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Re:Ask HN: Hacking or management? on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:53PM (#10589870)

Thanks for the articles Marcus, they gave me some valuable insights!

Re:Ask HN: Hacking or management? on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:18AM (#10546035)

Thanks, that is some good insight. A doubt I still have is: what if the delta is too big? Can you really turn a team of "meh" pogrammers into a bunch of great coders by tring to infuse them with passion? If I have a good understanding of best practices I can probably convince them to a point, but it doesn't seem possible to infuse them with passion somehow. If I want to be around a great team might as well change jobs and give up on learning to lead for the moment.

Re:Ask HN: Hacking or management? on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @06:07AM (#10545993)

That book's been sitting on my shelf for years! I'll go read it now once I finish High Output Management (highly recommended). Thanks!

Re:Ask HN: Hacking or management? on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:58PM (#10541995)

True, maybe I'm just being too harsh. Thanks a lot man, that's sound advice!

Ask HN: Hacking or management?

Posted by vcald64 on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I currently work as a tech lead at a very large company outside the US. The product I'm in charge of has tens of thousands of users.The problem is that I manage a team of mediocre programmers and the engineering culture is terribly broken (cowboy coding, no tests, people don't care much about writing good code ie. no passion, etc).I feel bad for not learning more technical things lately (due to...

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