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by caffeine 5y ago
Here is a meta-rule: Avoid learning skills if you can get away with it. This allows you to focus your time and attention on skills you cannot function without. Maybe someone else has this skill and they can help you. Maybe there is softwa
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by caffeine 5y ago
This is good advice. But for me, the hours’ struggle is more useful if not contiguous. I get the best results from struggling with a given problem for no more than 1 hour continuously, and then going away and coming back sometime after my
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by caffeine 5y ago
Was this machine generated?
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by caffeine 5y ago
I think this is a (good) joke, but just in case - the article.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Hey I really feel for you. Please don’t disengage, fight hard to get mentored. Not sure what your org is like but ask to pair remotely if you can, ask to do code reviews over video call so you can talk through questions, ask your manager r
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by caffeine 5y ago
Actually it sounds like it is hard, but you pulled off something of great value by thinking about it, taking ownership, and iterating towards solving a problem.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Was this edited? I don’t see why anyone is reading this comment as rude or offensive … Seems fine. He’s basically ribbing GP by purposefully misinterpreting the comment, so that what gave GP nightmares was his CMS rather than Perl itself.
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by caffeine 5y ago
He talked about per-directory ACLs … does anyone know an open source system that implements this? I can’t seem to find one
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by caffeine 5y ago
I don’t regret having kids, they are amazing. BUT: You are MUCH more likely to regret your choice of WHO you have kids with than the kids themselves. Having kids together ties you closely to that person for a very long time (20+ years), wh
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by caffeine 5y ago
Excellent article, thank you. It’s OK and even rational to be ambitious.
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by caffeine 5y ago
FWIW, while the money may seem big it’s not out of line for the industry, especially given that the role looks to require a decent level of experience.
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by caffeine 5y ago
The answer isn’t binary, it’s a sliding scale between 0 (zeroism, nobody is allowed to be harmed by anything) and 1 (do whatever you want). Seat belts, road signs, the FAA, the FCC, the FDA … all these are protecting people from harming the
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by caffeine 5y ago
Your point in the article about gaining bargaining power for engineers by making the hiring process an iterated game instead of one-shot is a good insight. But the transparency you need to extract is mainly financial, that’s the big asymmet
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by caffeine 5y ago
_why, that’s why.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Doing real collaboration has been harder .. collaborating has become “I’ll work on this part, you work on that part” rather than actually building on each other’s ideas.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Yuck. Just a long-winded plug for communism interspersed with bouts of self-pity, drawing on 4hww and Tim Ferris name as a gimmick to get readers.
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by caffeine 5y ago
This is an unpopular opinion, but I very much dislike the writing in this piece. I find it unnecessarily obscure, jarring to read as it bounces from one unfinished thought to the next.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Flagged for sensational and completely misleading headline
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by caffeine 5y ago
Agree that large holdings should be reported but disagree they FO should need to publish their portfolios, that seems like a massive violation of privacy.
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by caffeine 5y ago
Like every negotiation it comes down to leverage (even though you wont USE the leverage, you cant negotiate unless you have it), and pain points. So: 1. Start with doing recon. Ask your manager how has remote been? What does his boss think
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by caffeine 5y ago
Think you might be pleasantly surprised... concepts like “extreme ownership” (care about everything in your stack), “decentralised command” (push decision making to those doing the work), “cover and move” (help each other) actually translat
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by caffeine 5y ago
Pretty sure that’s Discounted Cash Flow
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by caffeine 5y ago
Wow, well said and well summarized.
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by caffeine 5y ago
I guess I don't understand why it's a crime and not just a breach of contract. Imagine if rather than an employee this was a consulting firm that had done the exact same thing (taken payments for signing Netflix up to unnecessary
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by caffeine 5y ago
You are assuming the objective is clean power. But if the objective were to curry favour with as many people as possible, subsidising everything works better than leveling the playing field. Everybody gets a taste.
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by caffeine 5y ago
I’m shocked that what he did is considered criminal and worthy of prison. It should be a civil lawsuit between him and Netflix, and the worst they should be able to do is bankrupt him. This guy has not raped anyone, assaulted anyone.. why
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by caffeine 5y ago
This logic extends to individuals. “Most” people aren’t doing any “good” by the lofty standards of people who make these statements. So let’s just get rid of everyone? Or maybe this is a bad standard.
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by caffeine 5y ago
It's a pretty subtle distinction but I'll try to make it. The examples you give are mostly product examples (i.e. the product lacking features or not correctly addressing its target audience). Therefore I think it would be approp
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by caffeine 5y ago
In this case, I was referring specifically to the policy mentioned in the article. But it’s a valid question more broadly as well, and some of the other answers have been dismissive. In general it is unwanted by people who prefer to be trea
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by caffeine 5y ago
Your latter example is also expressly undesirable in the workplace. You are hired to build product, not obsess over the diversity of the employee base, unless you are hired in a DEI role specifically. Asking the questions you are asking is

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