aprdm

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by aprdm 2y ago
In the beginning of my career I changed jobs quite often for better pay. That gave me a lot of big increases. In one of them I stayed less than 6 months.
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by aprdm 2y ago
I have close to 15y of experience now, and I've mostly only worked on healthy companies - I can think of 1 that wasn't. I have worked in ~8 companies give or take.
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by aprdm 2y ago
I interviewed a couple of folks from Google recently and it was mindblowing how they "work", it's very unfortunate. I feel for some of the people who only worked there their whole lives (e.g: from recent grad within the last
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by aprdm 2y ago
Nonsense were a lot of your replies in my experience :), this "measure everything" is very much another cargo cult. Software engineering is complex, people are complex, thinking you can come with a true metric and who doesn't
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by aprdm 2y ago
Companies can be wildly different in how they operate, how decisions are made, and what trade offs they prefer, what culture they have. Simply adoption something that worked in a previous place isn’t a way of usually making decisions, imagi
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by aprdm 2y ago
Having joined a company that uses Slack for the first time it was crazy how good it was on searching for issues that other people had. I can quite literally copy and paste the error message above and see other people that had the same issue
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by aprdm 2y ago
Digital Ocean and Linode both are pretty okay, I used mostly DO
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by aprdm 2y ago
Maybe you're not the only expert in HN ? For someone to write what you wrote after 20y of experience is a bit interesting - and you did write a lot ! I might have more YOE than you do for example, and might have worked on bigger compan
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by aprdm 2y ago
You're conflating different things - this has nothing to do with Pet vs cattle. Even in your confusion, State still exists in the real world and needs to live somewhere, it also is unfeasible to always recreate big states.
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by aprdm 2y ago
I believe it's due to Ruby being its language of choice. Ruby is mostly a dead language in the Ops space, unlike Python. Having inherited a big mess on Puppet of some people who used the flexibility of Ruby to automate 5 datacenters,
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by aprdm 2y ago
Maybe because Python is already in use by pretty much every company that makes money in this (and others) domain ? Some of what you mention looks like pebkac problems as well.
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by aprdm 2y ago
It is consistent after this change, yes. Or even better for beer, since there are parks you can have a beer.
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by aprdm 2y ago
I lived on Chilco & Nelson for many years... people simply have Starbucks cups with beer inside or other equivalent methodology of "wink wink". As long as you aren't being an ass there's zero problem..
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by aprdm 2y ago
This is not a problem British Columbia has. Alcohol consumption and selling is already quite restricted in BC.
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by aprdm 2y ago
I am also from Brazil and have been in Vancouver for 10 years. This is a big exaggeration, both on the beer and the "areas to not go" (unless you mean some parts of East Hastings). Vancouver is one of the safest cities in the worl
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by aprdm 2y ago
Great question, seems a bit difficult to gather a non-biased (if that exists) opinion online - be it on reddit or hackernews. I am debating moving from another country to it to be closer to executives on my company (L1 possibly green card),
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by aprdm 3y ago
Canada should be very simple to get a work permit
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by aprdm 3y ago
I suggest you look for another job, and don’t know how you can work in such toxicity
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by aprdm 3y ago
since when is 1TB+ medium to large scale ? That easily fits on a single computer running Postgres, can even run almost all of it on memory depending on the server..
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by aprdm 3y ago
Interesting. That's different from companies I've worked at, where the sw developer usually asks for clarifications and can fight back if they have something else that they feel should be worked on that has a bigger ROI for the co
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by aprdm 3y ago
At a lot of companies I've worked at, the engineers are empowered to decide on what to work at, it's not like they're 100% booked by PMs. Even if PMs, they can argue. "Your manager tells you what to work on" isn&#x2
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by aprdm 3y ago
Napkin math and ROI, no one is asking for the cents. For example, build system improvement on 10% of build time across 200 developers who on average get paid 300k a year - that's a very easy math, no ? Same for time to deploy, improvem
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by aprdm 3y ago
> because I wanted to be the decision maker on the technology and business issues that I developed with my own team and I wanted to do great things together with my team. Why if you have no experience ? I never understood that. You have
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by aprdm 3y ago
The fact that you're all the time in hackernews probably means that you're very bored in your actual work, as well with the "FoMO" on AI. I don't think you're on a good position to judge what you're judgin
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by aprdm 3y ago
It's crazy that you don't know. I've been in this industry for 20y and apart from when I was extremely junior I always had a sense of the business impact of my work.
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by aprdm 3y ago
Those using Secret Managers, could you share some articles on your set up ? Very interested ! Vault seems quite complex for some simple use cases
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by aprdm 3y ago
Bumble (Dating app), met a lot of great people over there.
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by aprdm 3y ago
Optometrist is a grey area as it isn't really covered by MSP, like dental. Unless it is a medical emergency. So your mother told you the right thing, because it's true
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by aprdm 3y ago
It's a very diverse place - you have people from basically everywhere.
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by aprdm 3y ago
People live in Texas and it /actually/ took out their power grid..

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