Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Can you elaborate on "fix[ing] error handling" and what some of those small annoying quirks might be? I've got my own annoyances, but am always interested in what other people think.
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That's great to know. I'm in the US, so I couldn't speak to how the market operates outside, but I'm glad to hear that the markets are good across the board for engineers. Thanks for the additional info!
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If you're in the United States, I would leave right now, take a few weeks off to get your head back on straight, and then look for a new job. This is one of the hottest job markets I've ever seen for software engineers, and perhap
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> I'm fairly certain that not all marriages are based on fear of the potential pain of open relationships I don't think that's what the parent comment was saying. I read it as "being too open-minded can backfire on yo
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I've literally gone to Google and typed something very similar to "That guy in that thing with the dog" and the correct answer shows up as the first result. It's quite brilliant and magical how they do that. But sometime
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I love this so much. My big feature request is to let me upload the podcast logo to display in the background. Otherwise, this is great!
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This may be true, but in practice, it doesn't seem to happen. Aline Lerner (@leeny) wrote this blog post about this a while back: https://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-com...
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> Shouldn't candidates have portfolios -- i.e., examples of software that they have built, with a complete git history, etc? Most career engineers (including myself) have worked on proprietary systems. I can't show you any prod
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I have a BlueTooth-enabled hearing aid (ReSound Linq) that connects directly to my iPhone. It's a life-changing feature. It also has some capability to find hearing aids, but since I'm profoundly deaf and not wearing my hearing ai
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I'm profoundly deaf, and I can answer these questions for myself: > Do you charge on ear at a time so you are never without some level of hearing? I'm completely deaf in one ear, so I only wear one hearing aid. If I take it out
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Point of clarification: our friends aren't boring . We love hanging out with them and doing things with them. But from a strictly social media standpoint, their posts aren't the kind of content we want to consume. I can only see
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I don't know about "we" and I can't speak for the rest of the world, but in the United States one of the more pervasive problems I see is a lack of second- and third- and Nth-order thinking about problems. Just as an exa
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My wife and I were discussing Facebook vs Instagram vs TikTok the other day. Neither of us use Facebook. My wife pointed out that our friends aren't interesting. Their posts are often their kids or their families or politics or somethi
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One example might be influencers buying followers. If simply paying money for bots (or people?) to follow you is enough to create "influence," then that may be a flaw in the system.
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We would be remiss not to mention patio11's excellent (if long) Salary Negotiation blog post[1] from years ago. Still holds up. I took a negotiation class last year, and it was pretty eye-opening. One of the things we discussed is how
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Not sure if you knew this or not, but Phil Eaton (the OP) writes databases for fun[1]. This post isn't saying Postgres and MySQL aren't modern, but is more trying to get ideas for what to play around with next. [1] https:/&#
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I'm very sorry to hear that. Normally, I would suggest mentioning extenuating circumstances to your boss in 1:1s as a way to build trust and open communication, which theoretically should mean that you'll get a little bit of a bre
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As a hiring manager, it wouldn't bother me if you told me that you aren't quite ready to interview just yet and that you would reach back out in a month or two. I would say OK, no problem. The big risk is that the position might n
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> I attend my 1-1 because I have to. I honestly don't get any value out of it. (I'm a director-level with 4 managers under me and 30 engineers total under them, and I've been managing for ~10 years now.) Theoretically, 1:1
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Well, there are a few things to tease out here here. The first is that DoorDash and its ilk did not invent food delivery. Delivery services have been around for decades, if not centuries, and San Francisco (or any other major city like this
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I'm pretty sure you're not suggesting that DoorDash, et al, invented the food delivery industry out of whole cloth... The point wasn't that delivery fees exist, but that they seem to be increasing to the point where a municip
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I don't know the numbers off the top of my head. I make no guarantees as to the accuracy of this, but according to this article [1], there are approximately 4 million house-bound Americans. This is effectively the lower-bound of the pe
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This seems like quite a leap. Can you elaborate on your hypothesis? Genuinely interested.
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I totally agree. But for me, the expense is generally not worth it, so I've switched to pickup.
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I made no such assumptions. If you think I did make those assumptions, then either I have failed to communicate my position or you have misread my post. Understanding the economics of the delivery ecosystem and thinking that those economics
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I feel like this comment is an attack on me and I'm not really sure why that is. I routinely order _dinner_. When I first started using sites like DoorDash, the fees didn't seem to be as high as they are now. When the fees got to
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One thing that the San Francisco cap will do is greatly benefit those who are disabled or otherwise unable to pick up. There is a large segment of the population that simply cannot do what I do and go pick it up. (See my anecdote below.) Th
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Anecdotally, I don't have kids of my own, but none of my friends with kids send theirs to public schools in SF or Oakland. I also live on the same block as two private schools in Oakland and apparently the wait lists to get in are year
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I value transparency as a leader, and so I keep my calendar public and encourage my teams to do so as well. However, sometimes I'll just block off some time with the word "busy" as the title. It looks like it's a private
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For customer-, client-, partner-, vendor-generated complaints, I also operate on the "always assume the bug is in our code" philosophy. You don't want to go back to a customer (customer, client, partner, vendor) and tell them

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