TIL how much frontend talent -- the sort that makes your bundles 10x smaller --is under-valued and now I'm sad all over again.
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Engineering management is trained to think in terms of man hours. Not in terms of outcome or value to the business. Work is prioritized, then estimated in terms of time, and then those time slots are filled in with engineering time. That lives little room for specialization.
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As an external consultant, I’ve been multiple times in situations where I was pointing out the opportunity cost of not doing something right away, which was huge, and was answered they only reasoned in terms of engineering hours. Even if they didn’t have the resources to do it.
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Worker discipline and fungibility has always had a higher priority than raw profitability for libertarians.
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