many different products.

Making it more clear how many products your using should be easier (much like AWS does)…I can see it being a little harder when one product is a hodgepodge of more than one other product, but this seems like an obviously needed feature for Stripe.

But… Stripe does not seem to put the customers pain points as #1, they do have a more “how do we milk the customer for every last dime” approach, which can’t last forever…I’d love to see more competition in this space

Counterpoint: if the company actually had good upper management, they will only let the mid level managers grow their team if it brings value to the company.

No org is perfect, but I keep seeing this take again and again and again, yet rarely any form of acknowledgment that it could be good for the company to incentivize proactively growing a team

Breaking: A CEO of a very successful company is a human being

Interesting…maybe we should normalize/de-stigmatize Dev tooling companies to have a ceo who is an eng for the first ~ 3 yrs, and then hiring a replacement (maybe even some early “vp of product person”)

There are probably so many good ideas that devs have, but they don’t have enough interest in being a ceo of a big unicorn company, but understand the problem and can get a prototype up with no red tape

Spotify is all gcp

No way they just shut it down, without some 10 year plan to migrate off

“Length of tenure at time of severance”

That is such a better metric, why is this not used more often

Same

If we paid them more, it’d be easier to hold them to a higher standard

Like where else even has close to nyc levels of being able to live without a car ?

Before you criticize the first sentence, read the whole article.

Especially the part where he dives deep into all the various conflicting forms of “hyphenated” fascisms

Ah yeah, sorry

I gave more details of my view in this other post very shortly after posting here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32218383

Was getting my two posts confused.

I don’t see how this contradicts anything I said, if that’s what you’re alluding to.

Zoning laws would be part of increasing supply, for instance.

The govt has only focused on tweaking demand, not supply

More likely is they will grow more slowly rather than anything

Don’t expect anything near pre-covid prices anytime soon for the principal

The US hasn’t done jack shit for the supply lately.

The doom cycle of the last 50 years:

- Fed lowers interest rates to increase demand. Prices go up, only the most well off can afford.

- Fed goes back to increasing rates again. Demand goes down. Prices generally don’t decrease all that much really, they just stop going up, and higher interest rates are what stop more from getting a house.

Literally nothing for supply side. Our society has decided to leave housing up the The Fed to tweak demand.

Interest rates are the real cause IMO. Sadly, there are still a lot of rich people with money to burn on real estate, but the rates are now what is stopping them.

Prices would still be going up and up if The Fed didn’t jump in to hike rates.

What is wrong with making engineers make estimates for their work?

I’d much rather me give an estimate than some EM or PM since I’m building the damn thing.

And totally confused by the author’s suggestion to “forecast”, which is what if not an estimate?

Out of curiosity, what is the infamous Dropbox comment?

What do you mean?

Housing costs are increasing faster than inflation

Hence, sad to say, it is becoming more the case that they key to homeownership in many cities is investing in something that grows faster than inflation as well

It’s (sadly) largely the reason why I think Robinhood became so popular

That is true, esp with Michael Saylors comment about mortgage your house to buy buy BTC…I am pro BTC, but that is utterly horrible advice.

That is indeed buried relative to many other points

I’d rather this be “stop saying that XYZ will go to the moon, guaranteed money” not discouraging actually good advice “don’t invest more you can lose”. The real grift is all the false hope masked as certainty…and I say this as someone is is pro Bitcoin

And also encourage “don’t invest more than your willing to put down and hood for 5yrs in case of a sudden downturn”

Edit: P.S. my HN handle was created well before Elon was pumping doge and I now regret my HN handle

I wouldn’t be surprised if there is lots of money to be made de-anonymizing Reddit users

No one is expecting a run on USDC

Given that their business is just a “buy sell” platform, they are trimming around to get just that

They have lots of other features like “NFTs, lending” etc and other investments in their UX (separating out to currency vs smart contracts vs defi) I’m sure all that A/B testing to get that will be squeezed now too

Good luck getting competing countries to agree on banning billionaires in one fowl swoop.

This is a very idealistic and impossible to ever implement take

Stop telling everyone to stop interviewing with Leet Code

Exactly, especially

“The internet is a great resource for these types of questions and I am available to clarify elements that you are not able to find online.”

Instead of “Google that yourself”

Really? Most will stay, take the money and look for jobs elsewhere

Really???

It crashed 70-80% in 2018

And then later went way above the 2017 peak.

It is not guaranteed to recover, but it is FAR from certain that it won’t, and history suggests it will recover

I don’t buy that analogy one bit.

BTC supply is growing at a rate of less than 2% now. 90% of the supply is already mined.

Miners play a very small role now in getting new supply