Bahamut

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by Bahamut 9y ago
Many have tried to take a slice of FB’s pie - almost all failed to make a serious dent, and the main social media alternatives are also generally struggling (or have serious fundamental issues of their own). At this point, I’m very skeptica
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Royden is a classic - my mom and I both used it in our grad math programs, almost 30 years apart or so.
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To be fair, it really does sound like bad management - management shouldn’t be blasting an individual during scrum. Management also shouldn’t care if other work gets done as long as the core commitments get finished. Good management shouldn
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Not all emotional responses are necessarily bad. The problem I have with most forms of social media is most encourage short posts, which almost always is devoid of thoughtfulness, which then begets responses of similar kind. This is why I p
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I sure hope when applying for a job via FB, companies do not have access to your sensitive FB information. FB needs to make clear what information they will never share with job posters.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Not sure where you get pleasant perk from - a lot of teachers I know are often working 12 hour days.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
That post is not particularly useful - each team/org works differently. “Working on iOS” is such a vague introduction, it doesn’t really give any indication of his/her role or a feel for how every team/org operates. I can cla
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by Bahamut 9y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Apple, but for less than a year and not for a consumer product. I always suspected it was to push headphone tech further to a long term better experience - it has been a ripe target for the trend of eliminating the pa
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by Bahamut 9y ago
> Does this mean I'm so out of date with JS that this syntax is actually legit JS? Or does Mark run its own parsers, at which point it's just like sexps, except it uses the "more modern" curly brace instead of "l
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by Bahamut 9y ago
To be fair, companies are well capable of adding extremely crippling bureaucracy to development processes without union help.
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I have seen it quite a lot in software engineering in just my 5 years in the profession, happened to myself and many friends - hell, I was even in management last time it happened to me. Many times it came down to whether the people were a
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Every software users interact with has a particular UX. It’s in the words it stands for!
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Google did something similar to me with Google Apps, and I lost $500 over 2 years. They refused to refund me too. I now have zero desire to use any paid Google service ever again.
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by Bahamut 9y ago
To contrast with Penn Station, just ~10-15 blocks to the northeast you have Grand Central, an iconic train station that is much better in almost every way.
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Twitter explains why it won’t block ‘world leaders’ – without naming Trump(washingtonpost.com)
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Sometimes the leaks are intentional to gauge public reaction, and then actual action is taken based in part on feedback.
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I think Google has principal engineers as well - a staff engineer at Google probably is equivalent to a principal engineer at most companies though.
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Not one of - they’re famous for being THE biggest employer of mathematicians.
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But similarly, quickly coming to the conclusion to not hire is just as fallacious. If someone burns out as a result of the bungled planning, then the project can potentially be doomed without hiring (or even doomed anyway) - one should almo
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> Being overworked is not a good reason to hire. Instead, hire to be ready to catch opportunities, not to survive the current battles. I disagree - if you have overworked people, that is usually a red flag that you need more personnel an
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Google doesn’t quite have that power - some of the things they have pushed have failed to gain traction, sometimes for very good reasons. For example, Object.observe was a proposal that Google themselves eventually unshipped from the Chrome
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Sometimes it is more inefficient to form consensus outside of a meeting or few I have found, and sometimes can have undesirable side effects such as bad politics arising - I’ve seen this plenty enough. Hashing things out in a meeting is bes
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I don’t agree with this as a generalization - there are a lot of times where one needs to come to a consensus between various stakeholders, and group meetings are the best way to lay out the pros/cons, and come to a decision. At bigger
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by Bahamut 9y ago
I’ve gotten a flight voucher from Southwest once tweeting at them - I want to say it was from having to suffer a 10+ hour delay, which was extremely frustrating since I had originally booked the flight the time I did so I could get one full
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by Bahamut 9y ago
There are some things Angular does do far better than React IMO - Angular’s pain points are frustrating to me in terms of how I prefer to code though, largely due to its choice of supporting TS first and TS’s issues with toolchain integrati
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Hm? I dump about 25% of my compensation while living in the Valley (right in Sunnyvale), even while paying 100% of the rent/costs for my 2 bedroom apartment and take multiple vacations a year. I actually even debated dumping almost 6%
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What you are saying is very different than the person’s comments I was referring to. One can be blunt without displaying a trashy attitude, and it doesn’t take that much effort. Most people tell me that I am the most blunt person they know
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Having preferences is one thing, but being judgmental/presumptuous towards people working in that realm & using slang with a clear derogatory bent to describe them for something that does not inherently relate to morals is another.
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To be fair, Apple already pays better than most companies.
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That’s just flat out wrong. My GitHub profile has gotten strong interest from companies, including the famous big tech companies (I work at one currently), due to having a ton of open source contributions to major projects & smart analy

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