Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I struggle with this sometimes, too. There are some examples that are very easy, but others that are very difficult. For example, finding a word in a dictionary. One algorithm is to start at the beginning and read all the way through until
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I'm a Director-level in Engineering at a startup. I get at least 20 cold emails per day trying to sell me on some software or another. I ignore all of them and never respond. I get a lot of recruiters emailing, too. If they're try
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I sympathize. I had a similar career trajectory, but wound up going into management (I like it though) once I hit the principal level. Don't underestimate the power of communication though. It would be well worth your time to have a fr
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Background: I used to drink 5-6 cans of soda per day for years. I put on a bunch of weight without even noticing it. I wound up switching to diet soda, and the weight came off, but I kept the caffeine up. I have been a professional software
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Sure! You're 100% correct! But two quick points here: 1) I wasn't advocating necessarily for a degree, but specifically in rebuttal to the idea that non-STEM majors aren't useful in STEM areas, and 2) One of the benefits of a
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> otherwise none of the skills or knowledge are transferable. While I understand the source of this statement and why people often say this, I'm not entirely sure I agree with this, at least anecdotally. For example, I have a degree
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Typically you'd use some sort of SSO provider to manage access. At my last few jobs, we've used Okta, which is a pretty popular choice, but it is far from the only one out there.
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Curious what you think makes it better than Zoom. In my experience, Zoom video quality is heads and shoulders above Meet, and the fact that Zoom supports multiple monitors, whereas Meet does not, means that Zoom pretty much wins hands-down.
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I typically start with OAS or Swagger[1] and define the API spec in YAML or JSON and then generate documentation based on that. There are a bajillion Swagger doc generators that can make things really pretty, such as Spectacle[2], which I&#
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
One of my old bosses told me, "remove the phrase 'it works for me' from your vocabulary. If it worked for _them_, they wouldn't be bringing their problem to you." This made me realize that the phrase "it works
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I agree, but OP is clearly in that second camp, or they wouldn't be asking here ;)
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
> Also, what's a typical path going from a team manager (EM1) to senior manager (EM2)? What are the things I should focus on to show I'm ready for managing managers? (I understand it can take a few years) (Qualifications: Direc
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
If you want a Postman replacement, I recommend Insomnia. There's a free app! And it can import Postman collections, so you aren't totally starting from scratch. https://insomnia.rest/
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Definitely. You're not wrong. But one of the downsides of sticking around for 4+ years is, like I said, there is a _risk of_ (ie, not guaranteed) becoming kind of a stick in the mud and the company then could suffer from your leadershi
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
In the tech industry, I'd generally recommend looking around every 3-4 years, unless you have golden handcuffs and you don't think that can be beat elsewhere. Any longer than that and you risk settling into a box of which you may
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
He says it in some of the comments further down: https://old.reddit.com/r/overemployed/comments/s12c8l/i_star... > There's a lot of sighing, a lot of "ahh this roadblock", a lot of &quo
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
IANAL, but this sounds illegal or at least an immoral thing to do. It's one thing to not be given work or to be given a small amount of work that can be done very quickly, and to use the rest of the downtime to do work for someone else
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
On. I'm a Director-level at my company, and there are engineers that work for me, and I have no idea what they look like. All I've ever seen are their initials on the Zoom call. This drives me nuts. I've noticed that leadersh
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
> and hardly ever works. Technically, there are two desirable outcomes to a PIP: 1) the employee improves and no longer needs to be on a PIP (rare) 2) the company successfully fires the employee and doesn't get sued because they cov
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I have this problem as well, and I'm commenting here in part to follow the thread. I have a Go project, so all I really need to do is deploy a binary. My go-to in the past is just to SCP onto my server, but since the other binary is al
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
It pisses me off that hearing aids are so expensive in the US. The model that I wear costs around $3500 per ear . That's $7000 for both ears! I am "fortunate" (sarcasm) that I'm completely 100% deaf in one ear, and so I
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I have no idea. I don't work at Amazon. Typically in the tech industry, departures tend to have severance included, unless it's for something egregious (eg violence), so I would imagine it does include severance. But again, I don&
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Performance Improvement Plan. On paper, it's a program where management works with you to improve your weak points so you don't get fired. In practice, it's HR protecting the company by documenting reasons to fire you before
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Yeah, hence my original post! someone fix this please! haha
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Don't ask. Tell. Do some research about what your comp should be, and then tell them. "Hey, boss. I've been here for two years. I've built this MVP, upgraded this system, and make most of the tech decisions. I've in
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
Well, the Accessibility section on my Mac (latest Big Sur) doesn't have anything for hearing aids, and it doesn't show up on the normal Bluetooth screen, so... :( Thanks for your assist, but it doesn't look like this works...
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Where do you see Macs? I only see iPads and iPhones on that page.
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I'll give it a shot, but I'm not entirely sure humans read this stuff at Apple, whereas I'm positive humans read Hacker News! (I think... you ARE human, right??) :)
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It's not Bluetooth, exactly, it's something else. See this link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201466 I think it's some kind of Bluetooth, but it doesn't get picked up in regular Bluetooth con
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by Jemaclus 5y ago
I'm profoundly deaf and wear a hearing aid. Some of the modern hearing aids can connect directly to my iPhone, which means I can now hear audio from my phone very, very, very well. I used to hate talking on phones, but now I don't

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