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New comment by lamp_book in "Strong Eventual Consistency – The Big Idea Behind CRDTs"

lamp_book — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:25:45 +0000

We really ought to come up with some new terms in this space... it is just confusing to mix "strong consistency" in with "eventual consistency" in any way.

New comment by lamp_book in "Data engineering and software engineering are converging"

lamp_book — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:42:19 +0000

I’m pretty sure the term came from Google (at least that is where I heard it first described) and just referred to a backend engineer with speciality in this area. Now usually these roles have “distributed systems” in the title, even if you aren’t really on the inside of the systems. That or “systems and infrastructure”, “data infrastructure”, or “AI/ML infrastructure” or sometimes “MLE” for those kinds of orgs. Or back to good ole “big data” now that it’s no longer tacked on everything.

New comment by lamp_book in "Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation"

lamp_book — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 23:09:01 +0000

Anyone investing is in a k hole

New comment by lamp_book in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

lamp_book — Fri, 23 May 2025 03:07:45 +0000

Fair enough, but this did read that way to me:

> why I am very sad that we could not achieve reform without resorting to measures such as threatening the international student admission process

New comment by lamp_book in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

lamp_book — Thu, 22 May 2025 23:40:36 +0000

In what way does this or anything else Trump has done or indicated to do advance the state of education towards the goals of the reform you are talking about?

Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age

lamp_book — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:47:24 +0000

Article URL: https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43573755

Points: 421

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New comment by lamp_book in "Soldering Wires – Here's a different way"

lamp_book — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 15:44:17 +0000

Look for an iron with a ceramic heating element as well - they come up to temperature much more quickly and it makes a big difference. I also recommend Hakko.

New comment by lamp_book in "Employees are happier when led by people with deep expertise (2016)"

lamp_book — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:33:13 +0000

> It sounds like you're saying that top-tier engineers are not generally qualified in terms of non-technical requirements, and I don't know that this assertion is justified.

I see this sentiment or implication that technical skills and people skills are somehow mutually exclusive often, even on here which is crazy. I think this stems from some broader trope that people are "balanced" like RPG characters or something, e.g. nerd vs. jock or artist vs. scientist, salesman vs. accountant, etc. The reality is that people who achieve in one area are more likely to achieve in others. If someone figured out how to be a good engineer, they can probably figure out how to be a good manager, too, if they wanted.