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by apohn 5y ago
>I like to travel so I like to feel like the rest of the world is welcoming. I'm not making any assumptions about you in this post, but just making a comment. I think the challenge here is that "welcoming" is relative to w
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by apohn 5y ago
I say this as somebody who lived in one of those Middle Eastern countries for a good period of my life. I'm not a white person and at that time I didn't have a US/European passport, so I didn't lead an extra privalaged l
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by apohn 5y ago
> I did the network, the switches, the workstation builds, the servers, built the database and applications on top of it all. You are most certainly an exception to most people I knew in the MIS program at my school. :) >I don't
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by apohn 5y ago
MIS is a generic enough degree that I wouldn't read too much into what people do with that degree. There are lots of degrees that are basically catch-alls for people who don't really feel like they fit into a particular disciplin
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by apohn 5y ago
It's been a long time for me too, but I went to a school with a well regarded MIS program and I interacted with a lot of MIS people. I'm saying this wery lightheartedly - I felt like 80% of the people in MIS programs where people
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by apohn 5y ago
I'll bet that if you tracked the career path of CS and Engineering graduates, you'd see the following pattern. Let's assume (this is a bad assumption) the majority go into a technical role (e.g. Software Engineer, Electrical
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by apohn 5y ago
I think being remote impacts upwards mobility, but the cap varies by company. It really depends on the remote culture of the company. I worked for a big company (about 1000 people) where individual contributors and line managers were mostl
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by apohn 5y ago
>Lol I guess this hits the nail right on the head. Weird enough I even kept telling my wife that I was feeling depressed and she dismissed it in an instant asking how it is possible. I am lucky enough that my wife recognized I was strugg
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by apohn 5y ago
Other posters have already said, this but you are currently in the most demanding and tough phase of being a parent. Remember you are dealing with 1)Sleep Deprivation 2)Lower Emotional, Physical and Mental Resilience due to sleep deprivati
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by apohn 5y ago
At least to me, of the best things about this attitude is that the working culture starts to matter a lot when you search for jobs. That's what you care about. You look for places where relationship building is important and people t
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by apohn 5y ago
I had guessed something like this was going on, but reading this just really makes me wonder what's really going on in the minds of a private equity folks. The C-suite and senior leadership were the ones who drove the company to the p
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by apohn 5y ago
I worked at a company that went through a private equity acquisition and I have a question you might be able to answer. If you exclude layoffs and incentivized retirement, it seemed to be that a greater percentage of individual contributors
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by apohn 5y ago
Less than a decade ago I worked at a company that was acquired by a private equity group. What jscode said matches my experience. For a while I also tracked (on Glassdoor and some other sites) companies that were purchased by that firm, a
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by apohn 5y ago
With exception of the security guards, your experience is spot on with one of my experiences working for (and through) a Vista acquisition. To me the morale killer was the constant change. HR constantly opening positions and then freezing
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by apohn 5y ago
TIBCO has a lot of Analytics and Data products. One of their acquisitions, called Spotfire, is actually a really good product. Over the last few years they've also acquired a lot of Data Science companies, but it always felt like they
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by apohn 5y ago
When I saw the headline I started laughing. I cannot for the life of me understand how these two companies make sense to glue together. Is Vista hoping it's like a bundled deal in the grocery store? Nobody wants to buy this particul
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by apohn 5y ago
In hindsight, one of the thing I didn't check was the GPU draw at idle (with a monitor plugged in) when the laptop was in Balanced Power mode. Typically if I plugged a monitor in I also had the power cord in. And with the Power plugge
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by apohn 5y ago
>That said I’ve been out of the PC space for quite a while. Do mobile discrete GPUs greatly draw much power when mostly idle (such as general desktop work)? Did others give up on switching the discrete GPU on and off a needed as Apple us
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by apohn 5y ago
Your post is spot on. I'm an immigrant (to the US) from one of these countries. It's easier to get domestic help because people are desperate for money and there is no social safety net. A lot of the domestic help typically has
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by apohn 5y ago
Something I just discovered is that Office 365 Family only lets you use custom domains if they are hosted by GoDaddy. If you want to use another domain registrar you have to get Microsoft 365 Business, which has a similar price as Google W
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by apohn 5y ago
At my last job (left about a year ago) I worked for a large Enterprise software company that was moving to a PaaS/SaaS model from historically being an on-prem vendor. A lot of customers would hear "We are on AWS" and immedia
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by apohn 5y ago
I used to work with different Oil&Gas companies in Houston, and one of the things that enabled this was that they started work at 6AM and ended at 3PM. Part of the reason was to have time overlap with other Oil producing countries (e.g
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by apohn 5y ago
I'm not going to answer this question directly, but I'll provide an anecdote. I did a PhD over a decade ago. I was at a public R1 university in a college town in a low cost of living area. Since the school was public, anybody wi
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by apohn 5y ago
Forget about books, podcasts, videos, etc. If you are joining a company where they are putting you in a client facing role, you will learn by doing, watching your colleagues, and making mistakes. I've worked in different client facing
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by apohn 5y ago
>There's the issue of PySpark, as opposed to Spark itself. I'm a little confused by this comment. PySpark is the Python interface you use for Spark. IME, PySpark is actually a really nice API. Your other options are Scala or
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by apohn 5y ago
>I think your boss's actions (or lack thereof) speak louder than words. Whatever the cause, the fact that the toxic person is still there says everything you need to know. Bad employees will not be pushed out. So even if the curre
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by apohn 5y ago
When you say switch teams, will you still be working with the same people on a somewhat regular basis? I've seen that happen, and it probably isn't worth it - just find a new place to work. I've changed jobs at the same comp
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by apohn 5y ago
So first things first, PySpark is not a dead, dying, or a dead-end. When Databricks and Spark die, then we'll see the end of PySpark. Adoption of Spark and Databricks is growing. I actually see Arrow errors in PySpark jobs in Databr
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by apohn 5y ago
Here's a piece of advice I might have found useful in my early 20s. Don't project long term consequences on short term decisions. It's really easy to ask yourself what the "right" decision is and then consciously o
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by apohn 5y ago
>And Warren Buffet says to write down your top 25 priorities, and absolutely do everything you can to avoid the bottom 20, focusing only on the top 5. And make sure you revisit that list every couple of years. It's going to change

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