birdymcbird

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by birdymcbird 4y ago
“Soon” is mid 2024 at the earliest. The start ups haven’t really even begun to trim fat. Big tech like amazon, meta, google will increase attrition targets in addition to actual layoffs. I could turn out to be wrong but id bet there’s many
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
At staff/principal level, my experience has been less about learning a new technology and more about organizational and customer needs. - Experiment and learn - Drive tech alignment across teams and orgs - Focus on the key decisions -
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
i can’t offer a solution to your problem but here is another point of view. consider it a blessing for your long term mental health. companies like amazon will bring you to Canada or US on a work visa and literally pound you. the cut throat
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Cool makes sense
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> A good monitoring system, well-organized repository, fault-tolerance workloads and automation mechanisms are the basis of any architecture. Monitoring/alarming, and knowing what to monitor. Also, properly instrument your services
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Gentleman layoff is how you layoff quietly without too much attention. Quietly raise low performer target %. Your unregretted attrition targets were 4%? Great! This year they’re 8%. Mr. Managers, please produce this list by end of month.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Gentleman layoffs are when you increase bottom performer targets. You don’t formally lay then off with generous severance but manage them out.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
- More gentleman layoffs at Google - At least 2 rounds of hard layoffs at Amazon, plus gentleman layoffs. No more Bezos billion dollar Prime Video projects. Shedding at least 10-12% of white collar work force to signal to the market they’re
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
AWS costs can destroy you, unless you’re using managed AWS services to replace bloated IT org full of support personnel not doing much productive work in first place. If you really need scale, AWS can be cheaper than rolling your own infra
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Im convinced this teacher’s struggle is part of a larger problem. We condition children to optimize for grades and test scores, which results in empty memorization and very little critical thinking ability. It’s also not only that. My own C
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
I see a weird animation in Safari mobile. No sound.
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English is not my native language. I read this paper a few times over past decade but never quite understood how consistent hashing actually works at scale as nodes go offline and get replaced.
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Everyone has an opinion, and social media (Reddit, Twitter, even HN) has amplified the extreme ends. I recently installed Twitter and started following /r/popular on Reddit. To say it made me depressed and personally offended is a
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
“Now that times are turning bad, tech companies can no longer afford to sustain a massive “court” of professional-class nobility, paying sinecures to sons and daughters of the good and the great who don’t know how to code or crunch numbers,
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And is far less qualified too. I’ve crossed paths with these “consulting” types twice in my career. I don’t mean to generalize, but these so called “engineers” didn’t understand source control or versioning, didn’t understand basic programm
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
This guy helped me find my love for computers and all things tech back in the late 90s. Call for Help and The Screen Savers sent my life in a very particular direction, and I regret none of it. So yeah, the bs headline gave me a mini panic
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by birdymcbird 4y ago
Last company quietly began laying off around time I was leaving. Simple really. Team of 5 engineers and one SDM. Minimum pay on the team was over $200K, with the manager closer to $400K. Laid off the whole team. Put their service in KLO and