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Yikes. Was your manager previously a software engineer or did he come from a different background?

On the introduction page:

> Rye is still a very experimental tool, but this guide is here to help you get started.

While I’m really excited about this project, I’m planning on waiting until this project is in a more mature stage. I am a big fan of everything else the Astral team has put out so I have high hopes for this.

I love the idea of it being culturally okay to walk out on any meeting that isn’t adding value in the middle of the meeting. If that was culturally acceptable in my role, I would go to a fourth of the meetings I currently attend.

> What is needed is skin in the game. Misdiagnosis should have financial penalties like speeding tickets

By this logic, would you say that software engineers should be financially liable for any bugs they cause along with people who misdiagnose those bugs in the process of root cause?

You assume that IP once created stands on its own. The programming as theory building view suggests that IP will degrade once people who have robust mental models about how the IP was created and works. So software/IP in essence has two critical parts that need to be there, the actual work that was created and robust mental models living in people’s heads who continue to work on those projects.

It also goes against the idea that programmers are replaceable cogs that management can change out as and when they want to.

Same thing is happening with the Figure One robot. There isn't much new in the demo Figure did recently, all the work has been published in the palm saycan paper and other deepmind papers. Google is good at laying golden eggs and not realizing that they've laid them. Then employees get fed up, leave and start their own companies so they can productize their work without management getting in the way.

What has he built other than peddling his books and courses that we use on a daily basis? I don’t know if he meets the bar of an exemplary engineer by that standard.

Coders at work was a far better resource in that regard, every person that was interviewed has made significant impact in the world of computing and is discussing hard earned lessons about building software.

Sucks that there’s no rust or python support.

I’m curious about how long have you been trying out his advice and if you have seen any improvements in your prescription?

So you’re saying sovereign immunity is good because that’s how the legislation was created. Since it wasn’t designed to deal with emergency, it’s okay to not update the position on sovereign immunity?

Why not refund people for their purchases then if the content is being removed?

Coming from i3wm on Linux, I cannot use macOS without yabai. So glad that this exists!

Sheryl Sandberg’s sense of ethics and moral compass are highly questionable.

I, for one, am glad that Ilya has the reins on OpenAI and that Sam is out of the picture. It does seem that he weighs the ethics of what is being built more heavily than Sam.

I’m also hoping that OpenAI cools down on the regulatory moat they were trying to build as a thinly veiled profit seeking strategy.

There’s a fun phrase in “A philosophy of software design” describing such engineers, they’re called Tactical Torpedos.

> juice it up or down

So what here determines if the score goes up instead of down? I’m planning on getting a mortgage soon but wife’s credit score is in high 600s. If we can make it past, 720, we are told we’ll get a better rate. So I’m curious as to how to bump up the score.

Sounds like a really good leader. Looking back at my response, I realize I was somewhat unclear. I meant that most individual contributors are expected to do prepare a lot of slides so management can understand what’s going on and it very much cuts into actual time to build the thing.

Then when things aren’t going expected, we make more slides on why it’s not going as expected instead of allocating time to do the engineering work that’s needed to course correct.

A strange legacy. Most of the management in my company cannot digest even simple information if it’s not on PowerPoint slides.

Even when it is on preparing PowerPoint slides, text heavy slides are a big no no.

Some days, more time is spent on PowerPoint slides than writing code, or actually engineering. We jokingly call presentation prep work as getting ready to push the PowerPoint to prod.

Here you go: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/bot

I’m in a different city in California now, working for the same company I used to in the Bay Area. The office is empty at 6 pm here. In the Bay Area most people stayed till at least 7 pm, some till 9 pm regularly.

While I agree that this tendency to overwork and expecting others to do the same is a part of the American work culture, in the Bay Area it seems to be cranked up to 11.

Lived in the Bay Area for a few years. Do not miss the work culture, especially people around me graciously donating free extra work hours to companies worth billion/trillion dollars and expecting others to do the same.

If you’re downvoting, please also explain your arguments and contribute to the discussion. I think it is more beneficial if we talk instead of shutting people down because their views are different than what you expect.

I just wish there were better studies done on the effects of msg but the pendulum has swung in the other direction. Initially bad science came out of xenophobia, now questioning msg is seen as xenophobic.

My wife gets really bad headaches and migraines from msg, and it’s a wide variety of food. She can’t eat dishes with parmesan, no Doritos, no tomato heavy dishes, as they all have naturally occurring msg. In the early days, when I didn’t know about my wife’s msg reaction, I put msg in her food and didn’t tell her and she still got a migraine. So it’s not “in her head” like this article says is, for people living in NYC and SoCal.

Even Kenji mentions while msg is fine for most people, his sister gets bad headaches from it.

How else would these companies that are pushing boundaries in sustainability innovate? Look, there’s no charger in the phone box to save the environment! /s

It does feel like overreach to me as well. It is a FAANG and they have great lawyers. I hope to never be in a legal kerfuffle with them but regardless I should read more about what they can enforce.

The hilarious thing about their no open source policy is that they sometimes shoot themselves in the foot. Sometimes, they’ll hire someone with a very successful open source project, in the employment contract ask them to stop working on it, then part of the company depends on that software and when it breaks, it causes chaos because the maintainer now works at the company and had to stop working on that open source project that the company relies on.

This sounds like good advice. My current employer does not allow me to write technical blogs or have public git repos even if they’re unrelated to work and when done on my own time with my own resources. Sigh.

Business leadership being technical cannot be overstated. At my current workplace, we’re not allowed to say the word refactor to management as that freaks them out. My current place also has the most spaghetti code that I’ve ever seen in my life with more spaghetti being produced on a daily basis.

We technically have technical leaders, they used to be engineers eons ago but I don’t think any of them could solve first 3 days of advent of code to save their lives.

Hard to take productivity KPI posts seriously when there’s no discussion of Goodhart’s law.

Interesting, everyone I knew in Santa Cruz pronounced it app-tose when I lived there for a couple of years.

Not been my experience when I’ve bought apple watches. Product walk through were always optional that store employees were happy to offer, I always skipped them, brought the watch and was on my way.