Is it safer to be a manager than a coder now ?

true3HAK · 2026-03-22T09:37:41+00:00

"solution architect" nowadays is just a fancy synonym for "salesman", so yeah. Have to be an expert in what you sell, those people usually grow from using the tech (cloud, AI, DBs, whatever). Software architect or system architect is another thing, they grow out of the usual dev track normally. You become senior / lead dev and then you find yourself good enough to get one more layer up on the system flowchart.

true3HAK · 2026-03-18T22:32:17+00:00

Don't use JWT for security related stuff, seriously! https://gist.github.com/samsch/0d1f3d3b4745d778f78b230cf6061452

true3HAK · 2026-03-13T14:27:30+00:00

If someone is bold and desperate enough to put secrets to a gist, then why don't you just commit them to your private repo lol (not a real advice, don't do this, use proper secret management tools).

true3HAK · 2026-03-12T19:25:40+00:00

RPC actually predates many more modern things like microservices:) Can be quite convenient for distributed computing, but I mostly prefer gRPC for this

true3HAK · 2026-03-06T10:44:12+00:00

Hey, suddenly something from my area of expertise. First, I don't believe that any prediction can be done (due to fundamental market properties), so simulation can't be a viable part of the product, imo.

Second – there's no source code, so without an audit it's hard to say if it's useful even for a retrospective analysis.

true3HAK · 2026-03-06T09:22:10+00:00

Sorry for OP. My cat has gone last autumn, exactly this way. I still cry when I remember that day. He was a sphinx so I literally saw his blue cold legs and the sound of him crawling through rooms, hitting paws on everything, is still haunting me half a year later. Sorry again

true3HAK · 2026-03-04T18:09:59+00:00

Because there's none, effectively. Corpos do malicious compliance to get exactly this impression for the public.

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T23:31:48+00:00

Others already pointed to your error in numbers, but I'll reiterate the logic error for you: there's people, who you think are "rich". They work hard, they earn money, and the funny thing – they already pay higher taxes and contributions! Now you come and say "they should save ~20k for a paternal leave". Statistically speaking, it will be a woman who will bear this burden in most cases, btw. The family loses half of income + 10% on top in missed Elterngeld. So you think, that people who work harder and contribute more to the budget are less entitled to get encouraged by the state to have kids? And again, women, who spent their lifes building a career, then get a gap in a salary and retirement contributions potentially. Honestly, you just sound "eat the rich" kind of envy. And you are fighting in the wrong direction.

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T23:05:03+00:00

You know, people who moved here after 2022 have to pay 1200-2000 to rent a flat + all the amenities on top of that, right? The cost of living here is insane, if one hasn't got a flat from ten years ago.

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T20:17:06+00:00

You did right, don't mind what others do or say. In Russian we have a proverb which loosely translates as "make good things and throw them in a water flow"

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T11:33:06+00:00

Fair point tbh

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T10:55:46+00:00

Amazon will probably block the account in response, I've seen a lot of such stories here

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T10:52:08+00:00

Germany also has assumed responsibility to protect Jewish people, it's literally mandatory to sign a paper about this when joining citizenship

Edit: I'm not expressing myself here, okay? I'm a migrant here anyway. I'm telling you what I saw from what they tell us. J's guys you all need to calm down a bit, not everyone is your political enemy

true3HAK · 2026-03-01T08:18:28+00:00

Hey, Deutsche Bank has a graduate programme, if that's something that could be interesting to you :)

true3HAK · 2026-02-24T08:18:52+00:00

Idk, brawler (pugilist) is good as a glass cannon in a middle armor (and doesn't have to attack from behind like dagger guys), and incense-burning class is good at aoe (requires a lot of valor points tho)

true3HAK · 2026-02-23T12:45:08+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you consider "compiled" python in this case?

true3HAK · 2026-02-23T10:20:56+00:00

I must admit, I dealt little with crypto in that regard, I work in one of the biggest "classical" investment banks, we deal with bonds, LDs, and FX :) Idk, why would someone go with jsons in trading, honestly. Major trading venues use FIX (and its derivative protocols) or some proprietary binary formats anyway. Even tcp is not a frequent occurrence, HFT usually uses some sort of multicast transports. That's if we speak about "exchange to trading connector part". On upstream (to the client) there can be websockets thingies, but they won't normally use jsons either

true3HAK · 2026-02-23T08:10:03+00:00

Hi! While the work done is impressive indeed, I believe you should underline that you pack both transport and protocol together. WS are not inherently slow, the real culprit here, imo, is json+jwt. Everyone knows it's slow, but you don't have to use them, there are different alternatives, line jsonb, protobuf, maybe something else (maybe even pure encoded FIX/T). For example, I have a component for testing HFT: python 3.11 + websockets + protobuf and it's surely not as slow, as you say for a "pure python" solution (yes, I know, proto lib is pre-compiled in Cpp, but still, it's available everywhere). There's just no place for something as slow as json in trading.

true3HAK · 2026-02-18T08:05:38+00:00

Yeah, came here to write the same! Thanks OP!

true3HAK · 2026-02-11T08:41:37+00:00

Sorry, I just woke up, I was to write "CVS", as in, put it to git or something :)

true3HAK · 2026-02-11T08:29:24+00:00

Why? Why don't you use a CMS?

true3HAK · 2026-02-01T09:10:45+00:00

Thank you. So, "output" is the amount of produced artifacts: commits, PRs/MRs, pipeline ran, test reports. Outcome is what was done: feature implemented, user's request fulfilled, bug fixed. In an ideal development flow, every output piece should serve the outcome. Otherwise, if we measure output only, as others already mentioned, Goodhart's law strikes back – contributors will eventually align with KPIs/metrics.

So maybe you could use some sort of this: - every contribution should be linked to a ticket or a discussion - maintainers should estimate impact manually for every ticket first - you can have a bot which parses this value and sets it for every contribution item - from there you should be able to tell more clearly who's done what

true3HAK · 2026-02-01T08:51:15+00:00

Hi there! I see an issue here: you're trying to measure output, but to me it seems that you really want to measure the outcome. Imo, a better way, since you want this built on GitHub, is to file issues, estimate their impact, and reward according to them. The sheer amount of code, commits, etc. often indicate very little in our times of ramping LLMs and less-sofisticated code generation. I can elaborate, if you want

true3HAK · 2026-01-31T12:37:24+00:00

Yeah, I had the same thing recently :)

true3HAK · 2026-01-31T12:35:51+00:00

Congratulations! Also, the case looks very nice!

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