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by akamia 5y ago
I worked with a team that owned a service that resizes images. An engineer was assigned a task to add support for auto rotating images. His solution involved saving the image to a file and then using a library to handle the rotation. He use
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by akamia 5y ago
I used to work in IT at a Fortune 100 manufacturing company. IE versions hung around for a long time because there was a lot of software that was built with only IE in mind and only received the bare minimum of support. In some cases this w
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by akamia 5y ago
This is definitely true but it doesn't hurt to ask. I've asked every time and gotten some really useful responses. When I was young I interviewed at Microsoft and was rejected. I asked the recruiter for feedback. She talked me thr
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by akamia 5y ago
This was also really common with TVs during the Super Bowl. People would come in and buy the biggest TV they could get, have their Super Bowl party and then return the TV.
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by akamia 6y ago
The last time I was at a start up (~2 years ago), it was a running joke that the easiest way to raise money was to say your product had something to do with AI. We saw so many companies that were branding everything as AI simply to raise a
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by akamia 6y ago
It doesn't necessarily have to be that expensive. I have a friend who recently went through a very friendly divorce. Both parties had agreed on who would get what. In Washington State there's a process for these types of amicable
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by akamia 6y ago
Not really. Longevity and financials were how we identified stability. If the company had been around for a while and/or could demonstrate that they had enough runway to last for a couple years, then we considered them stable. We had e
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by akamia 6y ago
When I worked in Enterprise IT evaluating new products for a Fortune 50 company it was pretty much the same way. The three biggest things that we looked at were functionality, support and the stability of the company. We needed to know that
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by akamia 6y ago
When I worked for Boeing there was some critical factory equipment that still ran on Windows 95 and even Windows 3.1. IIRC, the manufacturers had gone out of business so Boeing actually fabricated parts as needed to keep them running.
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by akamia 6y ago
I was there at the same time and I remember the exact same thing. There was a lot of talk about this being used to offset some of the losses caused by any future union strikes and also as leverage when negotiating with the unions. I also re
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by akamia 6y ago
When I worked at Boeing, we even had them on the windows of offices that weren't being used for government projects. The company's commercial business was also a target for spying so they were very protective in general. To this d
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by akamia 6y ago
The problem with this approach is it also assumes that overcoming the virus means a return to 100% health with no long term impact. We're already seeing that it can lead to other long term conditions. I have a friend who is being treat
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by akamia 6y ago
I can definitely see that happening more often. If you're not required to be in a certain office location, that opens up a lot of options for other cities. I was disagreeing more with the extreme opinion that some have that remote work
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by akamia 6y ago
I've noticed the same thing and especially in tech. I have a few friends who are engineers and have this idea that if everyone went completely remote, cities would clear out as everyone rushed to buy acres of land in the country. I alw
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by akamia 6y ago
I worked with a guy who used to live in the area and he also had an interesting perspective. He explained that there were many people who lived in remote homes that needed to have water, fuel, etc. trucked in from town. Sometimes they would
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by akamia 6y ago
I would add that anyone who is planning on moving into management should also avoid joking like this. I once worked with an engineer who had a lead that would joke all the time about firing him. As a lead he had no authority to fire anyone
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by akamia 6y ago
I once worked at a Fortune 50 company where keeping your budget low was something that upper management (at a certain level) was not happy with. We once built a hadoop cluster because we needed to "burn" some money (~$150k) left i
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by akamia 6y ago
You also miss out on the community aspect of things. Working with a framework like React means that there is a worldwide community of developers that you can tap into when you run into a roadblock. It is incredibly frustrating to run into a
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by akamia 6y ago
Sometimes this happens if the employee falsified information on their background check form to avoid being caught in the background check. Some companies run a quick high level background check but also have longer term processes for in dep
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by akamia 6y ago
Boeing has done this voluntary offer several times. The goal is specifically to entice people who have 25+ years of service and are at or close to eligibility for collecting their pension. When I worked there I had coworkers who were ready
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by akamia 7y ago
> There is no telling if it will actually save time. You could be messing with configurations, have to learn their docs, etc... Or future migration could be expensive in both time and money. Sure. Every situation is different. This isn&#
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by akamia 7y ago
One of the problems that a lot of engineers have is failing to recognize that their time has a cost. Spending 4 extra hours of your own time setting up a mail server that will cost you $5/month to run instead of paying $10 per month fo
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by akamia 7y ago
You're required to keep the dog in the bag under the seat for the entire flight so they shouldn't really affect cleaning. I have two issues with the fee. 1) It only covers one way. For a round trip itinerary you are looking at $2
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by akamia 7y ago
Definitely! My credit union (BECU) actually refunds ATM fees which is an amazing perk. Before I was with them I would try to look up ATMs without fees ahead of time but that can be pretty tricky and inconsistent (especially outside of citie
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by akamia 7y ago
Yeah. That's pretty frustrating. I always try to make sure that I have at least one card that doesn't have foreign transaction fees and I stick to that card I'm out of the country.
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by akamia 7y ago
That's been my experience as well. Using credit cards when possible and withdrawing cash from ATMs are the two best ways to get a good exchange rate.
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by akamia 7y ago
It's a little hard to know whether this is reasonable or not without knowing more about the circumstances (dollar amounts, is this change your decision or theirs?). I haven't experienced it personally but I've had friends in
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by akamia 7y ago
I think often what you'll see on the IC side is above the Senior level (Principal, Distinguished, Fellow, etc.) there are fewer available roles. I've been in organizations where the highest level you could go is Distinguished Eng
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by akamia 7y ago
I had the same thing happen. When we were discussing me joining the company there was a very clear plan for the product and the path to revenue. Unfortunately, he had one meeting that completely shook his confidence in that direction. After