aikiplayer

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by aikiplayer 3y ago
I’ve been in several different orgs that held a lot of layoffs and they’re sometimes performance related but other times just wrong place, wrong time as others have commented. I also see advice that states you should change jobs every few y
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by aikiplayer 3y ago
We might not be able to quantitatively measure it but we can run studies to evaluate what individuals and teams can handle. Human factors people do this and it’s a sub field in industrial engineering. The military runs these studies and I
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by aikiplayer 3y ago
Merry Christmas all. Like many of the posters have said, I really treasure this site as this is what I still believe the Internet should be (yep, I’m old). Love all the nuggets I find here and the number of threads and articles I share ou
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by aikiplayer 3y ago
The department of education does publish this. They've apparently changed their website a bit but here it is: https://collegecost.ed.gov/
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by aikiplayer 3y ago
Just came back from a short trip to Kentucky. The area we were had tons of billboards advertising caves. Really jumped out at me at the time.
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by aikiplayer 3y ago
Back when I was doing a lot of full time dev, my approach was to figure out how to build Hello World (usually the device driver equivalent) and then debug it and then start for real. But always started with how to build it and debug it.
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by aikiplayer 4y ago
A couple of years ago I moved from a more structured (not exactly slower paced in the job I was in) employer to a FAANG-like employer. I was making more money (base salary wasn't that different, stock and bonuses were). As I got more
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by aikiplayer 4y ago
"the 80s called and it wants its 8 ball of coke back." This phrase made me laugh out loud - literally. Thanks for this! Also, this thread is spot on.
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by aikiplayer 4y ago
This was a more balanced post than I expected. I'm probably older than the median here on HN and I think it's a generational thing. My parents were of the generation when folks tended to work for a company for a majority of thei
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by aikiplayer 4y ago
I'm a still learning guitar player (I think I've been taking lessons for ~8.5 yrs and did some piano lessons as a kid and was in school bands). I usually work on solo style arrangements of popular songs but sometimes dabble into l
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by aikiplayer 4y ago
I think you can actually flip this situation around a little bit. You've now learned about a couple of things that are really important to you: - You're ready to move on from being an IC - You want to help or mentor others There&
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by aikiplayer 4y ago
It's definitely steep and getting steeper by the month. The other downside, that's actually more significant than the base salary difference, is the lack of upside from stock, etc. (which a sibling also commented on). However, th
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by aikiplayer 5y ago
There are times when complex frameworks are necessary because they've already dealt with the complexity and times when they're overkill or stupidly inefficient. The point being made in other comments about minimizing dev time vs m
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by aikiplayer 5y ago
I think I'm going to take a slightly different approach to some of the comments and the article. Notes: My wife is a long-time primary grade (think Kinder - 2) teacher and I've got 3 kids, 1 fully baked and 2 in college. 1st, reg