analogwzrd

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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I didn't interpret that as him saying he was going to do away with regulations and oversight. I read it as him saying he's going to increase tariffs and punish American companies who outsource and try to move operations oversees.
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
From my experience job searching, it seems that companies are looking for someone to fit the job description exactly instead of being willing to hire and to train someone. And when they can't find anyone, they complain about a shortage
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
Not much actually. The pay is excellent, but it's difficult to put yourself in a situation where you can actually work on something interesting. There's not much in terms of career development, training, or autonomy. That kind of
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I'm not sure that I've successfully convinced the decision maker, but I did work on a project where everything was put on hold to take time to pay the technical debt. As a junior engineer, I was brought in to upgrade a test facili
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I've had a similar problem and the advice that's always given to me is "The term 'expert' is mostly about perception." Credentials help when you're trying to sell your services because they're used as
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
Pay really close attention to #2. Especially with large companies, if they post a job opening it's because they've identified a specific job that needs to be done. I've had trouble job hunting in the past because I've be
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I was introduced to Markov Chains in high school - it's not that strange of a concept. And yeah, Taleb has some rough edges, is unapologetic about his arguments, and enjoys calling people out. But it's refreshing to find that some
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I think it's going to fall apart when the mall realizes you're running a small business out of their food court. You might also find that some parents would resist letting their kids go to the mall to meet some people with compute
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I'm not sure what industry you work in or what size company, but my old department had a similar situation. It sounds like your processes are either immature (no one really knows what the best way to do things is) or tribal (you have t
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
Regarding accepting meetings, etc. Robert Heinlein has a great quote... “Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have as
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
There's a motto in my department at work: Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
As someone who enjoys engineering in the trenches and getting my hands dirty, I always try to learn how much experience a person has when I interview them. HR and other areas of the business will use degrees and certifications as proxies, b
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I'm a big fan of Mr. Money Mustache's advice: If you have a large chunk of money in savings, don't leave it in a savings account because the interest is so low. There's a Vanguard index fund (I'd have to look up the
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I never would have imagined myself reading a book about teaching improvisational theater and enjoying it, much less finding it applicable to my career in engineering.
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
For me, it's definitely Ribbonfarm: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/ I stumbled into Venkat's blog about two and half years ago and I'm still trying to find my way out. The rabbit hole gets even deeper when you look
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I haven't read enough of Friedman to argue details, but I do know they were from different economic schools. Mises and Hayek were of the Austrian school. Friedman was in the Chicago school. As far as heterodox, Friedman seems to have e
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I'm at a rather large company and management doesn't understand enough about what they're doing to know exactly what provides value and what doesn't, much less who is providing that value. I'm guessing once a compan
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
Semantics matter. Especially when you're trying to sell something, such as your skill set. Ever had to lobby your idea or project to a non-technical decision maker? You can't whip out the technical jargon and explain in minute det
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
I've been working full time in Boulder for the past five years and I could get into the bottom end of the real estate market if I really wanted to - I started working straight out of college with no debt, but no equity either. I'v
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
When I was applying to college in 2006, one of the big selling points at the University of Alabama was that the honors dorms had a lazy river. I wonder if the "fancy" dorms are only a thing in non-city universities. It would make
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by analogwzrd 10y ago
My company is going through a phase where someone thought "We're doing pretty well by promoting engineers into management/business positions. How well could we do if we put some people with "real" business backgroun
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by analogwzrd 11y ago
I didn't go to Waterloo, but I was a 5 session co-op student at Purdue. What this guy says is pretty much true, but I don't think we highlighted some of the benefits. I basically lived out of car for 5 years. If it didn't fit
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by analogwzrd 12y ago
When I was looking for jobs my senior year in college, I noticed a pattern at the job fair. Large companies head hunt GPAs and small companies are much more interested in personality and hands-on experience. I thought about why this would b
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by analogwzrd 12y ago
Yep, there also needs to be a way to detect bat-boy syndrome (where the team goes to the world series, but the guy you interviewed was just there to lug the equipment around). I've always heard that you learn more in an hour of playing
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by analogwzrd 12y ago
One solution to all of this is for the applicant to do a few things to avoid being confused for a terrible engineer. The last time I looked for a job, more and more companies were asking for an engineering design portfolio. Instead of waiti
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by analogwzrd 12y ago
Exactly. I've been re-reading Nassim Taleb's Antifragile, and the first thing I picked up on in the article was how they kept saying that there was no way the slight improvements were intentionally designed. So what? Seems to be