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Pretty easy in NYC. Maybe even easier. Since engineers are flooding to SF but even non-tech companies need technical help these days, the supply of good engineers doesn't begin to meet the demand.
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1) Add a code review step to your workflow. 2) Institute a weekly 1-1 meeting. This meeting is about what's going well and what's not going well in the business, in your collaboration, and in your interpersonal relationship. From
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I use it as a primary browser, but there are a few web apps on which it's so uselessly slow or chews so much CPU (consistently 90-100%) that the only viable option is to run them on another browser. Shame.
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In a large company, the VPE isn't managing engineers. S/he is managing managers. If the VPE is capable of people management, project planning, etc. (the line manager's actual responsibilities) in addition to the VPE responsi
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It's slower than it used to be. Too many layers of abstraction and not enough optimization a in our text editors. They're built to open 100KB source files and be easy for developers to maintain. Which, granted, covers 98% of use.
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Your responsibility is not to tell people what to do. Your responsibility is to help them communicate with the rest of the company (in both directions); to coach them to become better engineers (including developing their soft skills); and
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I would ask why you're coding at home. Is it because you feel like you have to or like you should? Why?
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I've used TriNet and Namely. Granted, even at the companies I founded, I was not the one to choose the specific package of benefits we decided to offer, and neither of those companies offered a 401k at all (though I've since had 4
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I don't really understand the question. I've been at several startups that used PEOs and founded two. A PEO has nothing to do with your culture, and almost nothing to do with your onboarding. It handles payroll and benefits for yo
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Come up with a project that you want to complete that requires the thing you're using. Then work on the project. It'll help you figure out what aspects to focus on, realize what you don't understand, and become familiar with
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Managing people is something much more easily done face to face. So is interfacing with senior management and execs. On an entirely distributed team where upper management also works remotely, then yes it makes sense to have managers who ar
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Don't scale back to 50 hours. You'll stay burnt out. Scale back to 40 and stick to it. You'll be much more productive. And take a week (preferably two) to recharge, not a long weekend. You need to get your brain completely ou
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It's not called the bible for nothing. Anecdotally: Going into college, my only coding experience was in HTML and a month of fiddling with BASIC ten years earlier. I picked this (required reading) up a month ahead of my first CS class
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And that fact makes it really rude to call them for anything that isn't urgent or important for them . It's why telemarketers are so reviled.
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Don't call me on the phone about anything unless it's an emergency. I don't need interruptions. In fact, I no longer answer the phone at all unless I recognize the number, since otherwise I'd be listening to telemarketin
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They're supposed to float. It's much better ergonomically. Look for images/videos of professional pianists -- ideal wrist ergonomics for typing are very similar to those for playing piano. Specifically, your wrists should be
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Perhaps the problem with Python3's str type is that a string type shouldn't be challenging to grok? Also, for those of us who learned computer science back before UTF-16 was a standard, a "string" has always meant an arr
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Do not use plain text in the sense of .txt or even .md. Do use plain text in the sense that the text should be formatted but there should be no graphics except (optionally) the occasional horizontal rule or (if you have a strong enough grap
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Brand new to the industry or looking for your second job in it? Yes, one page. I would never expect someone with 10+ years of experience to have a one-pager, though, unless they have literally held only one job in that time - which is itsel
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How does this work if you're on a "manager schedule" and 50% or more of your job is supposed to be dealing with interruptions, having ad-hoc conversations, and the like?
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I do web development, so very little about the speed of my work is constrained by the hardware. If I started doing work that required compilation or emulators, that might change. Work: 13" MBP (brand new when I started, maxed RAM) + 20
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In places that are already dense and have no room for further sprawl, the cost of building in ways that add capacity can be quite high. It's not just about the raw materials. It's also about labor, safety, regulations (many of whi
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I perceive those concepts more as tools for writing poetry than for interpreting it. (Though in Shakespeare, for instance, scansion can affect interpretation.) Obviously the tools aren't necessary or sufficient to create good poetry (j
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But understanding those concepts gives you the tools to construct and improve poetry of your own.
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I agree that it's ridiculous to ask a student to interpret a poem on a test and expect them to interpret it in any way that resembles the test creator's interpretation. But there are some things about poetry that are not subjectiv
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Hardware isn't enough?
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What keeps me from moving out of NYC? Inertia mostly. A little fear of change. A little indecision. What would it take to move to a smaller city? Good weather. Good job market. Decent level of diversity and multiculturalism. True walkabilit
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You realize that the place you get crab rolls (or anything for that matter) in grand central is a tourist trap? The neighborhood Thai place in NYC isn't going to be all that differently priced from the one in Dallas.
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If everyone you one uses gmail, then google already knows who emails you and whom you email. And the contents of those emails.
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The cool thing about tests is that they let you write code bottom up instead of top down. So instead of having to first build a UI so you can see if your algorithm does what you need it to, instead you can just implement the algorithm and w

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