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by Mc91 6y ago
> The toxicity in these communities is a result of what was leftover Toxicity relative to what? I have worked in a number of places much more toxic than Stallman's GNU project, or Linus's Linux kernel etc. As has been said bef
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by Mc91 6y ago
One piece of advice I saw recently - if you are interviewing, FAANG companies supposedly have a longer offer acceptance window. Smaller startups often have a smaller window. Also FAANG companies and larger companies and organization usual
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by Mc91 6y ago
For me it is #2. I posted my resume on a looking for work thread and got a contract at good pay and some money I needed at the time. There have been other threads on HN that helped to put some money in my pocket, but that put the most in.
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by Mc91 6y ago
I subscribe to their web site. Because my father subscribed and liked it, and I find it useful as well - also my former team lead was a lead there for a while. It is $40 a year. They do surveys of consumers as well as do their own testing
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by Mc91 6y ago
I last interviewed in 2019 where I was passed on by several companies before my current job. In my spare time I study for interviews, even though I do not plan to interview again for another year at least. I try to fit in my interview stud
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by Mc91 6y ago
I started last year living in New York City. Many of my friends have moved down to Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta, and Tampa over the past few years, and in spring of last year I got a job offer and moved south as well. Insofar as living expe
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by Mc91 6y ago
Yes, 25 years in IT and reading resumes, I was never passed anything other than a resume by HR.
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by Mc91 6y ago
I don't think it ends at university. I have been in IT a while but am somewhat new to my stack, and had trouble two years ago when interviewing, a number of companies passed on me. I got hired at a decent salary but don't want t
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by Mc91 6y ago
These are the technicians who control IP. For the US this can really be whittled down more - the people who go to IETF and NANOG meetings that work for AT&T and Verizon. Because the vast majority of Americans are dependent on pipes or
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by Mc91 6y ago
> Day in the life in a low effective environment > notes that a previous feature has been approved by reviewers, she moves it into another branch that kicks off a long nightly E2E test suite that is almost always red, managed by a sil
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by Mc91 6y ago
> I've also never personally experienced the tech trope of being in high demand, getting multiple great offers or amazing salary/perks. It seems a lot more uphill than the experiences that other people share online. Interviewin
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by Mc91 6y ago
A good thought, I just did as well.
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by Mc91 6y ago
I thought California had better IP assignment laws than states like Texas ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208819 ), but it is not something I know about in full detail. I know California can can claim ownership if y
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by Mc91 6y ago
I got my current job when I got a good offer to relocate. When I eventually leave, I will either return home or move to the bay area. One of the reasons I would move out to the bay area would be the better noncompete and IP assignment leg
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by Mc91 6y ago
> there are still over three times as many apartments currently listed for rent in San Francisco than there were at the same time last year with an overall vacancy rate that’s ticked up to around 10 percent (and climbing). In terms of pr
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by Mc91 6y ago
> I guess a moral of the story is, if you want to be a part of the "future", you are better off entering data for a company actually building the future, rather than hanging out with people who sit around talking about what it
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by Mc91 6y ago
> This seems to be a more common modern phenomenon where people need to pump out something to look good/productive and then coast away before the challenging effort of making things work together occurs. I would say this issue is ex
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by Mc91 6y ago
I got my last job by putting my resume up on Linkedin. A recruiter contacted me for a company I would not have thought to apply to, I interviewed and was hired. Prior to that I got interviews via Linkedin. For small companies I look at ht
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by Mc91 6y ago
Outside of the quarantine zone, New Zealand hasn't had a new case of Covid in three weeks. Every detected case in NZ in the past three weeks has been from people getting off planes, going into quarantine, and testing positive. Also, o
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by Mc91 6y ago
My main usage of Glassdoor is to see what kind of interview questions a company asks. I know for a fact I and others have gotten the same listed questions.
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by Mc91 6y ago
Last year I was lured from New York City to one of the US's big 25 metro areas, not in the Midwest. In New York, I would go to topic-focused programming meetups at Facebook's NYC headquarters and there would be over 200 people the
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by Mc91 6y ago
That's what we do as well. I have been in good standups and bad standups, sometimes at the same company. A bad week-after-week standup was one that dragged on and on, and started at 8AM because that was evening time for our off-shore t
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by Mc91 6y ago
> Everything on the Internet (including Internet itself) degenerated from federation into monopolistic centralized services for a reason, and somehow people keep ignoring the evidence, and just keep trying harder. Sure there's a re
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by Mc91 6y ago
I followed somewhat the history of the various file sharing protocols, from Napster and OpenNap to Gnutella to Bittorrent. None of them really stayed totally p2p. With Gnutella, nodes would slow network connections and weird NAT conditions
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by Mc91 6y ago
We spend our retros whinging about other teams that (are supposed to) support us.
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by Mc91 6y ago
Tech entrepreneurs come out of IT. In the US, when I was a teenager, blacks kids who were into computers were doing the same things the other people going to computer clubs and whatnot did. Some knew more than a lot of the white kids. As
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by Mc91 6y ago
I am not a crypto maven, which means my ability to analyze the strength of various crypo systems is poor, although people say PGP is good at encrypting files and messages. I also had the thought of encrypting a file with one encryption sch
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by Mc91 6y ago
> the "adding more people makes it later" bit was just one of many essays in that book, but it's the only one people ever mention The reason it is continually mentioned is companies make this mistake over and over and over
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by Mc91 6y ago
I have a standup every morning and am happy we are not obligated or somehow pressured to turn video on. I don't have to shave. I don't have to put on a business casual shirt. I don't have to clean up my living room. I don&#x2
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by Mc91 6y ago
Before working from home, I used to set my alarm to two hours before work. I would shave, shower, brush my teeth, have a quick breakfast, then commute in. Now I set my alarm for fifteen minutes before work. It's preferable for me if

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