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by _ah 6y ago
A good PM saves work for the team by shifting work away from from valueless investments. If a team is "slowing down to appease a PM" then that PM is worthless.
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by _ah 6y ago
High-COL areas will take the hit as the Professional Class moves out. Ultra-high -COL areas will be fine... they are mostly full of executives anyway, who will continue to need an office location from which to operate. No CEO wants to spe
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by _ah 6y ago
My predictions are similar: 1. Scale all salaries to expensive markets 2. Stagnate vs inflation, until salaries track mid-market cities (Denver, Austin) instead of San Francisco / NYC. A bout of high national inflation would make this
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by _ah 6y ago
The best teacher is experience. If you feel like your skills have plateaued, I recommend looking for a new job using very hard technology and having world-class colleagues to learn from. Doesn't matter how much study you do, you will t
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by _ah 6y ago
Spot on. I visited Hawaii for a couple of weeks and it completely destroyed my motivation. Didn't even know that was possible. I was so relaxed, just enjoying life . I remember being stuck behind a slow driver on the freeway, not cari
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by _ah 6y ago
I turn my phone completely off at night. There's maybe a little bit of anxiety (what if there's an emergency and someone tries to call?) But then of course, they can't call because my phone is off and whatever the crisis is
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by _ah 6y ago
1. Individual Contributors are more effective at home without distractions. 2. Managers are more effective at the office where they can talk to people and discover information: "manage by walking around". 3. Why are managers &#x2F
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by _ah 6y ago
This may be true, but these vacant roles are generally limited to candidates who have already performed at that level elsewhere. It's very difficult to gain a promotion while also moving to an equivalent-or-better company. The easiest
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by _ah 6y ago
+1 to all the recommendations for Brother laser printers. I've had a full-color machine for several years now and it's been rock solid. Prints literally every time, the first time . I didn't even know that was possible. Call
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by _ah 6y ago
Building software is like building a road through a thick, uncharted jungle. You know where you are, and you know (approximately) where you're going, but there are many many problems to be solved along the way. Do you need to hack thr
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by _ah 6y ago
https://archive.is/ckHvh
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by _ah 6y ago
Technologies are tools. Figure out who your customer is and what problem you're trying to solve, and then look for suggestions for the right tool to solve that problem.
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by _ah 6y ago
It depends almost entirely on seniority and your relationship to the company. I found that for most IC jobs, once you give your two week notice you immediately lose a lot of the relational power that you previously enjoyed. There is no ince
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by _ah 6y ago
The closest analog is probably large spreadsheets. In those cases, if you're not sorting on the data itself, the typical operation is to cut/paste a range of rows. But honestly if you're expecting your users to manually sort
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by _ah 6y ago
That sounds like a pretty standard and rational process. I've seen headcount handled other, less rational ways. In any environment with constrained budget (most environments), Eng managers will not have carte blanche to hire. Each pers
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by _ah 6y ago
I attended a great founders' talk (can't find a recording at the moment). The speaker said they used this method: 1. Identify your target customer first (not the product or the market!) 2. Interview your target customers. Take not
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by _ah 6y ago
The biggest thing for you to realize is that you can absolutely do any of those things. But you can probably only do one or two of them. Spreading your efforts around is going to get you mediocre everything, which may be okay, but if you wa
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by _ah 6y ago
Sanitation workers may be low-skill but they are high-value. I don't think this is a good example. In contrast, a friend of mine recently hired the teenager next door with cash (for less than the local minimums) to do some manual yard
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by _ah 6y ago
Walmart eliminated all greeters last year.
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by _ah 6y ago
The direct effect of the minimum wage is to make certain low-productivity jobs illegal . Consider that for a moment: a person with limited skills and/or needs is simply prohibited from doing low-productivity work regardless of desir
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by _ah 6y ago
1. Have a set criteria for what skills a successful candidate possesses. 2. Have a set of pre-defined interview topics or resume rubrics designed to discover and test for these skills. 3. Ask everyone the same questions. Grade everyone the
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by _ah 6y ago
Hilly areas also often have railroads along the water since that is the flattest terrain.
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by _ah 6y ago
This already happens. I once had a conversation with a Homeland Security officer at a backyard BBQ, and he said: "When you see on the news that Police randomly stopped a car and discovered a huge cache of drugs... you don't actua
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by _ah 6y ago
* Bullet points. * Concise bullet points. * Easy-to-scan bullet points. There is a style of resume I sometimes encounter: huge blocks of paragraph text including scattered bold statements about React Native and other Super Buzzwords . Th
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by _ah 6y ago
If you don't want to move, that's fine. Better to be happy where you're at (as long as the company is willing to tolerate you long-term in that position). If you want to move up you'll need some different skills. "M
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by _ah 6y ago
Weirdly, the thing I find missing most from this discussion is finance . If we take the premise that information is valuable (decrease inputs, improve yields) and that equipment is valuable (automation), then there's a very real retur
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by _ah 6y ago
Rather than "invisible text", I've typically included a block of relevant items at the bottom of my resume in a smaller font under the heading "Keyword Clickbait".
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by _ah 6y ago
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by _ah 6y ago
Severe RSI forced me to learn mousing with my non-dominant hand. Now I am "ambimoustrous" and switch back and forth throughout the day. When I start a new job, the first thing I request is a second mouse so that I have one availab
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by _ah 6y ago
I am so excited by this achievement, and offer hearty congratulations to SpaceX and NASA. That said, I think that everyone anticipating a dramatic reduction in orbital cost needs to temper their enthusiasm a bit. UAL was expensive, as many

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