silveroriole (u/silveroriole)

silveroriole commented on It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom davidgomes.com/it-took-me... · Posted by u/davidgomes

manuelmoreale · 2 years ago

He runs a personal blog and that’s already great. I’m baffled by a few choices though. Why bothering with analytics, especially paid ones, if according to his screen the website does less than 50 visitors a day? That seems like an odd choice.

As for the cost, I mean, could a site like this be run for a lot less than that? Absolutely. But if he’s happy paying those money then who cares.

It’s certainly not a setup I’d personally recommend.

silveroriole · 2 years ago

At first I thought no way it can be so low, but 99.5k views since 2017 is indeed around 50 views per day. For 400 euros and all this effort... I get similar hits on a free neocities site with zero effort put into search indexing, styling, usability or promotion. Crazy how views add up, just looking at the 99k number I’d think it’s huge!

silveroriole commented on Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer? · Posted by u/optbuild

bmitc · 2 years ago

If anything, my confidence gets lower as I get more experience. The amount of politics, power jockeying, engineers who hide behind decisions as if they were technical only to be highly personal preferences, how many people reject simplicity and prefer complexity while calling it simple, lack of documentation, etc.

It just all makes me feel like I don't belong in the field. It's all so overwhelming and complicated, and any attempt to try to make something more simple or documented is fruitless if even accepted. People just can't see to be able to wrap the idea around their heads that one thing doing one thing is simple and not "tedious" or "verbose".

The reason why my confidence lowers is that everyone else is seemingly okay with all of this and continuing along the trend. Meanwhile, I feel like I'm just continuing to participate in building giant balls of mud that just barely work and are just barely understandable. So there's an impedance mismatch, and I face it so much, I just have to wonder if it's me, that I'm not smart enough to push through all the cruft or figure things out or just don't understand how to design. Thus, the low confidence. It's just all very confusing.

I would be somewhat suspicious of anyone in software engineering who purports to having figured it all out or having confidence in the field.

silveroriole · 2 years ago

Judging by my performance reviews, I’ve gotten way worse at my job over time. They LOVED me as a junior, they despise me as a senior/lead. Only difference is that as a junior, when the boss came by and said “let’s do it this way,” I said wow, cool, teach me! Now I say “No user has asked for this, your design is overcomplicated, and we need to factor in an extra three weeks for the overdue tech debt fixes I’ve been warning you about.” And the reaction towards me actually using my knowledge and job skills is so extremely negative that there goes my confidence. This industry is kinda screwed up.

silveroriole commented on A complete guide to getting what you want (2018) raptitude.com/2018/06/get... · Posted by u/shsachdev

akkad33 · 3 years ago

Is there a guide for knowing what you want?

silveroriole · 3 years ago

Late reply but figured I would share what worked for me. Once a week, spend 15-20 minutes writing down what an ideal day would look like for you in as much detail as possible. Visualise it and feel it. Don’t worry about anything like realism, consistency, selfishness, what other people would think, how you could possibly achieve it, etc. “Ideal day” doesn’t have to mean a crazy one-off like “I wake up and skydive into a safari park and then eat three chocolate sundaes”, it can be as simple as “I wake up feeling refreshed, I look around my room and enjoy my plant collection, I eat eggs and bacon for breakfast…”. Include some feelings in there - does your ideal day involve feeling relaxed and calm, or energetic and exhilarated, or loved and surrounded by family…? Let your ideal day evolve as time goes on. Do that for a few months and you’ll start to notice the patterns of what you want.

silveroriole commented on The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs jacobbartlett.substack.co... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey

syndacks · 3 years ago

Your job isn’t to code, it’s to solve business problems. To make more money for the company. That’s it.

silveroriole · 3 years ago

“Your job as a bricklayer isn’t to lay bricks. It’s to solve building problems.” If you’re actually looking for an architect or designer or salesperson or manager, hire them instead of berating developers for not doing all of those jobs at once.

Also in most countries devs don’t get paid enough to solve business problems. American tech wages are the exception.

silveroriole commented on Burnout drewdevault.com/2023/05/0... · Posted by u/emerongi

ChuckNorris89 · 3 years ago

>and some of us get fooled into thinking we are equally as capable as the code itself

IMHO burnout as a SW dev isn't because of the coding itself, I find that the easiest part to deal with.

It's the constant pressure to stay up to date an an industry that changes faster and faster and a job market that get more and more competitive. It's the constant sprinting towards more and more ambitious arbitrary deadlines set by sales or management using half-assed Agile and Scrum processes imposed onto you by clueless higher-ups. It's constant interruptions and multitasking in several tools you have to keep up with throughout the day: chats, calls, emails, Jira, etc. while also being expected to focus and code. It's the exhausting and time consuming interview practices. It's the idiotic and overpaid management and execs who treat you like a disposable resource and thinks colorful beanbags, ping-pong and foosball tables would make me want to spend 2h commuting to the office every day to sit in a noisy open office with a view of a concrete parking lot, and that pictures of employees in funny situations with moustaches drawn on them and turned into memes and plastered around the office means a "friendly" atmosphere and it's what I would enjoy instead of WFH in peace and quiet (maybe I'm too old or something but I can't stand my workplace treating me, a professional in my 30's, like I'm a childish toddler looking to join some kindergarten playground).

