JimboOmega

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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I live and work in SF. I don't know what magical place you work at; at the smaller (<250 people) places I've worked at, I'm the most senior woman as a Senior Software Engineer. There are Female EMs at my current employer (
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I do have a tendency to be unconfident, to ask permission, be deferential, wait for somebody to tell me to do the thing, etc, when I could just do the thing. I tend to assume what I was going to do was wrong, especially if I get any pushbac
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Well I am a woman, so there is that image problem automatically. You're right about the other bit, though. Even as the most knowledgeable and senior person on the team, I do have something of a habit of letting people who are loud dera
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
"Applying to external companies" as currently an IC looking for an EM role? I have tried this on a limited level in the past, and either get no response or get told that I don't have experience (I have a few months with one d
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Who cares that much about the salary when you are that point in the Software Engineeering career track in SV anyway? What, really, is the difference between making $300K/yr and even fully doubling that to $600K? A nicer apartment, a ni
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Does the book cover how to get the position in the first place? I've read countless books (Like "The Managers Path" and "Managing Humans"), blog articles, etc, and tried many strategies, but it never seems to happen
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I didn't mean to make this about transgender medicine. The evidence is pretty strong that hormone treatment improves wellbeing for transgender patients[1], and of course, they can always stop it if it doesn't. The fact that very f
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
There's a huge family of "Neurosteroids"[1], which impact various receptors in the brain in lots of super complicated ways that aren't entirely understood. They are synthesized in all kinds of ways naturally, and when it
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Not only does what's best for the company not matter, but what is stated in the rubrics doesn't matter so much either. Interestingly, how the rubric itself gets interpreted seems to vary; for the right people, it's a list of
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Being utterly confident means people will assume you bring a lot of value to the table, whether or not you do. The signals you give are usually the first and some of the strongest ones that people look at. Of course, if you're a total
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Real question - is this possible to do as a woman? I often feel like the games of the office, especially the engineering office, are much more naturally suited (and familiar to) men. I've known people who seem to coast to leadership po
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
The theory is that heavy use during adolescence leaves permanent changes in adulthood. Heavy usage that starts in adulthood doesnt' seem to have the same level of permanent effects.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Those who use heavily in Adolescence can lose something like 6 or 8 IQ points, among other negative effects. Those who start as adults and stop don't seem to have the same effects[1], but it is unclear how much that reflects lower base
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I was basically born into CS; there was no question even from Kindergarten that I would ever go into another field. Got my first real full time job at 25, and it was mediocre, it was definitely not a FAANG paradise, and I remember we worrie
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Actually, most of the time we say "in the cloud" rather than naming a specific hosting provider. Definitely Amazon has the first mover advantage and accumulated reputation first, but it's hardly unassailable. Still... I think
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I don't know if you've ever seen "The Good Place" but it's a driving plot point of a recent season that it's almost impossible to be "good" because every action you take has all these unintended conse
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Yeah, wanted to respond this way. Buybacks are basically a one off dividend. Companies want to return money to shareholders, but don't want to commit to returning a certain amount regularly, so they do buybacks. Whether the stock is ov
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
College is only partially about getting educated directly - it's also about proving you can adult on some level. Can you get to classes on time and manage a schedule that's more complex than "be at this building for 6 hours a
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I still don't exactly understand what the value of a non-voting share is. What rights does it confer, exactly. Why do I want to own it?
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
This is an initial phone screen and in this context this a valuable approach. This is one level past fizzbuzz. 'Can you code something past "hello world"?' is what they're looking for. There's nothing worse tha
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
> Beyond that, in my opinion, nearly anyone with average programming experience can hack a typical programming/whiteboard interview I agree with your conclusion that all it does is filter out inexperienced/incompetent candidate
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Except in California we had proposition 13, so that property taxes are severely hamstrung; I wonder how much impact that alone has on the overall analysis given the size of California as part of the US economy. I really think we should brin
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Couldn't we address the real estate problem by having (more) property taxes? I wonder how much impact prop 13 alone had on the problem (I also wonder how the US analysis would look with California subtracted) Of course such taxes wou
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
This whole thing is ignorant to the point of being offensive. > Role model nonsense is even more absurd, because it already assumes things like women can't have men role models. You need to have the sexist mindset in the first place
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
It's also worth remembering that the problem continues in the workforce; there's fewer women reaching senior roles, fewer taking EM positions, etc. Those steps are entirely under the control of employers - women drop out of tech f
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
This is what I meant by "barely". It still makes no effort to actually look for compatibility.
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
> Can also confirm that online dating is a horrible, confidence-destroying nightmare (presumably for both sexes). It is, though it's more the overall culture it has created than online dating itself. The culture where there's a
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
Only OkCupid does; Tinder barely tries and even then it's hidden. For the most part the selling point is that you get introduced to people you wouldn't just meet in your normal social cirlces/events. Apps besides OkCupid have
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
I don't think there's anything dishonest about estimating a task discounted for all the random org noise. It is annoying when your boss balks at your estimates using productivity when everything goes smoothly and there are no inte
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by JimboOmega 7y ago
> "I don't know, but we'll figure it out" is what I like to hear, versus, "This is how it Must Be Done!" I've had this argument multiple times recently. Usually when I say the former the response is som

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