What law is it breaking?
2,221 karma · joined October 18, 2010
alex@tanda.co
Sometimes you don’t want good service - as in, you don’t want a server to talk to you. That’s a lot easier to find here.
I found using the browser is a good enough alternative for many apps, and it also makes them less addictive because they aren’t as slick. Particularly handy for work apps.
1) For the last decade many juniors have had unreasonable salary expectations that have often still been met. Now there is an alternative that's a lot cheaper and doesn't come with an attitude.
2) It's generally agreed that for the first year or 2 in your career you aren't that useful; after that you start to add lots of value quickly. But salary expectations don't double when you go from a junior to an intermediate - maybe they go up 25%. It's clearly much better value to hire only seniors if you can find them.
I'm not saying these are right or wrong but a whole article about juniors that doesn't mention wages, and just tries to implore companies to "do the right thing", misses the point.
(Also, your life will get better when you delete Jira!)
I wrote about this years before we started doing AI-backed-coding: https://ghiculescu.substack.com/p/opening-the-codebase-up-to..., so some of the details are no longer correct, but the philosophy is the same.
Serious organisations sound awful.
It works particularly well for migrations because all the context is in the PR. We haven't had as much luck with reviewing general PRs where the reason for a change being good or bad could be outside the diff, and where there aren't as clearly defined rules for what should be avoided.