Coding and debugging alone is very pleasant for me, it's why I became a dev, but it's everything else related to this industry that breaks my will to live.

silveroriole · 3 years ago

Agree 100%. My old workplace is making everyone commute to office next week so that they can “team bond and destress” by playing with office-provided toys. Really. It’s so patronising and I hate the control bosses think they have over your entire life and personality instead of just your work output.

silveroriole commented on The reality of being a Principal Engineer leaddev.com/career-paths-... · Posted by u/bitfield

azangru · 3 years ago

Amusingly, she writes:

> Once I became a principal engineer, it quickly became clear to me that my job involved a lot more than closing tickets and writing code to achieve things.

If we take this sentence at face value, are we to conclude then that _before_ she became a principal engineer, it was not clear to her what the role would entail? And if yes, then what would be the process that made it clear to her after she became a principal engineer?

silveroriole · 3 years ago

If the expectations for seniors in her company are to close tickets without hand-holding, I wonder what the expectations are for juniors? To occasionally drool onto the semicolon key? It’s odd to see the ‘principal engineer’ in the article talking about soft skills/responsibilities that would have been considered ordinary for a mid-level dev 5-10 years ago.

silveroriole commented on If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason scottaaronson.blog/?p=717... · Posted by u/nsoonhui

skocznymroczny · 3 years ago

Am I the only one who's not very concerned about ChatGPT and "AI" in general? I am young, but still lived through several hype phases. I remember when 3D TVs were going to be mainstream and 2D was considered legacy. I remember when PC was to die soon and to be replaced by smartphones. I remember when VR was to become as common accessory as a game controller. It's 2023, and I still don't have automated self driving car that can get me to work. At work I am still using the boring old keyboard and monitor. I am not using a VR headset to connect myself to shared office space inside of a metaverse. Oh and I don't have to call my hairdresser for an appointment, because my phone will use artificial intelligence to do that for me (remember that? yeah it was 5 years already, where's my magical AI tech).

I played with technologies like Stable Diffusion for a while. They are fun to use for a while, there are too many unsolved issues such as coherent style, stable style transfer for videos an despite my best effort every second image will have a human character with two heads or four arms.

I feel like ChatGPT is similar. It makes for a fun parlor trick, but when it gets things wrong, it gets them very wrong and it doesn't let you easily know that it's wrong. People are already plugging ChatGPT to anything from code to managing investments, it's just a matter of time until it crashes and burns. We are just waiting for the first ChatGPT version of "autonomous car rams pedestrian".

As for OpenAI, it's in their best interest for people to be scared and governments to propose regulations. It further solidifies ChatGPT as a force to be reckoned with, even if it isn't. They're trying to sell it as AGI even though it isn't anywhere near, but actions like this are helping to maintain that image.

silveroriole · 3 years ago

> “remember that? yeah it was 5 years already”

I get the impression many HN commenters haven’t even been adults for 5 years so no, they really don’t remember it :) for example articles get posted here and upvoted with the author boasting about their insights from being in the software industry for 3 years!

silveroriole commented on Agile Software Development Needs to Die timdenning.com/agile-soft... · Posted by u/mska

silveroriole · 3 years ago

I want one of these “pretend to work” big money jobs. Where are they? Any recommendations?

silveroriole commented on America’s online privacy problems are much bigger than TikTok washingtonpost.com/techno... · Posted by u/pseudolus

remarkEon · 3 years ago

I thought about asking what country you were from, but I realized it doesn't matter.

I'm from the United States and I want this app banned. While the things you cite are or could be bad, it's entirely irrelevant to dealing with an app that is demonstrably a psychological control system. You're upset that CIA or US Army spec ops kidnapped people from your country? Imagine the United States injecting a social media system into your country that brainwashes people into thinking that they deserved it. TikTok can do this.

silveroriole · 3 years ago

“Demonstrably” a psychological control system? Go on then, demonstrate it.

silveroriole commented on Book ban attempts reach “unparalleled” 20-year high in 2022 axios.com/2023/03/23/book... · Posted by u/hn2017

Khaine · 3 years ago

According to the interwebs, here are some examples and the reason people want them banned from grade schools:

Gender Queer - has images of kids performing oral sex https://theiowastandard.com/shocking-images-from-book-gender...

All Boys Aren't Blue - includes sex scenes - https://youtu.be/ag-ByyDXhUQ

Lawn Boy - includes sex scenes https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/video-sucked-eachot...

This Book Is Gay - a book with sections that teach and advise kids about anal sex, oral sex, and hookup apps https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/

silveroriole · 3 years ago

Thank you for posting the content of the actual books. It’s kind of funny to me that people upthread are upset about the ‘blowjob’ scene when the characters involved immediately decide it’s not very exciting after all. Not exactly the hedonistic lgbt recruitment pamphlet they were trying to conjure in the imagination. Maybe telling kids that realistically sex is just a bit weird and gross and boring is more effective than banning it, who knows!