cimmanom

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by cimmanom 8y ago
How much professional experience do you have? If it’s more than 10 years, the degree probably won’t get you much at this point. If it’s less than 5 years, a degree could be a huge boost to your career.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Have you tried applying for jobs that are straight up full-time instead of contract-to-hire?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
As well as nudges (often subconscious ones) away from it that are more frequent for girls/women.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Thank you for this post - it's something I needed really badly to hear this week!
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The “day in the life” is extremely valuable information that’s provided only too rarely.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Another way to do this is to explicitly list must-haves and want-to-haves under separate headings.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
They're preventing rentals at all, not just short-term rentals? That seems counterproductive.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
How would you feel, and what position would you be in financially, if you exercised your options and a month from now the company simply went out of business? Consider that a very real possibility. This does not sound like a company that’s
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by cimmanom 8y ago
My pet peeve - the Safari URL bar that will start autocompleting based on page title, but won't let you edit the URL it completes to without visiting said URL. (It only lets you edit the title it's matching)
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by cimmanom 8y ago
That will cost the recipient minutes, which are capped on most phone plans. Whereas the caller is just paying for the electricity to run the computers hosting their voice bots.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
You seemed to be suggesting above that you endorsed that approach.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Maybe it makes it easier to start a startup and get funded, but more difficult to succeed in competition with the big guys?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Unless they get bailed out
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by cimmanom 8y ago
What about your company and teams growth makes you feel like you’re being replaced?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I’ll sometimes let a commit reference multiple issues (no point in 3 commits to fix 3 typos on the same page of copy, for an extreme example). But yes, that’s a good practice.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Note that this is a valid and even necessary strategy if onboarding or hosting or support costs are high and variable (for instance, onboarding requires custom integration with the customer’s systems, performed by the vendor; or if you may
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Never tried to eliminate one. But I’ve had them reviewed by lawyer friends who suggested edits (that were accepted) to make the agreement much more employee friendly while still protecting the company’s right to IP created for the company.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It’d be interesting to see the numbers from another media conglomerate for comparison.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes, a policy that every commit must reference an issue in the tracker is useful. It makes it possible to cross reference the history of the codebase with the discussions that occurred around it and the reasons for the changes in greater de
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Only if it folds into a 3.5” smartphone.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Which means less than half of Americans are satisfied with their coverage. Not “most”.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
> Half the students were allowed to go to sleep while the words were played back to them. The other half stayed awake while listening to the words. ... Researchers found that those who had listened to the words while sleeping retained mu
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by cimmanom 8y ago
That’s quite an assumption to make about intentions. Repository hosting is also a way to back up your code or make sure it’s available on multiple devices. Until very recently, you couldn’t do that and keep your code private on github witho
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by cimmanom 8y ago
And some of us are contributing to private repos hosted on bitbucket or gitlab. Just saying.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
What’s wrong with not having a profile photo? FWIW, as a woman, I leave my photo off github to avoid the assumptions people make when they know someone’s gender. In fact, there’s research to back that up: https://arstechnica.com&
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I think maybe you mean to qualify that as “most American software engineers?” Or maybe even “most Americans in white collar jobs”, although that’s not a universal, and the premiums and quality of care in many of those plans is absolute crap
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Probably depends on where you live/work. My experience is that the roads go from empty to busy around 6:30 and start to get seriously clogged around 7:15. They're worst 8:15 - 9:30, but 11-2:30 is pretty similar to 7:45, partly
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I've had the inverse problem as a morning person, where all the interesting social/cultural activities require staying up hours past my bedtime.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
And daylight savings only makes this worse.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I recommend it. I don’t recommend following its system to the letter. But it teaches some techniques that are useful for making sure you’re focusing on the right things and for making sure important things don’t fall through the cracks.

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