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by ah88 4y ago
JetBrains, O’Reilly subscription
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by ah88 5y ago
Having worked on teams that do it well, and on teams that don't, it's because people were never taught the right approach. They tend to write bad tests making the experience frustrating.
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by ah88 5y ago
Definitely The Happiness Advantage. It’s about how we keep moving goalposts on what makes us happy and how to stop that. TedTalk from a long time ago: https://youtu.be/GXy__kBVq1M
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by ah88 5y ago
Midwest. Was hiring entry-level consultants from a reputable company for about $100/hr. Never saw rates for the lower-tier shops but I’d guess it’s about $70-80/hr for low quality engineer. This is how much we were paying compani
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by ah88 5y ago
I regularly burn 800-900 calories an hour during HIIT workouts. Typically I’m worn out and very hungry throughout the day. Most I’ve burned was 1500/1600 calories riding a bike with moderate intensity but didn’t feel that bad after.
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by ah88 5y ago
The FAA is also maintaining a core set of ground navigational based stations (VOR) in case of GPS failures. It’s the COBOL of the aviation industry :) There are occasionally parts of the sky that have GPS outages due to military activity an
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by ah88 5y ago
CFI here. It’s not a big deal in most of the country but the Pacific Northwest does have variation of about 20 degrees. It can make a difference when calculating takeoff and landing data as winds are true but runways are magnetic.
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by ah88 5y ago
Yes with a local bank. No fees for basic account services, mobile app is decent with remote deposit capability, local branches for the difficult things like cash deposit and the money stays in my community.
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by ah88 5y ago
When a director pulled two engineers together, gave them the problem and told them they had until the end of the year to make it happen. Ended up hiring an external consultant to help get stuff done. Delivered 3 months early. Team was very
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by ah88 5y ago
Being a new parent, I realized this is one thing I have failed at in my 20s with my parents. Should have definitely called them more often, even if it's just for a few minutes here and there.
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by ah88 5y ago
OrangeTheory fitness. It’s fun, great for any shape and you’ll be motivated because you pay for it. I had the BeachBody app but got bored of working out at home alone. I used to be in shape prior to Covid wfh. Used
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by ah88 5y ago
Any specific resources that took you to the advanced level?
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by ah88 5y ago
Not going to to a software engineering heavy organization. Instead I went to a place where we had to justify using Java 8 instead of Java 7.
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by ah88 5y ago
They have been focusing on selling other products besides ads so curious how much of that revenue growth is from ads vs other products.
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by ah88 5y ago
Last few teams did not but current team does. I can see it helpful if you’re shipping a customer-facing app, you need rough lead time on internal training (customer service), sales for competitive purposes and product for customer expectat
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by ah88 5y ago
One way is to isolate the applications that actually need SOX compliance and have separation of duties for those. The ones that don't need to follow SOX compliance don't need those controls.
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by ah88 6y ago
It's common practice to change procedures instead of certification. I flew an airplane that was getting ready to be retired after it's been in service for ~30 years and we had a lot of emergency procedures and memory items (items
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by ah88 6y ago
Good response, just a side note: there are much simpler and cheaper hosting options than EC2. Consider Heroku, AWS Elsastic Beanstalk, probably others.
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by ah88 6y ago
Somewhat surprised at the number of negative experiences. I've had them for ~3 weeks and can't believe I didn't buy them sooner. I did go from a wired headset to these for work and they're a game changer. Battery life is
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by ah88 6y ago
That sounds not great. Two years into your career you need a better experience and great mentors. Get any job that is writing code. What's great is that you're only two years in, I see people like this 10 years into their career.
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by ah88 6y ago
I like their interview process (minus the leetcode grind that’s been happening lately). They focus on fundamentals and core CS knowledge. Other company interviews, like mine, focus on knowledge or current trends, which change over time.
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by ah88 6y ago
Not Amazon but at an HR/leader meeting our HR disclosed 45% of people on PIPs end up staying with the company.
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by ah88 6y ago
Mostly pair programming for about 7 years now. It's not a silver bullet and don't overdo it but it definitely has advantages. I like it but don't love it. People dislike it when they pair on a story that's trivial or bo
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by ah88 6y ago
That's my current setup. TV with the network connection disabled running Apple TV.