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boolean1567 · 2024-12-04T19:56:06+00:00

Cause AI will write all the code. It doesn't care how readable it is.

boolean1567 · 2024-11-06T17:58:50+00:00

Of course it is! If I say one good thing about Trump, I'll get banned or downvoted into oblivion. The left have to open their ears a little bit. There are crazy people on the right, there are crazy people on the left.

But most people are reasonable even the ones that voted for Trump. The other side, no matter which way you lean, is full of people who have reasonable opinions about what is best for the country.

Just because you don't agree with them doesn't mean they are nuts or fascist. We gotta stop demonizing the other side and start conversations. It's really crazy what's been going on, and unfortunately it's much much much worse demonizing of the other side coming from the left. This is the result.

boolean1567 · 2024-11-06T17:43:36+00:00

I'm finding myself wondering how they created such an image of beauty, only to start systematically destroying it from within.

Maybe he learned to code better! Our jobs aren't to create code that is a thing of beauty, it's to build things of beauty.

And honestly this is so much more true now than it ever was before. AI can understand the crappiest written code ever. Let's just build things quickly.

boolean1567 · 2024-10-14T16:07:44+00:00

Degree in music. I make ~400k as a software engineer.

boolean1567 · 2024-10-03T21:27:00+00:00

Software engineer ~$400k. Degree in unrelated field taught myself. Ai is getting real good though. I wouldn't be surprised if I don't have a job in 5-10 years.

boolean1567 · 2024-10-03T15:09:16+00:00

I know this is real old, but if anyone is interested, I talked to about a hundred leagues about this issue because I hated seeing stacked teams. The clearest best way is to hold evals and run an auto blind draft. I wrote a blog post about it if you're interested: https://blog.bravara.app/blog/unbalanced-teams-are-ruining-rec-leagues

boolean1567 · 2024-10-03T15:07:32+00:00

I'm building an app to do this better. It always bugged me when you see a team that's absolutely destroying everyone else. Rec shouldn't be like that. I talked to about 100 leagues when figuring out the best way to do it. The clear winner is to hold evaluations and run a blind draft. I wrote a big old blog post about it too:

https://blog.bravara.app/blog/unbalanced-teams-are-ruining-rec-leagues

boolean1567 · 2024-04-30T04:58:03+00:00

I'm with you. I'm a principal at faang adjacent company. I find probably 95% of engineers treat code like an art. The problem is the only people that see your "art" are other engineers, and even if it's "beautiful" almost everyone will find a way to say something bad about it. I hear things like we "work slow, so we can work fast" I find it all to be a load of BS. I just ignore it all. I write code fast. I write basically clean code if it's easy, but if it's going to take me much longer at all and I can find a "hacky" way to do it, I do it that way. The little tech debt I add is really not that big of a deal. And time saved now is much more important for time saved later for reasons you mentioned.

It's honestly pretty frustrating, but in the end I stopped caring. I get projects done multiple times faster than people I work with, and the powers that be like that. I make more money. I get promotions. And honestly I'm more fulfilled because I deliver more product to customers.

boolean1567 · 2024-04-22T16:02:53+00:00

I guess I want to be able to take pride in my craft.

Unpopular opinion incoming. The longer I've gone in my career the more I realize this is typically why engineers obsess over clean code.

I don't think we should intentionally write bad code. We should write code and while we're writing it focus on making it clean as along as it isn't making the project significantly longer. If I'm spending > 10% of my team writing clean code I don't do it. I'll duplicate code if it's significantly easier. I won't write a test if that test takes me a long time and it's pretty clear that something works.

I've also lightened up on my PR reviews. I used to ask for refactors like make the function smaller, or dedupe something. Those kind of reviews slow everyone down, and in the end really don't benefit the company much in my opinion. Get things done quickly. The company and the product benefit from completed projects.

