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by cimmanom 8y ago
Top priorities for documentation: how to set up a production environment; how to get up a working copy running from scratch; any arcane command-line incantations or click sequences that you have to look up (or worse, work out by trial and e
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by cimmanom 8y ago
This works for me too. And trying to devote entire days to programming mode vs management mode instead of switching contexts within the day helps too. Though it’s vanishingly rare to be able to split them entirely, you can block off days wi
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The ones that were listed as optional? Because often even if they're listed as required they're not (which is the point of the article). For instance, wanting someone to start right away, even though the listing has been open
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by cimmanom 8y ago
But then there's that research that shows that on average, men will apply to a job if they meet less than half of of the requirements, so if you don't overspecify you'll be flooded with crap applications. Of course, then you
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Or it could be that that was the one criterion that was non-negotiable. Often there are one or two that are "must haves" and the rest are just wants. If you meet the must-haves, you only have to hit a couple of the wants in orde
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I don’t know. Carriages and wagons with wooden or iron-rimmed wheels rolling over cobblestones don’t seem to me like they’d be quiet.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Meet in your office. Or if you don’t have an office because you’re all remote, tell them that in clear terms and offer to meet at the client’s choice of 1) the client’s office; 2) a Starbucks; 3) a rented office in a coworking space (some w
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Why would Microsoft have more reason than Google, Mozilla, or Apple?
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Of course, unless they know exactly where they are on the demand curve, how would they know whether it’s negatively affecting their bottom line?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
By choosing workplaces where they’re not welcome in the first place and thus aren’t present and don’t have to be dealt with.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Sounds like they’ve demonstrated correlation. But causation? I could see both variables acting as proxies for an underlying property of business quality/demand.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Look for nonprofit-oriented job boards such as Idealist. Find a list of nonprofit orgs and pick out the ones you might want to work for. Reach out to them directly. Chances are at least one of them needs developers and doesn’t know where to
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by cimmanom 8y ago
You get two things from an accelerator, and the value you get from them depends on the particular accelerator and on how much you need those things. The first thing you get is access to a network or advisors willing to help you learn how to
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by cimmanom 8y ago
You don’t think we already have the answer to that?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
In the US, most code written by an employee is considered a “work made for hire”, and the IP devolves automatically upon the employer. This is also usually written as a clause in most freelance/consulting contracts.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
How do you handle Slack and vacations? Not sure I understand what the issue is.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It doesn’t have to be. It’s just something that most often falls to women due to our current culture. The link explains in more detail.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Keeping track of and prioritizing the things you need to do is a very different challenge from motivating yourself to actually get off your ass and do them.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Now that you’re aware of it, have you talked to her about that? That’s a very common form of “emotional labor” that women find themselves responsible for, and it can be exhausting. Relevant comic: https://english.emmaclit.com&#x2
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Now I know who’s to blame for assholes driving with their high beams on in the city and blinding pedestrians.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Don’t know about the enterprise version, but the cloud offering loads and renders like molasses.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Ask your peers. Ask your manager. Outside the review cycle. Tell them you’re specifically looking for things to improve on. If you still can’t get feedback, find a new job with a manager who focuses more on individual employee development.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Just because they’d prefer one doesn’t necessarily mean that the other is all that much less effective.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The trouble here presumably is that the penalties are anything less than jailing of the entire C-suite and/or complete dissolution of the corporation.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Are you sure your lack of uptake is due to features rather than marketing?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
There are some APIs that iOS does not expose. Most of them deliberately.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
How can you tell it’s not just your own ISP having connectivity issues with particular networks?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Well said. I’d add to this that it’s not uncommon for a developer to need 3 months to get sufficiently up to speed on processes and codebase to be meaningfully effective. Salary up to that point is an investment in future employment, and wa
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Reliable. Ubiquitous. Lightweight. Really don’t need the extra overhead of an IDE. (Actually, I use another text editor on the desktop, but still don’t need an IDE. Vim on the server. Someday someone will make an extension to support both M
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Here’s the thing about software built for a business: that software exists to serve the business’s bottom line, NOT some abstract ideal of software perfection. Is this example a little egregious? Perhaps. But management has pressures of the

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