Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 7y ago
I agree with all of that, honestly. What I think is going to change is the belief by the company that WFH is undesirable. Most companies, even those that allow remote work, would prefer that everyone be in the office. There are tons of comp
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I think society will remain largely the same on the surface. Underneath, we'll see some interesting changes from an American perspective. Here are a few off the top of my head: 1. The Cat's Out of the Bag - So many things can&#x27
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Given that these are the five most popular series in modern fantasy, you've certainly got good taste! I'm always on the prowl for new books to read. Do you have any favorite SF/F books that are less well known? Here's a
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Excellent. Thank you.
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Can you elaborate a bit on what features were added on top of the standard library or other popular libraries? A lot of this stuff is very similar to viper (configuration), mux (routing), gorm (database), so I'm wondering if there are
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by Jemaclus 7y ago
Ah, gotcha. That makes a lot more sense. If you were asking them to write a linked list implementation from scratch, I'd have a lot more questions. Having an already-implemented LL and modifying that is a lot more reasonable. Thanks!
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For anyone downvoting, it's a serious question. We're debating these kinds of algorithms as interview questions at my job, and I was curious what this brings to the table versus, say, building a CRUD API or constructing SQL querie
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Sort of off-topic, but I'm interested in how often you reverse a linked list at your job. Is that something that you expect people to be able to do? If so, what does it tell you about them? If they don't know what a linked list is
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I have 14 direct reports and am responsible for 25 people in total.
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I think I didn't communicate that part well. I don't get status emails because the people who should be sending the emails are holding meetings instead :) These are "should have been emails" meetings. For example, you
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Good feedback. I've already brought it up with my team. So far, most of them appear to be fine with it, whereas two people seem very upset about it. I'm still trying to figure out how to handle them, but it really does have to hap
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I'm a director at my company. I spend all day, every day in meetings, with the exception of Friday afternoons. I typically spend that time just thinking about everything that happened in the week and writing down thoughts and things to
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by Jemaclus 7y ago
I strongly believe that you don't get what you don't ask for. Nobody is going to advocate for your career except for yourself. IMO, the best strategy is to have a frank conversation with your boss. You basically have two options:
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Couple of things: 1. Don't read the slides. We can all read. Give us additional context that the slide doesn't have. But... 2. If the slide communicates clearly and concisely what you need to say, don't keep talking for the s
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Hope so...
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My boss and I create a Slack thread each week for 1:1 topics. One thing to remember is that 1:1 time is YOUR time, not your boss's time. They can schedule a meeting with you any time for their topics, but 1:1s are always your chance to
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This isn't specific to code comments, but one soft skill that everyone should learn is how to have conversations with high stakes. The code changes might not be high stakes, but having a good relationship with your peer is very high st
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The tactic that worked for me was to bring it up to my boss. I set up a 1:1 with him, and said "In 2-3 years, I want your job. How can I get there?" (and "want your job" obviously means "to do what you do" not
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I automate all my finances. All of my bills are on autopay, percentages of my paycheck automatically go into investments. It's really important to pay yourself first, so by automating it, I take out the cognitive load. I don't hav
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by Jemaclus 7y ago
Gotcha. That's difficult. What I recommend, then, is that you decide what your career goal is and bring that up as a long-term goal. In a lot of interviews, they'll ask you where you see yourself in 5 years, and people give whatev
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> I've tried several times to get a leadership position and have either been passed over or shot down as "too technical". This is probably an obvious question, so I apologize in advance if you've already done this, bu
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I highly recommend the book "I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi. It's an easy read and is a pretty fool-proof way to set up your finances. Any moderately successful person would probably give you the same advice, but
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by Jemaclus 7y ago
Other people have given advice along the lines of what I'm going to say, but just to reiterate: take this opportunity to get on-the-job training. It's free, and you have an opportunity to advance your career in a lot of ways. I ha
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Almost never. I've never in my professional career had to invert a binary tree or write a sorting algorithm from scratch or reinvent a queue data structure. I've never had to build a Minesweeper clone or generate a maze. Any time
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Very cool! Good luck!
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I've wondered this myself. It seems like one of the well-funded *nix distros should be able to create something as clean-looking and plug-and-play as Mac OSX. I've used several flavors of Linux in the last few years, but nothing e
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In my experience, you don't get what you don't ask for . In other words, your work/performance rarely "speaks" for itself. If you believe your work is representative of a promotion, then you should absolutely talk
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Find a local dog trainer! They're worth every penny.
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Depends on whether you're hiring for an agency or a non-agency (startup, etc). Agencies generally want a wide variety of websites that you've worked on. I haven't worked for one in years, so I'll leave it at that. Person
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I'm building a MUD in Go from scratch. It's similar to the Merc/Diku muds from way back when, and I'm supporting area files from those distributions so I can just load in existing areas. This is really just for fun. I&#x

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