Don’t know why python gets so much love. It’s a painful language as soon as more than one person is involved. What the author describes is just the tip of the iceberg
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> Information should be free
I'm sick and tired of this misquote; as it was merely an observation of trends, and was never meant to be a moral maxim or mandate. If you truly believe information needs to be free as a moral mandate, share your company's source code first.
I see it as “everyone deserves respect”. No need to overanalyse it. It’s one of those few things in life that are simply true, no proof needed.
danielPort9 commented on Ask HN: Will human code review still exist a year from now? · Posted by u/changisaac
no, i just started doing copilot PR reviews on github and its pretty damn good.
That’s dumb. Your bosses will decide to pay copilot instead of paying you. We should use llms in a way that empowers us, not in a way that replaces us.
danielPort9 commented on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/blenderob
TBH, such a low price for so many working (!) features is an amazing achievement if not subsidized! What bothers me here, however, is...a provenance. Let me guess, it asks from your smartphone access to your location, contacts, calendar, SMS archive, email, medical records and political views and attitude towards CCP and then does some shady syncs with .cn servers "just to keep you data safe in case a meteor hits you"... Sad.
ADDED: Oh, seems like some people like to pretend that the results of "some other" companies getting this information are totally, totally the same.
Just like any other Apple Watch. Don’t see the difference between them and CCP (probably because I’m not American)
Some things are trivial and nearly free - created_at, updated_at. I don't think engineers need to bring trivialities like this to a "product owner". Own your craft.
I think the tricky part lies on knowing which things can be done without consulting any product owner. I agree that created_at and updated_at don’t cause any harm. deleted_at on the other hand cannot be decided by engineers only (mainly because of GDPR reasons: if something is expected to be totally deleted, then that must be it). As usual, these kind of things are obvious to engineers with years of experience , not so much to newcomers.
danielPort9 commented on Ask HN: How do some software engineers "do it all"? · Posted by u/theappsecguy
You don’t know their performance at their jobs. You don’t know either if they fulfill family obligations decently. You don’t know how their lifestyle is affecting their health long term.
danielPort9 commented on Product management is hosting a party, not playing chess tidyfirst.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/KentBeck
My metaphor for product leadership is a Jazz Band: step back and let your players shine.
But then you don’t need product managers at all, or at least not full time.
> There is no "engineering culture" in a company
There is, with out doubt, engineering culture. Culture really means "what customs we use and how we work." Every single company has a set of customs for working. Sales customs, engineering customs, management customs, etc.
Engineering customs, or culture, dictate how the org approaches software development. Code reviews? How deep? Quality checks or not? Is quality encouraged?Level of collaboration between teams and teammates? is there a partnership with Product or does product dictate? How much and what gets written down? How are new solutions brought forward?
Does the company intentionally grow/weed-out these customs? That is engineering culture. You should work somewhere where their customs are things you can adopt. Else, you are not a culture fit.
But that changes from team to team, and sometimes even from individuals to individuals. It’s rare the company (not faang level) that invests that much in engineering culture.
Fresh bread delivery. There’s nothing worse than waking up and find out that you dont have bread. Would be great to have fresh bread at my door every morning.
Yep, because open-source code never has issues.
So many idealists looking to make this a “closed-source bad!!!” thing and in the process muddying the waters enough to take attention away from remedies that might actually work.
All while they sit there getting paid $500k/yr to write closed-source software at FAANG or a startup, which to them is Technically Okay because they work on some sort of SaaS product, thereby alleviating them of the economic realities of Everything Being Open-Source.
Who said anything about open source not having issues? I talked about trust. Open source can be trusted simply because the code is scrutinised by many if the software is that important.
CS cannot be trusted by anyone, because you simply don’t know how they develop their software.
Yes, I do work for a private company because otherwise I cannot pay the bills. Companies on the other hand do have the privilege to choose what kind of software they can use (unless the regulation says otherwise, which is in itself something to fix too, but I do lack knowledge in that field to suggest anything)