AitchEmArsey

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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> Welcome to MS Teams...The chat platform for YOUR people, and not Those Others ! lol This is very true, and hugely problematic. As a consultant I have to use Teams with 3 separate clients right now, which means signing in to 3 differ
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> Domain-Driven Design > It's not exactly rocket-science either I'd imagine that occasionally "rocket science" is exactly what it is!
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Amazon often pitches itself as having a "writing culture", but much like the LPs and other mantras like "working backwards", this is more a case of cult-like exceptionalism than any sort of actual advantage once viewed f
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
The REPL was indeed part of my issue, though having tried again in the last couple of days following this post, my impression is much more positive than on my last check (around when v1.5 was new, I think). Also, Pluto is a marvel - seems t
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Make the package management more Cargo-like and I'd probably adopt it wholesale; whenever I've tried Julia in the past the user experience of just getting started has been the off-putting part.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Bit of a straw man - nobody said anything about pushing for perfection at home, just "we can do better than this". Also - "right there for the taking" gets to the heart of my objection as it is nowhere near true. Space i
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
"We go to the moon not because it is easy, but because if we don't then some commie bastards will get there first." I am all for exploration and science for the sake of science, but any talk of colonies is just wasted breath
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Start by assuming a spherical teapot in a vacuum...
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
"Their equity" is the wrong way of thinking about it - the RSU schedule is fully visible up front, and in the first 2 years low RSU grants are offset by a sign-on bonus. In my case, I was told what my target TC per year was, and t
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Agreed. Some UK numbers for reference: £500/day is the absolute minimum for developer/DevOps outside London, £600/day much more common and including the cheap end for London. Senior is more often £800/day. You don't
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> evading blame for a disastrous project launch Found the Timestream guy
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Aren't they all?
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
When the GitHub purchase was happening, there was a lot of noise from both parties about how the companies would remain separate and GitHub would keep the things which make it appealing to developers; it therefore seems disingenuous to me t
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Interesting to consider - thanks. Me and the people who have left interact with very different crowds of external stakeholders, so perhaps they were just unlucky to end up with some who are difficult to tolerate. We are a team of white EU&#
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Normal work hours, ie I could get away with 40 if I was willing to appear a bit relaxed but usually end up closer to 50. No on-call.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
It is a really baffling experience - on my team in AWS we've had open roles for over 2 years; every time we pick someone up we lose someone else. The team is now smaller than it was when I joined and I know all 3 of the last people to
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Your outrage about his outrage about the original outrage is basically a glorious example of Poe's Law; I both love and hate it.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
If you broaden the scope of the economy beyond about 1AU, we absolutely do have a thriving fusion power industry.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
This kind of nonsense is at the heart of a lot of our problems. Yes, someone producing interesting content and making it available widely should be paid for their labour and expenses. But the marginal cost of each reader is very close to ze
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
> eh? > I'm a Canadian Presented without comment.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Is there anything resembling consistency on level titles across the industry? That certainly hasn't been my experience; in my bit of AWS "staff" refers to L5 employees, ie good graduate level or lightly experienced. Below tha
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
You're so meta, even this acronym.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
I moved from a boutique operating like your second model, to a >$1B consulting firm operating the other way. While I would recommend both employers, the quality of life improvement from making the switch has been dramatic. I do miss the
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Throwing something together based on unfamiliar components is indeed a bad move and likely to get you a bad reputation as a consultant. On the flip side, a permanent employee who wallows in analysis paralysis isn't adding any value to
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
They mean the costs a company would bear for you if you were a full-time employee. This includes your theoretical employment salary plus extra costs an employer pays for having that employee on their books, for example in the UK there is em
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
"Won't somebody please think of the children" It is horrifying to me that this approach of using pedophelia as a scapegoat to permanently degrade civil liberties goes largely unchallenged in the media.
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by AitchEmArsey 5y ago
Interviewing staff ("stakeholders") at a customer is always fascinating. I've seen the full range from sincere gratitude at being listened to, through to open hostility and suspicion. The latter was much worse when I was youn