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by alexbanks 6y ago
My high school looks indistinguishable from a prison. When I have to drive by it now while visiting home I always kind of shudder. Giant mostly windowless buildings with a giant fence surrounding.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Literally none of them.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I would say, with respect, I don't think this experience is normal or standard. I've never been reimbursed for a conference even if it was exactly for the technology that company built their entire product with.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
There were all kinds of problems with the test suite that could've been optimized. The problem was that there were too many to manage, and that deleting them was culturally unacceptable. Lots of them made real DB requests. It's ha
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> Wanna underline here that system tests are slow, unit tests are fast. System tests are slow but, in my experience, are far far far more valuable medium and long term. Unit tests are fast and relatively unhelpful.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> In attempting to fix a bug, that could cause another "internal" test to fail and expose a flaw in your bugfix that you wouldn't have caught otherwise. If an external test passes and an internal test fails, the external t
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by alexbanks 6y ago
It's not about biting. You're allowed to feel however you want. It's unproductive and shitty to make drive by vague observations. I'm not even commenting on whether or not the feelings are valid, I'm commenting on t
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by alexbanks 6y ago
The ol "Ominous and severe statement backed by nothing". You gotta love it.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Yes. This HR exec was always guilty of putting unmarked calendar invites on people's calendars because she didn't understand/know how to do private/restricted invites. So you'd show up to work and find a 2pm "H
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by alexbanks 6y ago
A previous HR executive used to open every slack conversation with "yt?" Which stood for "You There?". I never understood why you would say that and nothing else, and if the answer was "no", why you wouldn&#x27
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Snowflake is by far the best data warehouse I have ever used. I would use it at any job where data warehousing was a keystone of our work. Really 10/10, not even close.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
This is my first time being involved in a game. Is there a way to make dependency/package management not abysmal? I was legitimately shocked when I realized that if you wanted to install a .net standard 2.0 library, you had to manually
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by alexbanks 6y ago
God, when I was in the Ruby world it felt like other engineers would always say things like "Just type < insert magic line of text > and it'll just do this for you". I hated it. I hated it so much.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
My mistake. Was trying to translate (and very clearly didn't read).
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Sorry - I didn't read the article - I was mostly trying to translate what (I incorrectly thought) the person you responded to was trying to say. I apologize.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I didn't read and don't want to spread misinformation. Disregard.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
You've just identified the difference between "Proven" and "Proven to me." The former has already been done, but obviously the latter requires a person to not actively refuse to listen. If you're ready to liste
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I think you're both kind of right. There are ads on pretty much every medium that say "Stay Home", which is not at all what you're describing. To say "nobody is saying do not socialize" is untrue, but to say &q
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by alexbanks 6y ago
My point is not that it's easy, or that having a guide is unhelpful. My point is that the pretend song-and-dance of current car buying is ridiculous and anti-consumer. And lots of people don't have complex requirements for their v
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Weird how customers are able to compare models and purchase in almost all other walks of life
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Where did they say they couldn't afford to pay these people?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
They latched onto the meaninglessness that is office work, combined with the obvious passive aggression and lack of respect that big companies have for their employees
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I think it's different for everyone, and I think finding what piece is preventing you from moving forward is important. For some people, they just _want to want_ something, rather than actually wanting it. Identifying that you don&#x27
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Doing layoffs doesn't necessarily mean you don't have the cash to pay everyone, or even that you're not cashflow positive. Sometimes orgs do big layoffs amidst big hiring pushes, meaning they don't feel like their resour
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Replace Software Engineers with "Anyone involved in the creation of software", and then it goes from a "Definitely not" to a "Eh, maybe." Until the people pointing the software engineering departments are held
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> I feel you're trying to make a valid point Thanks? > but you aren't really respecting how much LeBron was an outlier as a prospect This is rewriting history. The thing about signing someone straight from high school is it&
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by alexbanks 6y ago
You're arguing against a point no one made. I never said said Lebron was all luck. I said that the luck was Lebron having his genetics and mindset combined with the year he was born, the circumstances with which he was drafted and the
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I think that we agree mostly, but I just don't think Lebron's individual skill is that inherent. If you compare high school lebron to now, obviously there are tremendous differences. The amount of "what ifs" that show up
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Lebron James was the exact definition of right place, right skills, right time. Lots of players have "tremendous talent" and "tremendous commitment." Lebron wouldn't be what he is today without a tremendous amount o
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> but it's not clear that these companies have better alternatives. It obviously depends on your definition of "better". And it's yet to be seen whether whiteboarding is "better" than pulling candidates out

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