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		scarface_74 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Updates to H-1B I worked at GE. A lot of thier software dealing with the transportation industry back then wasn’t technically complicated. There were just a lot of business rules and regulations they had to check for. My vertical was railroad car repairs https://public.railinc.com/sites/default/files/documents/CRB... Most developers aren’t doing “hard things”. Not even at BigTech

throwaway7783 7 months ago [–]

It's not at all about doing hard things. It's simply the number of things to be done and how they interact with each other. You are absolutely right that these are technically not hard problems, but they're still hard design problems that keep changing very frequently

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