Prices drop and people spend less? That's silly.
So silly that it's exactly what happened during the Great Depression.
Readit Newsferdowsi commented on US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago cnn.com/2023/08/11/econom... · Posted by u/paulpauper
ferdowsi commented on Another Round of GitHub Layoffs twitter.com/allthedoll/st... · Posted by u/xena
A lot of these tech layoffs seem to target product people: product managers, product owners, designers and the like. Is there a trust crisis on the value generated by this kind of roles?
More like companies are reducing scope to focus on key profit centers or initiatives, making product managers and designers easy targets for layoffs.
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ferdowsi commented on Don’t teach during code reviews michaelagreiler.com/teach... · Posted by u/trashymctrash
You have to fight to produce quality and you have to do it continuously. You cannot just merge in "working(tm) but not using best practices" and then turn on the quality-switch months or years later.
Your attitude is creating a culture where nobody cares and it's why many good engineers end up hating their job.
The vast majority of questions around quality that end up surfacing in code reviews can be much more easily settled by commonly shared tooling that enforces organizational style and security practices. Leaving "best practice" up to the code review stage just ends up allowing senior engineers to demand code that they themselves would write, not what's best for an organization.
ferdowsi commented on Don’t teach during code reviews michaelagreiler.com/teach... · Posted by u/trashymctrash
As a manager, it drives me crazy when some feature doesn't make it into the sprint because some "senior engineer" decides that this is the time to teach a junior/intermediate the proper way to do something with a long drawn out "teaching process" via PR comments.
it's especially galling if the original PR was working, reasonably well written, no major flaws and they forced the junior to rewrite because it wasn't "best practices".
Some of the comments here seem more like sabotaging junior developers career by drawing out how long it takes them to get through code reviews than teaching them anything.
Agreed. Too many "senior engineers" fail to recognize when they are simply venting their territorialism by nitpicking in code reviews. The role of a good manager is to restrain these tendencies.
The statement doesn't say how much Gatsby was acquired for. Hope that Gatsby equity holders weren't bought out at a steep discount, given the current macro situation.
ferdowsi commented on Google’s Fuchsia OS was one of the hardest hit by last week’s layoffs arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/pjmlp
I'm sympathetic to all those who lost their jobs, but I'm a bit baffled that 400 people were working on this. Can someone enlighten me as to why so much headcount was required by this project?
ferdowsi commented on Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned wsj.com/articles/amazon-t... · Posted by u/minimaxir
ferdowsi commented on Amazon to Lay Off over 17,000 Workers, More Than First Planned wsj.com/articles/amazon-t... · Posted by u/minimaxir
This is worrisome - joined Amazon ~4 months ago because it seemed like the most sensible thing to do considering my immigration status. Have one last attempt left at the H-1B lottery; PERM is underway but no hopes of getting it finished before STEM OPT runs out. Was thinking of getting married to my girlfriend soon, but not too sure about that anymore (she's in the 3rd year of her PhD so she cannot really move with me) if I'm going to get axed considering the job market isn't the best either. Not hyped about the prospect of moving to my home country since I have not lived there since I was 9. F*k, life just hasn't been kind these last couple years.
How did you go from 9 to working age without getting residency in the US or another country?