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541.
by amorphid 10y ago
People hear what they want to hear. As a boss, you can choose to say what you want and see what happens. It might be wiser to choose words carefully, so your subordinates don't get the wrong message.
542.
by amorphid 10y ago
Get your work done and you can go home early.
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by amorphid 10y ago
My comment was a comment, not an employee handbook. Boss: "Hey, my partner and I would love it if you'd like to join us for drinks at my place on Saturday night." Employee (replies & CC's boss's boss): "I
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by amorphid 10y ago
Get everyone focused on thinking about the team's mission, role, and what it takes to get the job done. Drill that into everyone's head and stick to it. Let everything else go. A mentor once told me that business fundamentally r
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by amorphid 10y ago
This morning I wrote a note to myself that I didn't earn the "X". I've been trying to wake up at 7a, and go thru a start of day checklist. I want the "X" damn it. Tomorrow, maybe I'll read the checklist
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by amorphid 10y ago
And I bet you don't need to write a spam bot to spam your resume out to N * 10^50 job postings. It sounds like you've outgrown the need to seeks answers to questions you might have asked earlier in your career. That is a nice po
547.
by amorphid 10y ago
You've Only Got Three Seconds by Camille Lavington The book taught me the importance of making a good impression, how to improve my situation, to focus on being effective, and not hang on to things that are holding me back.
548.
by amorphid 10y ago
Anything that makes you a strong fit or that makes you really like the position. Even if you don't have much to say, anything that makes your application not look like spam, and spamming out a resume is exactly what the author of this
549.
by amorphid 10y ago
When I was recruiting, a generic application wasn't an automatic deal breaker, but it wasn't good. If you can't take the time that you're applying to a specific job for a specific reason, that's usually a sign that
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by amorphid 10y ago
I've recently made pretty good gains at minimizing procrastination. First, I simply eliminated working on anything I didn't really need and/or want to do. I don't need to think about doing stuff I don't plan on do
551.
by amorphid 10y ago
Were you experienced with micro services before starting your latest thing? When starting a project, you're going to have constraints: money, time, available talent, management's blessing, etc. I'd guess those constraints a
552.
by amorphid 10y ago
I hope it ships with drivers for my 3dfx Voodoo 5! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5
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by amorphid 10y ago
Nutty or not, it happens. I was a Ruby dev and was asked to work on a Scala app. I could contribute to Ruby stuff quite nicely, and could hardly figure out how to compile the Scala app. Trade-offs...
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by amorphid 10y ago
I was mostly focused on individual contributor roles for engineering and operations. I was filling the jobs so fast, there was a massive surplus of jobless talent sloshing around during the recession, that I was running out of stuff to pos
555.
by amorphid 10y ago
If you're rejecting someone for because they'd never get the job, it's not worth explaining why. Reasons include the candidate wasting their time to impress you in a way they will never work, getting sucked into a sob story
556.
by amorphid 10y ago
So let's say you begin working with a hiring manager, and that manager says "I want a young, full stack developer who will work 70+ hours per week." First, if you don't push back on "young", you're asking
557.
by amorphid 10y ago
When recruiting, I chose to reject thousands of people. For obvious rejections, I sent an auto generated email that looked like it could be from a human. If someone asked why they'd been rejected, I'd simply say the hiring manage
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by amorphid 10y ago
>> We don't think about it. I'm a 10,000 BC chieftain. My village of Hutsville is within raiding distance of the northern village of Teepeetown. Teepeetown just a my neighbor of mine. I've never really liked or disli
559.
by amorphid 10y ago
Elixir is by far my favorite language out of the 6 I've seriously tried (Elixir, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, Java, Bash). I'm gonna dive into Go in near future.
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by amorphid 10y ago
>> Failure in any of the criteria means I move on. If the source code involves anything like "configure" it's an immediate fail What do you mean by this? Surely some things require some configuration. Don't they?
561.
by amorphid 10y ago
I studied business at a for-profit (not prestigious) college and was a technical recruiter (not prestigious) right before moving into development as a career. My current dev job is quite challenging, I am working with cool tech, and I lear
562.
by amorphid 10y ago
If performance matters, benchmarking the heck out of everything helps quite a bit! I like the style of benchmarks that focus on comparing iterations per second.
563.
by amorphid 10y ago
I was frustrated with the directory convention as well. What I did was set up the Go directory structure, and then created a symlink to for my projects directory in the Go directory structure. I was already using a directory convention th
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by amorphid 10y ago
It is interesting to me that we don't have a national ID card in the USA. I don't appreciate strong arguments against them. Like on this list by the ACLU... https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-
565.
by amorphid 10y ago
It's Poison, a hex package for Elixir. It blows up if you try to parse a number somewhere between "1e308" and "1e309". That is a limitation of the Elixir standard lib. Elixir doesn't try to handle that in a
566.
by amorphid 10y ago
If you agree to a flat fee agreement with a realtor, can you fire that realtor at anytime?
567.
by amorphid 10y ago
Mostly fun. I was initially pissed off out how a JSON encoder/decoder exploded when parsing a large float. After a while, I learned what I wanted to learn about why it works they way it does and moved on to other things.
568.
by amorphid 10y ago
I worked on a recursive descent JSON parser. That was a valuable learning experience.
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by amorphid 10y ago
TIL Romania is the 6th largest wine producing country in Europe, and 13th largest in the world [1]. I live in California, and I've never heard of Romanian wine. Is the wine mostly consumed within Romania? [1] https://en.wi
570.
by amorphid 10y ago
Upvoted for reminder to strive for "no assholes".

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