auspex

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by auspex 5y ago
Surveys to farm your password reset answers.
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by auspex 5y ago
I see the biggest problem here is that when you leave you’re gone for six months. When you come back it’ll take you a month to ramp back up.
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by auspex 5y ago
What are you all doing to secure the user content? To ensure the content isn’t exfiled
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by auspex 5y ago
I’ve always said if the “what” is compelling enough the customer won’t care about the “how”… like you said too many people fall in love with the “how”
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by auspex 5y ago
Follow the problem and then follow the money. You don’t have to have the perfect or right solution to start talking to people. Decide what area you think companies might need help In a very general sense. — I’m going to improve HR software
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by auspex 5y ago
I mean if you look at it from the other way… they agree to pay $X for the work but give you an increase of $Y to support a higher cost of living in certain areas to be near the office. This is being spun as a decrease instead of seeing that
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by auspex 5y ago
If you have an “authentication” micro service. I can just reuse/deploy the service for my new app. No coding (maybe some configuration)
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by auspex 5y ago
Have you ever managed 16 people? It gets hard after around 8 direct reports. Consider that at 16 direct reports, 8 hours a week is spent just having 1:1s
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by auspex 5y ago
It won’t happen. There’s reservoirs in the animal population already. Even if every human was cleared of virus eventually there would be outbreaks again.
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by auspex 5y ago
This is also why I think it’s crazy we pay taxes on startup options when exercised. There’s not market to liquidate to pay those taxes and the end value is very likely $0
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by auspex 5y ago
I was self taught and then got a CS degree. The degree filled in a lot of holes and actually I could still write a compiler if I had to.
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by auspex 5y ago
No Bart on the west side of the bay. You can to some extent use light rail If you are close enough to a station.
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by auspex 5y ago
San Jose to Mountain View commute
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by auspex 5y ago
In the Bay Area a two hour commute (an hour each way) is only a 15 mile distance in morning/afternoon traffic
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by auspex 5y ago
At the end of the day it is a lot harder to come up with an idea, find market traction, convince people to invest in you than it is to become the third employee. Additionally, a 100M exit isn't always a win. It depends on how much mone
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by auspex 5y ago
Even startups pay somewhere between 120k and 150k for a fresh graduate in CS (Bay Area). If you’re not then I would suggest learning a bit more about negotiating. Ask for what you want. The worst they can do is say no... but you’re very rar
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by auspex 5y ago
These aren’t your specific odds. Like you’re not 1:6 chance for dying of heart disease.. but across the entire population 1:6 people will die from it.
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by auspex 6y ago
TDD does work quite well if you follow it. Why do you think it doesn’t work in practice?
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by auspex 6y ago
A lot of happiness thinking centers around focusing on achieving something, having the right job, “I’ll be happy when...” But like that doesn’t work because we keep moving the goal post on ourselves. There will always be “one more thing” un
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by auspex 6y ago
There is a bit of a marketing element to it as well. You have present yourself as the perfect candidate based on your experience. Let the employer know how much you want the job. Know the details about the company. Practice answers to quest
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by auspex 6y ago
Some people want to do things in the afternoon. Maybe they like surfing. Tough to do when you get out at 5pm.. or you’re restricted to weekends.
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by auspex 6y ago
Have you had the discussion with your manager that you want to get into management as a long term goal? Your manager should help you plan out a track to a management promotion. If your manager is not helping you develop along your intended
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by auspex 6y ago
I don’t think he can see it. But you know all that scraping the dentist does when you visit? That’s plaque. If you floss and use an electric toothbrush you’re in and out of a dental checkup in half the time.. with very little scraping.
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by auspex 6y ago
I think that if we are expected to pay taxes there needs to be an immediate market to sell those shares at the taxable price. Would the IRS take the shares to pay the taxes? If not they shouldn’t be considered taxable until there is an exi
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by auspex 6y ago
I’d like to see if the IRS would accept the startup’s private shares as payment. It’s funny to me because there isn’t an open market to liquidate them... yet they are taxed like they are cash.
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by auspex 6y ago
Yes, but this is still progress. Baby steps add up to miles.
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by auspex 6y ago
Intro — what are you going to talk about. Why is this important. Define key terms. Walk through an example of how your topic can be applied in an interesting way to beginners and advanced users. (Include screenshots) Conclusion. It’s almost
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by auspex 6y ago
It’s not about what you can do or what your skills actually are... but how you market those skills. A made up example: I used to do Windows programming, progressed to websites and the back ends to support them, learned SQL and DB optimizati
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by auspex 6y ago
Larger companies (public) are great for career growth, finding a mentor and learning proven business processes
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by auspex 6y ago
Files should be used over environment variables. The file system at least as some form of RBAC through file permissions.

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