cdkmoose

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by cdkmoose 4y ago
>They only serve to make a manager feel like they know what everyone is doing, all the time A good manager should already know what the team is doing. And that shouldn't be the point of the 1-1. As a manager I believe part of my jo
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
I don't think that "manufactured by 13 different American companies" necessarily means manufactured in America. Apple "manufactures" IPhones, but not in America
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
How would you measure output? How do you measure "what we need from you"? As a software engineer a fair percent of my time was spent in collaboration that sometimes manifested itself in someone else's "output". N
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Or you could change the wage laws and be prominent in announcing it and then people can stop tipping on a known date when the law changes
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
So if I have a product website and I want to let you know you can buy my product from Amazon, Target, Walmart, et al, by linking to their logos, is that also illegal based on this?
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
I enjoy the flexibility to work from home some of the time, but I also find real value in working in the office. A lot of us work as part of a team. It's nice for a teammate to be able to work anywhere they want, anytime they want, bu
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
I can work remote from Maine for a week with limited internet access. I'm not working any extra, I'm just choosing what environment I want to work in.
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
This also requires access to a stable fast network at all times. Local internet goes down, AWS/AZURE/GCP goes down and I'm stuck. With my laptop setup, I can work anywhere anytime, as long as I have power. I'll need n
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
regex is overrated, real programmers parse XML with bash. #sarcasm #seenitinthewild
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Closer to 60 than 50, gray hair, white beard(which is why I'm beardless most of the time) been developing since I was 13 starting on TRS-80 Model 1. Currently a technical manager so I still get to develop 40%-50% of my time, but as a m
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
>>(they don't know how your distributed databases look, and oftentimes they really do not care) Nor should they, it's the engineer's/team's job to provide the database layer to them with high levels of service
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Bu can you be assured that a drunk/tired/* train engineer doesn't run a signal and crash into another train?
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
F1 drivers do the same thing through a chicane or wide on a curve to maintain speed, leaving the smoothest road surface for that advantage (not the skidding).
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
To extend the analogy, OP is saying I want some team to pay me to play basketball, but I will only play on the days I feel like it, independent of the team's schedule. That generally doesn't hold up well. If you want someone to
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
In general, I don't like the idea of breaking the anonymity, and I haven't checked the reviews posted about Zuru, but the tough question is, should you/a company have the right to break anonymity for factually inaccurate stat
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Outages will happen with them also, https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/YrjzRWPFBUZU5HJZ4m...
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Color me odd also. My team of software engineers was very productive working remote for the first year or so of the pandemic. But, we already knew what our projects were and the designs were in place, so in person collaboration wasn'
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
"And our seven months of efforts went in vain." I see this kind of comment all to often and I think author is being to hard on themselves and their team. A well intentioned, well though out attempt that doesn't succeed is sti
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Do you have room for plants? Some greenery might brighten things up and create a healthier environment. Can you put up wall hangings to break up the monotony of the walls? Might make the room feel bigger
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
Just wait until you have to do this under government controlled (tariff) environments. Years ago I worked on a tele-conference platform for large international telecom. We built the software to run all aspects of their platform including
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
I don't think we have anything going on right now that we haven't had in the past. global health issues, national and global financial issues, war, threats of terrorism,... have all existed the past. What we have now is a worl
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by cdkmoose 4y ago
A possible target would be paper mill towns or similar. They tend to be rural to be close to the wood supply, but having a staff of engineers means there is a chance for a tech component to the population. I grow up in a small town in Ma