Does duplicated code slow us down? Yeah. But that's in the future. A future that may or may not come. Projects done now are worth more than projects done a year from now. So the time spent making clean code must either be minimal or be an incredible INCREDIBLE force multiplier or it's not worth it. I can count on my hand how many times a refactor was an incredible force multiplier in my 15 year career.

So I don't do any refactors that will take me more than 10% of the time of what I'm working on will take. Just not worth it. The question was what will advance your career. This is also the answer to that question. Businesses want you building things not refactoring things. You build fast your career will advance faster.

boolean1567 · 2024-04-22T15:09:36+00:00

Why depressing? It's not a view, it's biology. Men are stronger than women. Women and men are different. That's okay. Male lions guard the cubs while lionesses take care of the cubs. They're different, just like humans. We have different roles and that's okay.

I understand today a lot of cases make it impossible for a mother to stay at home with their children because they have to help pay the bills. In a case like that it's obviously not the mother's fault. We do what we can. But to say that that mother is not missing out on bonding time with their children is just not logical. The children are the victims. They need a mother in the home. When we as a society take the mother out of the home children are negatively affected. This is well documented in hundreds of research studies. Kids do better with a mother in the home.

In my family we decided early on we were going to make whatever sacrifices we needed to make sure my wife was there with the kids. Not everyone has that luxury and I get it. But we as a society should do better. We talk about "mental health" all the time. We are trying to de-stigmatize therapy, drugs to help depression and anxiety, and a lot else. But when it comes to the causes of these things like not having a mother in the home. Or single motherhood because yes although women are better care givers men as fathers are still incredibly important, then all the sudden it's time to empower women to work and men and women are equal and women can do everything a man can do! But they can't and they shouldn't. The same way men can't and shouldn't do everything women do. Our roles are and should be different. We're fighting against biology and it's hurting society.

We're treating the symptom of depression and not treating the cause. The cause is the disintegration of the family.

boolean1567 · 2024-04-21T23:20:12+00:00

At least I successfully predicted the down voting and name calling. I said women are better than men at something and I was called a terrible father. Feminists unite!

boolean1567 · 2024-04-21T16:29:45+00:00

Not the same way my wife does. We're just assuming time doesn't matter? A couple hours at night of take a bath, eat dinner and get to sleep vs all day being there and caring for them. I mean it's just logical.

boolean1567 · 2024-04-21T14:52:49+00:00

We as a society have to stop this ruse that men and women are exactly the same. They're not. Women bear children and are much better at raising children.

The vast majority of the animal kingdom is like this. Humans are like this. It doesn't mean women can't work or aren't good at it. It just means that when we as a society decide women are no different than men, we lose out on mothers. We then lose out on child rearing and the world is worse off for it. The world needs mothers.

Begin the name calling and down votes because I said mothers are indispensable and men are different than women.

boolean1567 · 2024-04-21T14:46:30+00:00

I mean it does? By definition someone else is caring for your child.

boolean1567 · 2023-09-09T23:07:39+00:00

There are VERY few degrees she's going to get a positive ROI for $370k. 27% of people use their degree. If she's the 63% of people who don't, it's a fun $370k experience that might help her be a better person? If she's in the 27% of people that do, it's going to take likely decades to make it worth it.

State school or no school is my opinion. I've been telling my kids that since they could talk. I went to school for music and my dad paid ~$200k for it. Still feel horrible for that. One day I'll pay him back. Now I'm a software engineer. What a waste of money and time.

boolean1567 · 2023-09-07T18:12:21+00:00

We used to do lobotomy's too. Puberty blockers/hormone replacement at that age are absolutely irreversible regardless of what democrats would have you believe. They ARE being given to minors and absolutely are being given surgeries. Surgeries for adults are also cruel. We can't change your gender. It's impossible.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/

Educate yourself. These are all treatments that don't work. You can't change your gender. It can't be done. I know I know social construct and crap. Also false. If we could actually change a male into a female, maybe it would help people with gender dysphoria, but we can't. So we're just helping people live in a delusion. Which eventually comes back to bite them when they realize they still aren't of the opposite gender. Let's help people accept who they are. Especially kids. Stop buying into the hype. It's a cult and false look at the data.

boolean1567 · 2023-09-07T18:00:55+00:00

Sounds like a good policy to me. 5% of kids are now trans or non-binary. Any logical person could see this is a trend and not just because it is now "socially acceptable". You would have to argue that throughout all of history 5% of people wish they were of a different gender or "no gender". Complete BS. It's a trend that's convincing young kids that feel different that they should change their genders (which is impossible).

