Very thoughtful analysis. I particularly like the insight around the industry metrics and Goodhart's Law. “DAU” and the like align with social media companies’ interests of increasing attention and time on site, which lead to more ad revenue. But, they are at odds with their users’ interests, or at least don’t consider user costs (ie time). I wonder if a social product could thrive based on the principle of “efficient” usage, a la the platform works on my behalf to keep me efficiently informed on what’s going on in my network and considers the cost tradeoffs of my time and attention. I suspect I could feel very “up to date” on the things I care about most by checking into a social product ~weekly with a thoughtfully curated digest of content.
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I'm all for this if the person reviewing my code will know the context, history and all the details and conversations we had as a team.
But in order for that to work, I'd probably be taking most of this reviewer's time. And obviously in order for them to get up to speed with our practices, conventions, architecture, code style and whatnot, they'd probably need to start by doing a whole lot of development on our project first. At least several months. They could probably not do anyone elses code review then. So we'd have to pay them... one full time salary to be this coder-and-reviewer type person. I wonder what this service should be called.
I think I might be onto something here. "Full time developers as a service"
I am a PullRequest user/customer. I shared some of your concerns when I first heard about them, and was admittedly the least on board them trying them vs the others on my team. In short, I didn't believe that an outsider could provide adequate reviews and that, at best, an outsider would supplement our internal review process. I was wrong, and have learned several things about code review from this company.
1. Once ramped up, PullRequest provides consistent reviewers for project, even down to fairly granular sections of the codebase. i.e. we’ll get the same reviewer or sets of reviewers who review code for backend architecture changes, a different person (but consistent) who reviews security code even within a monolithic repo. These reviews feel like a real part of your team after a while, but fully focused on providing quality review.
2. It’s true that the reviews are not involved in initial planning conversations, but in practice this turns out to be moot or even a net positive. This is because they are providing a removed perspective on the review. I can think back to one time very specifically when the team planned to implement a feature in a specific way. An engineer went off and did so as had been planned by the team. An internal review from any of the original teammates who had planned the feature with him would have immediately approved the PR since it was exactly to the original spec. However, our PullRequest reviewer caught a MAJOR VULNERABILITY that the feature’s architecture had presented. Thus, a fresh set of eyes from an outsider who knows our codebase but is not involved in planning/implementation discussions was critical. IMO this is one of PullRequest’s greatest value-adds and why I will always advocate using them /other services like them no matter what team (though I don’t know of any comparable services, though I suspect more will arise and 3rd party review becomes table stakes, but that’s a different discussion).
3. The people that PullRequest gets to do reviews are top notch. In some ways, overkill from what would be required to actually develop a feature from soup to nuts, but it gives us more confidence to let junior developers run more freely on larger features knowing that they will have to pass code review from PullRequest.
nick007 commented on Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US culdesac.com/... · Posted by u/foofoo4u
Founder here. Great to see the excitement people have for Culdesac and for Culdesac Tempe.
Our vision is to build the first car-free city in the US, starting with the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US.
Join our waitlist at culdesac.com. We open next year! If you want to visit in the meantime, drop me a note.
Hiring-wise, we're hiring in Tempe or remote. Our top hiring prio is to lead product design. https://www.culdesac.com/jobs
Here's our insta, which has lots of construction updates https://www.instagram.com/liveculdesac
Here's our tik tok https://www.tiktok.com/@liveculdesac
Here's our twitter https://www.twitter.com/culdesac
Here's my twitter where I also talk a lot about ebikes https://www.twitter.com/ryanmjohnson
Here's our intro article https://medium.com/culdesac/introducing-culdesac-3fbfe7c4219...
Here's a longer piece on us https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/31/business/culdesac-tempe-p...
+1 for the NYT feature -- that piece really does a good job at introducing your vision, worth the read
nick007 commented on Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US culdesac.com/... · Posted by u/foofoo4u
Super excited for this, and I am planning to relocate from SF to Tempe for [mostly] this reason. It's about time there was a truly novel offering in the world of residential living, and the Culdesac crew are doing in in the right way! Been a huge fan from the sidelines ever since their YC days.
My priors would say 99% odds he's full of it, but you have to admit that if he's not (and if he really was the head of Israel Defense space division, makes him 1 of a very few people who would know), then this would be the biggest story in the history of the earth.
So shouldn't we at least take a look? The Top Story on HN right now is about a finance deal between Uber and Aururo. Pretty sure that even though that one is almost certainly true, it's expected impact on the world relative to this is zero.
Agreed, this is fascinating and potentially huge. This comes months after the Pentagon released UFO footage for the first time (not necessarily alien, but unidentified). Wonder if there could be a coordinated effort to slowly disseminate the information to the public slowly instead of all at once.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-...
Can anyone not related to the company attest for this course? Does anyone else know of a soft skills course they recommend?
Yes, I can attest that the course and company are first rate. See previous comment -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508974
What is it like inside? Is it videos, content pages or some soft of interactive tutorials?
No videos, it's written content with questions to answer/reflect on.
There's also a way to write in to a real-life person/team with follow-on thoughts/questions after each section. I've done this a number of times not really expecting much, but have been blown away with how fast and thoughtful a response I've always gotten. Almost feels like you're getting personal coach (which they are really underselling IMHO).
DISCLAIMER - I am a customer.
I found Capsule very valuable. The content is 2nd to none, they boil down some huge concepts that span thousands of pages across multiple books/papers into dense and digestible bites of material. Very high bandwidth and efficient.
I see a lot of commentary about the price being high. I'm not sure whether they have the right price point or not, but what I would say as someone who considers myself pretty frugal, I would compare the value I got from Capsule to a series of books and probably therapists that would've cost hundreds or thousands of dollars (and many more hours).