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!
And if you look at the screenshot he shared, almost a third are hits on a single post which I assume was featured on HN and another good chunk are hits on the homepage. Those two combined are almost half of the total page views according to his stats.
So if you ignore those two, you're looking at ~20 page views a day.
$14/month for analytics on a site with that level of traffic sounds wild to me but again, it's not my money and if he's happy then that's all that matters.
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.
There are a lot of zombie companies that only exist due to bailouts and zero interest rates. Sounds like you’re at one of them. Inflation and interest rates aren’t going down any time soon.
It’s all cyclical. The decadence today will eventually give way to another recession, and we’ll build something better from the ashes.
I’m also growing increasingly disgusted by the state of the industry. Things weren’t so messed up 10 years ago, but salaries were also not so ludicrous at the time. I suppose I should be careful what I wish for, but I’d appreciate some disruption right about now.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
Yeah in my recent experience juniors are people who don’t know basic engineering yet and seniors are people who can actually complete a task in their own (with most still having little knowledge of actual advanced programming concepts.)
This is what an industry of outsourcing to “contractors” has done. Companies that aren’t ran by tech people have no idea how to actually hire tech roles and are trusting the contracting firm owners, who I’ve found also have little knowledge how to hire for tech.
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!
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!
I think people are concerned that that content is not appropriate for grade school children. I think they would raise the same objections if it wasn't about a same sex couple.