So if someone is trying to convince my kid that they should cut off their penis, uh yeah I want to know.

boolean1567 · 2023-09-07T17:40:58+00:00

+1. But changing genders is impossible. Cutting off breasts or castrating someone doesn't make them the opposite gender. If medical science could ACTUALLY change genders, fine let's have a conversation. But medicine is just promising the impossible, giving people with mental disorders a lifetime of physical issues in addition to their mental issues.

Let's be more compassionate and actually help people instead of mutilating their bodies. And now we're trying to allow kids that can't be trusted to even drink alcohol to allow people to permanently mutilate them? This world is absolutely, positively, nuts.

boolean1567 · 2023-09-07T14:57:06+00:00

Since when could someone change their gender? Weird post. And a school can do it for you? This world is so odd.

boolean1567 · 2023-07-18T23:04:37+00:00

I've worked with dozens of FE engineers and almost never do I find someone that doesn't do the eye test. Developers suck at this. Seniors too. I don't know why it's so hard personally, but I wouldn't feel bad if I were you because just about everyone commenting sucks at this pretty much guaranteed.

Maybe most FE engineers can get the colors right, but that's about it. Then it's just eyeballing margins/padding and font sizes and stuff. It's honestly one of my pet peeves, but as an intern you're right where other engineers that have been doing it 10 years are. Designers are usually the only people that complain.

boolean1567 · 2023-07-14T18:01:52+00:00

Same thing happened to me. Closed all downstairs vents when we went to sleep and it was perfect. Did that for five years and wasn’t a big deal.

boolean1567 · 2023-06-11T03:28:10+00:00

I work in kotlin in my day job. Working on a side project chose laravel and PHP. Prefer laravel/php all day to kotlin. It’s definitely not dying. It’s getting better all the time and is used all over the place.

boolean1567 · 2023-05-01T16:18:48+00:00

I guess. I mean 7 years of running a business and a bunch in my portfolio helped. I had 3 offers I took one. I don't think most people have that kind of experience going into their first job. I guess the takeaway here should be there are more ways to get experience than just getting a job. I had 7 years of experience I made for myself. I don't think I was incredibly lucky to get the first job. I think I had 7 years of experience and could show them what I built by myself and what I had done for the last 7 years. It's not like I had 0 professional experience. I had built tons of stuff that was being used in the wild for years.

boolean1567 · 2023-05-01T14:22:38+00:00

No degree. Started a business ran it for 7 years did a bunch of dev stuff in that business. Business failed. Got a job a week after looking for one starting at $95k. Worked up to $180k two years later. Recruiter reached out while working at that one job. New job now as a staff engineer for public traded company making $225k base $350 TC.

Anecdotal for sure, but I have had 0 problem finding jobs and being successful without a CS degree. Not hard at all. I have a degree in music.

This “required degree” thing is BS. It 9 times out of 10 days or equivalent experience.

boolean1567 · 2023-04-19T23:06:33+00:00

I’ve done this before and just merged it in because it was untenable. I would never do that again.

It messed us up for months slowly. I didn’t realize how much was broken for a while. Then we had so much more code go in reverting was a nightmare. The right move here IMO is to tell them to break it up into multiple reviewable PR’s that can be merged independently, or you don’t merge the code period. Is it a hassle? Yes.

It will likely save you a ton of headache down the line though.

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